IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009
Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.
There are 972 Poems where the title begins with "a"
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski
A Ball Rolls on a Point
By Kay Ryan
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams
A Ballad of Death
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
By Thomas Moore
A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley
A Barred Owl
By Richard Wilbur
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed
By Jonathan Swift
A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti
from A Bibliography of the King’s Book or, Eikon Basilike
By Susan Howe
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
By Arna Bontemps
A Blasphemy
By Maurice Manning
A Blessing
By James Wright
A Blind Woman
By Ted Kooser
A Boat
By Richard Brautigan
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll
A Book on a Shelf
By Roger Mitchell
A Broken Appointment
By Thomas Hardy
A Burnt Ship
By John Donne
A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Cameo
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass
By Gertrude Stein
A Case of Netsuke
By Mary Jo Salter
A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron De Maris
A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson
A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
By Ben Jonson
A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss
A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Chapter from the Garden
By Diane Ackerman
A Charm
By David Ferry
A Chest of Angels
By John Reibetanz
A Christmas Song
By Norman Williams
A Clearing in the Woods
By Thomas P. Lynch
A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland
A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will
By Isabella Whitney
A Complaint
By William Wordsworth
A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy
By George Chapman
A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Incident
By May Sarton
A Crowded Trolley Car
By Elinor Wylie
A Crown of Autumn Leaves
By Annie Finch
A crush of oily plant and treated white
By Joan Houlihan
A Cure at Porlock
By Amy Clampitt
A Dandelion for My Mother
By Jean Nordhaus
A Date
By Kevin McFadden
A Daughter of Eve
By Christina Rossetti
A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov
A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning
A Description of a City Shower
By Jonathan Swift
A Description of Such a One As He Would Love
By Thomas Wyatt
A Description of the Morning
By Jonathan Swift
A Deserter
By Charles Reznikoff
A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller
A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet
A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
By Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure
By Andrew Marvell
A Diamond
By Jack Spicer
A Dirge
By Thomas James Merton
A Dirge
By Christina Rossetti
A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie
A Display of Mackerel
By Mark Doty
A Divine Image
By William Blake
A Dog Has Died
By Pablo Neruda
A Dog's Life
By Daniel Groves
A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
By Hugh MacDiarmid
A Duet
By Kevin McFadden
A Fable
By August Kleinzahler
A Fable
By Robert Kelly
A Fable
By Louise Glück
A Fable
By Matthew Prior
A Fable
By Etheridge Knight
A Face
By Robert Browning
A Farewell to False Love
By Sir Walter Ralegh
A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb
A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
By Witter Bynner
A Favor of Love
By Molly Peacock
A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Few Days Ago
By Barbara Howes
A Few Rules for Beginners
By Katherine Mansfield
A Fifteenth-Century Zen Master
By Norman Dubie
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
By Ben Jonson
A Fixed Idea
By Amy Lowell
A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood
A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major
A Gift
By Kathryn Starbuck
A Girl on the Swing
By Chungmi Kim
A Glimpse
By Walt Whitman
A Good Fish
By Derek Sheffield
A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss
A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning
A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore
A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt
A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania
A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews
A Heart Divided
By Pierre Reverdy
A Heritage
By Dannie Abse
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens
A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni
A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker
A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey
A Hopkins Rumble, 1999
By John Hazard
A Hot Day In Agrigento
By Molly Peacock
A Hundred Bolts of Satin
By Kay Ryan
A Hymn to Childhood
By Li-Young Lee
A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne
A Hymn to God the Father
By Ben Jonson
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw
A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan
A Kind of Meadow
By Carl Phillips
A Kind of Villanelle
By Joyce Sutphen
A Knocker
By Zbigniew Herbert
A Lame Begger
By John Donne
A Lament
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Late History
By Weldon Kees
A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary
A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne
A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Letter in October
By Ted Kooser
A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai
A Letter to Daphnis
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
By Anne Bradstreet
A Letter to Wallace Stevens
By Peter Balakian
A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Literalist
By Robin Blaser
A Little Book
By Ruth Lilly
A Little Called Pauline
By Gertrude Stein
A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson
A Little Language
By Robert Duncan
from A Little White Shadow
By Mary Ruefle
A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith
A Lock of Her Hair
By Robert Wrigley
A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass
A Lot
By Scott Cairns
A Love Letter
By Russell Edson
A Lover
By Amy Lowell
A Lowrider Loudly Brings Us
By W. S. Di Piero
A Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham
A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright
A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Man
By Louis Untermeyer
A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler
A Man May Change
By Marvin Bell
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street
By Randall Jarrell
A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane
A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos
A Man's Requirements
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England
By Denise Levertov
A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
By Walt Whitman
A Marriage
By Robert Creeley
A Marriage in the Dolomites
By D. Nurkse
A Marriage Poem
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder
A Message from the Wanderer
By William E. Stafford
A Modest Love
By Sir Edward Dyer
A Moment
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
By Kenneth Koch
from A Moral Alphabet
By Hilaire Belloc
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
By Joanna Baillie
A Motor
By Marvin Bell
A Muse of Water
By Carolyn Kizer
A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Mysterious Heart
By Chase Twichell
A Name for All
By Hart Crane
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
By Emily Dickinson
A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell
A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
A New Reality Is Better Than a New Movie!
