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Packet by Jamie Ross
A green light that comes
Page 1 / Sapphire's lyre styles by Harryette Mullen
Sapphire's lyre styles
Page 22 / oh lucky me by Frances Chung
oh lucky me
Page 34 / if your complexion is a mess by Harryette Mullen
if your complexion is a mess
Page 35 / the essence lady by Harryette Mullen
the essence lady
Page 39 / arrives early for the date by Harryette Mullen
arrives early for the date
Page 5 / sun goes on shining by Harryette Mullen
sun goes on shining
Page 65 / Riding the subway is an adventure by Frances Chung
Riding the subway is an adventure
Page 72 / mister arty martyr by Harryette Mullen
mister arty martyr
Painters by Muriel Rukeyser
In the cave with a long-ago flare
Painting by Moonlight by Medbh McGuckian
It was a bright inviting, freely formed
Palea by Tory Dent
Only my mouth taking you in, the greenery splayed deep green.
Panther by Ned O'Gorman
When the panther came
Panty Raid by Terri Ford
It is 1974 and out the institutional open windows
Parable with Broken Frame by John Peck
An old architect at a littered worktable
Parallel Paths by Kevin Clark
Today you're lucky, in love with your wife
Paraphrases by Roy Fisher
Dear Mr Fisher I am writing
Parent's Pantoum by Carolyn Kizer
Where did these enormous children come from,
Parents by William Meredith
What it must be like to be an angel
Parker's Mountain by Kate Knapp Johnson
It is the summer bears ruled, the last summer
Parking Lot by Stephen Sandy
Hard to believe the racket geese make, squabbling,
Parole Hearing by Idra Novey
And they searched her voice, heard the lurch of a bus into the deep muck of a field
Parowan Canyon by David Lee
When granite and sandstone begin to blur
Part by Phillis Levin
Of something, separate, not
Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe
It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand
Parting [/Beachfront/] by Thalia Field
sand's infinitely solid, infinitely wide
Passage by Eve Alexandra
Tiny jewels of sand and salt spill from her mouth
Passage I by Maureen N. McLane
little moth
Passage to India by Walt Whitman
Singing my days
Passerby, These are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
Passerby, these are words. But instead of reading
Passing by Carl Phillips
When the Famous Black Poet speaks,
Passing Through Albuquerque by John Balaban
At dusk, by the irrigation ditch
Passover by Mary Rose O'Reilley
I know we are bound to the earth
Past Light by Pimone Triplett
Within reach of sex but not yet
Pastoral by Emily Wilson
The mordants in their noise
Pastoral by Jennifer Chang
Something in the field is
Patience by Kay Ryan
Patience is
Patriotics by David Baker
Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy,
Patsy Sees a Ghost by Lola Haskins
I'm crossing the river where it narrows,
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Peace by Henry Vaughan
My soul, there is a country
Peace by Leslie Ullman
Keep your voice down, my husband
Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut
Peace on Earth by William Carlos Williams
The Archer is wake
Peace, after Long Madness by Ned O'Gorman
After a long madness peace is an assassin
Pear Tree by H. D.
Silver dust
Penelope Considers a New Do by Jehanne Dubrow
The magazines declare: Don't ever cut your hair just after breaking up
People by Aaron Fogel
The word has been spelled
People in the Wind by Margot Farrington
Inside the wood stove the smith steadies
Perfect Woman by William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight
Pericardium by Joanna Klink
Am I not alone, as I thought I was, as I thought
Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück
In the first version, Persephone...
Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful
Personal Poem by Frank O'Hara
Personals by C. D. Wright
Some nights I sleep with my dress on. My teeth
Peyote Poem [excerpt] by Michael McClure
Clear — the senses bright — sitting in the black chair — Rocker
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
There is this ringing hum this
Phases by Michael Redhill
Watching the garden winter under the moon,
Photo of Home From Home by Richard Deutch
I used to leave this granite house
Photograph of People Dancing in France by Leslie Adrienne Miller
It's true that you don't know them--nor do I
Photographing Aspirations by Les Murray
Fume-glossed, unbearably shrill
Phyllis by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Piano by D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me
Piazza Gimma by Fabio Mórabito
I spy on the building
Pica by Jennifer Perrine
This is how clay becomes flesh: dirt and grit
Picking Up by Evelyn Duncan
During the depression
Pickle Belt by Theodore Roethke
The fruit rolled by all day.
