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	"Also Birds" [excerpt] by Dawn Lundy Martin Here, a description of stalemate looking past shore. Here is the fragment, the stunted word store... "An Insistent and Eager Harmoniousness to Things" by David Keplinger Like an enormous leech the pancreas lies with its head tucked... "Out, Out—" by Robert Frost The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard... 'The child is father to the man.' by Gerard Manley Hopkins The child is father to the man... 619 by Kate Greenstreet Unexpected meetings occur in a forest... Adonais, 49-52, [Go thou to Rome] by Percy Bysshe Shelley Go thou to Rome,--at once the Paradise... As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] by William Shakespeare Blow, blow, thou winter wind... Becoming Weather, 21 by Chris Martin I was out interviewing... Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] by John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy for ever... from Blue Dark by Deborah Landau the moon might rise and it might not... from Canti by Giacomo Leopardi ... from Erotic Victor Sedatives by Macgregor Card Among... from Mesongs by Kamau Brathwaite And suddenly you was talking trees... from One Time by Christian Wiman But the world is more often refuge... from People Close To You by Crystal Williams She asks if she can sit on the bench &... from Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen Don't need picket fences, brick wall... from The Dogs by Joshua Marie Wilkinson But the moths find you, phantom... from The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell And what is so rare as a day in June?... Fusiturricula Lullaby by Gjertrud Schnackenberg A visit to the shores of lullabies... In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] by Lord Alfred Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky... Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 by John Milton With thee conversing I forget all time... Perceiving is the same as receiving and it is the same as responding. by Brian Teare thought begins as small floral bowls they hold greens--broccoli stalks... Rocket Fantastic [excerpt] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi It's ridiculous what fame... Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier The sun that brief December day... Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] by William Shakespeare Where the bee sucks, there suck I... Think Tank [excerpts] by Julie Carr First: The blinding of the citizens... Ulysses [excerpt] by James Joyce and Gibraltar as a girl... Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by A. Van Jordan Because a razor cuts across a frame of film... A child said, What is the grass? by Walt Whitman A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full... A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti In The bleak mid-winter... A Christmas Carol by George Wither So now is come our joyful feast... A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,... A Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes Hard by the lilied Nile I saw... A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) by Emily Dickinson A lane of Yellow led the eye... A Lover by Amy Lowell If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly... A Man may make a Remark (952) by Emily Dickinson A Man may make a Remark... A Meadow by Lucie Brock-Broido What was it I was hungry about. Hunger, it is one ... A Memory Of the Players In a Mirror at Midnight by James Joyce They mouth love's language. Gnash... A New Law by Greg Delanty Let there be a ban on every holiday... A noiseless patient spider by Walt Whitman A noiseless patient spider... A Note on Absence by Martin Corless-Smith The story over having wished it otherwise... A Short History of the Apple by Dorianne Laux Teeth at the skin. Anticipation... A Song for New Year's Eve by William Cullen Bryant Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay—... A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clark Moore 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house... A Wedding at Cana, Lebanon, 2007 by Tom Sleigh He said, It is terrible what happens... A Young Poet by Jane Miller For begging beauty... Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night... Advice to Passengers by John Gallaher There is a man, there is a woman... Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths... After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree... After Bombardment, Sonya by Ilya Kaminsky I scrub and lather him like a salmon... After tagging the dust your body is made of by Jen Tynes After tagging the dust your body is made of ... Again a Solstice by Jennifer Chang It is not good to think... Air Envelope by Catherine Wagner A skylight stippled... Albatross in Co. Antrim by Robin Robertson The men would sometimes try to catch one... Alcove by John Ashbery Is it possible that spring could be... All the Whiskey in Heaven by Charles Bernstein Not for all the whiskey in heaven... Almost Sixty by Jim Moore No, I don't know... Almost There by Timothy Liu Hard to imagine getting... Along with Youth by Ernest Hemingway A porcupine skin... Alphabet of Mother Language by Anne Waldman If Kali were a car, what kind of car would she be... Amaze by Adelaide Crapsey I know... America by Herman Melville Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand... America [Try saying wren] by Joseph Lease in my body, 4 a.m. in my body, breading and olives and... An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W. B. Yeats I know that I shall meet my fate... An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him... Antique