some poems I've enjoyed over time
~ a selected (not comprehensive) list of poems I have enjoyed at one time or another (or for all time) ~
last updated: 10.12.2022
Jesús I. Valles - Barnes & Noble, 1999
Diane Seuss - Bobby
Christine Gosnay - It's the Real Thing
Grief Symphony by Noor Hindi
Droplet - Caitlin Scarano
Saeed Jones - Alive At The End of The World
https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/06/03/689-alive-at-the-end-of-the-world
Jim Harrison - Seven in the Woods
Michael Simms - Imperfect
Alex Lemon - Credo
Jason Schneiderman - In The End You Get Everything Back (Liza Minnelli)
Marie Ponsot - Among Women
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56261/among-women
Philip Larkin - Aubade
Ocean Vuong - Toy Boat
Nikki Giovanni - Legacies
Hayan Charara - Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway
Monica McClure - The Heedless Shepherd
Ed Ochester - Among His Effects We Found a Photograph
Ellen Bass - During the Pandemic I Listen to the July 26, 1965, Juan-les-Pins Recording of A Love Supreme
Marilyn Nelson - Last Mattress
Nicole Callihan - The Extravagant Stars
Kathleen Rooney - Birthday
Jill McDonough - I Imagine the Butches’ Stripper Bar
Philip Larkin - High Windows
Joanna Fuhrman - Lavender
Monday - Alex Dimitrov
The Call Away - Robert Bly
Kimberly Casey - Golden Hour
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156058/golden-hour
Aaron Smith - Like Him, Still Life with Antidepressants
Philomath by Devon Walker-Figueroa
https://poems.com/poem/philomath
Prayer / Oracion by FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN
About Suffering by Elisa Gabbert
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148839/about-suffering
Her Garden by Donald Hall
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155944/her-garden-609ac2408d90a
And So - Stephen Dunn
June Jordan - Democracy Poem #1
https://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/detail/840
Kim Stafford - Curse of the Charmed Life
Ariel Francisco - Insomniami
https://poets.org/poem/insomniami?mc_cid=95f3d0153f&mc_eid=f6b770923d
Meg Eden - Laundry Woman
https://www.rattle.com/laundry-woman-by-meg-eden/
Winter by Ruth Stone
https://poems.com/poem/winter/
The Applicant - Sylvia Plath
City of Grief by Vijay Seshadri
https://poems.com/poem/city-of-grief/
Real Estate by Richard Siken
https://poets.org/poem/real-estate
Heart in a Box by Francesca Bell
https://www.rattle.com/heart-in-a-box-by-francesca-bell/
Howl by Eileen Myles
Ex-boyfriends by Kim Addonizio
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=7358.html
You Asked For It by George Bilgere
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=6013.html
Afternoon in the House by Jane Kenyon
https://poems.com/poem/afternoon-in-the-house/
There Will Be No Babies by Tamara Oakman
https://www.everseradio.com/there-will-be-no-babies-by-tamara-oakman/
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Larry Levis - Winter Stars
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53388/winter-stars-56d232a1c9b93
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza - Birthday Suits
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149495/birthday-suits
Anna Newman - After the Funeral, at Your Favorite Gallery
https://poems.com/poem/after-the-funeral-at-your-favorite-gallery/
Rena Priest - The Index
https://poets.org/poem/index-0?mc_cid=091f8058c4&mc_eid=f6b770923d
Darius Simpson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/darius-simpson
https://www.dariussimpson.com/
Tony Hoagland - The Loneliest Job in the World
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2009%252F12%252F21.html
Gary Glauber - Another Bad Year for Florida Man
http://www.versedaily.org/2020/anotherbadyearforfloridaman.shtml
Margaret Ross - Evolution
https://poets.org/poem/evolution-1?mc_cid=c2a8e23ba7&mc_eid=f6b770923d
Jack Gilbert - Going There
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154185/going-there
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta - [Untitled]
https://poets.org/poem/untitled-10
Carmen Giménez Smith - "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"
https://poets.org/poem/auto-tune-authentic-love
Tess Gallagher - Choices
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48950/choices
Erin Elizabeth Smith - But This Joke Is Funny
http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue21/33_Smith-But-This-Joke-Is-Funny.php
Rio Cortez - Driving at Night
https://poets.org/poem/driving-night
Allison Joseph - Untethered
https://poets.org/poem/untethered?mc_cid=5e82248235&mc_eid=f6b770923d
Nicole Caruso Garcia - The Year that Sorrow Shook Me By The Cuff https://www.rattle.com/the-year-that-sorrow-shook-me-by-the-cuff-by-nicole-caruso-garcia/
Rex Wilder - Two Harbors
https://poems.com/poem/two-harbors/
Marge Piercy - The scent of apple cake
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=10149.html
Donte Collins - “they need some of us to die”
https://poets.org/poem/they-need-some-us-die
Maxine Kumin - Appetite
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F05%252F11.html
Ada Limón - Give Me This
https://poets.org/poem/give-me
Rasheed Copeland - "When Puffy says, and we won’t stop, 'cause we can’t stop."
