Adcock, Fleur — For A Five-Year-Old
Anonymous — Down in the Valley
Anonymous — Ten Legs, Eight Broken
Appleman, Phillip — Untitled (“Oh Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie”)
Arnold, Bob — No Tool or Rope or Pail
Auden, W. H. — Song
Auden, W. H. — Who’s Who
Auden, W. H. — At Last The Secret Is Out
Baer, William — Snowflake
Balakian, Peter — Here and Now
Barker, George — Street Ballad
Bass, Ellen — The Thing Is
Berry, Wendell — Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Berry, Wendell — The Vacation
Bishop, Elizabeth — Manners (for a Child of 1918)
Bishop, Elizabeth — One Art
Blake, William — Proverbs of Hell
Bly, Robert — Calling Your Father
Booth, Philip — A Man in Maine
Booth, Philip — First Lesson
Budbill, David — Dilemma
Budbill, David — The Sixth of January
Bukowski, Charles — Con Job
Bukowski, Charles — The Last Song
Bukowski, Charles — Oh, Yes
Bukowski, Charles — Poetry Readings
Bukowski, Charles — The Laughing Heart
Calvocoressi, Gabrielle — Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.
Carruth, Hayden — Little Citizen, Little Survivor
Carver, Raymond — At Least
Carver, Raymond — Bonnard’s Nudes
Carver, Raymond — Happiness
Carver, Raymond — The Waiting
Carver, Raymond — My Dad’s Wallet
Carver, Raymond — Rain
Cecil, Richard — Internal Exile
Collins, Billy — Passengers
Collins, Billy — The Parade
Collins, Billy — Nightclub
Cope, Wendy — The Orange
Coward, Noel — Nothing is Lost
Cox, Jimmie — Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Crooker, Barbara — Ordinary Life
Crooker, Barbara — In The Middle
Cummings, e. e. — i carry your heart with me
Davies, W. H. — Leisure
Davis, Althea — Kinder Than Man
De La Mare, Walter — I Met At Eve
Dennis, Carl — Invitation
Dickinson, Emily — Untitled (“Success is counted sweetest”)
Dischell, Stuart — The Yellow Slicker
Dobyns, Stephen — The Music One Looks Back On
Dobyns, Stephen — No Map
Donne, John — For Whom The Bell Tolls
Dove, Rita — Dawn Revisited
Dunn, Stephen — The Unsaid
Dunn, Stephen — A Secret Life
Ellmann, R. J. — To a Frustrated Poet
Fairchild, B. H. — The Dumka
Fenton, James — In Paris With You
Field, Edward — Death Mask
Friend, Robert — My Cup
Frost, Robert — Unharvested
Frost, Robert — The Investment
Frost, Robert — On A Tree Fallen Across The Road (To Hear Us Talk)
Gilbert, Jack — A Brief For The Defense
Gilbert, W. S. — Bunthorne's Song
Gioia, Dana — Summer Storm
Greenway, William — Theater
Guiterman, Arthur — Routine
Hall, Donald — Last Days
Hall, Donald — Affirmation
Hall, Donald — Her Long Illness
Hamby, Barbara — Ode to American English
Hanzlicek, C. G. — What I Want Is
Hanzlicek, C. G. — Egg
Harrison, Jim — Easter Morning
Hass, Robert — The Feast
Hayden, Robert — Those Winter Sundays
Hecht, Jennifer Michael — On The Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love
Hennen, Tom — The Life of a Day
Hennen, Tom — Soaking Up Sun
Henson, Keaton — Grow Up With Me
Henson, Keaton — I'm With You
Henson, Keaton — The Pugilist
Henson, Keaton — Polite Plea
Henson, Keaton — Smoke Signals
Hewitt, Geof — The Sailor
Hicok, Bob — Calling Him Back From Layoff
Hoagland, Tony — Disappointment
Holm, Bill — Wedding Poem for Schele and Phil
Holm, Bill — The Icelandic Language
Holmes, Meredith — In Praise of My Bed
Housman, A. E. — Into my heart an air that kills
Howe, Marie — What the Living Do
Ignatow, David — For My Daughter In Reply To A Question
Irwin, Mark — Woolworth’s
Jenkins, Louis — Diner
Jong, Erica — Parable of the Four-Poster
Justice, Donald — Poems to Be Read at 3 A.M.
