A Barred Owl
by Richard Wilbur
A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
by Arna Bontemps
A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
by Lewis Carroll
A Country Boy in Winter
by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop
won't you celebrate with me
by Lucille Clifton
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
Fever 103°
by Sylvia Plath
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
by John Ashbery
Wallace Stevens: “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
by Austin Allen
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: “Upon Nothing”
by Stephen Burt
William Butler Yeats: “Easter, 1916”
by Ange Mlinko
Geoffrey Hill: “On Reading Crowds and Power”
by Ange Mlinko
John Donne: “A Valediction: of Weeping”
by Joel Brouwer