| # |
Name of Poem |
Poet |
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| 1 |
Introduction to Poetry |
Billy Collins |
Info |
| 2 |
Sidekicks |
Ronald Koertge |
Info |
| 3 |
The Summer I Was Sixteen |
Geraldine Connolly |
Info |
| 4 |
The Blue Bowl |
Jane Kenyon |
Info |
| 5 |
Lines |
Martha Collins |
Info |
| 6 |
 The Distances |
Henry Rago |
Info |
| 7 |
"Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?" |
Ron Koertge |
Info |
| 8 |
Numbers |
Mary Cornish |
Info |
| 9 |
The Cord |
Leanne O’Sullivan |
Info |
| 10 |
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border |
William Stafford |
Info |
| 11 |
Passer-by, these are words... |
Yves Bonnefoy |
Info |
| 12 |
The Bat |
Theodore Roethke |
Info |
| 13 |
Did I Miss Anything |
Tom Wayman |
Info |
| 14 |
Neglect |
R. T. Smith |
Info |
| 15 |
The Poet |
Tom Wayman |
Info |
| 16 |
Radio |
Laurel Blossom |
Info |
| 17 |
Bad Day |
Kay Ryan |
Info |
| 18 |
The Farewell |
Edward Field |
Info |
| 19 |
The Partial Explanation |
Charles Simic |
Info |
| 20 |
Dorie Off To Atlanta |
Mark Halliday |
Info |
| 21 |
Wheels |
Jim Daniels |
Info |
| 22 |
Remora,
Remora |
Thomas Lux |
Info |
| 23 |
Tour |
Carol Snow |
Info |
| 24 |
After Us |
Connie Wanek |
Info |
| 25 |
Domestic Work, 1937 |
Natasha Trethewey |
Info |
| 26 |
Before She Died |
Karen Chase |
Info |
| 27 |
Poetry |
Don Paterson |
Info |
| 28 |
Foundations |
Leopold Staff |
Info |
| 29 |
Advice from the Experts |
Bill Knott |
Info |
| 30 |
One Morning |
Eamon Grennan |
Info |
| 31 |
Marcus Millsap: School Day
Afternoon |
Dave Etter |
Info |
| 32 |
Publication Date |
Franz Wright |
Info |
| 33 |
The Meadow |
Kate Knapp Johnson |
Info |
| 34 |
Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer |
Chris Forhan |
Info |
| 35 |
Hand Shadows |
Mary Cornish |
Info |
| 36 |
The Printer's Error |
Aaron Fogel |
Info |
| 37 |
She Didn't Mean to Do It |
Daisy Fried |
Info |
| 38 |
Cartoon Physics, part 1 |
Nick Flynn |
Info |
| 39 |
Snow |
David Berman |
Info |
| 40 |
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter |
Robert Bly |
Info |
| 41 |
In the Well |
Andrew Hudgins |
Info |
| 42 |
The Poetry of Bad Weather |
Debora Greger |
Info |
| 43 |
The Green One Over There |
Katia Kapovich |
Info |
| 44 |
A Man I Knew |
Margaret Levine |
Info |
| 45 |
Nights |
Kevin Hart |
Info |
| 46 |
Grammar |
Tony Hoagland |
Info |
| 47 |
Fault |
Ron Koertge |
Info |
| 48 |
Thanks For Remembering Us |
Dana Gioia |
Info |
| 49 |
Painting a Room |
Katia Kapovich |
Info |
| 50 |
Otherwise |
Jane Kenyon |
Info |
| 51 |
A Primer of the Daily Round |
Howard Nemerov |
Info |
| 52 |
Love
Poem With Toast |
Miller Williams |
Info |
| 53 |
Selecting a Reader |
Ted Kooser |
Info |
| 54 |
Song |
Eamon Grennan |
Info |
| 55 |
Biscuit |
Jane Kenyon |
Info |
| 56 |
Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale |
Jane Yolen |
Info |
| 57 |
White-Eyes |
Mary Oliver |
Info |
| 58 |
To Help the Monkey Cross the
River, |
Thomas Lux |
Info |
| 59 |
Lesson |
Forrest Hamer |
Info |
| 60 |
Football |
Louis Jenkins |
Info |
| 61 |
