There are 1655 Free Verse poems

"Wreck" and "rise above"
By Eleanor Wilner

“Actuarial File”
By Jean Valentine

“Nothing Is Really Hard but to Be Real—”
By John Ciardi

1941
By Ruth Stone

1959
By Gregory Corso

1994
By Lucille Clifton

2/18/97
By Jorie Graham

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

30th Birthday
By Alice Notley

35/10
By Sharon Olds

40 Days
By Tom Clark

Ars Poetica?
By Czeslaw Milosz

Song of Myself: 35
By Walt Whitman

a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski

from A Bibliography of the King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike
By Susan Howe

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Blind Woman
By Ted Kooser

A Boat
By Richard Brautigan

A Chapter from the Garden
By Diane Ackerman

A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland

A Dirge
By Thomas James Merton

A Fable
By Robert Kelly

A Fable
By Louise Glück

A Fine, a Private Place
By Diane Ackerman

A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania

A Heritage
By Dannie Abse

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A Kind of Meadow
By Carl Phillips

A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Letter in October
By Ted Kooser

A Letter to Wallace Stevens
By Peter Balakian

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

A Lot
By Scott Cairns

A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright

A Man May Change
By Marvin Bell

A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane

A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos

A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
By Denise Levertov

A Marriage
By Robert Creeley

A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
By Kenneth Koch

A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
By Amiri Baraka

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Newly Discovered ‘Homeric’ Hymn
By Charles Olson

A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman

A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Poem about Baseballs
By Denis Johnson

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
By Amiri Baraka

A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
By Nikki Giovanni

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes

A Pumpkin at New Year’s
By Sandra McPherson

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
By Wallace Stevens

A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier

A Report to an Academy
By Joel Brouwer

A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright

A Side Street
By Louis Untermeyer

A Small Motor
By Alberto Ríos

A Strategem
By Michael Anania

A Test of Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

A Time Past
By Denise Levertov

A Toast
By Peter Balakian

A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian

A Walk to Carter’s Lake
By David Bottoms

A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright

A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley

A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright

A Woman Speaks
By Audre Lorde

A.M. Fog
By Mark Jarman

Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend
By Hayden Carruth

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Above the Human Nerve Domain
By Will Alexander

Abscess
By Forrest Gander

Abundance
By John Ciardi

Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young

Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith

Account
By Czeslaw Milosz

Accountability
By William E. Stafford

Action and Non-Action
By Chuang Tzu

Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels

Address to the Migrations
By Jean Garrigue

Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous
By Scott Cairns

Aesthetics of the Asylum
By Constance Urdang

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After The Pillow Book
By Peter Pereira

After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
By William E. Stafford

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

After Tonight
By Gary Soto

Afterimages
By Audre Lorde

Afternoons
By Michael Anania

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

Aliens
By Amy Lowell

All Hallows
By Louise Glück

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Alla Breve Loving
By C. D. Wright

Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Along with Youth
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Tony Hoagland

America
By Allen Ginsberg

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
By Gregory Corso

American History
By Michael S. Harper

American Sketches
By Donald Justice

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Arbor
By Linda Gregerson

An Awful Story
By Michael Collier

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser

An Oregon Message
By William E. Stafford

Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish

And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
By John Ashbery

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Anniversary
By Louise Glück

Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell

Anti-Short Story
By Rae Armantrout

Apollo
By Elizabeth Alexander

Apprenticeship
By Will Alexander

Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright

Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee

Arrows
By Tony Hoagland

Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish

Articulation
By Rae Armantrout

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

Associations with a View from the House
By Carl Rakosi

At a Window
By Carl Sandburg

At Noon
By Reginald Gibbons

At Six
By Susan Stewart

At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford

At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan

At This Precise Moment of History
By Thomas James Merton

Atmospherics
By Susan Hutton

Attention
By Rae Armantrout

August Diary
By Peter Balakian

Authority
By W. S. Merwin

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Autumn
By T. E. Hulme

Autumn
By Grace Paley

Autumn
By Adam Zagajewski

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Luckies”
By Reginald Gibbons

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

‘And Their Winter and Night in Disguise’
By George Oppen

Babylon Revisited
By Amiri Baraka

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

Balance
By Linda Bierds

Balboa, the Entertainer
By Amiri Baraka

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Bat
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Beautiful Black Men
By Nikki Giovanni

Beauty
By Tony Hoagland

Beds
By Henri Coulette

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Beginning
By James Wright

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Believe It
By John Logan

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Below the Coast
By John Koethe

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright

Bess
By William E. Stafford

Better or Worse
By Heather McHugh

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard

Beyond Harm
By Sharon Olds

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
By Sharon Olds

Birdcage Walk
By Thomas James Merton

Black Boys Play the Classics
By Toi Derricotte

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Black Soap
By Sandra McPherson

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Blue Monday
By Diane Wakoski

Blue Moon
By W. S. Di Piero

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Boil
By Alicia Ostriker

Boleros 14
By Jay Wright

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Box of Cigars
By Gerald Stern

Boy Breaking Glass
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Braid
By Susan Stewart

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Brancusi’s Golden Bird
By Mina Loy

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Bread
By W. S. Merwin

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Buffalo Bill 's
By E. E. Cummings

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Burning Island
By Gary Snyder

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

from Cabbage Gardens
By Susan Howe

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Caedmon
By Denise Levertov

Calm Down
By Gregory Orr

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Canary
By Rita Dove

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Cascando
By Samuel Beckett

Cassandra
By H. D.