By Amiri Baraka
A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams
A Night in Brooklyn
By D. Nurkse
A Night-Piece on Death
By Thomas Parnell
A Nocturnal Reverie
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman
A Not Unruffled Surface
By Ange Mlinko
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright
A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte
A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me
By Peter Gizzi
A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle
from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman
A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali
A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan
A Pedal-Pusher Said to Me
By Gabriel & Marcel Piqueray
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman
A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling
A Pindaric Ode
By Ben Jonson
A Poem about Baseballs
By Denis Johnson
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
By June Jordan
A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon
A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
By Jack Spicer
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
By Amiri Baraka
A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg
A Poem from Boulder Ridge
By James Galvin
A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
By Nikki Giovanni
A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson
A Poem Without a Single Bird in It
By Jack Spicer
A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
By Elizabeth Hands
A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson
A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
By William Wordsworth
A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad
A Poet’s Poem
By Brenda Shaughnessy
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Position at the University
By Lydia Davis
A Postcard from the Volcano
By Wallace Stevens
A Posthumous Poetics
By Michael Ryan
A Posy of Love Poems
By William Walden
A Pot of Red Lentils
By Peter Pereira
A pot poured out
By Samuel Menashe
A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler Yeats
A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes
A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes
A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy
By Isaac Watts
A Psalm of Freudian Life
By Franklin Pierce Adams
A Psalm of Life
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Pumpkin at New Year’s
By Sandra McPherson
A quiet skin
By Laurie Sheck
A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed
By Brad Leithauser
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
By Wallace Stevens
A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier
A Receipt to Cure the Vapors
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Regret
By David Trinidad
A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë
A Report to an Academy
By Joel Brouwer
A Reverie
By Joanna Baillie
A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
By Henry Timrod
A Ring Presented to Julia
By Robert Herrick
A River
By John Poch
A Rocket in My Pocket
By Anonymous
A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser
A Roundelay between Two Shepherds
By Michael Drayton
A Route of Evanescence, (1489)
By Emily Dickinson
A Salutation
By Louise Imogen Guiney
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift
A Saxon Epitaph
By Marjorie Pickthall
A Season
By Cesare Pavese
A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer
A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright
A Secret Matter of Grave Importance
By Dara Wier
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning
A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
By Thomas Traherne
A shopkeeper's story
By Bob Hicok
A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright
A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties
By Edward Hirsch
A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad LIII: The lad came to the door at night
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XII: When I watch the living meet
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXVI: Along the field as we came by
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXX: Others, I am not the first
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer
By A. E. Housman
A Side Street
By Louis Untermeyer
A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall
A Slow Fuse
By Theodore Weiss
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
By William Wordsworth
A Small Moment
By Cornelius Eady
A Small Motor
By Alberto Ríos
A Son with a Future
By Charles Reznikoff
A Song
By Helen Maria Williams
A Song
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Song for Soweto
By June Jordan
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden
A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden
a song in the front yard
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Song to David
By Christopher Smart
A Song: Ask me no more where Jove bestows
By Thomas Carew
A Song: “Men of England”
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
By Ben Jonson
A Start
By Elaine Equi
A Step Away from Them
By Frank O'Hara
A Story
By Colette Inez
A Strategem
By Michael Anania
A Student’s Prayer
By Anonymous
A Substance in a Cushion
By Gertrude Stein
A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell
A Sum of Destructions
By Theodore Weiss
A Summer Shower
By Henry Timrod