Picture-books in Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer fading, winter comes
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things--
Pietà by Steve Scafidi
Before she is turned away
Pigeons at Dawn by Charles Simic
Extraordinary efforts are being made
Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey
Here, the Mississippi carved
Pillow by Li-Young Lee
There's nothing I can't find under there
Pink Diapers by Donna Brook
During my Joe McCarthy childhood
Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson
Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing
Placements I: "The New Wilderness" by Clayton Eshleman
Anguish, a door, Le Portel, the body bent over jagged rock,
Plague of Dead Sharks by Alan Dugan
Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes
Playgrounds by Laurence Alma-Tadema
In summer I am very glad
playing with fire by Evie Shockley
something is always burning, passion
please advise stop [I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop] by Rusty Morrison
I might travel his death a creaking and swaying beneath me stop
please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison
I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop
please advise stop [my father's dying makes stairs of every line of text seeming neither to go up or down stop] by Rusty Morrison
my father's dying makes stairs of every line of text seeming neither to go up or down stop
please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop] by Rusty Morrison
the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop
Pledge by Elizabeth Powell
Republic, your cool hands / On my schoolgirl shoulders.
pleiades choreographic [excerpt] by Meredith Stricker
The theme is forgiveness, the theme is justice
Plums by Catherine Savage Brosman
They’re Santa Rosas, crimson, touched by blue
Plural Happiness by David Rivard
A curtain bellying like a pregnant cloud, warm white
Po' Boy Blues by Langston Hughes
When I was home de
Pocket Vampire by Dorothy Barresi
I reconcile myself to need
Pockets by Howard Nemerov
Are generally over or around
Poem by Michael McClure
I wanted to turn to electricity--I
Poem by Michael McClure
Linked part to part, toe to knee, eye to thumb
Poem by Alice Notley
Why do I want to tell it
Poem by Alice Notley
You hear that heroic big land music
Poem by Alice Notley
St. Mark's Place caught at night in hot summer
Poem by Susan Wheeler
Green is the false nettle
Poem by Charles Bernstein
here. Forget
Poem by Rachel Zucker
The other day Matt Rohrer said
Poem by Matthew Rohrer
You called, you’re on the train, on Sunday
Poem 1 by Edmund Spenser
Ye learned sisters which haue oftentimes
Poem at Thirty by Michael Ryan
The rich little kids across the street
Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery by Randall Mann
Jealousy. Whispered weather reports
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets by David Young
It's summer, 1956, in Maine, a camp resort
Poem for Jack Spicer by Matthew Zapruder
It's the start of baseball season
Poem for Larry Craig by Kenneth Goldsmith
Am I going to have to fight you in court?
Poem for Pancho Gonzales by Leroy V. Quintana
This was the world of white lines, a game
Poem for the Wheat Penny (1909-1958) by Judith Hall
O beautiful
Poem for Wisconsin by Matthew Zapruder
In Milwaukee it is snowing
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out by Charles Jensen
You have the right to remain
Poem With Wisteria Growing Along its Margin by Gerry LaFemina
The five cool stars above this town look down
Poem [Daniel Boone] by William Carlos Williams
Daniel Boone, the father of Kentucky
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] by Frank O'Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
Poem [on getting a card] by William Carlos Williams
on getting a card
Poem [song birds take a bath in our elephant pool] by Bernadette Mayer
song birds take a bath in our elephant pool
Poem [Your breath was shed] by Dylan Thomas
Your breath was shed
Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not
Poems Done on a Late Night Car by Carl Sandburg
I am The Great White Way of the city
Poems for Blok, 1 by Marina Tsvetaeva
Your name is a--bird in my hand
Poet as Immortal Bird by Ron Padgett
A second ago my heart thump went
Poet's Work by Lorine Niedecker
Grandfather
Poetry by Marianne Moore
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
Poetry Anonymous by Prageeta Sharma
Do not fall in love with a poet
Poetry Is a Destructive Force by Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is
Poets Eleven Poem by Jack Hirschman
Between the page with the heart
Politics Last Summer by Richard Shelton
The pederasts were pederasting
Ponies by Spencer Reece
I remember the ponies in the distance
Poppies by Henri Cole
Waking from comalike sleep, I saw the poppies
Poppies by Sandra McPherson
