Poems & Poets
Introduction to Poetry,Billy Collins
The Good Life,Tracy K. Smith
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation,Natalie Diaz
Question,May Swenson
Thanks,Yusef Komunyakaa
How Bright It Is,Brian Turner
Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?,Ron Koertge
Numbers,Mary Cornish
The Cord,Leanne O’Sullivan
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border,William Stafford
Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein,Jason Bredle
The Bat,Theodore Roethke
Did I Miss Anything,Tom Wayman
Neglect,R. T. Smith
The Poet,Tom Wayman
Radio,Laurel Blossom
Bad Day,Kay Ryan
The Farewell,Edward Field
The Partial Explanation,Charles Simic
Dorie Off To Atlanta,Mark Halliday
Wheels,Jim Daniels
Remora, Remora,Thomas Lux
Tour,Carol Snow
After Us,Connie Wanek
Domestic Work, 1937,Natasha Trethewey
Before She Died,Karen Chase
Poetry,Don Paterson
American Cheese,Jim Daniels
Advice from the Experts,Bill Knott
One Morning,Eamon Grennan
Walking Home,Marie Howe
Publication Date,Franz Wright
The Meadow,Kate Knapp Johnson
The Summer I Was Sixteen,Geraldine Connolly
Hand Shadows,Mary Cornish
El Florida Room,Richard Blanco
She Didn’t Mean to Do It,Daisy Fried
Cartoon Physics, part 1,Nick Flynn
Snow,David Berman
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter,Robert Bly
Halloween,Mac Hammond
The Poetry of Bad Weather,Debora Greger
The Green One Over There,Katia Kapovich
A Man I Knew,Margaret Levine
Nights,Kevin Hart
Grammar,Tony Hoagland
Fault,Ron Koertge
Thanks For Remembering Us,Dana Gioia
Because You Left Me a Handful of Daffodils,Max Garland
Otherwise,Jane Kenyon
A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth,Wisława Szymborska
Love Poem With Toast,Miller Williams
The Blue Bowl,Jane Kenyon
Song,Eamon Grennan
Biscuit,Jane Kenyon
Red Wing,Joseph Millar
White-Eyes,Mary Oliver
To Help the Monkey Cross the River,,Thomas Lux
Lesson,Forrest Hamer
Football,Louis Jenkins
Sister Cat,Frances Mayes
The Bagel,David Ignatow
What I Would Do,Marc Petersen
For My Daughter,David Ignatow
I’ve Been Known,Denise Duhamel
The Moon,Robert Bly
Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary,Kevin Young
Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted,Shoshauna Shy
The Space Heater,Sharon Olds
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?,Robert Hershon
Smoking,Elton Glaser
Gratitude to Old Teachers,Robert Bly
Love Song,Carol Muske-Dukes
The Revolt of the Turtles,Stephen Dunn
To a Daughter Leaving Home,Linda Pastan
June 11,David Lehman
A Birthday Candle,Donald Justice
Doing Without,David Ray
Birthday,Stanley Plumly
Reckless Poem,Mary Oliver
After Years,Ted Kooser
Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper,Martín Espada
Turtle,Kay Ryan
Knowledge,Philip Memmer
Fight,Laurel Blossom
Sure,Arlene Tribbia
The Distances,Henry W. Rago
How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future,Ira Sukrungruang
Sidekicks,Ron Koertge
A New Poet,Linda Pastan
Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka,Oliver Rice
Birth Day,Elise Paschen
Do You Love Me?,Robert Wrigley
Slumnight,Colette Inez
The Halls,Mark Halliday
Second Estrangement,Aracelis Girmay
The Hymn of a Fat Woman,Joyce Huff
My Father’s Hats,Mark Irwin
Exotic Treats,Laura McKee
Loud Music,Stephen Dobyns
Some Clouds,Steve Kowit
When Death Comes,Mary Oliver
Decades,Gerald Stern
To Stammering,Kenneth Koch
A Birthday Poem,Ted Kooser
The Grammar Lesson,Steve Kowit
Blind,Charles Webb
In the Well,Andrew Hudgins
Fast Break,Edward Hirsch
On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window,Eamon Grennan
The Kitchen Shears Speak,Christianne Balk
Slow Children at Play,Cecilia Woloch
Lift Your Right Arm,Peter Cherches
Machines,Michael Donaghy
The Death of Santa Claus,Charles Harper Webb
Cat Scat,Eamon Grennan
Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space,Ron Padgett
Notice,Steve Kowit
The Courtesy of the Blind,Wisława Szymborska
The Swan at Edgewater Park,Ruth L. Schwartz
The Hand,Mary Ruefle
Soccer Moms,Paul Muldoon
Coffee in the Afternoon,Alberto Ríos
Morning,Mary Oliver
Animals,Miller Williams
God Says Yes To Me,Kaylin Haught
Hate Poem,Julie Sheehan
The Student Theme,Ronald Wallace
The Birthday,Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
A Toast to the Baltimore Oriole,Don McKay
Not Swans,Susan Ludvigson
Leaving the Island,Linda Pastan
The Summer Day,Mary Oliver
Ode to Dirt,Sharon Olds
Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks,Mary Oliver
We Lived Happily During the War,Ilya Kaminsky
Morning Swim,Maxine Kumin
This Moment,Eavan Boland
How Many Times,Marie Howe
The Dead,Susan Mitchell
The End and the Beginning,Wislawa Szymborska
Tinnitus,Robert Wrigley
The secretary chant,Marge Piercy
Family Photo Around Xmas Tree,Thomas Lux
Proof of Life,Tony Hoagland
Blue Willow,Jody Gladding
Tuesday 9:00 AM,Denver Butson
Happiness,Jane Kenyon
Dress Rehearsal,Brandon Kreitler
96 Vandam,Gerald Stern
My Moral Life,Mark Halliday
It Took All My Energy,Tony Wallace
Once upon a Time There Was a Man,Mac Hammond
Aunties,Kevin Young
Legs,Mark Halliday
Dandelion,Julie Lechevsky
Heat,Michael Chitwood
Forgotten Planet,Doug Dorph
Loyal,William Matthews
Dutch Boy,Doug Dorph
Gone,Eamon Grennan
Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice,William Matthews
Mentor,Timothy Murphy
Unconditional Day,Julie Lechevsky
The Rider,Naomi Shihab Nye
Kyrie,Tomas Transtromer
The Last Wolf,Mary TallMountain
Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain,Richard Brautigan
Schoolboys with Dog, Winter,William Matthews
Summer in a Small Town,Linda Gregg
Entrance,Dana Gioia
How to Listen,Major Jackson
Immortality,Lisel Mueller
Our Other Sister,Jeffrey Harrison
Gretel,Andrea Hollander
How to Change a Frog Into a Prince,Anna Denise
Eagle Plain,Robert Francis
End of April,Phillis Levin
Bike Ride with Older Boys,Laura Kasischke
Break,Dorianne Laux
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