https://poets.org/poem/when-puffy-says-and-we-won-t-stop-cause-we-can-t-stop
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Mai Der Vang - In The Year of Permutations
https://poets.org/poem/year-permutations
Richard Jones - Rest.
Nate Marshall - nah nah this one though is for all my niggas
Richard Levine - Sheltered in Place
Brian Russel - The Year of What Now
Michael Mark - (T)(O)(O) (C) (L) (O) (S) (E)
Lucy Adkins - Potatoes
Brian Russell - The Year of What Now
Laura Kasischke - Prayer
Robert Creeley - For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973]
Natasha Trethewey - Theories of Time and Space
Ada Limon - Instructions on Not Giving Up
Georgia Douglas Johnson - When I Rise Up
Danez Smith - little prayer
John Murillo - Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds
Margie Piercy - the low road
Wendy Cope - Men and their Boring Arguments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/cope.shtml
Miller Williams - Of History and Hope
Brenda Hillman - Mighty Forms
Laura Foley- One Day
C.D. Wright - What Keeps
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Craig Arnold - Bird-Understander
Murial Rukeyser - Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
Mark Halliday - Wide Receiver
Julie Cadwallader Staub - Blackbirds
Reginald Dwayne Betts - Blood History
Dorianne Laux - Family Stories
Dorothy Parker - Two-Volume Novel
Kim Addonizio - New Year’s Day
Claudia Serea - Diversity Visa
Jennifer Soong - The Voyage Nowhere
Jeff Gundy - God is Not Right, He is Big
Kahlil Gibran - How I Became a Madman (Prologue)
W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
H.D. - Orchard
Chad Abushanab - The Phone
Aracelis Girmay - Arroz Poetica
Margaret Atwood - In the Secular Night
George Bilgere - The Fairly Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Jamey Hecht - Don’t speak (on meds, docs, sales)
John Kenney - Saturday night (note the boot)
Jillian Weise - Beautiful Freak Show
C. X. Hua - After Dark
Victoria Redel - The Psychic
Natalie Diaz - Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation
Jennifer Soong - The Voyage Nowhere
Jeffrey Harrison - A Drink of Water
Umit Singh Dhuga - The Three Degrees
Goethe - The Metamorphosis of the Plants
Chessy Normille - Terrible Music
Kay Ryan - The pieces that fall to Earth
Keetje Kuipers - The Rats
Robin Becker - Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
Dorianne Laux - What’s Broken
Dorianne Laux - As It Is
Carl Sandburg - Long Guns
Maya C. Popa - Letter to Noah’s Wife
Marge Piercy - The birthday of the world
Rimas Uzgiris - Blank Verse for a Blank Earth
Nicole Caruso Garcia - Lockdown Drill
Parneshia Jones - My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea
Louise Bogan - Words for Departure
Leila Chatti - The Rules
Chloe Honum - At a Days Inn in Barstow, California
Siegfried Sassoon - Grandeur of Ghosts
Nick Flynn - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Chen Chen - I’m not a religious person but
Craig Morgan Teicher - Lifted
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Gary Whitehead - One-legged Pigeon
Alberto Rios - Rabbits and Fire
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)
W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues
Adrienne Rich - What Kinds of Times Are These
Naomi Shihab Nye - Famous