Sister Cat |
Frances Mayes |
Info |
| 62 |
The Bagel |
David Ignatow |
Info |
| 63 |
What I Would Do |
Marc Petersen |
Info |
| 64 |
For My Daughter |
David Ignatow |
Info |
| 65 |
I've Been Known |
Denise Duhamel |
Info |
| 66 |
The Moon |
Robert Bly |
Info |
| 67 |
Watching the Mayan Women |
Luisa Villani |
Info |
| 68 |
Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted |
Shoshauna Shy |
Info |
| 69 |
The Space Heater |
Sharon Olds |
Info |
| 70 |
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? |
Robert Hershon |
Info |
| 71 |
Smoking |
Elton Glaser |
Info |
| 72 |
Gratitude to Old Teachers |
Robert Bly |
Info |
| 73 |
Love Song |
Carol Muske-Dukes |
Info |
| 74 |
Near the Wall of a House |
Yehuda Amichai |
Info |
| 75 |
To a Daughter Leaving Home |
Linda Pastan |
Info |
| 76 |
June 11 |
David Lehman |
Info |
| 77 |
A Birthday Candle |
Donald Justice |
Info |
| 78 |
Doing Without |
David Ray |
Info |
| 79 |
My Life |
Joe Wenderoth |
Info |
| 80 |
Reckless Poem |
Mary Oliver |
Info |
| 81 |
After Years |
Ted Kooser |
Info |
| 82 |
Small Comfort |
Katha Pollitt |
Info |
| 83 |
Turtle |
Kay Ryan |
Info |
| 84 |
Knowledge |
Philip Memmer |
Info |
| 85 |
Rotary |
Christina Pugh |
Info |
| 86 |
Sure |
Arlene Tribbia |
Info |
| 87 |
Alley Cat Love Song |
Dana Gioia |
Info |
| 88 |
The Exchange |
Ron Rash |
Info |
| 89 |
Dutch |
Kay Ryan |
Info |
| 90 |
A New Poet |
Linda Pastan |
Info |
| 91 |
Timely Enumerations Concerning
Sri Lanka |
Oliver Rice |
Info |
| 92 |
Birth Day |
Elise Paschen |
Info |
| 93 |
Relearning Winter |
Mark Svenvold |
Info |
| 94 |
My Daughters in New York |
James Reiss |
Info |
| 95 |
From On Being Fired Again |
Erin Belieu |
Info |
| 96 |
Keats |
Christopher Howell |
Info |
| 97 |
The Hymn of a Fat Woman |
Joyce Huff |
Info |
| 98 |
My Father's Hats |
Mark Irwin |
Info |
| 99 |
Of Politics & Art |
Norman Dubie |
Info |
| 100 |
Loud Music |
Stephen Dobyns |
Info |
| 101 |
Some Clouds |
Steve Kowit |
Info |
| 102 |
A Wreath to the Fish |
Nancy Willard |
Info |
| 103 |
A Shadow of a Nest |
Gary Margolis |
Info |
| 104 |
To Stammering |
Kenneth Koch |
Info |
| 105 |
A Birthday Poem |
Ted Kooser |
Info |
| 106 |
The Grammar Lesson |
Steve Kowit |
Info |
| 107 |
Blind |
Charles Webb |
Info |
| 108 |
Halloween |
Mac Hammond |
Info |
| 109 |
Fast Break |
Edward Hirsch |
Info |
| 110 |
On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window |
Eamon Grennan |
Info |
| 111 |
The Kitchen Shears Speak |
Christianne Balk |
Info |
| 112 |
Slow Children at Play |
Cecilia Woloch |
Info |
| 113 |
Lift Your Right Arm |
Peter Cherches |
Info |
| 114 |
Machines |
Michael Donaghy |
Info |
| 115 |
The Death of Santa Claus |
Charles Webb |
Info |
| 116 |
Cat Scat |
Eamon Grennan |
Info |
| 117 |
Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space |
Ron Padgett |
Info |
| 118 |
Notice |
Steve Kowit |
Info |
| 119 |
Thanksgiving |
Mac Hammond |
Info |
| 120 |
The Swan at Edgewater Park |
Ruth L. Schwartz |
Info |
| 121 |
The Hand |
Mary Ruefle |
Info |
| 122 |
Soccer Moms |
Paul Muldoon |
Info |
| 123 |