Census
By Carol Muske-Dukes

from Chanting at the Crystal Sea
By Susan Howe

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Chiapas
By Gary Soto

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago’s Congo
By Frank Marshall Davis

Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte

Cities
By H. D.

Citrus Freeze
By Forrest Gander

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song
By Michael S. Harper

Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith

Clear Night
By Charles Wright

Clinical Thermometer Set with Moonstone
By Alice Notley

Close Path
By Mary Kinzie

Closing Hours
By Ann Lauterbach

Clouds
By Denise Levertov

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Coal
By Audre Lorde

Colophon
By Dean Young

Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams

Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
By Charles Simic

Confidential
By Rae Armantrout

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

Consequences
By William Meredith

Consolation
By Wisława Szymborska

Conversation
By Ai

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

Courtesy
By David Ferry

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Covers
By Rae Armantrout

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Credo
By Robert Creeley

Crossing 16
By Rabindranath Tagore

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Crossing the Atlantic
By Anne Sexton

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Cuba, 1962
By Ai

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Damp Rot
By John Engels

Dance Piece
By Ben Belitt

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski

Danse Russe
By William Carlos Williams

Days of '74
By Mark Jarman

Days of Heaven
By Carl Dennis

Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
By P. K. Page

Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper

Death Is Not As Natural As You Fags Seem to Think
By Amiri Baraka

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

December 30
By Richard Brautigan

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Deed
By Josephine Miles

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Desire’s Persistence
By Jay Wright

Dickhead
By Michael Ryan

Difference
By Mark Doty

Different Ways to Pray
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Disappointment
By August Kleinzahler

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

from Discrete Series: "Town, a town ..."
By George Oppen

Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
By Wallace Stevens

Disown
By Rae Armantrout

Disregard
By Ai

Do Words Outlast
By Gregory Orr

Dolls
By David St. John

Don’t Let That Horse ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Door in the Mountain
By Jean Valentine

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dream Song 14
By John Berryman

Dream Song 29
By John Berryman

Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni

Dressing My Daughters
By Mark Jarman

Drift
By Mary Kinzie

Drill
By Michael Collier

Driving through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings
By Robert Bly

Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River
By Robert Bly

Dusk
By Rae Armantrout

Dusting
By Rita Dove

D____ L____’s
By Albert Goldbarth

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild

East of the Library, Across from the Odd Fellows Building
By August Kleinzahler

East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Eclipse with Object
By Ann Lauterbach

Eden, Then and Now
By Ruth Stone

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Victoria Chang

Effort for Distraction
By Josephine Miles

Elegy (“Who keeps the owl’s breath?”)
By David St. John

Elegy for Peter
By Bruce Weigl

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It
By Larry Levis

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Ellis Island
By Peter Balakian

Embalming
By Scott Cairns

Encounter in Buffalo
By Mary Barnard

End of the Comedy
By Louis Untermeyer

England Finally, Like My Mother Always Said We Would
By Alberto Ríos

Entry in an Unknown Hand
By Franz Wright

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Euphorias
By Philip Appleman

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Everything Good between Men and Women
By C. D. Wright

Everything that Acts Is Actual
By Denise Levertov

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson

Eyes Only
By Linda Pastan

Eyes:
By William Matthews

Fable of the Ant and the Word
By Mary Barnard

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Factory
By Charles Simic

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Falling
By James L. Dickey

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

Falling: The Code
By Li-Young Lee

Family
By Josephine Miles

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

Famous
By Naomi Shihab Nye

far memory
By Lucille Clifton

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Favrile
By Mark Doty

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

February
By Margaret Atwood

February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov

February Sky
By Bruce Smith

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles

First Coca-Cola
By Rodney Jones

Five Indiscretions,
By Alberto Ríos

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas

Flight
By B. H. Fairchild

Floating Trees
By C. D. Wright

Flood
By Jorie Graham

Flow
By Jonathan Galassi

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

Fog
By Mark Doty

Food
By Brenda Hillman

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Love
By Robert Creeley

For the Animals
By Lawrence Raab

For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

Forecast
By Josephine Miles

Fork
By Charles Simic

Four Poems for Robin
By Gary Snyder

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee

From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Fruit-gathering XXXVI
By Rabindranath Tagore

Frying Trout While Drunk
By Lynn Emanuel

Fundamentalism
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Garden
By H. D.

