There are 567 Poems about Family & Ancestors

"God Loves You, and So Do I"
By Michael C. Blumenthal

‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard

What is this about losing respect?
By Mark Rudman

A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty

A Country Incident
By May Sarton

A Fable
By Louise Glück

A Favor of Love
By Molly Peacock

A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A Man
By Louis Untermeyer

A Mother to Her Waking Infant
By Joanna Baillie

A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell

A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte

A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Slow Fuse
By Theodore Weiss

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley

A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend
By Hayden Carruth

Abscess
By Forrest Gander

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Advent
By Mary Jo Salter

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After the Phone Call
By Robert VanderMolen

All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

An Offering
By John Reibetanz

Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
By John Peck

Ancestor
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee

As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

As You Both Shall Live
By Miller Williams

Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro

At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian

Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autumn
By Grace Paley

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
By Mark Strand

Baldwin
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Bath
By Stuart Dybek

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Before the Rain
By Lianne Spidel

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Beside the Broad Dordogne
By Alan Feldman

Beyond Harm
By Sharon Olds

Bilingual/Bilingüe
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman

Black Soap
By Sandra McPherson

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blue
By Carl Phillips

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg

Brock
By Paul Muldoon

Brother
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Candles
By Carl Dennis

Carolina Journal
By Nicole Pekarske

Chamber Thicket
By Sharon Olds

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte

Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

Daddy
By Sylvia Plath

Damp Rot
By John Engels

Danse Russe
By William Carlos Williams

Dear Friend
By Dean Young

December, 1919
By Claude McKay

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Depending on the Wind
By James Galvin

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Descent
By Samuel Menashe

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

Dreams of My Father
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Driving West in 1970
By Robert Bly

Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Dusting
By Rita Dove

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Edwardian Christmas
By John Fuller

from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos

enuresis
By Cid Corman

Epistle to Augusta
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Evening
By Gail Mazur

Evening Practice
By D. Nurkse

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Fabrication of Ancestors
By Alan Dugan

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Faith
By David Baker

Fall River
By David Rivard

Family
By Josephine Miles

Family
By Marilyn Nelson

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go?
By Ludwig Holstein

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Feel Me
By May Swenson

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Five Indiscretions,
By Alberto Ríos

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams

For My Daughter
By Weldon Kees

For My Daughter
By Antonella Anedda

For My People
By Margaret Walker

For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson

Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas

Frame, An Epistle
By Claudia Emerson

From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr

Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Going Back
By Gregory Djanikian

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

Goose
By Richard Emil Braun

Grace
By John Logan

Granddaughter
By Robinson Jeffers

Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper

Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley

Greek
By T.R. Hummer

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück

Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
By Sherman Alexie

Have You Prayed
By Li-Young Lee

He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heirloom
By A. M. Klein

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

here rests
By Lucille Clifton

Heritage
By Paul Engle

His Stillness
By Sharon Olds

History Lesson
By Natasha Trethewey

History of My Heart
By Robert Pinsky

Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms

Home Again Home Again
By A. F. Moritz

Home Burial
By Robert Frost

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Hump
By Irving Feldman

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

Hush
By David St. John

I Am Merely Posing for a Photograph
By Juan Felipe Herrera

I Genitori Perduti
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Ice
By Gail Mazur

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

Immigrant Blues
By Li-Young Lee

In Black
By Joyce Sutphen

In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

In the Days of Awe
By Robin Becker

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Middle of Dinner
By Chris Abani

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Infant Sorrow
By William Blake

Insect Life of Florida
By Lynda Hull

Intaglio
By Henri Coulette

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introit & Fugue
By D. Nurkse

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
By William Wordsworth

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Killing Chickens
By Bruce Weigl

Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
By Robert Bly

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Liar
By Charlie Smith

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Library
By Brian Culhane

Life with Mother
By Henri Coulette

Lines——
By Hartley Coleridge

Listen Carefully
By Philip Levine

Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Living Here Now
By Eloise Klein Healy

Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Love Song for Alex, 1979
By Margaret Walker

Lucinda Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández

Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder

Memorandum
By W. S. Merwin

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Men at Forty
By Donald Justice

Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Mighty Forms
By Brenda Hillman

Milk
By Shirley Kaufman

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes

Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven
By Philip Levine

My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

My Father’s Closet
By D. Nurkse

My Grandmother’s Love Letters
By Hart Crane

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell

My Life
By Mark Strand

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley

Napa Valley
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin

from Nettles: Lies
By Jane Miller

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

Night Said
By Franz Wright

Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

Nightmare Begins Responsibility
By Michael S. Harper

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

No Time
By Billy Collins

Nomadology
By Alissa Leigh

Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice

Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

Oaxacan Stories
By Deborah Digges

October
By May Swenson

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters

On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands

On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

Only Child
By D. Nurkse

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Parental Recollections
By Charles Lamb

