Last Updated: 22 May 2012
ADAMSON, ROBERT
Walking by the River
ADDONIZIO, KIM
Ex-Boyfriends
AKHMATOVA, ANNA
The Sixth Elegy, from Northern Elegies
ALEXANDER, MEENA
Water Garden
Nocturne
ALEXANDER, WILL
The Pointless Nether Plow
ALI, TAHA MUHAMMAD
There Was No Farewell
ALMON, BERT
Reading the Road Map
AN, CHING
Laughing at Myself II
ANGELOU, Maya
Woman Work
APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME
Mirabeau Bridge
ARAGÓN, FRANCISCO
February Snow
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Letters, Towards and Away
A Sad Child
you fit into me
Girl Without Hands
The Landlady
AUDEN, W. H.
Funeral Blues
Schoolchildren
The Two
BADEROON, GABEBA
Old Photographs
BAKOWSKI, PETER
Where Words Take Us
BARANCZAK, STANISLAW
She Cried That Night, but Not for Him to Hear
BARGHOUTI, MOURID
I Have No Problem
BASS, ELLEN
The Thing Is
BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES
Chacun sa chimère
Les fenêtres / The Windows
Spleen
BECKER, ROBIN
Morning Poem
BERGER, JACQUELINE
The Failure of Language
BERMAN, DAVID
Imagining Defeat
BERNSTEIN, CHARLES
In a Restless World Like This Is
BEVERIDGE, JUDITH
Bahadour
The Domesticity of Giraffes
BICKFORD, IAN
Portraits of Fish
BISHOP, ELIZABETH
The Armadillo
One Art
BLACKMAN, NICOLE
Daughter
BLANCHARD, DREW
Not Whiskey
BLANDING, DON
Epitaph
Blevin, Adrian
Hey You
BLY, ROBERT
Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
BOGAN, LOUISE
Medusa
BOLAND, EAVAN
The Lost Land
Menses
The War Horse
BOLAÑO, ROBERTO
Resurrection
BORGES, JORGE LUIS
Ars Poetica
BORUCH, MARIANNE
Little Fugue
BOWERS, CATHY SMITH
Peace Lilies
BOWLING, TIM
The Last Days of Summer Before the First Frost
BRANCO, ROSA ALICE
Scenario with Feet Sticking Out
BRAND, DIONNE
Hard Against the Soul
BRANDI, JOHN
Turning Fifty Poem
BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD
Boo, Forever
Oranges
Star Hole
Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain
The Second Kingdom
BREESE, ELIZABETH
Calamity The Way I Think It
BRIANTE, SUSAN
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015
BROOKS, GWENDOLYN
a song in the front yard
Kitchenette Building
BROWNING, ROBERT
Prospice
BUKOWSKI, CHARLES
dark night poem
Writing
As the Sparrow
People as Flowers
BUNTIN, SIMMONS B.
Wild Mint
CAPPELLO, KATIE
A Ghost Abandons the Haunted
CARROLL, LEWIS
Dreamland
CARSON, ANNE
So the Hall Door Shuts Again and All Noise Is Gone
Sonnet Isolate
Tag
CAVAFY, C.P.
The City
CELAN, PAUL
Death Fugue
CHAPPELL, FRED
Narcissus and Echo
CHAR, RENÉ
Restore to Them…
CIPOLETTI, BUD
Power Outage in a Hotel Lobby
CLAMPITT, AMY
Syrinx
CLARE, JOHN
Farewell
CLARVOE, JENNIFER
How I Fell & How It Felt
CLIFTON, LUCILLE
poem to my uterus
COLES, KATHARINE
Before Parting
COLLINS, BILLY
Dharma
Forgetfulness
Child Development
Hunger
Not Touching
Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
CONRAD, J.L.
August
COURTRIGHT, NICK
Citrus
CRANE, HART
At Melville’s Tomb
CROWLEY, ALEISTER
A Saint’s Damnation
CUMMINGS, E. E.
Humanity i love you because
i carry your heart with me
it is so long since my heart has been with yours
since feeling is first
anyone lived in a pretty how town
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
maggie and milly and molly and may
my father moved through dooms of love
CZERNIAWSKI, ADAM
Poetry Lesson
DAHL, ROALD
Television
DAO, BEI
Post War
DIAMOND, JOSHUA
Camera Lucida
DICKINSON, EMILY
[Death is a Dialogue]
[He ate and drank the precious words]
Good morning, Midnight!
Wild Nights - Wild Nights!
