31.   He said he asked students to read the poem out loud in one class, after asking whether any students objected to sexually explicit material.

32.   He then read a poem about his father flying a kite with his grandsons, Michael and Christopher, in which the kite stands in for the soul.

33.   He planned to have a former student wander around Washington, asking tourists to read poems into a portable tape recorder.

34.   He wanted to read his poems.

35.   If Giants Coach Dan Reeves is going to read a poem to his team now, it had better be by Edgar Allan Poe.

36.   I was invited to participate, to give the opening speech, one of the inaugural sessions, and also to read a poem.

37.   In a homemade videotape from November, he hailed the attack on the World Trade Center by reading a poem.

38.   It is striking, then, that in reading the poem itself we meet a somewhat different character.

39.   Johnson has never read a poem or heard a song lyric that he cannot retrieve on command and recite at length.

40.   Kate Shaughnessy, daughter of Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy, read a poem to Williams at the close of the Jimmy Fund show.