Generation
By Rae Armantrout

Genesis
By Ruth Stone

Geology
By Bob King

Geometry
By Nancy Botkin

George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
By George Elliott Clarke

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

Giant Night
By Anne Waldman

Gin
By David St. John

Ginger
By Carl Rakosi

Girlhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Gitanjali 35
By Rabindranath Tagore

Giving a Manicure
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Glazunoviana
By John Ashbery

Gloire de Dijon
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Glucose Self-Monitoring
By Katy Giebenhain

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Going
By David Rivard

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

Goodbye to Tolerance
By Denise Levertov

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Grace
By John Logan

Graciela
By Gary Soto

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper

Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Gravelly Run
By A. R. Ammons

Graves
By Hayden Carruth

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

Gulls
By Jorie Graham

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Haiku Ambulance
By Richard Brautigan

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Hammer
By Dean Young

Handsel
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Hanging Fire
By Audre Lorde

Happy as a Dog’s Tail
By Anna Swir

Harlem
By Langston Hughes

Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser

Havana Birth
By Susan Mitchell

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young

Hearing
By W. S. Merwin

Heat
By Jane Hirshfield

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Height Is the Distance Down
By Mary Barnard

Helen
By H. D.

Hello
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Helsinki Window
By Robert Creeley

Hephaestus Alone
By Linda Gregg

Her House
By Constance Urdang

Herbert White
By Frank Bidart

Here Is an Ear Hear
By Victor Hernández Cruz

here rests
By Lucille Clifton

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

High Noon at Los Alamos
By Eleanor Wilner

High Tension Lines across a Landscape
By John Ciardi

from Hinge Picture
By Susan Howe

His Stillness
By Sharon Olds

Hole, Where Once in Passion We Swam
By Dave Smith

Holy Cussing
By Robert Morgan

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner
By Bernadette Mayer

Home Federal
By Rae Armantrout

Home Fire
By Linda Parsons Marion

Homecoming
By Jay Wright

Homecoming
By Keith Althaus

Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns

Homework
By Allen Ginsberg

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Horses on the Grass
By Grace Schulman

Hour on Hour
By Mary Kinzie

House: Some Instructions
By Grace Paley

How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

How to Enter a Big City
By Thomas James Merton

How We Were Introduced
By Zbigniew Herbert

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Humanities Lecture
By William E. Stafford

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hump
By Irving Feldman

Hush
By David St. John

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
By Thomas James Merton

Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler

Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair

Hypocrite Women
By Denise Levertov

Hysteria
By T. S. Eliot

I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers
By Karl Shapiro

I Am But A Traveler in This Land & Know Little of Its Ways
By Dean Young

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
By Charles Bukowski

I Am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
By Charles Bukowski

I Could Not Tell
By Sharon Olds

I Feel (Verse Libre)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Genitori Perduti
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

I Knocked My Head against the Wall
By Anna Swir

I Know a Man
By Robert Creeley

I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By Walt Whitman

I Sing the Body Electric
By Walt Whitman

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

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

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

I Went into the Maverick Bar
By Gary Snyder

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

I, Too
By Langston Hughes

I’ll Open the Window
By Anna Swir

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

Ice Plant in Bloom
By W. S. Di Piero

If It Were Not for You
By Hayden Carruth

Ignoramus
By Mina Loy

II-The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced
By Alice Notley

Ikebana
By Cathy Song

Image of the Engine
By George Oppen

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Immortality Ode
By Bruce Smith

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

Imps
By Albert Goldbarth

In
By Andrew Hudgins

In a Garden
By Amy Lowell

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound

In Celebration of My Uterus
By Anne Sexton

In Church
By Peter Balakian

In Golden Gate Park That Day ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Heaven
By Stephen Crane

In Houston
By Gail Mazur

in Just-
By E. E. Cummings

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan

In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

In November
By Lisel Mueller

In Perpetual Spring
By Amy Gerstler

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright

In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

In the Desert
By Stephen Crane

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

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Marble Quarry
By James L. Dickey

In the Mushroom Summer
By David Mason

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In the Secular Night
By Margaret Atwood

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

In the Year Eight Hundred
By Jane Hirshfield

In Winter
By Michael Ryan

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Incident
By Amiri Baraka

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Inkwell      daybreak
By Jean Valentine

Inside Out
By Diane Wakoski

Inside the Ghost Volcano
By Will Alexander

Instructions for Building Straw Huts
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
By Charles Bukowski

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Intrusion
By Denise Levertov

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Iphigenia: Politics
By Thomas James Merton