Natlie Diaz - They don’t love you like I love you
Amy Alvarez - How to date a white boy
Audre Lorde - Movement Song
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Hayden Carruth - Eternity Blues
Robert Hass - Iowa City: Early April
Tarfia Faizullah - Register of Eliminated Villages
Chelsea Dingman - “A Name for Illness I knew, but Couldn’t say” (first appeared in Third Coast)
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/anameforillness.shtml
Nickole Brown - Wild Thing (first appeared in Rattle)
http://www.versedaily.org/2019/wildthing.shtml
Hanif Abdurraqib - “I Don’t Remember The Whole Summer When “Do The Right Thing” Dropped”
https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/two-poems-by-hanif-willis-abdurraqib/
Kendell Pakula (work that appeared in burntdistrict in Fall 2018)
Erin Hoover - The Valkyrie
http://www.versedaily.org/2018/thevalkyrie.shtml
Jacob Saenz - Blue Line Incident, Evolution of My Block, The Bachelor watches “The Bachelor”
Erin Belieu - Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease
A.E. Stallings - Epic Simile
Aaron Coleman - The Broken Man’s Permission
Lyn Hejinian - [But isn’t midnight intermittent]
Dorianne Laux - Blossom
Khaled Mattawa - Ramadan
Dorianne Laux - Mother’s Day
Aline Murray Kilmer - Shards hi
Philip Larkin - Money
Brenda Hillman - Micro-Minutes on Your Way to Work
*** John Murillo - “Mercy, Mercy, Me” ***
C. Dale Young - “The Gods Among Us”
Robert Hass - “Iowa City: Early April”
CM Burroughs - “God Letter”
Tarfia Faizullah - “Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth”
Khadijah Queen - “Disposed”
Terri Kirby Erickson - “Fund Drive”
Joy Harjo - “Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit”
Matthew Brennan - “Yard Sale”
Yeats - “An Irish Airman foresees his Death”
Frank Bidart - “The Ghost”
Mark Sanders - “The Cranes, Texas January”
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Patrick Rosal - Brokeheart: Just like that
Samiya Bashir - You’re really faithful to your abusers, aren’t you?
Hazel Hall (1886-1924) - Flash
Mary Ruefle - I Cannot Be Quiet an Hour
Rachel Zucker - Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?
Jean Valentine - In The Library, In Prison, Ghost Elephants,
Brittney Corrigan - I’m Trying to Find a Poem about Christmas that I actually like
(Rattle PoetsRespond)
Philip Schultz - Age Appropriate
Carl Dennis - A Landscape
Nancy Willard - The Vanity of the Dragonfly
(American Life in Poetry 665)
Joe Chelius - Stockboy
Taylor Mali - New of my divorce reminds me of your death
(from Rattle 2017 chapbook winner)
Matthew Yeager - Sonnet w/ Rose
Danez Smith - Tonight, in Oakland
A.E. Stallings - Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther
Milosz - Ars Poetica
Wesley McNair - My Mother’s Penmanship Lessons
Jim Daniels - Prodigal Son Returns To Warren, Michigan
Frank Bidart - Self-Portrait 1969
Robert Pinsky - Antique
John Freeman - Saudade
Sherman Alexie - The Powwow at the End of the World
Blas Manuel de Luna - Bent to the Earth
Rebecca Starks - Open Carry (Rattle: PoetsRespond)
Lois Parker Edstrom - Doing Dishes (American Life in Poetry 647)
Jill McDonough - Three a.m.
Aracelis Girmay - Consider the Hands that Write this Letter
Richard Blanco - Contemplations at the Virgin de la Caridad Cafeteria, Inc.