Parents
By Robert Wrigley

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Passing Through
By Ai

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Paths
By John Montague

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

Politics
By William Meredith

Pop
By Elinor Maxwell

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Prayer for My Father
By Robert Bly

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Prodigal
By Bob Hicok

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Reflections on History in Missouri
By Constance Urdang

Report to Crazy Horse
By William E. Stafford

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

Rider
By Charlie Smith

from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan

Rock Me to Sleep
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Romance of a Youngest Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Sadie and Maud
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Sadness
By Donald Justice

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian

Salomé
By Ai

Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen

Scenes of Childhood
By James Merrill

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Scree
By Alan Shapiro

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel

Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

Shell
By Harriet Brown

Sidewalk Games
By Colleen J. McElroy

Sire
By W. S. Merwin

Situation Comedy
By Henri Coulette

Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero

Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Snow on the Desert
By Agha Shahid Ali

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Snowmen
By Agha Shahid Ali

Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos

Some Words Inside of Words
By Richard Wilbur

Song and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Sophia Nichols,
By Robin Blaser

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

South Seas
By Cesare Pavese

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet
By Anne Caston

Supernatural Love
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Swerve
By Kelle Groom

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon

Talking among Ourselves
By Charlie Smith

Tam Glen
By Robert Burns

Tell the Bees
By Sarah Lindsay

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest

That Country
By Grace Paley

The Advance of the Father
By Fanny Howe

The Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Art Room
By Shara McCallum

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Bath
By Gary Snyder

The Black Hose
By Bruce Weigl

The Black-Faced Sheep
By Donald Hall

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous

The Broken Home
By James Merrill

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Children of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cities Inside Us
By Alberto Ríos

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Closet
By Bill Knott

The Cruel Mother
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Desk
By David Bottoms

The Dowser’s Ear
By Wilmer Mills

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Farm on the Great Plains
By William E. Stafford

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Garden
By Mark Strand

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Gate
By Marie Howe

The Gift
By Li-Young Lee

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guild
By Sharon Olds

The Harp
By Bruce Weigl

The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Life and Letters
By Irving Feldman

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Light the Dead See
By Frank Stanford

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Moss of His Skin
By Anne Sexton

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Mother’s Return
By Dorothy Wordsworth

The Natives of America
By Ann Plato

The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh

The Night Would Grow Like a Telescope Pulled Out
By Alberto Ríos

The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi

The Order In Which Things Are Broken
By Desirée Alvarez

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Thy Voice is Heard
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

the rites for Cousin Vit
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Same City
By Terrance Hayes

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Slave Auction
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Mother
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Things in Black Men’s Closets
By E. Ethelbert Miller

The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home
By Linda Gregerson

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Vacuum
By Howard Nemerov

The Visit
By Carole Bernstein

The Wabash Cannonball
By Richard Emil Braun

The Weakness
By Toi Derricotte

The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Work
By Tom Sleigh

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Things of the Past
By Theodore Weiss

This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith

This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden

Time Done Is Dark
By Michelle Boisseau

Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown

To a Child
By Sophie Jewett

To a Wedding
By William Logan

To Alexander Graham
By W. S. Graham

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
By Anne Hunter

To My Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

To My Mother
By Wendell Berry

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

Too Many Daves
By Theodor Geisel

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Triptych
By Samuel Menashe

Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi

Tuning
By Diane Glancy

Tutelary
By Michael Ryan

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Two Aunts
By Thomas James

United Jewish Appeal
By Michael C. Blumenthal

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Visitation
By Jeffrey Harrison

Vita Nova
By Louise Glück

Vuillard: “The Mother and Sister of the Artist”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Waiting
By Nikki Grimes

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Waving Goodbye
By Gerald Stern

What For
By Garrett Hongo

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore
By Lynn Emanuel

Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
By Mark Strand

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Wine
By David Wojahn

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Worth
By Marilyn Nelson

X-Ray
By Dannie Abse

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker

You Can Have It
By Philip Levine

You Would Know
By Marvin Bell

Your Clothes
By Judith Kroll

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

[if mama / could see]
By Lucille Clifton

[Leaving the beach on a Sunday in a streetcar]
By Charles Reznikoff

[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera

[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
By D.A. Powell