Ironing After Midnight
By Marsha Truman Cooper

It Follows
By Ruth Stone

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

It Would
By Alice Notley

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

Jan Kubelik
By Carl Sandburg

jasper texas 1998
By Lucille Clifton

Jazz Station
By Michael S. Harper

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Jet
By Tony Hoagland

Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright

Joy
By Alan Shapiro

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Justice, Come Down
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Killing Chickens
By Bruce Weigl

Killing Floor
By Ai

Kindness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

King’s Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948
By C. D. Wright

Kissing a Horse
By Robert Wrigley

Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
By Robert Bly

Ladies
By Ezra Pound

Lake Echo, Dear
By C. D. Wright

Landscape
By Thomas James Merton

Language of Love
By Rae Armantrout

Large Intestine
By Anna Swir

Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Last Month
By John Ashbery

Late February
By Ted Kooser

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Late?
By David Rivard

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Laws of the Universe
By Albert Goldbarth

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Leaping Clear
By Irving Feldman

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley

Leaving the Island
By Sharon Olds

Leda
By H. D.

Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni

Legacy
By Amiri Baraka

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

from Lessons From Television
By Susan Stewart

Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart

Letter
By Jean Valentine

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Life with Mother
By Henri Coulette

Like a Scarf
By James Tate

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lilacs
By Amy Lowell

Lines for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish

Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Lions
By Sandra McPherson

Listening
By Jean Valentine

Litany
By Billy Collins

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Little Map
By Jean Valentine

little tree
By E. E. Cummings

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

London Crossfigured
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Long Story Short
By G. E. Murray

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Looking For Each of Us
By Linda Gregg

Looking Out the Window Poem
By Denis Johnson

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright

Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Love Worn
By Lita Hooper

Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Lui et Elle
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Lullabye for the Second Millennium
By J. Allyn Rosser

Lunar Baedeker
By Mina Loy

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
By James Wright

Made Shine
By Josephine Miles

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos

Makeup on Empty Space
By Anne Waldman

Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Man Dancing with a Baby
By Susan Stewart

Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Mapping the Genome
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Mason Jars by the Window
By Alberto Ríos

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Matinee
By Patrick Phillips

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

Matins
By Denise Levertov

Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Medusa
By Louise Bogan

Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memory As a Hearing Aid
By Tony Hoagland

Men at Forty
By Donald Justice

Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton

Merce of Egypt
By Charles Olson

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Meta-A and the A of Absolutes
By Jay Wright

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Midnight Salvage
By Adrienne Rich

Mighty Forms
By Brenda Hillman

Military Mind
By Charlie Smith

Mind | Body
By Gregory Djanikian

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

Minor Miracle
By Marilyn Nelson

Minuscule Things
By William Matthews

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Montparnasse
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
By William E. Stafford

Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Morel Mushrooms
By Jane Whitledge

Morning
By Billy Collins

Morning Arrives
By Franz Wright

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

Moss
By Bruce Guernsey

Motet
By Michael Anania

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes

Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Mount Angel
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Mouth
By Robert Wrigley

Movement Song
By Audre Lorde

Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos

Mrs. Hill
By B. H. Fairchild

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg

Muier
By William Carlos Williams

mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

Murder
By David Baker

Music
By George Scarbrough

Musical Moments
By Dannie Abse

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven
By Philip Levine

My Century
By Alan Feldman

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

my dream about being white
By Lucille Clifton

my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Father Teaches Me to Dream
By Jan Beatty

My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly

My Sad Self
By Allen Ginsberg

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Myself and My Person
By Anna Swir

Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley

Myth of the Blaze
By George Oppen

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Napa Valley
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Narcolepsy
By Ann Lauterbach

Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin

Natural History
By Rae Armantrout

Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns

Neighbors
By David Allen Evans

Neighbors in October
By David Baker

Never to Dream of Spiders
By Audre Lorde

New
By Gertrude Stein

New Water
By Sharon Chmielarz

New York
By Valzhyna Mort

Night Thoughts
By Carl Rakosi

Nightmare Begins Responsibility
By Michael S. Harper

Nikita
By Alberto Ríos

Nikki-Rosa
By Nikki Giovanni

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

Nocturne
By Li-Young Lee

Nomadology
By Alissa Leigh

None
By Hayden Carruth

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte

Not Guilty
By David Rivard

Not That It Could Be Finished
By Ann Lauterbach

Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Nothing But Color
By Ai

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

O sweet spontaneous
By E. E. Cummings

from O’Clock
By Fanny Howe

Occupation 1943
By Saadi Youssef

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 15 ["Nothing"]
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 36 ["See! Their verses are laid"]
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

from Of Being Numerous
By George Oppen

Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham

Of Late
By George Starbuck

Of Robert Frost
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
By Robert Duncan

Old Couple
By Charles Simic

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

On A Diet
By William Matthews

On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson

On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
By Geoffrey Hill

On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman

On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman

On the Existence of the Soul
By Pattiann Rogers

On the Lawn at the Villa
By Louis Simpson

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

On the Seashore
By Rabindranath Tagore

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith

One's-Self I Sing
By Walt Whitman

Onions
By William Matthews

Oread
By H. D.

