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From the Book
Poem in thanks / Thomas Lux --
How many nights / Galway Kinnell --
Welcome morning / Anne Sexton --
Psalm 23 / from The Bay Psalm Book --
At least / Raymond Carver --
Address to the Lord / John Berryman --
O karma, dharma, pudding and pie / Philip Appleman --
Psalm / Reed Whittemore --
Psalm 121 / Michael Wigglesworth --
When one has lived a long time alone / Galway Kinnell --
Home on the range / Anonymous --
What I want is / C. G. Hanzlicek --
Summer morning / Charles Simic --
Otherwise / Jane Kenyon --
Poem about morning / William Meredith --
Living / Denise Levertov --
Another spring / Kenneth Rexroth --
Morning person / Vassar Miller --
Routine / Arthur Guiterman --
Life of a day / Tom Hennen --
For my son, Noah, ten years old / Robert Bly --
I've known a heaven, like a tent / Emily Dickinson --
Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop --
Dilemma / David Budbill --
from Song of myself / Walt Whitman --
New Yorkers / Edward Field --
Soaking up sun / Tom Hennen --
Late hours / Lisel Mueller.
Scrambled eggs and whiskey / Hayden Carruth --
Mehitabel's song / Don Marquis --
Nightclub / Billy Collins --
Alley violinist / Robert Lax --
Cradle song / Jim Schley --
Her door / Mary Leader --
Pupil / Donald Justice --
Piano / D. H. Lawrence --
Instrument of choice / Robert Phillips --
Homage: doo-wop / Joseph Stroud --
Persistence of song / Howard Moss --
Ooly pop a cow / David Huddle --
Elevator music / Henry Taylor --
Grain of sound / Robert Morgan --
I will make you brooches / Robert Louis Stevenon --
Dance / C. K. Williams --
Investment / Robert Frost --
Dumka / B. H. Fairchild --
Green Street Mortuary marching band / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Poem to be read at 3 A.M. / Donald Justice --
Swimming pool / Thomas Lux --
Dostoevsky / Charles Bukowski --
After a movie / Henry Taylor --
Summer storm / Dana Gioia --
Woolworth's / Mark Irwin --
Worked late on a Tuesday night / Deborah Garrison --
Farmhouse / Reed Whittemore --
Wrist-wrestling father / Orval Lund --
Yorkshiremen in pub gardens / Gavin Ewart --
Noah / Roy Daniells.
Red, red rose / Robert Burns --
When I heard at the close of day / Walt Whitman --
First love / John Clare --
He wishes for the cloths of Heaven / W. B. Yeats --
Sonnet / C. B. Trail --
Politics / W. B. Yeats --
Magellan Street, 1974 / Maxine Kumin --
Animals / Frank O'Hara --
Lending out books / Hal Sirowitz --
Changed man / Robert Phillips --
Constant North / J. F. Hendry --
On the strength of all conviction and the stamina of love / Jennifer Michael Hecht --
Loft / Richard Jones --
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --
This is just to say / Erica-Lynn Gambino --
Venetian air / Thomas Moore --
Summer morning / Louis Simpson --
Comin thro' the rye / Robert Burns --
Topography / Sharon Olds --
Saturday morning / Hugo Williams --
Flight / Louis Jenkins --
At twenty-three weeks she can no longer see anything South of her belly / Thom Ward --
For the life of him and her / Reed Whittemore --
Romantics / Lisel Mueller --
Down in the valley / Anonymous --
Middle years / Walter McDonald --
Winter winds cold and blea... / John Clare --
Since feeling is first / E. E. Cummings --
Vergissmeinnicht / Keith Douglas --
Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
After the argument / Stephen Dunn --
Orange / Wendy Cope --
Susquehanna / Liz Rosenburg --
Farm wife / R. S. Thomas --
After fourty years of marriage, she tries a new recipe for hamburger hot dish / Leo Dangel --
Those who love / Sara Teasdale --
Quietly / Kenneth Rexroth --
For C.W.B. / Elizabeth Bishop --
Shorelines / Howard Moss --
Prayer for a marriage / Steve Scafidi --
Master speed / Robert Frost --
Bonnard's nudes / Raymond Carver.
Happiness / Raymond Carver --
Hoeing / John Updike --
Some details of Hebridean house construction / Thomas A. Clark --
Relations / Philip Booth --
What I learned from my mother / Julia Kasdorf --
To be of use / Marge Piercy --
No tool or rope or pail / Bob Arnold --
Ox cart man / Donald Hall --
Girl on a tractor / Joyce Sutphen --
Soybeans / Thomas Alan Orr --
Landing pattern / Philip Appleman --
Mae West / Edward Field --
Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder --
Masterworks of Ming / Kay Ryan --
Bess / Linda Pastan --
Little tooth / Thomas Lux --
Sonnet XXXVII / William Shakespeare --
Egg / C. G. Hanzlicek --
Rolls-Royce dreams / Ginger Adrews --
My life before I knew it / Lawrence Raab --
After work / Richard Jones --
I stop writing the poem / Tess Gallagher --
Franklin Hyde / Hilaire Belloc --
Manners / Elizabeth Bishop --
September, the first day of school / Howard Nemerov --
First lesson / Philip Booth --
Childhood / Barbara Ras --
Waving good-bye / Gerald Stern --
Family reunion / Maxine Kumin.
Primer of the daily round / Howard Nemerov --
Possessive case / Lisel Mueller --
Icelandic language / Bill Holm --
Fantastic names of jazz / Hayden Carruth --
Ode to the medieval poets / W. H. Auden --
Sweater weather / Sharon Bryan.
We grow accustomed to the dark
/
Emily Dickinson --
Ritual to read to each other / William Stafford --
Courage / Anne Sexton --
Sometimes / Sheenagh Pugh --
Leisure / W. H. Davies --
Way it is now / Charles Bukowski --
Secret life / Stephen Dunn --
Lost / David Wagoner --
Sonnet XXV / William Shakespeare --
Eel in the cave / Robert Bly --
Wild geese / Mary Oliver --
From the manifesto of the selfish / Stephen Dunn --
Hope / Lisel Mueller --
Three goals / David Budbill --
Vermeer / Howard Nemerov --
Repression / C. K. Williams --
Weather / Linda Pastan --
Moderation is not a negotiation of intensity, but helps avoid monotony / John Tagliabue --
Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson --
Props assist the house... / Emily Dickinson --
Little citizen, little survivor / Hayden Carruth --
Her first calf / Wendell Berry --
Bats / Randall Jarrell --
Riding lesson / Henry Taylor --
Walking the dog / Howard Nemerov --
Excrement poem / Maxine Kumin --
Stanza IV from Coming of age / Ursula Le Guin --
Destruction / Joanne Kyger --
How to see deer / Philip Booth --
Dog's death / John Updike --
Names of horses / Donald Hall --
Bison crossing near Mt. Rushmore / May Swenson.
Success is counted sweetest... / Emily Dickinson --
Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox --
First time I remember / Wendell Berry --
Our lady of the snows / Robert Hass --
British Museum reading room / Louise MacNeice --
Bare arms of trees / John Tagliabue --
Sailor / Geof Hewitt --
Place for everything / Louis Jenkins --
Feast / Robert Hass --
Nobody knows you / Jimmie Cox --
Last song / Charles Bukowski --
Forsaken wife / Elizabeth Thomas --
Confession / Stephen Dobyns --
Living in the body / Joyce Sutphen --
Tired as I can be / Bessie Jackson --
Iceberg theory / Gerald Locklin --
Manifesto : the mad farmer liberation front / Wendell Berry --
Bookmark / Tom Disch --
Poetry readings / Charles Bukowski --
Publication
is the auction... /
Emily Dickinson --
Once in the 40s / William Stafford --
lines from Moby Dick / Herman Melville --
Rain travel / W. S. Merwin --
Where we are / Gerald Locklin --
Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
On a tree fallen across the road / Robert Frost --
Walk along the old tracks / Robert Kinsley --
Passengers / Billy Collins --
Walloping window-blind / Charles Edward Carryl --
Vacation / Wendell Berry --
Directions / Joseph Stroud --
Postscript / Seamus Heaney --
Night journey / Theodore Roethke --
Waiting / Raymond Carver.
New Hampshire / Howard Moss --
To fight around... / Emily Dickinson --
December moon / May Sarton --
Year's end / Richard Stevens --
Snow man / Wallace Stevens --
January / Baron Wormser --
In celebration of survivng / Chuck Miller --
Her long illness / Donald Hall --
Requiescat / Oscar Wilde --
Sixth of January / David Budbill --
Not only Eskimos / Lisel Mueller --
Boy at the window / Richard Wilbur --
Winter poem / Frederick Morgan --
Lester tells of Wanda and the big snow / Paul Zimmer --
Old boards / Robert Bly --
March blizzard / John Tagliabue --
Elvis kissed me / T. S. Kerrigan --
Stepping out of poetry / Gerald Stern --
I shall keep singing! / Emily Dickinson --
Song to onions / Roy Blount, Jr. --
O luxury / Guy W. Longchamps --
Coming / Kenneth Rexroth --
Light left on / May Sarton --
Yellow slicker / Stuart Dischell --
First kiss / April Lindner --
Music one looks back on / Stephen Dobyns --
In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day / X. J. Kennedy --
Who's who / W. H. Auden --
Portrait / Stanley Kunitz --
Parable of the four-poster / Erica Jong --
Ed / Louis Simpson --
Memory / Hayden Carruth --
Lazy / David Lee --
Testimonial / Harry Newman, Jr. --
Cathedral builders / John Ormond --
Village burglar / Anonymous --
Scandal / Robert Bly --
At last the secret is out / W. H. Auden --
Night light / Kate Barnes --
Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous.
I go back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds --
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
Those old liberators / Roberd Hedin --
To my mother / Wendell Berry --
Working in the rain / Robert Morgan --
Birthday card to my mother / Philip Appleman --
Yesterday / W. S. Merwin --
No map / Stephen Dobyns --
My mother / Robert Mezey --
When my dead father called / Robert Bly --
August third / May Sarton --
Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Authorship / James B(all) Naylor --
Young and old / Charles Kingsley --
Shifting the sun / Diana Der-Hovanessian --
When I am asked / Lisel Mueller --
Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
My mother said... / Donald Hall --
Departures / Linda Pastan --
As befits a man / Langston Hughes --
Sunt leones / Stevie Smith --
Perfection wasted / John Updike --
Eleanor's letters / Donald Hall --
Death and the turtle / May Sarton --
Four poems in one / Anne Porter --
Titanic / David R. Slavitt --
Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna / Charles Wolfe --
Kaddish / David Ignatow --
Twilight: after haying / Jane Kenyon --
For the anniversary of my death / W. S. Merwin --
from Old Italians dying / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Street ballad / George Barker --
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon --
Fourty-five / Hayden Carruth --
Blessing / James Wright --
Holy Thrusday / William Blake --
lines from Walden / Henry David Thoreau --
Peace of wild things / Wendell Berry --
From blossoms / Li-Young Lee --
First green of spring / David Budbill --
Here / Grace Paley --
Lives of the heart / Jane Hirshfield --
Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Fishing in the keep of silence / Linda Gregg.
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