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

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