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We visit The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000 in Stanhope, New Jersey. Host Jacki Lyden talks with poets Mark Doty, Anne Waldman, and Yusef Komunyakaa -- and we hear their poetry. Jacki also talks with Jim Haba, the director of the festival.

NPR's Tom Goldman talks with host Mike Shuster about the news from the Sidney Olympics that at least one American athlete has been involved in a doping cover-up.

Jason DeRose of Chicago Public Radio reports on the traditional passion play of Oberammergau, a Bavarian village south of Munich. The play's been criticized for years as being anti-Semitic. But this year, play producers have tried to change that.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that twenty-four hours after the polls closed in Yugoslavia, the government has still not released even preliminary results of Sunday's presidential election. The opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica has claimed victory. But there is no sign that incumbent Slobodan Milosevic is ready to hand over power.

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Tom Gjelten of NPR News reports that the United States and other western governments today put intense pressure on Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to admit defeat in yesterday's presidential election. The United States, Britain and Germany challenged Milosevic to accept his fate or face what one European leader called "devastating consequences."

Noah interviews Virginia State Trooper Mike Scott about a weekend assault on cars traveling down Interstate 95 by monkeys armed with pieces of fruit. Scott was hailed to the scene by a motorist who said a monkey had thrown a banana at her car. When they returned to the scene together, a trio of spider monkeys was tossing crab apples from an oak tree alongside the highway. Scott says he has no idea where they got the apples and bananas, nor where they came from.

Last week, writer Dawn Langley Simmons died. She was the author of over 20 books, including novels, biographies, and children's books. But perhaps her most remarkable creation was her identity. Simmons was born in England as Gordon Langley Hall. She was born with a sexual abnormality, and though raised as a boy, considered herself female. She later had a sex change operation, and changed her name to Dawn. Writer Jack Hitt talks to Robert about Dawn Langley's tempestous life.

Texas writer Kim Lane thinks she has seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary in her coffee cup. She wishes she had gotten a clear message about what exactly this vision means.

Formula One Grand Prix auto racing is back in the United States for the first time in ten years. The race was held in Indianapolis Sunday and drew an enormous television audience worldwide. Jason Paur reports.