Pablo Neruda - A Dog Has Died
Natalie Eilbert - Afterlife
Kim Roberts - Pomology
Kim Addonizio - Scary Movies
Nickole Brown - A Prayer to Talk to Animals
Stephen Crane - In the Desert
Eugenia Leigh - This City
Erin Belieu - When I am a Teenage Boy (first appeared in Willow Springs 80 - 2017)
Tracy K Smith - Savior Machine
Li-Young Lee - Persimmons, Eating Together, I Ask My Mother to Sing
“Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.” -Li-Young Lee
Jane Kenyon - Gettysburg: July 1, 1863
Ali Liebegott - Hope
Martha Ronk - In a landscape of having to repeat
Ali Power - My Friends
Jennifer Moxley - Dividend of the Social Opt Out
Derek Walcott - The Fist
Hart Crane - Chaplinesque, A Name for All, My Grandmother’s Love Letters, Legend
Jericho Brown - The Tradition
Kwame Dawes - Coffee Break
Dorianne Laux - Enough Music
Safiya Sinclair - A Bell, Still Unrung
Amy Lowell - Granadilla
Robert Wrigley - Elk
Ishion Hutchinson - From the Peninsula Robert Morgan - Moving The Bees, Zircon Pit, Visitors, Spirit Level, School Ground, Mowing, Harrow
Stafford - A Ritual to Read to Each Other https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58264
Caron Andregg - THE THURSDAY NIGHT TRAP CLUB
Max Ritvo - Dawn of Man
Graham Foust - Time I’m Not Here
Susan Hutton - Atmospherics
Simic - Autumn Sky
Paula Bohince - Deer at Twilight (acrostic)
Robert Gibb - For the Chipmunk in My Yard, Coming into the Body
“why i don’t write poems about 9/11” by vicki iorio
Amit Majmudar - T.S.A., A Pedestrian, Rites to Allay the Dead, Ode to a Drone
Suzanne SImmons - After Eating Pizza at Your Grave (burntdistrict)
Francesca Bell - Domestic Failings (burntdistrict)
Denise Duhamel - Artistic Statement, The Bottom
Sally Bliumis-Dunn - Echolocation
Robin Coste Lewis - Summer
Marie Howe - The Last Time
BJ Ward - New Jersey
Maggie Smith - Good Bones, Harrowing
Linda Hogan - Innocence
@ the Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem by Juan Felipe Herrera
Gregory Djanikian - Immigrant Picnic (forgot about this one)
Mary Karr - All This And More
Susan Rich - Boketto
Bill Holm - Earbud, Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
Frank X Walker - Chest of Drawers
Keetje Kuipers - Prayer, I Will Away
Miriam Bird Greenberg - Long ago I heard footsteps
Vona Groarke - This Being Still, The Small Hours
Yehuda Amicahi - A Meeting With My Father
“My father knew I no longer prayed / And said, let’s play chess”
Ari Banias - A Sunset
Mark Vinz - The Way We Said Goodbye (on putting down a dog)
Prageeta Sharma - Contemporaries and Snobs
Cornelius Eady - A Small Moment
Elisabeth Eybers - Poet as Housewife
Mark Doty - Letter to God
Tess Gallagher - Black Silk, Choices
Danez Smith - Dinosaurs in the Hood
C.D. Wright - What Do You Think’s In The Shed?
