This collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love. The videos have been regular features on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and are a permanent part of the Library of Congress archive of recorded poetry and literature. They have also proven valuable as teaching and learning tools for a range of classrooms and ages.

A selection of 27 of the FPP videos is available for purchase on a DVD that's included with the anthology An Invitation to Poetry.

	The Sentence by Anna Akhmatova read by Nancy Nersessian Professor of Cognitive Science Atlanta, GA		The Improvement by John Ashbery read by Roger Smith Salesman Barneveld, NY
	Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden read by Susan Hambleton Painter New York, NY		At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop read by Alexander Scherr Professor of Law Athens, GA
	The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland read by Stephen Murphy Financial Consultant Brookline, MA		We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks read by John Ulrich Student South Boston, MA
	Ay, Ay, Ay, de la Grifa Negra by Julia de Burgos read by Glaisma Pérez-Silva Teacher Hartford, CT		At Melville's Tomb by Hart Crane read by Paul Connah Bookseller Los Angeles, CA
	Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen read by Todd Hellems Student Doraville, GA		#288 ("I'm Nobody! Who are You?") by Emily Dickinson read by Yina Liang Student Decatur, GA
	The Party by Paul Laurence Dunbar read by Karen Wilson Singer & Songwriter Bronx, NY		Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson read by President William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States Washington, DC
	"OUT, OUT—” by Robert Frost read by Elizabeth Wojtusik Teacher Humarock, MA		Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost read by Jessie Alpaugh Student Berkeley, CA
	From The Holy Longing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. Robert Bly read by Olivia Milward Retired Teacher San Francisco, CA		Fishing by Joy Harjo read by Natalie Gawdiak Research Analyst Washington, DC
	God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins read by Stanley Kunitz Poet New York, NY		Diffugere Nives by A.E. Housman read by William Maxwell Novelist New York, NY
	Merry Go Round by Langston Hughes read by Howard Henderson Public Affairs Specialist Chamblee, GA		Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes read by Pov Chin Student Stockton, CA
	The Song of the Banana Man by Evan Jones read by George Scott Bakery Owner Hartford, CT		Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa read by Michael Lythgoe Foundation Director Washington, DC
	Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation by Stanley Kunitz read by Donna Bickel Bookkeeper Larkspur, CA		Settling by Denise Levertov read by Laura Treadway Photographer Seattle, WA
	A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read by Rev. Michael Haynes Roxbury, MA		To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell read by Kathleen Rogers Writer Hull, MA
	From Lycidas by John Milton read by Joan Thuebel Chatham, NJ		Piececitos by Gabriela Mistral read by Sister Maria Christina Sanchez Escobar Millbrook, NY
	The Makers by Howard Nemerov read by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton First Lady of the United States		POEM by Frank O'Hara read by Richard Samuel Glass Blower Seattle, WA
	Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen read by Mary McWhorter Accounting Manager Stockton, CA		Nick and the Candlestick by Sylvia Plath read by Seph Rodney Photographer Long Beach, CA
	Polly's Tree by Sylvia Plath read by Jaik, Sara and Martin Miller High Falls, NY		On a Quiet Night by Li Po read by Hui Xia Chin Hong Student Elmhurst, NY
	My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke read by William Van Fields Retired Corporate Executive Stockton, CA		The Sloth by Theodore Roethke read by a 5th Grade Student
	Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare read by Daniel McCall Retired Anthropologist Boston, MA		Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson read by Andrew Toporoff Student Yorktown Heights, NY
	From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore read by Jayashree Chatterjee Librarian Summit, NJ		Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer read by Lee Samuel Student Atlanta, GA
	For My People by Margaret Walker read by Leah Ward Sears Supreme Court Justice of Georgia Atlanta, GA		from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman read by John Doherty Construction Worker Braintree, MA
	Politics by William Butler Yeats read by Stephen Conteagüero U.S. Marine Officer Miami, FL		Untitled Tanka ["The Lower Leaves of the Trees"] by Sone No Yoshitada, tr. Kenneth Rexroth read by Kiyoshi Houston Student Santa Monica, CA
	Way of the Water Hyacinth by Zawgee read by Lyn Aye Anesthesiologist San Jose, CA