Coffee in the Afternoon |
Alberto R’os |
Info |
| 124 |
Morning |
Mary Oliver |
Info |
| 125 |
Animals |
Miller Williams |
Info |
| 126 |
God Says Yes To Me |
Kaylin Haught |
Info |
| 127 |
Hate Poem |
Julie Sheehan |
Info |
| 128 |
The Student Theme |
Ronald Wallace |
Info |
| 129 |
The Birthday |
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan |
Info |
| 130 |
Witness |
Martha Collins |
Info |
| 131 |
Not Swans |
Susan Ludvigson |
Info |
| 132 |
Leaving
the Island |
Linda Pastan |
Info |
| 133 |
The Summer Day |
Mary Oliver |
Info |
| 134 |
One Day A Woman |
Miller Williams |
Info |
| 135 |
Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks |
Mary Oliver |
Info |
| 136 |
Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper |
Martín Espada |
Info |
| 137 |
Wan Chu's Wife In Bed |
Richard Jones |
Info |
| 138 |
This Moment |
Eavan Boland |
Info |
| 139 |
How Many Times |
Marie Howe |
Info |
| 140 |
The Dead |
Susan Mitchell |
Info |
| 141 |
The End and the Beginning |
Wislawa Szymborska |
Info |
| 142 |
Locals |
James Lasdun |
Info |
| 143 |
Social Security |
Terence Winch |
Info |
| 144 |
Smell and Envy |
Douglas Goetsch |
Info |
| 145 |
The Yawn |
Paul Blackburn |
Info |
| 146 |
Blue Willow |
Jody Gladding |
Info |
| 147 |
Tuesday 9:00 AM |
Denver Butson |
Info |
| 148 |
Before the World Intruded |
Michele Rosenthal |
Info |
| 149 |
Her Head |
Joan Murray |
Info |
| 150 |
96 Vandam |
Gerald Stern |
Info |
| 151 |
My Moral Life |
Mark Halliday |
Info |
| 152 |
It Took All My Energy |
Tony Wallace |
Info |
| 153 |
Once upon a Time There Was a Man |
Mac Hammond |
Info |
| 154 |
Forgiving Buckner |
John Hodgen |
Info |
| 155 |
Legs |
Mark Halliday |
Info |
| 156 |
Dandelion |
Julie Lechevsky |
Info |
| 157 |
Heat |
Michael Chitwood |
Info |
| 158 |
Forgotten Planet |
Doug Dorph |
Info |
| 159 |
Loyal |
William Matthews |
Info |
| 160 |
Dutch Boy |
Doug Dorph |
Info |
| 161 |
Key To The Highway |
Mark Halliday |
Info |
| 162 |
Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice |
William Matthews |
Info |
| 163 |
Mentor |
Timothy Murphy |
Info |
| 164 |
Unconditional Day |
Julie Lechevsky |
Info |
| 165 |
The Rider |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Info |
| 166 |
Kyrie |
Tomas Transtromer |
Info |
| 167 |
The Last Wolf |
Mary TallMountain |
Info |
| 168 |
Gee, You're So Beautiful
That It's Starting to Rain |
Richard Brautigan |
Info |
| 169 |
Schoolboys with Dog, Winter |
William Matthews |
Info |
| 170 |
Summer in a Small Town |
Linda Gregg |
Info |
| 171 |
Entrance |
Dana Gioia |
Info |
| 172 |
How to Listen |
Major Jackson |
Info |
| 173 |
Immortality |
Lisel Mueller |
Info |
| 174 |
Our Other Sister |
Jeffrey Harrison |
Info |
| 175 |
Gretel |
Andrea Hollander Budy |
Info |
| 176 |
How to Change a Frog Into a Prince |
Anna Denise |
Info |
| 177 |
Eagle Plain |
Robert Francis |
Info |
| 178 |
End of April |
Phillis Levin |
Info |
| 179 |
Bike Ride with Older Boys |
Laura Kasischke |
Info |
| 180 |
Break |
Dorianne Laux |
Info |
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