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