Dan Chiasson, poet and New Yorker critic, reads in our "Whose Words These Are" series from his book of poetry: Where's The Moon, There's The Moon.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout brings her quizzical voice among the Language Poets to our "Whose Words These Are" series.

Haitian-American High School Senior Fabienne Casseus gives us a bit of her poetry, and shares her vision of a shattered homeland.

Performance poet Eli Marienthal gives us his Haiti story, jolted loose into action by the earthquake this winter.

Hatian-American poet Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell gives us a glimpse of the shattered landscape of her youth.

Fred Marchant continues our series of poets, this time on Haiti and the artist's obligation that he sees alongside the doctor's and engineer's.

Afaa Michael Weaver, the poet, works a popular black "take" on the earthquake in Haiti -- that Haitians are still being punished for the first successful slave rebellion in the West.

Rick Benjamin, in our poetry series "whose words these are," is a poet of community, of activism. Write a poem to be of use, he says. Read one to change your life.

In our poetry series: Andrew Motion, poet Laureate of the UK for the last ten years, reads his work for us and muses on the social and political resonance of his personal experience.