Orange is the single-hearted color. I remember
Populating Heaven by Maureen N. McLane
If we belonged
Porcelain by Carl Phillips
As when a long forgetfulness lifts suddenly, and what
Porch Swing in September by Ted Kooser
The porch swing hangs fixed in a morning sun
Portland Taxis by Michael Benedikt
If were on Mars, and wanted to get back-to-home, I would
Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea
Portrait in Georgia by Jean Toomer
Hair--braided chestnut,
Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Great-Niece of Lord Mansfield, and Her Cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, c. 1779 (by unknown artist) by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Dido moves quickly
Portrait of God on Work Release by Peter Jay Shippy
I walk in the park
Portrait of Madame Monet on Her Deathbed by Mary Rose O'Reilley
He will paint her again as grain
Posited by James McMichael
That as all parts of it
Possessiveness by Wayne Koestenbaum
the atonality of folded underwear
Possum Crossing by Nikki Giovanni
Backing out the driveway
Post-Modernism by James Galvin
A pinup of Rita Hayworth was taped
Postcard from Rockport by April Lindner
Cold as a slap, this indigo sea
Postcard from Searsburg by Wyn Cooper
What was it you wanted he calls out the door
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea by Cecilia Woloch
I was leaving a country of rain for a country of apples
Posthumous Remorse by Charles Baudelaire
When you go to sleep, my gloomy beauty
Postpartum by Hiromi Itō
Childbirth was not dying nor defecating
Potentially Interesting & Secretly Devastating by Tina Brown Celona
is never to give away your secrets
Practice by Ellen Bryant Voigt
To weep unbidden, to wake
Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander
Each day we go about our business
Prayer by Jorie Graham
Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl
Prayer by Liz Waldner
If I were in a book it would be the book
Prayer by H. D.
White, O white face
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew by Ross Gay
Today, November 28th, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Prayer for Sleep by Cheryl Dumesnil
The chiropractor sent me home
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 by Charles Harper Webb
May there be an afterlife
Prayer To Escape The East by Christopher Buckley
Ash ascending the altitudes of dawn--
Prayer to Shadows on My Wall by Mark McMorris
Soon the rushlights will go out in the flesh
Prayers of Steel by Carl Sandburg
Lay me on an anvil, O God
Prefix: Finding the measure by Robert Kelly
Finding the measure is finding the mantram
Preliminary Report from the Committee on Appropriate Postures for the Suffering by Jon Davis
We who wear clean socks and shoes are tired
Presbyopia by Sarah Getty
Old eyes, but wiser, says the Greek. You lose sight of guide-
Primogeniture by Julie Agoos
Someone put that basket under the dresser
Private Eye Lettuce by Richard Brautigan
Three crates of Private Eye Lettuce,
Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz
A campesino looked at the air
Proclamation by Stuart Dischell
Proem by Octavio Paz
At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death
Profile of the Night Heron by Anne Pierson Wiese
In the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the night
Prologue by Judy Jordan
In winter’s spider-eyed light
Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris
Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing
Promised Land Valley, June '73 by Alfred Corn
The lake at nightfall is less a lake
Proverbs of Hell by William Blake
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy
Providence by Natasha Trethewey
What's left is footage: the hours before
Provisional by Catherine Bowman
When he procured her, she purveyed
Psalm by George Oppen
In the small beauty of the forest
Psalm by Judith Hall
Trust the flutes in their lament between a woman and a man
Psalm by Vanessa Place
(S) Being a good people, if we were wrong, we would change
Psalm by Terri Ford
The Lord is my Arctic, my tube
Psalm by Jonah Winter
Emptying the trash,
psalm by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
I am not lyric any more
Psalm by Joshua Weiner
When I sing to you I am alone these days
Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee
Okay then, right here
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy by Jack Spicer
What are you thinking about?
Public Transportation by Elaine Sexton
She is perfectly ordinary, a cashmere scarf
Purgatorio by Peter Streckfus
Come to the surface of the screen with your piscine light
Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
Putting on My Face by Tada Chimako
Facing the mirror, I put on my face
Pythagorean Silence [excerpt] by Susan Howe
age of earth and us all chattering

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