I Died for Beauty
DI PRIMA, DIANE
The Belltower
Buddhist New Year Song
DONNE, JOHN
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
DOTY, MARK
Golden Retrievals
DOVE, RITA
I have been a stranger in a strange land
DRANSFIELD, MICHAEL
We have seen thee o love thou art fair
DUNBAR, PAUL LAWRENCE
Unexpressed
DUNN, STEPHEN
Connubial
Those of Us Who Think We Know
To My Doppelganger
Landscape with Friends
Checklist
DURAN, JANE
The Room and the Road
ELIOT, T. S.
La Figlia che Piange
The Hollow Men, Part IV
The Hollow Men
ÉLUARD, PAUL
À peine défigurée / Barely Disfigured
ESPADA, MARTIN
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
ESPAILLAT, RHINA P.
Rachmaninoff on the Mass Pike
FABRI, ERICA MIRIAM
The Blood of the Fish
FINKEL, DONALD
Hands
FLEMING, GERALD
Bone & Silence
FRIEDMAN, JEFF
Luna Moth
FROST, ROBERT
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Waiting
Acquainted with the Night
Fire and Ice
Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening
My November Guest
FRYE, MARY ELIZABETH
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
GALCZYNSKI, KONSTANTY ILDEFONS
Songs, III
GARCIA, RICHARD
Autumn
GEHRKE, STEVE
Prologue, Epilogue
GIBRAN, KHALIL
The Dying Man and the Vulture
GILBERT, JACK
After Love
GINSBERG, ALAN
The Wild Orphan
GIOVANNI, NIKKI
My House
You Were Gone
Being and Nothingness
GLÜCK, LOUISE
The Untrustworthy Speaker
Midsummer
GOLDBARTH, ALBERT
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye
GOLDSWORTHY, PETER
Arson
Descartes at Bell’s Beach
GOTTLIEB, DAPHNE
Why Things Burn
GRAHAM, JORIE
Framing
GRAVES, ROBERT
In Broken Images
GUITERMAN, ARTHUR
Gaily the Troubadour
H. D.
Wash of Cold River
Garden
HAFIZ
We Should Talk About This Problem
To Build a Swing
HALL, DONALD
Love Poem The Poem
HAMBY, BARBARA
Millennium Rave
HANDEL, NATHALIE
Les Éventails, Portraits of Passion
HANNAH, SOPHIE
Pessimism For Beginners
HARDY, THOMAS
Neutral Tones
Shut Out That Moon
The Darkling Thrush
HARRINGTON, JANICE N.
The Divider
HARTWIG, JULIA
Above Us
It Poured Stars
HASKINS, LOLA
Sleep Positions
HASS, ROBERT
A Note on “Iowa City: Early April”
HAYES, TERRANCE
The Blue Terrance
HEANEY, SEAMUS
Mid-Term Break
HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST
Invictus
Ave, Caesar
HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW
Episode in a Library
Nothing Special
First the Dog
HESSE, HERMANN
How Heavy the Days
HIKMET, NAZIM
On Living
HIRSCH, EDWARD
The Renunciation of Poetry
HOAGLAND, TONY
Personal
HOLUB, MIROSLAV
Creative Writing
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY
[No worst, there is none]
HOSTOVSKY, PAUL
How to Touch a Woman
HOWE, SUSAN
That This
HUGHES, TED
The Harvest Moon
ISSA, KOBAYASHI
[Children imitating cormorants]
JARELL, RANDALL
90 North
JARMAN, MARK
Bone Fires
JIMÉNEZ, JUAN RAMÓN
I Am Not I
JOHNSON, GEORGIA DOUGLAS
I Want to Die While You Love Me
KAMIENSKA, ANNA
From The Notebooks
In a Hospital The Empty Places
KANTAR, ANNIE
Summer Project
KASISCHKE, LAURA
Near Misses
KAVVADIAS, NIKOS
Kuro Siwo
KENNEDY, BECKY
In the Dark
KHALASTCHI, DANIEL
A Series of Movements
KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS
A Wolf Lying in Wait
KIELAR, MARZANNA
Telephone
KILMER, JOYCE
Trees
KINNELL, GALWAY
Running on Silk
Wait
KLEE, PAUL
Individuality
KNIGHT, ETHERIDGE
Feeling Fucked Up
KOCH, KENNETH
The Circus
KÖHLER, BARBARA
Ingeborg Bachmann Dies in Rome
KOMUNYAKAA, YUSEF
Blue Dementia
KOOSER, TED
Pocket Poem
KOYCZAN, SHANE
6:59AM
KUIPERS, KEETJE
The Keys to the Jail
KUNITZ, STANLEY
Touch Me
KUTCHINS, LAURIE
Prelude
KYGER, JOANNE
[He is pruning the privet]
LANE, PATRICK
Held Water
LANGTON, DANIEL J.
