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Poet Vivian Shipley reads this week at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival in Farmington, Connecticut. We hear her poem "Ode on a Beet," published in 1999 by Hanover Press. Ms. Shipley's most recent book of poetry is When There Is No Shore, published by Word Press.

Weekend Edition Sunday talks with several notables from various professions about their reading habits, their favorite books, and what they are reading this summer. This week: Judge Richard Posner, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Lee Child's Without Fail, Walter Mosley's Bad Boy Brawly Brown, and John Sandford's Mortal Prey -- NPR's Linda Wertheimer has put these "bad-boy mysteries" on her summer reading list, and interviewed their authors. On Morning Edition, Wertheimer sizes up the fictional tough guy who can be "romantic, even vulnerable, in between cracking heads."

Asian longhorned beetles are eating their way through hardwood trees in New York and Chicago, and experts worry the pests are spreading. A new tool, using acoustic clues, may make it easier for inspectors to detect the beetles. NPR's Melissa Block reports for Morning Edition.

Forty years after Andy Warhol's first exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is hosting a retrospective of the artist's work. The exhibition boasts 200 works spanning Warhol's career, including examples of his most famous series like Campbell's Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports for Morning Edition.

For six generations, Mohawk Indian ironworkers have shaped New York City's skyline, working the "high steel" of skyscrapers and bridges. From The Sonic Memorial Project and Lost & Found Sound, hear the stories of the Mohawks who helped build the World Trade Center Twin Towers -- and their descendents who returned to the site after Sept. 11, to help clear the shattered towers away.

The region of Abkhazia on the Black Sea has been called 'the original Garden of Eden.' Disputes over the land, and blockades by Russia and Georgia, are making life difficult there. But a spiritual tradition called Kebzeh, advanced by elders such as Murat Yagan, offers consolation to many. Alex Van Oss has the story for Weekend Edition Saturday.

In his third report on the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit of Camp Lejeune, N.C., NPR's David Molpus went along on several different types of rescue and attack exercises. Hear the story on Morning Edition.

From almost the beginning of the broadcast era, audiences have had a taste for seeing -- and before that, hearing -- themselves on the air. On Present at the Creation, Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, explores the origins of the quiz show.

India has lost one of its most important birds, and no one knows why. Since the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of healthy-looking vultures have literally dropped dead there. Scientists say they've never seen anything like it. NPR's John Nielsen reports for All Things Considered.