(published by Oxford American 3 months after her death)
Brenda Hillman - Recycling Center
Kate Colby - Then-Wife
Anna Akhmatova - Willow
Lia Purpura - Solitude
Barbara Ras - Opportunity Costs, You Can’t Have It All
Ras - A Book Said Dream and I Do
Nicole Kocot - On My Sober Anniversary
Carlyn Pagel - Red Sky
Anne Bradshaw - To My Dear and Loving Husband
Adam Zagajewski - Try to Praise the Mutilated World, Mysticism for Beginners, En Route, Don’t Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve, Impossible Friendships
Jeffrey McRae - Cognitive Dissonance
Jennifer Franklin - The Philosopher Did Not Say
Jesse Graves - AM Radio, Reading Late
Vasko Popa
Eloise Klein Healy - Changing What We Mean,
Sandra Simonds - Ode to Country Music, Sorcery, Poem with Lines from Pierre Reverdy, For Joe
Christian Wiman - “This Inwardness, This Ice”
Emily Hunt - Dark Green (1st collection) - I was very angry, Property
Philip B. Williams - Of Darker Ceremonies, Speak
Ladan Osman - Tonight
RACHEL SHERWOOD
For the Both of Us - by David Trinidad
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/06/for-the-both-of-us/
Thadra Sheridan - When They Told Me You Had Died
Alice Notley - As Good As Anything
Gwendolyn Brooks - A Sunset of the City
Mark Strand - Lines for Winter, Black Maps, Coming To This
W.S. Merwin - Berryman
Nick Flynn - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Berryman - Dream Song 29
Sue Ellen Thompson - Wednesdays; No Children, No Pets
Aaron Smith - Still Life with Antidepressants, Like Him
Wanda Coleman - The Saturday Afternoon Blues
Jillian Weise - Biohack Manifesto, Future Biometrics
Joseph Stroud - Knots
Mary Jo Bang - Except for Being, It Was Relatively Painless
Heather McHugh - Debtor’s Prison Road, Language Lesson 1976, From the Towers, Dark View, Acts of God
Gary Snyder - Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Ron Padgett - The Japanese Garden
Idra Novey - Still Life with Invisible Canoe
Wendy Xu - The News, Praxis
Kathleen Jamie - The Dipper
Megan Fernandes - The Jungle
George Oppen - Leviathan
Wesley McNair - The Puppy
Countee Cullen - To the Swimmer
Asbery - And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
Ryan Black - Fragments of a Shooting Script
Sherwin Bitsui - [They inherit a packet of earth], ANWR, River
Donald Justice - “There is a gold light in certain old paintings”
Rebecca Wolff - Fronting
Jim Daniels - Short-order Cook, Last Night I Drove My Son Home
Jennifer L. Knox - Certainty Is Born often Pain, Name That Tune
Georgia Douglas Johnson - The Heart of a Woman
“the poetry lesson” by jackleen holton hookway (Rattle Poets Respond)
Katie Peterson - Enough (from The Accounts)
Through the Window of the All-Night Restaurant by Nicholas Christopher
Women's Prison Every Week BY JILL MCDONOUGH
Gottfried Benn (trans. Michael Hofmann) - A Shadow on the Wall
“Hype” by A.R. Ammons, Close-Up
There Are Birds Here by Jamaal May
Kwame Dawes - Coffee Break
Chase Twichell - Vestibule
Mark Strand - Lines for Winter
Joyce Sutphen - The Aunts
Matthea Harvey - Implications for Modern Life, In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden, The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away, Wac-A-Mole Realism™, Shiver & You Have Weather, The Future of Terror / 1, The Future of Terror / 5
Cynthia Huntington - The Length of the Hour, Multiple Sclerosis, Shot Up in the Sexual Revolution: The True Adventures of Suzy Creamcheese, Ghost, Curse Two: The Naming, Dirt Cowboy Cafe,
Charles Wright - Lullaby
George Bilgere - Living Will
Rachel Sherwood - Lock and Key, The Usual, Oblivion
Elizabeth Jennings - As the Rooks Are
Mark Irwin - Empire
“Mars and Venus” by Kathleen Diane Nolan
Michael Hofmann - Night, For Adam, The Years
Claudia Emerson - Frame, An Epistle
Louis Jenkins - Violence on Television
Katy Lederer - Attention Deficit
Liam Rector - About the Money - in APR Vol. 34, No. 5
David Kirby - This Magic Moment, More Than This
Terrance Hayes - Ode to Big Trend
Tyler Mills - “Mike” Test
Anne Sexton - The Truth The Dead Know, Her Kind, All My Pretty Ones, The Double Image