A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg
A Supple Wreath of Myrtle
By Robert Hass
A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. William Shakespear’s, by the Author
By Sir John Suckling
A Swimmer's Dream
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Tale
By Louise Bogan
A Tapestry for Bayeux
By George Starbuck
A Teacher’s Lament
By Kalli Dakos
A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams
A Test of Poetry
By Charles Bernstein
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick
A Thought of the Nile
By Leigh Hunt
A Thousand Birds
By Hilda Morley
A Thousand Martyrs
By Aphra Behn
A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine
A Time Past
By Denise Levertov
A Toast
By Peter Balakian
A Toast for Men Yun-Ch’ing
By Tu Fu
A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest
A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning
A Token
By Robert Creeley
A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
By John Ciardi
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara
A True Maid
By Matthew Prior
A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck
A un Desconocido
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
A Vagabond
By James Tate
A Valediction of the Book
By John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne
A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne
A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski
A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian
A View of the Sea
By J. D. McClatchy
A Virginal
By Ezra Pound
A Vision of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy
By James Clerk Maxwell
A Vision of Poesy
By Henry Timrod
A Vision of the Bodhisattvas
By Philip Whalen
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
By Sir Walter Ralegh
A Visit
By Tom Sleigh
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore
A Walk to Carter’s Lake
By David Bottoms
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
By Alfred Corn
A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
By Etheridge Knight
A Way of Being
By Barbara Guest
A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright
A Wedding
By James Tate
A White Hunter
By Gertrude Stein
A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley
A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright
A Winter Night
By Robert Burns
A Wolf Is at the Laundromat
By Jack Prelutsky
A Woman on the Dump
By Debora Greger
A Woman Speaks
By Audre Lorde
A Woman's Looks
By Anonymous
A Word on Verbs
By Wendy Videlock
A Workman to the Gods
By Edwin Markham
A World of Light
By John Reibetanz
A World to Do
By Theodore Weiss
A Yellow Leaf
By Alberto Ríos
A Young Lady of Lynn
By Anonymous
A Youth Mowing
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A-
By Samuel Menashe
A.M. Fog
By Mark Jarman
AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert
Aaron
By George Herbert
Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser
Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend
By Hayden Carruth
Abou Ben Adhem
By Leigh Hunt
About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski
About Patti Boyd and Me
By Eleanor Lerman
About the Bloath
By Shel Silverstein
About the Phoenix
By James Merrill
About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi
Above the City
By James Laughlin
Above the Human Nerve Domain
By Will Alexander
Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay
Absalom
By Muriel Rukeyser
Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden
Abscess
By Forrest Gander
Abstracts
By David Harsent
Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning
Abundance
By John Ciardi
Abyss
By Pierre Reverdy
Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young
Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith
Account
By Czeslaw Milosz
Accountability
By William E. Stafford
Ach/Last Call
By Robert Gernhardt
Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor
Acquainted with the Night
By Robert Frost
Across a Table
By Steven Cordova
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Actaeon
By A.E. Stallings
Actaeon
By Frederick Morgan
Acting
By R. S. Thomas
Action and Non-Action
By Chuang Tzu
Acts of God
By Heather McHugh
Acts of Love
By Pam Rehm
Acts of Vexation
By Pam Rehm
Ad Hominem
By Nicky Beer
Adam
By Federico García Lorca
Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels
Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall
Adam Posed
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Adam Waking
By Katie Peterson
Adam's Prayer
By Amanda Jernigan
Adam’s Curse
By William Butler Yeats
Adam’s Task
By John Hollander
Addiction
By A. F. Moritz
Adding It Up
By Philip Booth
Address
By James Schuyler
Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening
By Dorothy Wordsworth
Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns
Address to Venus
By Lucretius
Address: the Archaeans, One Cell Creatures
By Pattiann Rogers
Adolescence-II
By Rita Dove
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adult
By Ray Gonzalez
Advent
By Mary Jo Salter
Advent
By Donald Revell
Advent
By Rae Armantrout
Advent 1966
By Denise Levertov
Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous
By Scott Cairns
Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska
Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth
By Colette Inez
Advice to a Young Prophet
By Thomas James Merton
Advice to Her Son on Marriage
By Mary Barber
Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift
Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns
Aesomes
By Jean Follain
Aesthetics
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Aesthetics of the Asylum
By Constance Urdang
Affairs
By Cesare Pavese
Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano
Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke
After The Pillow Book
By Peter Pereira
After a God
By Jenny Browne
After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost
After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
By William E. Stafford
After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer
After Death
By Christina Rossetti
After Frost
By Robert Creeley
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
By Emily Dickinson
After Ken Burns
By Laura Kasischke
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell
After Metaphysics, or When the Fly Leaves the Flybottle
By Deborah Slicer
After Midnight
By Louis Simpson
After One
By Tom Sleigh
After Shen Zhou
By Frederick Morgan
After Su Tung P'o
By Heather McHugh
After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa
After That
By Primus St. John
After the Air Tattoo
By Fiona Sampson
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass
After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly
After the Party
By Alison Stine
After the Phone Call
By Robert VanderMolen
After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traces Under an Image of Amor Threatening
By Herman Melville
After the Rain
By Anthony Hecht
After the Stroke
By David Bottoms
After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell
After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins
After the Winter
By Claude McKay
After Three Photographs of Brassaï
By Norman Dubie
After Tonight
By Gary Soto
After Work
By John Maloney
After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok
afterblues
By Lucille Clifton
Afterimages
By Audre Lorde
Aftermath
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Afternoons
By Michael Anania
Afterthought
By Diane Ackerman
Afterwards
By David Baker
Afton Water
By Robert Burns
Against a Sickness: To the Female Double Principle God
By Alan Dugan
Against Complaint
By Roddy Lumsden
Against Conceit
By Roddy Lumsden
Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips
Against Lawn
By Grace Bauer
Against Naturism
By Roddy Lumsden
Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell
Against the Evidence
By David Ignatow
Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson
Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic
Against Which
By Michael Ryan
Agape
By Timothy Murphy
Agony
By Cesare Pavese
Agoraphobia
By Linda Pastan
Ah the Delight . . .
By Franco Fortini
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
By Emily Jane Brontë
Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo
Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I
Air and Angels
By John Donne
Airoplain
By Victor Hernández Cruz
from Ajax: Dirge
By James Shirley
Al Croom
By Walter McDonald
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
By Martín Espada
Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney
Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss
By Thomas Wyatt
Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alberto
By Warren Woessner
Alchemy
By Jason Guriel
Alcohol
By Franz Wright
Alexandreis
By Anne Killigrew
Aliens
By Amy Lowell
All Afternoon
By Charles Tomlinson
All Hallows
By Louise Glück
All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton
All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson
All Reason and No Rhyme
By Joyce Sutphen
All Shall Be Restored
By Kay Ryan
All Souls
By Michael Collier
All Summer Long
By Carol Frost
All the Dead Soldiers
By Thomas McGrath
All the Difficult Hours and Minutes
By Jane Hirshfield
All the Members of My Tribe Are Liars
By John Fuller
All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
All This and More
By Mary Karr
All Wet
By Marie Ponsot
All-American Girl
By Julia Alvarez
Alla Breve Loving
By C. D. Wright
Allegory of Evil in Italy
By Stanley Moss
Allow Me
By Chungmi Kim
Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Almost a Conjuror
By Lucie Brock-Broido
Aloha’oe (Farewell to Thee)
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani
Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg
Alone, Drinking With the Tickfaw River
By Alison Pelegrin
Along with Youth
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel
Altruism
By Molly Peacock
Always
By Rane Arroyo
alwaysendeavor
By Bob Dahlquist
Alzuna
By Alfred Noyes
Amaryllis
By Connie Wanek
Amaze
By Adelaide Crapsey
America
By Tony Hoagland
America
By Claude McKay
America
By Allen Ginsberg
America
By Walt Whitman
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
By Gregory Corso
America Remembers
By Paul Engle
from America, America
By Saadi Youssef
American Future
By Peter Bethanis
American History
By Michael S. Harper
American Income
By Afaa Michael Weaver
American Names
By Stephen Vincent Benét
American Odalisque
By Jane Miller
American Roots: Moral Associations
By Primus St. John
American Sketches
By Donald Justice
American Solitude
By Grace Schulman
Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-ropes
By Andrew Marvell
Among Elks
By Joseph Spece
Among the Rocks
By Robert Browning
Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti
Amor Vincit Omnia
By Edgar Bowers
