The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry That Inspires Them Book

Billy Collins Preface

Jason Shinder Introduction

Adam Arkin
"The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
"All Night I Could Not Sleep" by Li Yi

Alan Arkin
"The Guest House" by Rumi
"The Man Watching" by Rainer Maria Rilke

Jon Robin Baitz
"In Despair" by Constantine Cavafy
"Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed

Bob Balaban
"Paradox" by Clarence R. Wylie, Jr.
"The Grasshopper and the Ant" by Jean de la Fontaine

Ken Brecher
"A Summer Night" by W. H. Auden
"Four Quartets: East Coker (Section V)" by T. S. Eliot

Steve Buscemi
"I Found a Dead Fox" by Mary Oliver

Brian Cox
"Ae fond kiss" by Robert Burns
"I Am" by John Clare

Peter Coyote
"Long-Legged Fly" by W. B. Yeats
"This Tokyo" by Gary Snyder

Eve Ensler
"i like my body when it is with you" by E. E. Cummings
"Epilogue" by Anna Akhmatova

Carrie Fisher
"anyone lived in a little how town" by E. E. Cummings
"This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin

Michael Fitzgerald
"Four Quartets: East Coker" by T. S. Eliot

Jane Fonda from "The Sonnets to Orpheus" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"Moving Forward" by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rodrigo Garcia
"Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" by Federico Garcia Lorca
"Ode to the Artichoke" by Pablo Neruda

Kathleen Glynn
"My Son, My Executioner" by Donald Hall
"The Shipfitter's Wife" by Dorianne Laux

Paul Guilfoyle
"Casualty" by Seamus Heaney
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell

Daryl Hannah
"On the Great Joy of the Stars" by Blaise Cendrars
"Ode to the Hummingbird" by Pablo Neruda

Philip Seymour Hoffman
"Inventing aHorse" by Meghan O'Rourke
"The People Who Succeed..." by Eugene O'Neill

Stacy Keach
"Sonnet 30" by William Shakespeare
"The Invitation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Swoosie Kurtz
"From a Norman Crucifix of 1632" by Charles Causley
"Death of a Son" by Jon Silkin

Michael Lally
"Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams
"Faith" by Terence Winch

Alix Lambert
"Touch Me" by Stanley Kunitz
"Letter to My Wife" Miklos Radnoti

John Landis
"The War Prayer" by Mark Twain

Melissa Leo
"Point Shirley" by Sylvia Plath
"Sonnet 64" by William Shakespeare

John Lithgow
"The Lake Isle at Innisfree" by W. B. Yeats
"To Autumn" by John Keats

Billy Luther
"White Shell Ever-Changing Woman" by Sunny Dooley from "On the Pulse of the Morning" by Maya Angelou

Peter MacNicol
"Sea Fever" by John Masefield
"Song of Enchantment" by Walter De La Mare

Matthew Maher
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats
"The Invisible Men" by Nakasak.

Walter Mosley
"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright
"The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith" by Gwendolyn Brooks

Tim Blake Nelson
"For The Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
"Death Fugue" by Paul Celan

Michael O'Keefe
"In a Station at the Metro" by Ezra Pound
"Passengers" by Denis Johnson

Mary-Louise Parker
"To You" by Kenneth Koch
"Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand

Kyra Sedgwick
"The Kitchen" by Jocelyn Wright

Paul Simon
"The Long Boat" by Stanley Kunitz

Stewart Stern
"The Pasture" by Robert Frost
"Forgive Oh Lord" by Robert Frost

David Strathairn
"Eurydice's Hairpin. Cassandra's Curse" by Adam LeFevre

Holland Taylor
"Dulce et Decorumn Est" by Wilfred Owen
"My love is multi-lateral" by Jean Pedrick

Lili Taylor
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
"Say Yes Quickly" by Rumi

Stanley Tucci
"Children, It's Spring" by Mary Oliver
"Alone" by Anonymous

Taika Waititi
"The Tyger" by William Blake
"Night on the Island" by Pablo Neruda

George Wendt from "Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2" by William Shakespeare
"White Key" by Carol Muske-Dukes

Dianne Wiest
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather" by Sylvia Plath
"The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound

Alfre Woodard
"Ego Tripping" by Nikki Giovanni
"When a Beggar Beholds You" by Anonymous

Afterword John Lithgow On David Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes
"The Machine" by Carol Muske-Dukes

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