- February 22, 2002 | NOWIn this story of unspeakable tragedy and the painful search for justice, NOW introduces some of the tens of thousands of young girls — many now HIV-positive — who have been raped in South Africa.
- November 28, 1999The poetry of Deborah Garrison speaks in a voice sometimes defiant and tinged with sarcasm, but humorous, too, and sweetened by tender longing.
- November 20, 1999They belong to different generations, come from different roots, live in different places. But both are poets writing about a world of living and dying.
- November 14, 1999The poet and essayist talks with Bill about her work and the importance that poetry plays in her life.
- November 7, 1999Born in 1905, Stanley Kunitz was an integral part of the poetry community until his death in 2006. His list of honors included the National Medal of Arts, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
- October 31, 1999Two women. One a Chicana and one an Asian-American, brought up in completely different milieus with one thing in common – poverty.
- October 24, 1999In this episode of Sounds of Poetry, Coleman Barks tells Bill how he translates 13th century mystic Rumi's poetry through his own personality and experience.
- October 10, 1999An interview with Robert Pinsky, who chose a life in poetry over a life in music and went on to become a three-time poet laureate.
- October 3, 1999 | Updated January 9, 2014Poet and political agitator Amiri Baraka, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 79, talks about his work and his activism in this 1999 interview with Bill Moyers.