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham

Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Overnight Guest
By Ruth Stone

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Paideia
By George Bradley

Palms
By Gustaf Sobin

Parable for Vanished Countries
By Peter Balakian

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Partial Resemblance
By Denise Levertov

Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas

Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan

Passing
By Toi Derricotte

Passing Through
By Ai

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Paterson
By Allen Ginsberg

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Peacock Display
By David Wagoner

Pear
By Susan Stewart

Peddler
By Sandra McPherson

Pediatrics
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

People Getting Divorced
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

Peripheries
By Ruth Stone

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968
By Cornelius Eady

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Piute Creek
By Gary Snyder

Place Names
By Thomas James Merton

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Playroom
By Mary Barnard

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Pleasure
By Carl Phillips

Pleasures
By Denise Levertov

Poem
By Carl Rakosi

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like
By Nikki Giovanni

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Poem with One Fact
By Donald Hall

Poem, on a Nude, from the Ballet, to Debussy’s Prelude L’Après-Midi D’un Faune, after Mallarm�’s L’Apres-Midi D’un Faune
By Dudley Randall

Poet Dances with Inanimate Object
By Cornelius Eady

Poet on Small Hillside
By Mary Kinzie

Poetics
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan

Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan

Political Poem
By Amiri Baraka

Politics
By William Meredith

Populist
By George Oppen

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns

Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus

Postpartum Blues
By Elton Glaser

Prairie Houses
By Barbara Guest

Prayer Rug
By Agha Shahid Ali

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Prehistoric
By Claire Malroux

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Prisoners
By Denise Levertov

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Prologue to a Bidding
By Forrest Gander

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Provinces
By C. D. Wright

Psalm
By George Oppen

Psyche and Eros in Florida
By Debora Greger

Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Pyrography
By John Ashbery

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Queens Cemetery, Setting Sun
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Question for the Bride
By David Rivard

Question [1]
By Langston Hughes

Questions About Angels
By Billy Collins

Quickly Aging Here
By Denis Johnson

Rabbits and Fire
By Alberto Ríos

Radiator
By Connie Wanek

Radio
By Tom Clark

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Rage for Order
By David Lunde

raise the shade
By E. E. Cummings

Raking
By Tania Rochelle

Rapture
By Galway Kinnell

Rat Song
By Margaret Atwood

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

Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg

Rebus
By Jane Hirshfield

Recitation
By Scott Cairns

Recreation
By Audre Lorde

Recycling Center
By Brenda Hillman

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Reflections
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Reflections on History in Missouri
By Constance Urdang

Religious Instruction
By Mina Loy

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
By Sandra McPherson

Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion

Revolution
By Anne Waldman

Rhapsody
By Frank O'Hara

Rhode Island
By William Meredith

Riprap
By Gary Snyder

Rite of Passage
By Sharon Olds

from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan

Rivers and Mountains
By John Ashbery

Road Report
By Kurt Brown

Rogue Russets
By R. T. Smith

Romance
By Ruth Stone

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Rorschach Test
By Franz Wright

Royalty
By Lianne Spidel

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell

Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero

Saints’ Logic
By Linda Gregerson

Salomé
By Ai

Salvation
By James Kimbrell

Salvation
By Stephen Dunn

San Francisco
By Richard Brautigan

Sanctuary
By Jean Valentine

Sandra: At the Beaver Trap
By Michael S. Harper

Santa Fe Trail
By Barbara Guest

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Sappho
By James Wright

Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker

Saving Minutes
By Jonathan Galassi

Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
By John Updike

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Sea Poppies
By H. D.

Sea Rose
By H. D.

Sean Penn Anti-Ode
By Dean Young

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Seaweeds
By Sandra McPherson

Second Thoughts
By Albert Goldbarth

Seeing for a Moment
By Denise Levertov

Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel

Self Portrait
By Frank Marshall Davis

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Self-Portrait
By Robert Creeley

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Sentimental
By Albert Goldbarth

Separation
By W. S. Merwin

September Song
By Geoffrey Hill

September, 1918
By Amy Lowell

Sequestrienne
By Dorothea Tanning

Serena I
By Samuel Beckett

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Sex and Taxes
By Kevin Cantwell

Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

Shapes
By Ruth Stone

Sharks' Teeth
By Kay Ryan

Sharp Glass
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Sheltered Garden
By H. D.