by Arthur Rimbaud Graceful son of Pan! Around your forehead crowned... Apology by Claudia Keelan To know nothing of living things... Approach of Winter by William Carlos Williams The half-stripped trees... April by James Schuyler The morning sky is clouding up... April frigging 6 by Anselm Berrigan Meat pies delivered daily from... At the Blue Note by Pablo Medina Sometimes in the heat of the snow... At the Carnival by Anne Spencer Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank... At the Equinox by Arthur Sze The tide ebbs and reveals orange and purple sea stars... At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7) by John Donne At the round earth's imagin'd corners... Aubade by Devin Johnston A vacant hour... Automatic Teller Machine by Ben Mirov If you work at a steady rate... Autumn by Amy Lowell They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia... Autumn Evening by David Lehman The yellow pears hang in the lake... Baby Tortoise by D. H. Lawrence You know what it is to be born alone,... Back in Seaside by Shanna Compton Rain interchangeable with... Balance, onslaught by Khadijah Queen I have a diamond house... Beauty Secrets, Revealed by the Queen in Snow White by Natasha Sajé Do for your neck what you do for your face... Because I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death--... Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson In winter I get up at night... Before by Carl Adamshick I always thought death would be like traveling... Birch by Cynthia Zarin Bone-spur, stirrup of veins—white colt... Birthplace by Michael Cirelli Deep in the Boogie Down—... Black bird, red wing by Nickole Brown So this is where the last year ... Blood by C. Dale Young Someone has already pulled a knife... Blue Dementia by Yusef Komunyakaa In the days when a man... Blustery by Neil Shepard Blustery 25-below, O Walt, I wouldn't go... Bone & Silence by Gerald Fleming A long time passes—long even in the understanding of stone... Books by Gerald Stern How you loved to read in the snow and when your... Boreal by Andrew Joron Across the stiffening pond, your steps... Born Late by David Dodd Lee A block of soap... Break of Day by John Donne Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?... Brief Lives [excerpt] by Ken Chen Love, accepting that we are not pure and lucent hearts, ricocheting towards... Bright Felon DVD Extra/Alternate Ending by Kazim Ali In the convicted evening I am a victor struck loose and restless... Bright Star by John Keats Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art... Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont I set the cookbook on fire... By Night with Torch and Spear by Timothy Donnelly That fire at the mouth of the flare stack rising... Cézanne by Alfred Kreymborg Our door was shut to the noon-day heat... Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman In paths untrodden... canvas and mirror by Evie Shockley self-portrait with cats, with purple, with stacks... Cape Coast Castle by Yusef Komunyakaa I made love to you, & it loomed there... Carrefour by Amy Lowell O You... Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;... Challenger by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon pretty's just armor... Cherry Blossom Storm by Henri Cole Draping my body in the usual sterile manner... Chita Ground by Sandra Doller The blazes mine... Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day... Christmas Trees by Robert Frost The city had withdrawn into itself... Civilization by Carl Phillips There's an art... Cognitive Deficit Market by Joshua Corey She has forgotten what she forgot... Color - Caste - Denomination - (970) by Emily Dickinson Color - Caste - Denomination... Comet Hyakutake by Arthur Sze Comet Hyakutake's tail stretches for 360 million miles... Complaint by William Logan The faucets squeeze... Complaint by William Carlos Williams They call me and I go... Confetti Allegiance: Love Letter to Jim Brodey by CAConrad Is there a deceased poet who was alive in your lifetime but you never met... Continuities by Walt Whitman Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost... Court Gestures [excerpt] by Kristi Maxwell CHIP – CHIRP / WAXY / KIT / MEND... Cousin Nancy by T.S. Eliot Miss Nancy Ellicott... Custom by Rae Armantrout We maintain a critical distance... Daily Life by Susan Wood A parrot of irritation sits... Dark Matter by Jack Myers I've lived my life as if I were my wife... Dawn Dreams by Rachel Hadas Dreams draw near at dawn and then recede... Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days... Dear Empire [these are your temples] by Oliver de la Paz These are your temples... Dear Michael (2) by Mark McMorris The wound cannot close; language is a formal exit... Dear Migraine, by Gail Mazur You're the shadow shadow lurking in me... Dear Tiara by Sean Thomas Dougherty I dreamed I was a mannequin in the pawnshop window... Death, Is All by Ana Božičević I woke up real early to write about death (the lake through the trees) from... Demon and The Dove by Miguel Murphy The psychotherapist has a sad dove ... Detail of the Woods by Richard Siken I looked at all the trees and didn't know what to do... Directions for Lines that will Remain Unfinished by Sarah Messer Line to be sewn into a skirt hem... Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket] by Conrad Aiken Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket... Dispatches from Devereux Slough by Mark Jarman Highwayman of the air, coal-headed, darting... Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight,... Dream In Which I Meet Myself by Lynn Emanuel Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first... Drench by Anne Stevenson You sleep with a dream of summer weather... Dust of Snow by Robert Frost The way a crow... Each year by Dora Malech I snap the twig to try to trap... Earth Took of Earth by Anonymous Earth took of earth earth with ill... Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens Every time the bucks went clattering... Easter 1916 by W. B. Yeats I have met them at close of day... Easter Monday [excerpt] by Ted Berrigan Under a red face, black velvet shyness... Ecce Puer by James Joyce Of the dark past... Egg by Aleš Šteger When you kill it at the edge of the pan, you don't notice... Egg Candling by Joyce Peseroff Shadow=life... Elegy for my husband by Toi Derricotte What was there is no longer there... Elegy in Joy [excerpt] by Muriel Rukeyser We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer... Enemies by Dante Micheaux The thing about entertaining them... Enough by Jeffrey Harrison It's a gift, this cloudless November morning... Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser Ye learnèd sisters, which have oftentimes... Epithalamium by Bob Hicok A bee in the field. The house on the mountain... Eternity by William Blake He who binds to himself a joy... Eulogy by Kevin Young To allow silence... Evening Song by Sherwood Anderson My song will rest while I rest... Exact by Rae Armantrout Quick, before you die... Exoskeletal Gesture by Eric Baus Venom erupted from the trees ... Fairbanks Under the Solstice by John Haines Slowly, without sun, the day sinks... Farewell by John Clare Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river... Feed Me, Also, River God by Marianne Moore Lest by diminished vitality and abated... Final Performance by Cynthia Cruz I crawl along the wet floor... Fire Dreams by Carl Sandburg I remember here by the fire... First Light Edging Cirrus by Jane Hirshfield 10^25 molecules... Fixed Interval by Devin Johnston When he turns fifteen, you'll be fifty-four... Flesh by Joan Larkin Hooves were forbidden, but she fed us... For Aaron Sheon by Judith Vollmer Tiny hatches, if you make enough of them, make... For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs... Forever War by Nate Pritts In studying the anomaly... forgetting something by Nick Flynn Try this—close / your eyes. No, wait, when—if—we see each other... Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together by Nick Lantz It's fast and cool as running water, the way we forget... Four Lack Songs by Susan Stewart Hammer to a copper bowl... from Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons] by Rita Dove Shirtsleeved afternoons... from genesis by Laura Walker in the beginning the sound of holes, and the weight of treason and light paper streamers... From Honey to Ashes by Geoffrey G. O'Brien What follows is terms and classifications, the West... Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The frost performs its secret ministry... Fushigi na Chicharrón by Rosa Alcalá The body's hidden face... Garden of Bees by Matthew Rohrer The narcissus grows past... George Moses Horton, Myself by George Moses Horton I feel myself in need... Get Used To It by Margaret Young Wake up, even Monday the cup's still full... Ghost Story by Matthew Dickman I remember telling the joke... Ghosts That Need Reminding by Dana Levin Through shattered glass and sheeted furniture, chicken... Goddess of Maple at Evening by Chard deNiord She breathed a chill that slowed the sap... Gold River by Catie Rosemurgy The arch in the bridge. The moment of architecture... Gold River Neck Riddle by Catie Rosemurgy What is red and singing on the inside, gray and moaning on the outside?... Good Hair by Sherman Alexie Hey, Indian boy, why (why!) did you slice off your braids?... Grace For a Child by Robert Herrick Here, a little child I stand... Grasshopper by Ron Padgett It's funny when the mind thinks about the psyche... Half-Hearted Sonnet by Kim Addonizio He'd left his belt. She... Handshake Histories by Jeff Hoffman They're locked together outside a gift shop outside... Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All houses wherein men have lived and died... Health by Rafael Campo While jogging on the treadmill at the gym... Heart Condition by Jericho Brown I don't want to hurt a man, but I like to hear one beg... Here by Ed Roberson There is nothing concrete to grasp in... Here and Now by Stephen Dunn There are words... Here City by Rick Snyder The sounds... Heroisms, 4, 5 by Dan Beachy-Quick I speak these words directly into his yawn... Hey You by Adrian Blevins Back when my head like an egg in a nest... His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light... Holiday by Sarah Gambito I want to lick someone... Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers... Horoscope by Maureen N. McLane Again the white blanket... How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.... How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare How like a winter hath my absence been... How the mind works still to be sure by Jennifer Denrow You were the white field when you handed me a blank... Human Atlas by Marianne Boruch Because the body really... I Can Afford Neither the Rain by Holly Iglesias Nor the strip of light between the slats... I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,... I Love You by Sara Teasdale When April bends above me... I measure every Grief I meet (561) by Emily Dickinson I measure every Grief I meet... I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar-Nelson I sit and sew—a useless task it seems... I Too Was Loved By Daphne by Judith Baumel Daphne was known within these