CK Williams - The Gaffe
Noel Coward - Nothing is Lost (his other work probably not so much)
Edward Field - People Who Eat in Coffee Shops
Updike - Island Cities
MARK HALLIDAY - Bad People, Location, Poetry Failure
Lawrence Raab - My Life Before I Knew It, Since You Asked, Dogs
Ron Koertge - Grand Avenue, 1989, Kryptonite
Amiri Baraka - Incident
Dana Levin - At the End of My Hours
Kim Dower - Bottled Water
Sina Queyras - Put Down That TV Tray
Robert Francis - Glass, Statement
Judy Ireland - Cement Shoes (chapbook)
Dean Young - Luciferin, Bird-Shaped Cliff
James Wright - Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Frank Bidart - Self-Portrait, 1969
Michael Burkard - Unappreciated Butterfly,
W.S. Di Piero - The Ash Bringer
Pinsky - Samurai Song
Michael Brokos - Listening to Nick Drake
Marie Howe - Hurry
Kenneth Koch - The Circus
Marilyn Hacker - Nights of 1964—1966: The Old Reliable
David Ignatow - All Quiet
Ellen Dore Watson - That was the Summer
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Travel
Sally Van Doren
Meg Day - What I Will Tell His Daughter When She’s Old Enough to Ask
Etheridge Knight - Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
E. Ethelbert Miller - Postcards, The Things in Black Men’s Closets
Evelyn Dunkan - Picking Up
James Galvin - Post-Modernism
Marvin Bell - Around Us
Gary Jackson - Nightcrawler buys a woman a drink, Emergency, Magneto Eyes Strange Fruit, Statement
Todd Davis - Tattoo, Accident, Veil
Natalie Shapero - Not Horses, The Sky (pub. in jubilat)
Russell Edson (1935-2014)
Carl Dennis
Hayden Saunier - Blind Spots, The last of it
Tom Wayman - Ontario poet - Routine, Mountain Elegy
Sally Bliumis-Dunn - Crossword
Donna Masini - Anxieties
Jeff Rath - Company Town
Barbara DeCesare - Silent Type (collection)
Dana Gioia - The Present, Thanks for Remembering Us, Money
Deborah Garrison - Worked Late on a Tuesday Night
Marge Piercy - The birthday of the world, Wisteria can pull down a house
Faith Shearin - Shackleton’s Decision, Natural Disasters, My Grandparents’ Generation, The Dog Watched Television, Retired, Blessing of the Animals, The Sound of a Train
Vera Pavlova
Carver - In the Lobby of the Hotel del Mayo, For Tess, Tomorrow, Grief
Sean Webb - Boxing the Daughters
Grant Clauser
Ernest Hilbert - AAA Vacation Guide
Anna M. Evans
Major Jackson - How to Listen, Saturdays in July
Jane Kenyon - Happiness
Donald Hall - The Things
Jane Hirshfield - In Space
Dorothea Lasky - The Enemy
Alden Nowlan - Great Things Have Happened, Day’s End, The Red Wool Shirt, The Jelly Bean Man, The Visitor, You Can’t Get There from Here, The Fox, The Execution, In the Hainesville Cemetery
Daisy Fried
Tom Hennen - The Life of a Day, At the Beginning of Winter, Love for Other Things
Jennifer Michael Hecht - On the Strength of All Conviction…, Gender Bender
Lucille Clifton - won't you celebrate with me
Kimiko Hahn
Philip Levine - The Two
Eavan Boland - Quarantine
Borges
Naomi Shihab Nye - The Art of Disappearing, The Yellow Glove, Famous
Tony Hoagland - Jason the Real
Ron Padgett - Flame Name
WS Merwin
Linda Pastan - Three Perfect Days
Corso - Power
Dickinson - LXIX “moonless”
Pound - The Pact
WCW - Pastoral (when i was younger)
Philip Nikolayev
Simic - Fork, The Vices of the Evening
Margaret Atwood - February
Randall Jarrell - The Death of the Ball Turret gunner
Natasha Tretheway
Larkin - The Mower, Sad Steps
WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA - No End of Fun, The Century’s Decline, Children of Our Age, Writing a Resume, Funeral, The Onion
Wendell Berry - The Vacation
May Sarton - April in Maine
Wendell Kees
Julia Harwig - Demand it Courageously
Linda Gregg
Jack Gilbert
David Bottoms - Shooting Rats at the Bibb County
Thomas Lux - It’s the Little Towns I Like, The People of the Other Village
Hayden Carruth
Maxine Kumin - How It Is
WS Merwin
Louise Gluck - Midsummer
William Stafford - Fifteen
Donald Justice
Kim Addonizio - Help
Dorianne Laux
Louise Erdrich - Advice to Myself
G.C. Waldrep - Who Will Play The Angel?