Amoretti I: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti IV: "New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate"
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LIV: Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LV: So oft as I her beauty do behold
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXII: "The weary yeare his race now having run"
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXVI: "To all those happy blessings which ye have"
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXX: Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXI: I joy to see how in your drawen work
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXXI: Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti LXXXIX: Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti VIII: More then most faire, full of the living fire
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XIII: "In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth"
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XV: Ye tradefull Merchants that with every weary toyle
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XXIII: Penelope for her Ulisses sake
By Edmund Spenser
Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
By Edmund Spenser
Ampersand
By John Reibetanz
Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer
An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon
An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall
An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan
An Afternoon at the Beach
By Edgar Bowers
An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter
An American Tale of Sex and Death
By Kevin Stein
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer
An Angel
By Anne Stevenson
An Annual of the Dark Physics
By Norman Dubie
An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage
By Katherine Philips
An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
By Geoffrey Hill
An Appeal to Women
By Sarah Louisa Forten
An Arbor
By Linda Gregerson
An Argument
By Stanley Moss
An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin
An Aubade
By Joel Brouwer
An Auto-da-fé
By Kevin McFadden
An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier
An Autumn Sunset
By Edith Wharton
An Awful Story
By Michael Collier
An Elegy
By Ben Jonson
An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew
An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi
An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson
An Equation for My Children
By Wilmer Mills
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 Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton
An Exchange between the Fingers and the Toes
By John Fuller
An Explanation
By James Weldon Johnson
from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky
An Extraordinary Morning
By Philip Levine
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
By Andrew Marvell
An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
By Edmund Spenser
An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
By Edmund Spenser
An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters
An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce
An Instrument Also
By Donald Revell
An Interview
By Oskar Pastior
An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell
An Ocean Musing
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray
An Ode
By Matthew Prior
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
By William Collins
An Ode to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick
An Ode to Himself
By Ben Jonson
An Offering
By John Reibetanz
An Old Malediction
By Anthony Hecht
An Old Man on the River Bank
By George Seferis
An Old Road
By Edwin Markham
An old story
By Bob Hicok
An Old Woman’s Painting
By Lynn Emanuel
An Oregon Message
By William E. Stafford
An Owl
By David Bottoms
An Urban Convalescence
By James Merrill
An Xmas Murder
By Alfred Corn
from Anactoria
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Anagrammer
By Peter Pereira
Analysis of Baseball
By May Swenson
Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
By John Peck
Anatomical Angel
By Averill Curdy
Anatomy of a leap into the void
By Miroslav Holub
Ancapagari
By Carolyn Forché
Ancestor
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish
Anchorage
By Joy Harjo
Anchored to the Infinite
By Edwin Markham
Ancient Discipline
By Cesare Pavese
Ancient History
By Siegfried Sassoon
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
By John Ashbery
And as in Alice
By Mary Jo Bang
And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas
And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne
And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
And So the Skin . . .
By Peter Cole
And Soul
By Eavan Boland
And Still It Comes
By Thomas Lux
And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn
And There Were Swallows
By Ray Gonzalez
And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt
And You?
By R. S. Thomas
And, the Last Day Being Come, Man Stood Alone
By Trumbull Stickney
Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning
Androgyne, Mon Amour
By Tennessee Williams
from Anecdote of the Jar
By Wallace Stevens
Angellica’s Lament
By Aphra Behn
Angels
By B. H. Fairchild
Angels
By Russell Edson
Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Anguish of Fate
By Pierre Reverdy
Animal Caution
By Chase Twichell
Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
By Philip Levine
Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!
