Favorite Poem Project
The Favorite Poem Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives.
Roxbury-based Rev. Michael Haynes’s brother, Roscoe Baker, passed away on May 17th, 2026. We at the FPP are thinking of the Haynes and Baker families.
Watch this video to hear Rev. Haynes read Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life.”
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05/21/2026
We’re participating in by diving into the Favorite Poem Project archive.
Check out this article from Washington University Magazine and Alumni News from Fall 1998!
The article covers an April 1998 reading - a “Midwest kickoff of [Robert Pinsky’s] Favorite Poem Project.” Swipe to read.
Poems read included “Next Day” by Randall Jerrell, read by Kay Bonetti Callison; “Lovesong” by Ted Hughes, read by Sara Ann Jones; “Deferred” by Langston Hughes, read by Clarence Harmon; and “An Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore” by Elizabeth Bishop, read by Agnes Wilcox.
Tell us: Do you, like Kay Bonetti Callison, agree that reading a “‘sad poem [...lifts] yourself out of yourself”? What poems, when read aloud, become “a kind of magic” for you?
Share in the comments below, or send us a DM. We’d love to hear from you!
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