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Shore Line
By Carl Rakosi

Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane

Shroud of the Gnome
By James Tate

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Sideshow
By Mark Doty

Signs
By Larry Levis

Silence
By Marianne Moore

Silence Wager Stories
By Susan Howe

Silent Film
By Kurt Brown

Silent Music
By Floyd Skloot

Silver and Information
By Bruce Smith

Sire
By W. S. Merwin

Siren Song
By Margaret Atwood

Sisters in Arms
By Audre Lorde

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skid
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero

Sleep
By Meghan O'Rourke

Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

Sleeping with Boa
By May Swenson

Sloth
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North
By Elizabeth Hobbs

Small Elegy
By Reginald Gibbons

Small Woman on Swallow Street
By W. S. Merwin

Smoke
By Philip Levine

So Graven
By Josephine Miles

So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come
By Jorie Graham

So This Is Nebraska
By Ted Kooser

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald

Some Last Questions
By W. S. Merwin

Somebody Else’s Baby
By Mary Jo Salter

Sometime During Eternity ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Somewhere
By Robert Creeley

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Son of Fog
By Dean Young

Song and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

Song for Ishtar
By Denise Levertov

Song in Barbarous Fumarole of the Japanese Crested Ibis
By Will Alexander

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of Napalm
By Bruce Weigl

Song of the Open Road
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Two Crows
By Hayden Carruth

Sonnet
By Robert Hass

Sonnet. To Tell the Truth
By Alicia Ostriker

Soonest Mended
By John Ashbery

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Soul Says
By Jorie Graham

South Carolina Morning
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Soweto
By Edward Brathwaite

Spaces We Leave Empty
By Cathy Song

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averill Curdy

Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash

Spider Crystal Ascension
By Charles Wright

Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier

Spring
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Spring before a War
By Dudley Randall

Spring Letter
By Carl Dennis

Spring Snow
By Linda Gregerson

St Vincent’s
By W. S. Merwin

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Stable
By Claudia Emerson Andrews

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza LXXXIII
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza I
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza II
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza V
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza XIII
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza XIV
By Gertrude Stein

from Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza XV
By Gertrude Stein

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Statue
By Tom Clark

Stink Eye
By Cathy Song

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Stone Canyon Nocturne
By Charles Wright

Stonehenge
By Albert Goldbarth

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Street Musicians
By John Ashbery

Study in Orange and White
By Billy Collins

Study Nature
By Gertrude Stein

Stump
By Donald Hall

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing
By Robert Duncan

Suicide's Note
By Langston Hughes

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Summer Downpour on Campus
By Juliana Gray

Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet
By Anne Caston

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall

Supple Cord
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Surfaces
By Kay Ryan

Susie Asado
By Gertrude Stein

Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
By Freya Manfred

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Synchronous Chronology
By Alice Notley

Take Comfort Where You Can
By Michael Chitwood

Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

Teodoro Luna Confesses After Years to His Brother, Anselmo the Priest, Who Is Required to Understand, But Who Understands Anyway, More Than People Think
By Alberto Ríos

Testing on Steel and Glass
By Carl Rakosi

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

That Child
By David Wagoner

That Country
By Grace Paley

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Advance of the Father
By Fanny Howe

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Alchemist
By Lawrence Raab

The American Way
By Gregory Corso

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

The Animals
By W. S. Merwin

The animals in that country
By Margaret Atwood

The Answering Machine
By Linda Pastan

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero

The Artist
By Amy Lowell

The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall

The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Bath
By Gary Snyder

The Bean Eaters
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bear
By Susan Mitchell

The Bethlehem Nursing Home
By Rodney Torreson

The Birds
By Linda Pastan

The Black Angel
By Henri Coulette

The Black Hose
By Bruce Weigl

The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers

The Blue Booby
By James Tate

The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell

The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker
By Henri Coulette

The Boarding
By Denis Johnson

The Boathouse
By David St. John

The Body
By Marianne Boruch

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Burnt Child
By W. S. Merwin

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Canticle of Jack Kerouac
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The Cave Painters
By Eamon Grennan

The Child
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Children
By Mark Jarman

The China Painters
By Ted Kooser

The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray

The circle game
By Margaret Atwood

The City (1925)
By Carl Rakosi

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Clearing
By Carl Phillips

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
By Galway Kinnell

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Cows on Killing Day
By Les Murray

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Crow
By Kunst Judith McCune

The crowd at the ball game
By William Carlos Williams

The Crystal Lithium
By James Schuyler

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Dancer
By David Tucker

The Dead Never Fight Against Anything
By Pattiann Rogers

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Deathwatch Beetle
By Linda Pastan

The Definition of Gardening
By James Tate

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
By N. Scott Momaday

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Dignity of Ushers
By Al Maginnes

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Dome of Sunday
By Karl Shapiro

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Double Leash
By Katharine Coles

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Dream of the Unified Field
By Jorie Graham

The Drought
By Gary Soto

The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück

The Elements of San Joaquin
By Gary Soto

The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme

The Empty Dance Shoes
By Cornelius Eady

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Errancy
By Jorie Graham

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Fabric of Life
By Kay Ryan

The Face
By Franz Wright

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

from The Fatalist: Come October, it's the lake not the border
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Home whose names are produced by motion
By Lyn Hejinian

