There are 228 Poems about Reading & Books

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By Kenneth Fearing

“Four Quartets” Revisited
By Belle Randall

from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind
By Robert Duncan

Nimis Compos Mentis
By Leslie Monsour

A Book on a Shelf
By Roger Mitchell

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

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth

from A Little White Shadow
By Mary Ruefle

A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan

A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
By Jack Spicer

A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
By Amiri Baraka

A Test of Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
By John Ciardi

Against the Evidence
By David Ignatow

All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

An Essay on Criticism: Part 1
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 2
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 3
By Alexander Pope

An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell

And as in Alice
By Mary Jo Bang

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Apostrophe to the Apostrophe
By Eric Nelson

Aristotle
By Billy Collins

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès

Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Billet-Doux
By Chris Forhan

Cacoethes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Calm Down
By Gregory Orr

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Chekhov’s “The Student” (April, 1894)
By Brian Culhane

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Consolation
By Wisława Szymborska

Dejection
By David Baker

Do Words Outlast
By Gregory Orr

Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Each Defeat
By Eileen Myles

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

Eliza Harris
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Emily Brontë
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Envoi
By Ezra Pound

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Eschatology of the Lexicon
By J. Allyn Rosser

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Etching of the Plague Years
By Mary Karr

Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Fable of the Ant and the Word
By Mary Barnard

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander

For Micha's Mother, Who Signs
By Robert A. Fink

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Girl in a Library
By Gail Mazur

Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America
By Primus St. John

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

I dwell in Possibility – (466)
By Emily Dickinson

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

Image-Nation 9 (half and half
By Robin Blaser

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

In Chandler Country
By Dana Gioia

In the House of the Latin Professor
By B. H. Fairchild

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Introductory to Second Edition
By Alfred Islay Walden

Ishmael, or The Orphan
By Dan Beachy-Quick

John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Learning the Trees
By Howard Nemerov

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letters to Walt Whitman
By Ronald Johnson

Library
By Brian Culhane

Literary
By Kenneth Fearing

Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie

Love Letters
By Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads (1798)
By William Wordsworth

Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg

Matins
By David Wojahn

MAY. [1748] III Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

No More and No Less
By Mahmoud Darwish

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
By William Wordsworth

O.
By Robin Blaser

Of Modern Books
By Carolyn Wells

Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Mr. G. Herbert's Book
By Richard Crashaw

On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats

On the Gift of a Book to a Child
By Hilaire Belloc

On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
By Philip Levine

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

Pangur Bán
By Anonymous

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Paradoxes and Oxymorons
By John Ashbery

Parchment
By Michelle Boisseau

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Publication – is the Auction (788)
By Emily Dickinson

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Randall Jarrell
By Robert Lowell

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Read to the Animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA
By Irving Feldman

Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke

Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles
By Billy Collins

Recitation
By Scott Cairns

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Romanticism
By David Baker

Roses
By Barbara Guest

Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
By Thomas Morris

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

Schemhammphorasch
By Rose Terry Cooke

Seth Compton
By Edgar Lee Masters

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth

skinny-dippin’ in the gene pool
By Thulani Davis

Sleepers Awake
By John Ashbery

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Sonnet for September 27th
By Jack Prelutsky

Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My Letters!
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophia Nichols,
By Robin Blaser

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
By Robert Duncan

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Supernatural Love
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

The Argument of his Book
By Robert Herrick

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Dictionary of Silence
By Debora Greger

The Dog Stoltz
By August Kleinzahler

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Kate Gale

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

from The Fatalist: The best words get said frequently‚ they are like fertile pips.
By Lyn Hejinian

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The Gardener 85
By Rabindranath Tagore

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Intellectual
By Karl Shapiro

The King of Spain
By William Jay Smith

The King’s Question
By Brian Culhane

The Last Canto
By Brian Culhane

The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas

The Local Language
By Ralph Angel

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The Newspaper
By Penina Moise

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Problem of Fiction
By Marie Ponsot

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Stories
By Robin Blaser

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
By Alice Notley

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

There is no Frigate like a Book (1286)
By Emily Dickinson

They shut me up in Prose – (445)
By Emily Dickinson

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels
By Christian Milne

To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

To Shakespeare
By Frances Anne Kemble

To the Blank Spaces
By W. S. Merwin

To the Reader
By Jorie Graham

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

Translator's note
By Bob Hicok

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

What Is Life
By Gregory Orr

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats

When I Read Shakespeare --
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

Writing
By Howard Nemerov

Your Night Is of Lilac
By Mahmoud Darwish

Zoom!
By Simon Armitage

[“Dear Lorca / These letters are to be”]
By Jack Spicer

[“Dear Robin / Enclosed you find”]
By Jack Spicer