Soldering
LARKIN, PHILIP
Continuing to Live
Going
Spring
LARSON, KATHERINE
Love at Thirty-Two Degrees
LAUX, DORIANNE
The Life of Trees
What’s Broken
LEE, LI-YOUNG
A Story
LERNER, DAVID
Mein Kampf
LEVERTOV, DENISE
Sojourns in the Parallel World
When We Look Up
Intrusion
LEWIS, ALUN
Postscript: For Gweno
LEWIS, C.S.
Le Roi S’amuse
LIIV, JUHAN
Leaves Fell
LIM, GENNY
Wonder Woman
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
The Bridge
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCÍA
Canción de jinete / Horseman’s Song
LORDE, AUDRE
Coal
LOWELL, AMY
A Lover
LOY, MINA
Apology of Genius
LUX, THOMAS
A Little Tooth
MACARI, ANNE MARIE
The Changing Coat
MACCAIG, NORMAN
Incident
Frogs
MADZIROV, Nikola
After Us
MALECH, DORA
Let Me Explain
MALLARMÉ, STÉPHANE
Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe / The Tomb of Edgar Allen Poe
MANDELSTAM, OSIP
224
MARKSON, DAVID
History and Theory of Art
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
MATTHEWS, WILLIAM
Misgivings
MCCONNELL, MARTY
Miniature Bridges, Your Mouth
MCMORRIS, MARK
Prayers to Shadows on My Wall
MERWIN, W. S.
Rain Light
The River of Bees
MICHAELS, ANNE
The Weight of Oranges
Into Arrival
Women on a Beach
MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT
Afternoon on a Hill
I Think I Should Have Loved You More Presently
Love Is Not All
Spring
First Fig
MILNE, A.A.
Forgiven
MILOSZ, CZESLAW
On Poetry, Upon the Occasion of Many Telephone Calls after Zbigniew Herbert’s Death
MOHAPATRA, HEMANT
Letters from Exile, VI
How it Adds Up
MONTGOMERY, LUCY MAUD
Night
MOORE, MARIANNE
No Swan So Fine
MORA, PAT
Elena
MORGAN, EDWIN
The Lock Ness Monster’s Song
MORRISSEY, KIM
Last Night in the Hammock
MOSS, HOWARD
The Truth About Love
MUELLER, LISEL
When I Am Asked
Late Hours
MUSIAL, GRZEGORZ
This Place
NAJMI, HASSAN
The War
NAVARRO, JANINE ALYSSA
Dance of the Last Phantoms
NEMEROV, HOWARD
The War in the Air
NERUDA, PABLO
Poetry
Sonnet LXXIX
Tonight I Can Write
Your Laughter
A Song of Despair
Absence
NEWLOVE, JOHN
The Weather
NORTHTROP, KATE
Affair with Various Endings
NOTLEY, ALICE
The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
NYE, NAOMI SHIHAB
Hidden
The Words Under the Words
Bees see your face as a strange flower
O’BRIEN, GEOFFREY G.
Absence of the Archbishop
O’Grady, Jennifer
Moths
O’HARA, FRANK
For Grace, After a Party
Mayakovsky
Nocturne
To the Harbormaster
Morning
An Image of Leda
OLDS, SHARON
I Go Back to May 1937
Greed and Aggression
OLIVER, MARY
The Journey
Wild Geese
August
The Kingfisher
October
A Bitterness
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field
OLSTEIN, LISA
Dear One Absent This Long While
ONDAATJE, MICHAEL
The Time Around Scars
O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE
A White Rose
ORTIZ, SIMON
Canyon de Chelly
OSTRIKER, ALICIA
The History of America
A Young Woman, A Tree
PARKER, DOROTHY
Men
Two-Volume Novel
PASTAN, LINDA
Marks
PATTEN, BRIAN
Sometimes It Happens
PAZ, OCTAVIO
Between Going and Staying the Day Wavers
Brotherhood
from A Tree Within
PERILLO, LUCIA
Early Cascade
PESSOA, FERNANDO
From 35 Sonnets
[The clouds are dark]
The Keeper of Sheep, XXXIX
PHILLIPS, CARL
The Moonflowers
PIERCY, MARGE
For the Young Who Want To
PINSKY, ROBERT
Antique
PIXNER, STEF
Morning
The Break Up
Intimacy
PLATH, SYLVIA
Firesong
Mad Girl’s Love Song
Spinster
Pursuit
Event
Daddy
PO, LI
The River-Merchant’s Wife
PODSIADLO, JACEK
Grass Accepts
POE, EDGAR ALLAN
Annabel Lee
Valley of Unrest
The Haunted Palace
Sonnet—Silence
POSWIATOWSKA, HALINA
Untitled
Untitled
POUND, EZRA
The Garden
POWELL, D. A.
corydon & alexis, redux
PRÉVERT, JACQUES
Chanson du geôlier / The Gaoler’s Song
PROUST, MARCEL
Chopin
PRYNNE, J. H.