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

from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now
By Lyn Hejinian

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Fight
By Michael Collier

The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

The friend
By Marge Piercy

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

The Gardener 38
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gardener 85
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Giant Slide
By Ted Kooser

The Gift
By Li-Young Lee

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The God Who Loves You
By Carl Dennis

The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
By Alice Notley

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca
By David Wagoner

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers

The Guardian Angel of the Private Life
By Jorie Graham

The Guru
By A. F. Moritz

The Halo That Would Not Light
By Lucie Brock-Broido

The Hammer
By Carl Sandburg

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Harp
By Bruce Weigl

The Harriers
By Mary Kinzie

The Heart's Archaeology
By Maudelle Driskell

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The Hill
By Edgar Lee Masters

The History of America
By Alicia Ostriker

The Hitchhikers
By Diane Wakoski

The Homecoming Singer
By Jay Wright

The Impalpable Brush Fire Singer
By Will Alexander

The Infirmament
By Dean Young

The Instruction Manual
By John Ashbery

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Invention of Cuisine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Journey
By David Ignatow

The Journey
By James Wright

The Jungle Café
By Gary Soto

The Key to the Kingdom
By Philip Gross

The Kid
By Ai

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The Kingfishers
By Charles Olson

The Knife
By Jean Valentine

The Lake in Central Park
By Jay Wright

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Landing
By J. D. McClatchy

The Last Bargain
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Last Man
By Eleanor Wilner

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni

The Leaf Pile
By Alicia Ostriker

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Lion for Real
By Allen Ginsberg

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Lonely Pipefish
By Barbara Howes

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Machine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Map
By Gary Soto

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory
By Susan Stewart

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Marriage
By Mark Strand

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Menage
By Carl Rakosi

The Mermaid in the Hospital
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

the message of crazy horse
By Lucille Clifton

The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook of a Bantu under Detention
By Michael S. Harper

The Militant Black Poet
By Dudley Randall

The Minks
By Toi Derricotte

The Minneapolis Poem
By James Wright

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

The Month of June: 13 1/2
By Sharon Olds

The Months
By Linda Pastan

The Monument and the Shrine
By John Logan

The Mosquito
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves
By Kenneth Patchen

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes

The Neon Artist in December
By Linda Bierds

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The Night of the Shirts
By W. S. Merwin

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

The Nineteenth Century as a Song
By Robert Hass

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The November Angels
By Jane Hirshfield

The Nursery
By Fanny Howe

The Odd Last Thing She Did
By Brad Leithauser

The Old Codger’s Lament
By Carl Rakosi

The Old Maid Factory
By Constance Urdang

The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi

The Old World
By Charles Simic

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair

The Oracle
By Thomas James Merton

The Parade
By Billy Collins

The Passing of the Wise Men
By Pattiann Rogers

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Pieces That Fall To Earth
By Kay Ryan

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan

The Planet Krypton
By Lynn Emanuel

The Poet
By Yone Noguchi

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Pond
By Amy Lowell

The Pool
By Robert Creeley

The Pool
By H. D.

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Principles of Concealment
By David Wagoner

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Psychotropic Squalls
By Will Alexander

The Question
By Ruth Stone

The Rain
By Robert Creeley

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

The Rescue
By Robert Creeley

The Return
By Frank Bidart

The River of Bees
By W. S. Merwin

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Room of My Life
By Anne Sexton

The Sévres Road
By Susan Donnelly

The Safecracker
By Linda Pastan

The Saint and the Crab
By William Logan

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Screen of Distance
By Barbara Guest

The Sea-Garden
By Fanny Howe

The Search Party
By William Matthews

The Secret
By Denise Levertov

The Seer
By A. F. Moritz

The Sheep Child
By James L. Dickey

The Sheets
By Anonymous

The Shoes
By Brent Pallas

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Shore
By David St. John

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Snake
By William Matthews

The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy

The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton

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

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Sound of the Sun
By George Bradley

The Spool
By Ben Belitt

The Springtime
By Denise Levertov

The Stars and the Moon
By Grace Schulman

The Stars Are
By Samuel Menashe

The Story, Around the Corner
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Strength of Fields
By James L. Dickey

The Subculture of the Wrongfully Accused
By Thylias Moss

The Sun
By Dan Chiasson

The Swarm
By Jorie Graham

The Sympathizers
By Josephine Miles

The Tale of Sunlight
By Gary Soto

The Tapestry
By Forrest Gander

The Taxi
By Amy Lowell

The Tennis Court Oath
By John Ashbery

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 trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Treasure
By Robinson Jeffers

The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Veggie Life
By Michael Steffen

