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Host Lisa Simeone talks with J.D. McClatchy, the editor of a series of Random House audio books called The Voice of the Poet. The series includes never before released recordings of eminent poets. We'll hear Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Randall Jarrell read their own works.

NPR's Joe Palca traveled in Cambodia recently, and found a variety of ethnic food available in restaurants.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Charlie Wilburn, a former member of the Cincinnati City Council and Jenny Laster, the spokesperson for a group of black political and religious leaders in Cincinnati; Richard Anderson, CEO, Northwest Airlines, and O.V. Delle-Femine, National Director, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association; Attorney General John Ashcroft on the decision to allow a closed-circuit feed of the Timothy McVeigh execution to Oklahoma City; an announcement inside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where 43 people died in a stampede last Wednesday; one of the fans who escaped the stampede; President George W. Bush; Lieutenant Shane Osborn, commander of the damaged US Navy spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island two weeks ago; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi; and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Lisa talks with Huang Yasheng of Harvard University about the reaction of young people in China to the spy plane incident.

Lisa talks with young fans at RFK Stadium, who are there today for the first game of the WUSA, the professional American women's soccer league.

Scott talks with the Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine, about noxious weeds. Ketzel says that one region's common garden plant can be another regions invasive pest. (6:00) NOTE: There is plenty more dirt to be found in our Talking Plants section.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that, with tax day almost here, many Americans are still grappling with our complex tax code system.

A new program in Los Angeles called Homeless Court helps homeless people with minor offenses on their record clean their slate. Kristen Muller of member station KCRW in Los Angeles reports.

Previews of a new opera start tonight in Minneapolis. It's about the "Swedish nightingale," Jenny Lind, and her ahead-of-its-time relationship with P.T. Barnum. Barnum was the first to market personality when he brought Lind to tour the United States in 1850. He advertised and put her name on cakes, cigars and soap. And Lind was a savvy businesswoman in her own right. Their relationship fascinated noted contemporary composer Libby Larsen, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto for Barnum's Bird. Minnesota Public Radio's Marianne Combs reports.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on the gathering of over 30 countries today in Canada for the Summit of the Americas. President Bush hopes to use this meeting to advance the idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas, a concept first introduced by his father's administration.