By Hilda Raz
Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rutledge
By Edgar Lee Masters
Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath
Anniversary
By Louise Glück
Anniversary
By Cecilia Woloch
Anniversary
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Annunciation
By Shirley Kaufman
Another Feeling
By Ruth Stone
Another Grace for a Child
By Robert Herrick
Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern
Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
By A.E. Stallings
Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell
Another Plot Cliché
By Rebecca Hoogs
Another Reluctance
By Annie Finch
Another Road Home
By Scott Cairns
Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein
Anthem
By Susan Hahn
Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen
Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully
Anthropology
By James Galvin
Anti-Short Story
By Rae Armantrout
Antimatter
By Russell Edson
Antiquity Calling
By Elaine Equi
Ants
By Joanie V. Mackowski
Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui
Any Lit
By Harryette Mullen
Anything But the Case
By Glyn Maxwell
Apartment
By Rae Armantrout
Aperture
By Jennifer Tonge
from Aphorisms
By Alda Merini
from Aphorisms and Spells
By Alda Merini
from Aphorisms I-XV
By Theodore Worozbyt
Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing
Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing
Apiary 40
By Carol Frost
Apiary viii (For the ones
By Carol Frost
Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold
Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
By June Jordan
Apologue on Jealousy
By Lucie Brock-Broido
Apology for Apostasy?
By Etheridge Knight
Apostrophe to the Apostrophe
By Eric Nelson
Apotheosis
By Samuel Menashe
Apparition of the Exile
By Bruce Weigl
Appetite
By Paulann Petersen
Apple and Brute Stone
By Bei Dao
Appleblossom
By Eric Ekstrand
Appleblossom
By Eric Ekstrand
Appleblossom
By Eric Ekstrand
Appleblossom
By Eric Ekstrand
Appleblossom (Leaving Edo)
By Eric Ekstrand
Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht
Applied Geometry
By Russell Libby
Apprehension
By Hannah F. Gould
Apprenticeship
By Will Alexander
Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright
April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass
April Rain Song
By Langston Hughes
April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom
Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke
Archaic Fragment
By Louise Glück
Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ardors
By Carol Frost
Are They Shadows
By Samuel Daniel
Argonaut's Vow
By Carol Frost
Ariel
By Sylvia Plath
Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee
Aristotle
By Billy Collins
Ark
By Camille T. Dungy
ARK 99, Arches XXXIII
By Ronald Johnson
Arkhangel’sk
By Norman Dubie
Armistice
By Sophie Jewett
Arms and the Boy
By Wilfred Owen
Arrival
By Heidy Steidlmayer
Arrowhead
By Robert Pack
Arrowhead Hunting
By A.E. Stallings
Arrows
By Tony Hoagland
Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham
Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander
Art
By Herman Melville
Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman
Art thou pale for weariness
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art vs. Trade
By James Weldon Johnson
Articulation
By Rae Armantrout
Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz
Artillery
By George Herbert
As
By Paul Muldoon
As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
By Walt Whitman
as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis
As if by saying “morning” on January 8th
By Michael Palmer
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
As My Life is a Dream
By Chungmi Kim
As You Came from the Holy Land (attributed)
By Sir Walter Ralegh
Ash Wednesday
By Louis Untermeyer
Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aside
By Karl Shapiro
Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie
Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy
Asking Too Much?
By Marin Sorescu
Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees
Assault to Abjury
By Raymond McDaniel
Associations with a View from the House
By Carl Rakosi
Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro
Astrophel and Stella CI: "Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella CII: "Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella CVI: "O absent presence, Stella is not here"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella CVII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella I
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella II: "Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella III
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXIII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXIV
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXXI
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXXII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella V: "It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella VII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XC
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XCII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XIV
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XLI
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XLIX
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XLVII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XLVIII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XV
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XX
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXI
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXIII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXV
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXX: "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!"