The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle
By Pattiann Rogers

The Veteran
By Fanny Howe

The Visit
By Carole Bernstein

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The Wabash Cannonball
By Richard Emil Braun

The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin

The Weakness
By Toi Derricotte

The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Wheelchair Butterfly
By James Tate

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

The Whole Mess ... Almost
By Gregory Corso

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
By William Carlos Williams

The Window
By Robert Creeley

The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann

The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary
By Heather McHugh

The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The World below the Brine
By Walt Whitman

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Wound
By Ruth Stone

The Wreckage
By Donald Hall

The Yellow Bicycle
By Robert Hass

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

Theme in Yellow
By Carl Sandburg

Then too there is this
By J. Allyn Rosser

There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

There Is Another Way
By Pat Schneider

There Is No One Story and One Story Only
By Adrienne Rich

These Lacustrine Cities
By John Ashbery

They are hostile nations
By Margaret Atwood

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

They eat out
By Margaret Atwood

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

Things
By Louis Simpson

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Think Also of Horseshoes
By Miller Williams

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

Thinking and Feeling
By Cole Swensen

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens

This
By Ralph Angel

This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station
By Amy Lowell

Those Being Eaten by America
By Robert Bly

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Thought
By Thomas Pfau

Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse
By Franz Wright

Thread
By Jonathan Galassi

Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy

Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
By Carolyn Kizer

Tierra del Fuego
By Adam Zagajewski

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

Time to Kill
By Carl Rakosi

Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To Go to Lvov
By Adam Zagajewski

To Live in the Mercy of God
By Denise Levertov

To Live with a Landscape
By Constance Urdang

To Myself
By Franz Wright

To Play Pianissimo
By Lola Haskins

To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara

To the Light of September
By W. S. Merwin

To the Muse
By James Wright

To the Reader
By Jorie Graham

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Today
By Billy Collins

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Torque
By David Rivard

Tortoise Gallantry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Tortoise Shout
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Touch
By Trevor West Knapp

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
By Pierre Martory

Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Tract
By William Carlos Williams

Transformation & Escape
By Gregory Corso

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Tree
By Jane Hirshfield

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Trust
By Susan Kinsolving

Truth Serum
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Turning Forty
By Jonathan Galassi

Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Ultima Thule
By Linda Bierds

Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher

Underwear
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms
By Francesca Abbate

Urban Renewal
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

Valentine
By Tom Pickard

Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
By Galway Kinnell

Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele
By Charles Olson

Variations on a Text by Vallejo
By Donald Justice

Vasectomy
By Philip Appleman

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Veil
By Rae Armantrout

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück

Veteran’s Hospital
By Ben Belitt

Vetiver
By John Ashbery

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady

Victory
By Fanny Howe

Vietnam
By Michael Collier

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Virginity
By Anna Swir

Visions
By William E. Stafford

Visitation
By Jeffrey Harrison

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

VooDoo/Love Magic
By Angela Jackson

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

Waiting There
By Michael Anania

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Waking from Sleep
By Robert Bly

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

Walking the Dunes
By Brenda Hillman

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Wavelength
By David St. John

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka

Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews

West Topsham
By John Engels

Westray: 1991
By Linda Bierds

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Became
By Wesley McNair

What Calls Us
By David Bengtson

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What I Know About Epistemology
By John Surowiecki

What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf

What I Saw
By Robert Duncan

What Light Destroys
By Andrew Hudgins

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

Whatever Can Be Done, Will Be Done
By Constance Urdang

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

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

When You Are Not Surprised
By Conrad Aiken

White Apples
By Donald Hall

White Oxen
By Louis Simpson

White-Eyes
By Mary Oliver

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings

Who Said It Was Simple
By Audre Lorde

Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Why I Might Go to the Next Football Game
By Denis Johnson

Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang

Why We Are Truly a Nation
By William Matthews

Wildflowers
By Reginald Gibbons

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Willowspout
By R. T. Smith

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Wine
By David Wojahn

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson

Woman to Man
By Ai

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Women in Profile: Bas-Relief, Left Section Missing
By Susan Mitchell

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Working Outside at Night
By Denis Johnson

Worm Either Way
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Worms
By Carl Dennis

Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday
By Gregory Corso

Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem
By Gregory Corso

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 16.
By Lyn Hejinian

from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 17.
By Lyn Hejinian

x-pug
By Charles Bukowski

Xenophobia
By Rae Armantrout

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley

Yet Dish
By Gertrude Stein

You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting
By Jill Osier

You People
By Nance Van Winckel

You Were You Are Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

Young Afrikans
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Young Man
By John Haines

Your Clothes
By Judith Kroll

Youth
By James Wright

Zen Living
By Dick Allen

[if mama / could see]
By Lucille Clifton

[It's been two thousand years now]
By Marie-Claire Bancquart

[Often when he was advancing]
By Charles Juliet