Day Light Songs
Queen, Khadijah
Balance, onslaught
RAMANUJAN, A. K.
Instead of a Farewell
RAS, BARBARA
You Can’t Have it All
REDHILL, MICHAEL
Phases
RICH, ADRIENNE
Twenty-One Love Poems, II
Twenty-One Love Poems, XVII
RILKE, RAINER MARIA
The Angels
[Dove that ventured outside]
Evening
Falling Stars
Remembrance
From Sonnets to Orpheus, 1, II
To Say Before Going to Sleep
The Second Elegy
Archaic Torso of Apollo
from “The Orchards“
RIMBAUD, ARTHUR
Prologue to A Season in Hell
from Illuminations
A Dream for Winter
ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON
Richard Cory
ROGERS, PATTIANN
Investigative Logic in a Study of Love
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA
Dream-Love
ROZYCKI, TOMASZ
Scorched Maps
RUKEYSER, MURIEL
The Poet as Mask
Poem
RYAN, KAY
All You Did
The Edges of Time
SABA, UMBERTO
Solitude
SANCHEZ, SONIA
Poem for Jessie
SAPPHO
[Although they are]
Blame Aphrodite
SCANNELL, VERNON
Incendiary
SEEGER, ALAN
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
SEXTON, ANNE
Eighteen Days Without You
The Poet of Ignorance
Wanting to Die
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
I Arise from Dreams of Thee
Ozymandias
SHEPHERD, REGINALD
You Also, Nightingale
SHERL, GREGORY
The Things I Do When I Am Not Doing You
SIMIC, CHARLES
My Beloved
SIMONOVIC, GUS
Equator
SORESCU, MARIN
The Sea Shell
STASKO, NICOLETTE
Wild Grapes
The Moth and the Moon
ŠTEGER, ALEŠ
Sea Horse
STEIN, GERTRUDE
From Stanzas in Meditation
STERN, GERALD
Death by Wind
STEVENS, WALLACE
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Man Carrying Thing
The Snow Man
Sunday Morning
The Idea of Order at Key West
STONE, NOMI
La Ghriba (The Stranger) Tells How and Why
STRAND, MARK
Keeping Things Whole
SWIETLICKI, MARCIN
The Truth About Trees
SWIRSZCZYNSKA, ANNA
I Cannot
I Knocked My Head Against the Wall
Poetry Reading
SZYMBORSKA, WISLAWA
Under a Certain Little Star
Photograph from September 11
TAGORE
[Why did the flower fade?]
TALLMOUNTAIN, MARY
The Last Wolf
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Break, Break, Break
Flower in the Crannied Wall
THOMAS, DYLAN
Being But Men
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Love in the Asylum
THOMAS, R.S.
Good
TOLKIEN, J.R.R
All That is Gold Does Not Glitter
Tranter, John
Night
TRIMBOLI, BRIAN
Things My Son Should Know After I’ve Died
TSVETAEVA, MARINA
I Like
Untitled
WAKOSKI, DIANE
Inside Out
WALCOTT, DEREK
from Midsummer
Love After Love
WEIR, DARA
The Pressure of the Moment
WHITMAN, WALT
O Captain, My Captain
WILLIAMS, C. K.
Butchers
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS
Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
WILLIAMS, SAUL
The Continent
WOLF, MICHELE
Archaeology
WOMACK, JAMES
Balance
WOOD, SUSAN
Daily Life
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
The Sun Has Long Been Set
WRIGHT, CHARLES
Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat
YEATS, W. B.
Brown Penny
The Fascination of What’s Difficult
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
The Song of Wandering Aengus
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
YOUNG, C. DALE
In flagrante delicto
YOUNG, KATHERINE E.
Van Gogh in Moscow
YOUNG, MICHAEL
Three Shades
ZAGAJEWSKI, ADAM
Ordinary Life
ZAMORA, DAISY
Vision of Your Body
ZWICKY, JAN
Recovery