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXXI
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXXIII
By Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella XXXIX
By Philip Sidney
At 14
By Don Welch
At a Certain Age
By Deborah Cummins
At a Country Funeral
By Wendell Berry
At a Solemn Musick
By Delmore Schwartz
At a Standstill
By Samuel Menashe
At a Symphony
By Louise Imogen Guiney
At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play
By Etheridge Knight
At a Window
By Carl Sandburg
At Chartres
By Katy Didden
At Cross Purposes
By Samuel Menashe
At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey
At Dawn
By Alfred Noyes
At Eighty-three She Lives Alone
By Ruth Stone
At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy
At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay
At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane
At Night the States
By Alice Notley
At Noon
By Reginald Gibbons
At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes
At Popham Beach
By Thorpe Moeckel
At Six
By Susan Stewart
At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian
At the Beach
By Elizabeth Alexander
At the Beach
By Frederick Morgan
At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford
At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan
At the Circus
By Umberto Fiori
At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur
At the Edge of Town
By Don Welch
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave
By James Wright
At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop
At the Galleria Shopping Mall
By Tony Hoagland
At the Grave
By Jonathan Greene
At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
By Denise Levertov
At the Moment
By Joyce Sutphen
At the Movie: Virginia, 1956
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm
At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters
At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson
At the Station
By Herbert Morris
At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès
At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford
At the Vietnam Memorial
By George Bilgere
At the Wedding March
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
At This Precise Moment of History
By Thomas James Merton
At Thomas Merton’s Grave
By Spencer Reece
At Twenty-Eight
By Amy Fleury
Atlantic Oil
By Cesare Pavese
Atlantis
By Mark Doty
Atlas
By Kay Ryan
Atmosphere
By A. V. Christie
Atmospherics
By Susan Hutton
Attempted Assassination of the Queen
By William McGonagall
Attention
By Rae Armantrout
Au Vieux Jardin
By Richard Aldington
Aubade
By Edith Sitwell
Aubade
By Philip Larkin
Aubade
By Amber Flora Thomas
Aubade
By Dafydd ap Gwilym
Aubade
By Dore Kiesselbach
Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton
Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
August Diary
By Peter Balakian
August Moon
By Cesare Pavese
August Morning
By Albert Garcia
Auld Robin Forbes
By Susanna Blamire
Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot
Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton
Auspices
By Stephen Edgar
Authority
By W. S. Merwin
Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Autobiography
By Michael Palmer
Autobiography: New York
By Charles Reznikoff
Autopsychography
By Fernando Pessoa
Autumn
By John Clare
Autumn
By T. E. Hulme
Autumn
By Grace Paley
Autumn
By Adam Zagajewski
Autumn
By Samuel Menashe
Autumn
By Alice Cary
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright
Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow
Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers
Autumn Sky
By Charles Simic
Autumn Song
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara
Aviation
By Alice Fulton
Avising the Bright Beams
By Thomas Wyatt
Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson
Awe of Everything
By Dara Wier
Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
By Thomas Chatterton
“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine
“Alone”
By Edgar Allan Poe
“Although the wind ...”
By Izumi Shikibu
“And Change, with hurried hand, has swept these scenes”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“And then we cowards”
By Cesare Pavese
“As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other”
By Kenneth Patchen
“Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?”
By Marilyn Hacker
“Embrace Them All”
By Katy Didden
“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson
“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat
“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark
“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“How well do I recall that walk in state”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“I Am Not I”
By Juan Ramón Jiménez
“I have been a stranger in a strange land”
By Rita Dove
“I have some snapshots...”
By Jane Miller
“I Pulled on the Reins”
By Juan Ramón Jiménez
“I was passionate ...”
By Lal Ded
“If no love is, O God, what fele I so?”
By Petrarch
“In Kyoto ...”
By Bashō
“It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.”
By Anthony Hecht
“Luckies”
By Reginald Gibbons
“Lying in bed I think about you ...”
By Joshua Beckman
“More Light! More Light!”
By Anthony Hecht
“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian
“O my Lord ...”
By Rabi'a
“Of all that God has shown me ...”
By Mechtild
“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton
“On a branch ...”
By Kobayashi Issa
“Remember how close we sat...”
By Jane Miller
“Roll on, sad world! not Mercury or Mars”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove
“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
By Mark Strand
“The female seer will burn upon this pyre”
By Elizabeth Alexander
“The great sea ...”
By Uvavnuk
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville
“The Secretary of Liquor”
By Mark Rudman
“The Ship, Solid and Black”
By Juan Ramón Jiménez
“The Vision of Saint Augustine”
By Beverley Bie
“There is a button on the remote control called FAV...”
By Claudia Rankine
“Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio
“Womanhood, wanton, ye want”
By John Skelton
“Yet, even ’mid merry boyhood’s tricks and scapes”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“Your Luck Is About To Change”
By Susan Elizabeth Howe
‘And Their Winter and Night in Disguise’
By George Oppen
‘Be Music, Night’
By Kenneth Patchen
‘Thrush’
By George Seferis
‘Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair’
By Philip Larkin
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