In the October 1999 episode, Greater Boston Arts featured a story on US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project that includes readings by several Boston-area residents of poet Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays."

	U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
	Former state representative Mel King reads "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
	Local performer Tanayi Seabrook reads "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

"Those Winter Sundays"
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

- From Collected Poems by Robert Hayden. Copyright © 1971 Erma Hayden. Liveright Publishing Corporation.

A close reading by Robert Pinsky of "Those Winter Sundays"

Robert Pinsky on the sound of poetry