doors... I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.... I'd Like a Little Flashlight by Rachel Zucker and I'd like to get naked and into bed and be hot... I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you?... If We Must Die by Claude McKay If we must die--let it not be like hogs... If— by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you... Ignatz Oasis by Monica Youn When you have left me... In a Beautiful Country by Kevin Prufer A good way to fall in love... In drear nighted December by John Keats In drear nighted December... In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies grow... In the Airport by Eleni Sikélianòs A man called Dad walks by... in the decision of a beginning [3] by Rusty Morrison No sensation of falling, which suggests that this condition may be flight... In the Mountains on a Summer Day by Li Po Gently I stir a white feather fan... in the ruins by Mark Conway we drank in the remains... In the Village by Derek Walcott I came up out of the subway and there were... Instead of Losing by John Ashbery Anyone, growing up in a space you hadn't used yet... Interlude by Edith Sitwell Amid this hot green glowing gloom... Into Bad Weather Bounding by Bin Ramke Colligated points, dust, ultimately a cloud, as in... Iowa by Kate Northrop You imagined yourself... It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311) by Emily Dickinson It sifts from Leaden Sieves... It's all I have to bring today (26) by Emily Dickinson It's all I have to bring today... Item: by Lynn Emanuel I strolled through the neighborhood of beautiful houses... Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyreand gimble in the wabe;... Jamaican Idol by Terese Svoboda Walking backward from the sea... January by Helen Hunt Jackson O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire... Joy in the Woods by Claude McKay There is joy in the woods just now... Killing Flies by Michael Dickman I sit down for dinner... Kristin's Dream In November by Bernadette Mayer I went thru the turnstyle to the party... La Pelona as Birdwoman [excerpt] by Rigoberto González Tonight... Lament of the Middle Man by Jay Parini In late October in the park... Lamp or Mirror by Tony Barnstone When strange light stirs the mirror, forces swirl ... Last by Maxine Scates At dusk the streetlights... Least Said by Olena Kalytiak Davis Maybe we you us... Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still... Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds... Letter Already Broadcast into Space by Jake Adam York You are not here... Life in a Love by Robert Browning Escape me?... Lighthouse by Alfred Corn Pilot at the helm of a hidden... Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes... London Snow by Robert Bridges When men were all asleep the snow came flying... Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus I see it as it looked one afternoon... Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge All thoughts, all passions, all delights... Love by Katy Lederer We go back to our house. We are lovers... Love in a Life by Robert Browning Room after room... Lovers' Infiniteness by John Donne If yet I have not all the love... Magnolia by Gerald Stern The mayor, in order to marry us, borrowed... Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren You stand in the brook, mud smearing... Mannahatta by Walt Whitman I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city... Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight by Jane Hirshfield I found myself... Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind] by Anne Waldman you no longer believe in anything... Matters About Which Unfortunately I Have No Brilliant Opinion to Offer Readers by Sandra Santana With the arrival of the night... Memento by Eamon Grennan Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots... Mending Wall by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall,... Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant A power is on the earth and in the air... Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle... Mirrors by Tada Chimako The mirror is always slightly taller than I... Mnemosyne by Trumbull Stickney It's autumn in the country I remember... Moonlight by Sara Teasdale It will not hurt me when I am old... more shadow by Priscilla Becker as the sun... Mosul by David Hernandez The donkey. The donkey pulling the cart... Mother's Day by David Young I see her doing something simple, paying bills... My Daughter Among the Names by Farid Matuk Difficult once I've said things... My First Roses by Ira Sadoff My first roses brought me to my senses... My Heart by Kim Addonizio That Mississippi chicken shack... My love is as a fever, longing still by Christopher Bursk It didn't take a Harvard Medical School degree... My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun... My Mother Was No White Dove by Reginald Shepherd no dove at all, coo-rooing through the dusk... My Pentagon by Heather Christle It was the military... Near misses by Laura Kasischke The truck that swerved to miss the stroller in which I slept... New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson Only a night from old to new... Night Drafts by Tony Sanders Polite, intent, no fooling this time, because blasphemy... Night School by Micah Ballard Off hours... NIGHTMORNINGSKY by Peter Cooley I'd like to see the tree as it once stood... Nights On The Peninsula by D. Nurkse We could not separate ourselves from our endless making... NINE, 40 by Anne Tardos Take a good look, she says about her inventory. ... Noël: Christmas Eve 1913 by Robert Bridges A frosty Christmas Eve... Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck,... Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare Not marble nor the gilded monuments... Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion Now winter nights enlarge... Obviously by Ben Doller The curtain is kind... October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild... October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 by Susan Briante I bleed a little, peyote tea waits in the refrigerator... Ode to My Hands by Tim Seibles Five-legged pocket spiders, knuckled... On Anti-Biography by Will Alexander For me, biography is a lantern, burning in the midst of parenthetical opaqueness... On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats Much have I traveled in the realms of gold... On Summer by George Moses Horton Esteville begins to burn... On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman On the beach at night alone... On The Origins Of Things by Troy Jollimore Everyone knows that the moon started out... On Upnor Road by Elizabeth Spires Set back from the street behind a stand of trees... One Child Has Brown Eyes by Marilyn Chin One child has brown eyes, one has blue... One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson One day is there of the series... Orchard by H. D. I saw the first pear... Orkney Interior by Ian Hamilton Finlay Doing what the moon says, he shifts his chair... Our Valley by Philip Levine We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August... Outside the Church by Annie Petrie-Sauter The clinic hardly ever called the cops... Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land... Parole Hearing by Idra Novey And they searched her voice, heard the lurch of a bus into the deep muck of a field... Passage to India by Walt Whitman Singing my days... Pericardium by Joanna Klink Am I not alone, as I thought I was, as I thought... Peyote Poem [excerpt] by Michael McClure Clear — the senses bright — sitting in the black chair — Rocker... Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things--... playing with fire by Evie Shockley something is always burning, passion... Plural Happiness by David Rivard A curtain bellying like a pregnant cloud, warm white... Pocket Vampire by Dorothy Barresi I reconcile myself to need... Poem for Jack Spicer by Matthew Zapruder It's the start of baseball season... 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 [Your breath was shed] by Dylan Thomas Your breath was shed... 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... Postcard from Rockport by April Lindner Cold as a slap, this indigo sea... Potentially Interesting & Secretly Devastating by Tina Brown Celona is never to give away your secrets... Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew by Ross Gay Today, November 28th, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... Proclamation by Stuart Dischell ... Provisional by Catherine Bowman When he procured her, she purveyed... Psalm by Vanessa Place (S) Being a good people, if we were wrong, we would change... Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee Okay then, right here... Purgatorio by Peter Streckfus Come to the surface of the screen with your piscine light ... Q & A by Terence Winch How important is theory in this poem... Quiet Mourning by Laura Moriarty I keep gardenias ... Rain by Don Paterson I love all films that start with rain:... Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry... Red and Blue Planets by Joni Wallace What we're drawn to is proof enough... Red Bank by Lesle Lewis I wanted a horse... Red Wand by Sandra Simonds Sometimes I try to make poetry but mostly... Reprise by Deborah Brown Better than a lover's heart, the immortality of a name... Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell You need me like ice needs the mountain ... Road Trip by Kurt Brown The new road runs along the old road. I can see it... Robert Harms Paints the Surface of Little Fresh Pond by Mark Doty Surface the action of the day... Rondo by Janet Holmes The noun one keeps batting away... Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky When I had no roof I made... Sawdust by Sharon Bryan Why not lindendust... Scarecrow on Fire by Dean Young Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve... Sci-Fi by Tracy K. Smith There will be no edges, but curves... Scryer's Bridge by Carol Guess Thirteen on ice, skating, I died... Sculptures of Virginia Woolf by Michael Robins They're sentences in waiting, diagrams... Sea Girls by A. E. Stallings Not gulls, girls.... Seek the Faceless Sun of Being by Joshua Corey To stand facing it or with my back to it at the track's edge ... Self-portrait as Thousandfurs by Stacy Gnall To have been age enough... September Elegies by Randall Mann There are those who suffer in plain sight... Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?... Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón We'll say unbelievable things... She Leaves Me Again, Six Months Later by Collier Nogues The hillside was blocked... She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron She walks in beauty, like the night... Simulacra by Ching-In Chen It's not that the rains have rolled back... Sitalkas by H. D. Thou art come at length... Six Persimmons by Shin Yu Pai after ruining another season's harvest... Small Talk by Eleanor Lerman It is a mild day in the suburbs... Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air... Sojourn in the Whale by Marianne Moore Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading... Solar system bedsheets by Sarah Vap There, behind sunlight... Song of Myself, XI by Walt Whitman Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore... Song to Celia by Ben Jonson Drinke to me, onely, with thine eys... Sonnet Edmund Leites by Bernadette Mayer I had a dream that... Sonnet—Silence by Edgar Allan Poe There are some qualities--some incorporate things... South by Jack Gilbert In the small towns along the river... SPAM's carbon footprint by Craig Santos Perez Guam is considered the SPAM® capital of the world... Speedway by Cedar Sigo I cut out the Heart with Snowflake... Spellbound by Emily Brontë The night is darkening round me,... Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring... Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins Margaret, are you grieving... Spring Day [Bath] by Amy Lowell The day is fresh-washed and fair... Steppingstone by Andrew Hudgins Home (from Court Square Fountain... Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know... Strip Show by Zach Savich Lightning-torn bark lured on the lower limbs, a sym... Student Paper by Justin Taylor Let the reason remain outside of the fact... Study for Salome Dancing Before Herod by Eric Pankey In the movement toward disappearance... Summer by Amy Lowell Some men there are who find in nature all... Summer Images by John Clare Now swarthy Summer, by rude health embrowned... Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens Complacencies of the peignoir, and late... Sundown by Jorie Graham Sometimes the day... Superstition by Amy Lowell I have painted a picture of a ghost... Sutra by Marilyn Krysl Looking back now, I see ... Swell by Hoa Nguyen Swell you can dream ... Swimming in the Presence of Lurid Opposition by Sawako Nakayasu Summer camp, swim class, Tokyo, a group of no more than twenty ants... Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar I know what the caged bird feels, alas!... Sysiphusina by Shira Dentz place where i gulp... Talk by Kwame Dawes No one quarrels here, no one has learned... Talk by Noelle Kocot My body is... Telling by Elisabeth Frost They keep telling me why I do what I do... Terrace by Honor Moore A plane tree, leaves green as if polished... Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child Over the river, and through the wood... That This by Susan Howe Day is a type when visible... That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold... The Aerodynamics by Rick Bursky The night she walked to the house... The Angel that presided 'oer my birth by William Blake The Angel that presided 'oer my birth... The Anxiety of Coincidence by Mark Bibbins Your object will have made a good subject... The Apparition by John Donne When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead... The Black Virginity by Mina Loy Baby Priests... The Book of the Dead Man (Food) by Marvin Bell The dead man likes chocolate, dark chocolate... The Bottom by Denise Duhamel I stopped drinking on my way down the hill... The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold The Buried Life... The Bus through Jonesboro, Arkansas by Matthew Henriksen Inanimate intimacy in the plural... The Changing Coat by Anne Marie Macari When I wake up, heart... The Cold War [excerpt] by Kathleen Ossip Craft is a synthesis: thought in the service of... The Combo by Joan Larkin In barlight alchemized: gold pate, the bellmouth... The Coming of War: Actæon by Ezra Pound An image of Lethe... The Dance by Humberto Ak'Abal All of us dance... The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate... The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa Was he looking for St. Lucia's light... The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone by John Keats The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone... The Dead by Mina Loy We have flowed out of ourselves... The Dead Girls Speak in Unison by Danielle Pafunda Do not pretend that you don't like it... The Dead [excerpt] by James Joyce ... The Decorative Airport Fern Is Not What It Pretends to Be by Jennifer L. Knox and it takes me a triple-take to realize it's scanning... The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell My Love is of a birth as rare... The Descent of Man by Vijay Seshadri My failure to evolve has been causing me a lot of grief lately... The Ear is an Organ Made for Love by E. Ethelbert Miller It was the language that left us first... The Emperor by Matthew Rohrer She sends me a text... The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens Call the roller of big cigars,... The Enkindled Spring by D. H. Lawrence This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green... The Family Photograph by Vona Groarke In the window of the drawing-room... The Fare-well Letters [excerpt] by Evie Shockley black fast. greasy lightning... The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop I caught a tremendous fish... The Gaffe by C. K. Williams If that someone who's me yet not me yet who judges me is always with me... The Gardenia by Cornelius Eady The trouble is, you can never take... The Helmsman by H. D. O be swift... The Hills, 5 by Kate Durbin Song I Feel Like Something's Changed plays over... The Horrid Voice of Science by Vachel Lindsay There's machinery in the butterfly... The Hour Until We See You by Brenda Hillman When we part, even for an hour... The House by Richard Wilbur Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes... The Hurricane by William Carlos Williams The tree lay down... The impact of a dollar upon the heart by Stephen Crane The impact of a dollar upon the heart... The Libraries Didn't Burn by Elaine Equi despite books kindled in electronic flames... The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot Let us go then, you and I... The Magi