Kasdorf, Julia — What I Learned From My Mother
Kennedy, X. J. — The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything From Happening At Once
Kenyon, Jane — Otherwise
Kinsley, Robert — A Walk Along The Old Tracks
Kooser, Ted — Spiral Notebook
Kowit, Steve — The Prodigal Son's Brother
Kumin, Maxine — After Love
Kumin, Maxine — Morning Swim
Kunitz, Stanley — The Portrait
Larkin, Philip — Sad Steps
Larkin, Philip — The Trees
Larkin, Philip — This Be The Verse
Lax, Robert — Alley Violinist
Laux, Dorianne — Facts About the Moon
Leader, Mary — Her Door
Light, Kate — There Comes The Strangest Moment
Locklin, Gerald — No Longer a Teenager
Locklin, Gerald — The Iceberg Theory
Locklin, Gerald — Where We Are
Longchamps, Guy W. — Oh Luxury
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth — The Meeting
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth — Excelsior
Lund, Orval — Wrist-Wrestling Father
Lux, Thomas — The Swimming Pool
Marquis, Don — Lesson of the Moth
McDonald, Walter — The Middle Years
McDougall, Jo — Upon Hearing About The Suicide of the Daughter of Friends
McNair, Wesley — The Future
Merwin, W. S. — Berryman
Merwin, W. S. — Yesterday
Millay, Edna St. Vincent — The Courage My Mother Had
Morgan, Robert — Working in the Rain
Morgan, Robert — White Autumn
Mueller, Lisel — Late Hours
Mueller, Lisel — Romantics
Mueller, Lisel — Hope
Mueller, Lisel — Not Only The Eskimos
Nash, Ogden — Old Men Poem
Nash, Ogden — To My Valentine
Nathan, Leonard — Toast
Nemerov, Howard — To David, About His Education
Nemerov, Howard — September, The First Day of School
Neruda, Pablo — Sonnet XVIII (I Love You Without Knowing How)
Newman Jr., Harry — Testimonial
O’Hara, Frank — Animals
Olds, Sharon — The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away From the Curb
Oliver, Mary — Everything
Oliver, Mary — Spring
Oliver, Mary — When Death Comes
Orr, Gregory — How Lucky We Are That You Can't Sell A Poem
Orr, Thomas Allen — Soy Beans
Padgett, Ron — Love Cook
Paley, Grace — Here
Pastan, Linda — It Is Raining On The House of Anne Frank
Pastan, Linda — Weather
Phillips, Robert — Instrument of Choice
Phillips, Robert — The Changed Man
Piercy, Marge — To Be Of Use
Plath, Sylvia — Mad Girl’s Love Song
Pugh, Sheenagh — Sometimes
Raab, Lawrence — Since You Asked
Raab, Lawrence — My Life Before I Knew It
Ras, Barbara — Childhood
Ras, Barbara — You Can’t Have It All
Rexroth, Kenneth — A Dialogue of Watching
Rexroth, Kenneth — A Singing Voice
Rilke, Rainer Maria — Love Song
Robinson, Lee — Rules of Evidence
Rosenberg, Liz — Susquehanna
Sandburg, Carl — A Million Young Workmen, 1915
Sarah, Robyn — Riveted
Sarton, May — Death and the Turtle
Scafidi, Steve — Prayer for a Marriage
Sexton, Anne — Courage
Sexton, Anne — Welcome Morning
Shakespeare, William — Sonnet CVI
Shumate, David — Passing Through A Small Town
Shumate, David — Teaching a Child the Art of Confession
Shumate, David — High Water Mark
Simic, Charles — The Altar
Simic, Charles — Summer Morning
Simpson, Louis — Ed
Sirowitz, Hal — The Benefits of Ignorance
Sirowitz, Hal — Lending Out Books
Snyder, Gary — Hay for the Horses
Spark, Muriel — The Three Kings
Spencer, Debra — At the Arraignment
Stafford, William — A Ritual to Read to Each Other
Stafford, William — Once In The Forties
Stern, Gerald — Stepping Out Of Poetry
Stevenson, Robert Louis — Where Go The Boats
Stroud, Joseph — Homage: Doo-Wop
Sutphen, Joyce — Living in the Body
Swenson, May — All That Time
Tagliabue, John — Moderation is Not a Negotiation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony
Tagliabue, John — March Blizzard
Tichborne, Chidiock — Tichborne’s Elegy
Traditional — Rye Whiskey
Trudell, Dennis — My Father Gets Up In The Middle of the Night to Watch an Old Movie
Updike, John — Dogs Death
Updike, John — Perfection Wasted
Walter, Howard Arnold — I Would Be True
Wilbur, Richard — Boy At The Window
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler — Solitude
Williams, Miller — Poem For Emily
Woloch, Cecilia — Slow Children
Yeats, W. B. — He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Zimmer, Paul — Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow
