Contemporary Poetry


from A Century of Epigrams	J. V. Cunningham
A Sort of a Song	William Carlos Williams
The Ache of Marriage	Denise Levertov
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	Emily Dickinson
The Anecdote of the Jar	Wallace Stevens
Ariel	Sylvia Plath
The Assassination	Donald Justice
Beggars and Kings	W. S. Merwin
Beginning	James Wright
The Blindman's Song	Ranier Maria Rilke
Choosing to Think of It	Stephen Dunn
Concerning the Stone	Gregory Orr
Cool Tombs	Carl Sandburg
Daddy	Sylvia Plath
Death	W. B. Yeats
Design	Robert Frost
Desire	Mary Mackey
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	Wallace Stevens
from The Dream Song	John Berryman
Eating Poetry	Mark Strand
Edge	Sylvia Plath
Elm	Sylvia Plath
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	Wallace Stevens
The End of the World	Archibald MacLeish
An Everlasting Once	Theodore Weiss
Everywoman Her Own Theology	Alicia Ostriker
from The Female Man	Joanna Russ
Fever 103 deg	Sylvia Plath
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost
For the Anniversary of My Death	W. S. Merwin
For the Dead	Adrienne Rich
From An Atlas of a Difficult World	Adrienne Rich
From a Survivor	Adrienne Rich
Giving Myself Up	Mark Strand
Habitation	Margaret Atwood
The Having to Love Something Else	Russell Edson
He Held Radical Light	A. R. Ammons
Her Kind	Anne Sexton
The Hollow Men	T. S. Eliot
How Many Devils Can Dance on the Point	D. J. Enright
The Human Animal	Jane Mayhall
The Idea of Order at Key West	Wallace Stevens
The Illiterate	William Meredith
In a Classroom	Adrienne Rich
In a Dark Time	Theodore Roethke
In a Station of the Metro	Ezra Pound
In those years	Adrienne Rich
Intrusion	Denise Levertov
Lady Lazarus	Sylvia Plath
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot
Lullaby	W. H. Auden
Meditations in an Emergency	Frank O'Hara
the mirror poems	Toi Derricotte
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath
My Friend, My Friend	Anne Sexton
My life closed twice before its close	Emily Dickinson
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes
Next Day	Randall Jarrell
Not Waving But Drowning	Stevie Smith
Objets D'Art	C. Macdonald
Piano	D. H. Lawrence
Poetry	Marianne Moore
Poppies in October	Sylvia Plath
Prospective Immigrants Please Note	Adrienne Rich
The Rat's Tight Schedule	Russell Edson
The Real Inspector	John Allman
Recipe for an Ocean in the Absence of the Sea	Richard Howard
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire,	Dylan Thomas
The Remains	Mark Strand
The Room	Mark Strand
The Second Coming	W. B. Yeats
The Snow Man	Wallace Stevens
Some Last Questions	W. S. Merwin
Song of Myself	Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest	Emily Dickinson
A Supermarket in California	Allen Ginsberg
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Wallace Stevens
To My Wife	J. V. Cunningham
Tract	William Carlos Williams
The Truth the Dead Know	Anne Sexton
from Two Songs	Adrienne Rich
Wait	Galway Kinnell
The Waking	Theodore Roethke
We Real Cool	Gwendolyn Brooks
The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine	John Haines
Why I Am Not a Painter	Frank O'Hara
winter solstice	Unknown

Variation on a Theme by Rilke	Denise Levertov
Zeroing In	Denise Levertov