by W. B. Yeats Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye... The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville About the Shark, phlegmatical one... The Moment by Marie Howe Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment... The Moon in Time Lapse by David Rivard The moon in time lapse sliding over skyline... The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes by Jenny Boully disappear: one by one by one the darling scented rushes... The Needle by Jennifer Grotz Thought lengths it, pulls... The News from M— by Lytton Smith Here, where you all are... The Novel as Manuscript by Norman Dubie I remember the death, in Russia... The Nurse by Michael Blumenthal Now come the purple garments, now the white... The Old Year by John Clare The Old Year's gone away... The Patient by Gillian Conoley I am patient. That is my mineral fact. ... The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness by Anne Boyer The history of revolutions is the history of vague ideas... The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens After the leaves have fallen, we return... The Present/ by Lisa Robertson You step from the bus into a sequencing tool that is moist and carries the scent of quince... The Pressure of the Moment by Dara Wier The pressure of the moment can cause someone to kill someone or something... The Process by Joseph Massey Cross-stitched... The Radio Animals by Matthea Harvey The radio animals travel in lavender clouds... The Republic of Dreams by Michael Palmer She lay so still that... The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) by Emily Dickinson The Savior must have been... The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre... The Shivering Beggar by Robert Graves Near Clapham village, where fields began... The Snow Fairy by Claude McKay Throughout the afternoon I watched them there... The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter... The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,... The Song of Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats I went out to the hazel wood... The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth The sun has long been set... The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly Oh well, let's go on eating the grains of eternity... The Things by Donald Hall When I walk in my house I see pictures... The Thread of Life by Christina Rossetti The irresponsive silence of the land... The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less by Gerard Manley Hopkins The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less... The Tinajera Notebook by Forrest Gander Through my torso, the smooth... The Tongue by Chris Martin So taste... The Trouble Ball [excerpt] by Martín Espada In 1941, my father saw his first big league ballgame at Ebbets Field... The Truth About the Present by John Lane when rivers are intoxicated... The Undertow by Sasha Steensen I am shown... The Uses of Poetry by William Carlos Williams I've fond anticipation of a day... The Very Nervous Family by Sabrina Orah Mark Mr. Horowitz clutches a bag of dried apricots to his chest... The Vista by C. Dale Young Not tenderness in the eye but the brute need... The Whistler by Sommer Browning Here I am so selfish I only remember my reaction... The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats The trees are in their autumn beauty... The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge I have walked a great while over the snow... The Woman and the Flame by Aimé Césaire A bit of light that descends the springhead of a gaze... The Woods in Concord by Seth Abramson Down by the oaks... The World Below the Window by William Jay Smith The geraniums I left last night on the windowsill,... Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills... There are these moments of permission by Camille T. Dungy ... There's a certain Slant of light (258) by Emily Dickinson There's a certain Slant of light,... Things Between Themselves by Heidi Lynn Staples to have been things among things between themselves and all others who live... Thinking, It's Ok to Discuss by Michelle Taransky This— The best tree... Third Charm from Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad... Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens Among twenty snowy mountains,... This Deepening Takes Place Again by Emily Kendal Frey What if everything... this kind of fire by Charles Bukowski sometimes I think the gods... Thumping by William Corbett Fisherman's arm... Thursday by Edna St. Vincent Millay And if I loved you Wednesday... Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Five years have past; five summers, with the length... To a Friend who sent me some Roses by John Keats As late I rambled in the happy fields... To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman Thee for my recitative!... To a Steam Roller by Marianne Moore The illustration... To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman The time you won your town the race... To Autumn by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,... To Autumn by William Blake O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained... To be the thing by Dorothea Lasky To be the name uttered, but not to have the burden to be... To George Sand: A Desire by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man... To George Sand: A Recognition by Elizabeth Barrett Browning True genius, but true woman! dost deny... To Mistress Margaret Hussey by John Skelton Merry Margaret... To the Moon [fragment] by Percy Bysshe Shelley Art thou pale for weariness... To the Roaring Wind by Wallace Stevens What syllable are you seeking... To Think of Time by Walt Whitman To think of time—of all that retrospection... tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas by Juan Felipe Herrera see my brother-in-law with a styled shirt... Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Saw you walking barefoot... Toothpaste Kids Sunburn by Jordan Davis I tell you I will not make any more raids... Translation by Anne Spencer He trekked into a far country... Translations by Michael Dickman My mother was led into the world... Traveling Light by Linda Pastan I'm only leaving you... Travelling by William Wordsworth This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun... Trigger Guard by Joanna Fuhrman Everyone I ever loved is ... Trip Hop by Geoffrey Brock I'll pack my toothbrush... Two Loves by Lord Alfred Douglas I dreamed I stood upon a little hill... U-District Incident Report by Heather McHugh Apparently they want your body parts. They frisk you for... Untitled by David Meltzer Art's desire to get it all said... Untitled [1950 June 27] by Don Mee Choi 1950 June 27: my father heard the sound of the engine of a North Korean fighter plane... Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life] by Bruce Smith I closed the book and changed my life... Untitled [I grew up in North Adams] by Brenda Iijima I grew up in North Adams. The snow on the summit is thin, frigid no humans ... Untitled [Is is] by Srikanth Reddy Is is... Untitled [The child thought it strange] by Richard Meier The child thought it strange to define words with other words... Untitled [The more I go, the harder it becomes to return] by Jennifer Denrow The more I go, the harder it becomes to return... Utensils by Richard O. Moore ... Verguenza by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Woman, I wish I didn't know your name... Verses upon the Burning of our House by Anne Bradstreet In silent night when rest I took... Vertical by Linda Pastan Perhaps the purpose... Vision by Erica Funkhouser With age... Visions of Never Being Heard from Again by Rebecca Wolff I stopped by to see you but you were not home... Wall Street at Night by Lola Ridge Long vast shapes... cooled and flushed through with darkness... Water by Edwin Torres I am the guest of a prince... Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson The water understands... We Are Seven by William Wordsworth --A simple child,... We Build a Barn And Read Reader's Digest by Tomaž Šalamun Quick ostrich. Quick ostrich. Quick sand. Quick sand... We Dogs of a Thursday Off by Alberto Ríos The wine of uncharted days... We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies... What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know by Afaa M. Weaver Black women keep secrets tied up in hankies... What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,... What They Found In the Diving Bell by Traci Brimhall The first time I saw my mother, she'd been dead... What Things Want by Robert Bly You have to let things... When I Am in the Kitchen by Jeanne Marie Beaumont I think about the past. I empty the ice-cube trays... When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) by William Shakespeare When I consider every thing that grows... When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton When I consider how my light is spent,... When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare When to the sessions of sweet silent thought... When You are Old by W. B. Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep,... White Box (notes) by Laura Mullen Object: tiny white box the size of a sugar cube... White Stork by Michael Waters Such jazzy arrhythmia... Who goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats Who will go drive with Fergus now... Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us by Shane McCrae Brother is we is each of us we ghosts... Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page by Cate Marvin Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel... Winter by Walter De La Mare And the robin flew... Winter Heavens by George Meredith Sharp is the night, but stars with frost alive... Winter is good - his Hoar Delights (1316) by Emily Dickinson Winter is good - his Hoar Delights... Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details... Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson Late lies the wintry sun a-bed... Witch-Wife by Edna St. Vincent Millay She is neither pink nor pale,... Without Discussion by Samuel Amadon What people said, what left the table dark... Witness by Forrest Gander Or the vision that holds ... Wolf Cento by Simone Muench Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf... Woman in Front of Poster of Herself by Alice Notley Said I shouldn't... Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair... Written on the Banks of the Arun by Charlotte Smith When latest autumn spreads her evening veil... Year of the Amateur by Cathy Park Hong Recall the frontier when the business ... You Envelop Me [Excerpt] by Laynie Browne A book —whose wings— swallow me... You Know by Mary Jo Bang You know, don't you, what we're doing here... Your Brain Is Yours by Natalie Lyalin I am baptized by coins with a faint smell of elderflower... Zulu by Jen Benka fasting in milwaukee hunger strike ... [I Failed Him and He Failed Me] by Katie Ford I failed him and he failed me... [Untitled] by J. Michael Martinez Imagine—in front of us--they silently pass. And they believe unrelated objects are machines... [white paper #28] by Martha Collins could get a credit card loan car... [without a listener] by Maxine Chernoff a voice speaks ...

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