Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters --
Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
The creation / James Weldon Johnson --
Life's tragedy / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
The death of the hired man --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening --
Directive / Robert Frost --
From Tender buttons : A box ; A plate / Gertrude Stein --
I sit and sew / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson --
Cahoots / Carl Sandburg --
Peter Quince at the Clavier --
Disillusionment of ten o'clock --
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird --
The emperor of ice-cream --
Of mere being / Wallace Stevens --
Fragment / Angelina Weld Grimké --
From Asphodel, that greeny flower (book I, lines 1-92) / William Carlos Williams --
There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale
The jewel stairs' grievance --
The river-merchants' wife: a letter --
In a station of the metro --
From Canto LXXXI (Libretto: "Yet / Ere the season died a-cold") / Ezra Pound --
From The walls do not fall : 1 ("An incident here and there") --
From Hermetic definition: "Red rose and a beggar" : 1 ("Why did you come") ; 2 ("Take me anywhere") ; 5 ("Venice
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) --
Shine, perishing republic --
Credo / Robinson Jeffers --
Poetry / Marianne Moore --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock --
The waste land / T.S. Eliot --
The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay --
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish --
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls --
next to of course god america i --
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond --
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings --
November cotton flower --
Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer --
New moon / Louise Bogan --
From Harlem gallery: Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table...") / Melvin B. Tolson --
From The bridge [excerpts] : Proem : To Brooklyn Bridge ; From II : Powhatan's daughter : The river / Hart Crane --
Silent poem / Robert Francis
The Negro speaks of rivers --
Harlem / Langston Hughes --
To John Keats, poet, at spring time --
From the dark tower / Countee Cullen --
Touch me / Stanley Kunitz --
Epitaph on a tyrant / W.H. Auden --
In a dark time / Theodore Roethke --
From The maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you --
The distances / Charles Olson --
First death in Nova Scotia --
Visits to St. Elizabeths --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday --
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden --
Effort at speech between two people --
Then I saw what the calling was --
The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser --
The heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz --
From The dream songs : 4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.") ; 29 ("There sat down, once") ; 149 ("This world is gradually becoming a place") --
Henry's understanding / John Berryman --
The death of the ball turret gunner --
The woman at the Washington Zoo --
Next day / Weldon Kees --
A different image / Dudley Randall --
Traveling through the dark --
At the bomb testing site / William Stafford
For my people / Margaret Walker --
A song in the front yard --
The lovers of the poor --
The blackstone rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks --
"To speak of woe that is in marriage" --
For the union dead / Robert Lowell --
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow --
My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan --
Populist manifesto / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Parents / William Meredith --
Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Howard Nemerov --
The hyacinth garden in Brooklyn --
August 1945 / Hayden Carruth --
Love calls us to the things of this world --
The winter / Richard Wilbur --
The sheep child / James Dickey --
Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan --
"More light! more light!" / Anthony Hecht --
Degrees of gray in Philipsburg --
The freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo --
Swan in falling snow / Denise Levertov --
American poetry / Louis Simpson --
A muse of water / Carolyn Kizer --
Permanently / Kenneth Koch
How it is / Maxine Kumin --
Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern --
Corsons Inlet / A.R. Ammons --
Snowfall in the afternoon --
Driving to town late to mail a letter --
Waking from sleep / Robert Bly --
Bresson's movies / Robert Creeley --
The victor dog / James Merrill --
Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") --
The day Lady died / Frank O'Hara --
Self-portrait in a convex mirror --
What is poetry / John Ashbery --
After making love we hear footsteps --
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --
For the anniversary of my death --
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio --
Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota --
In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright --
Animals are passing from our lives --
The simple truth / Philip Levine --
In celebration of my uterus --
A valediction forbidding mourning --
From Twenty-one love poems : XIII ("The rules break like a thermometer...") / Adrienne Rich
Marriage / Gregory Corso --
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Gary Snyder --
From The schooner : Flight (part 11, After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows...") --
The light of the world --
From Omeros, Book VII, LXIV, i ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son...") / Derek Walcott --
Let me tell you / Miller Williams --
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight --
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note --
Black art / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) --
A final sonnet / Ted Berrigan --
poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez --
The night, the porch / Mark Strand --
A stone is nobody's / Russell Edson --
The summer day / Mary Oliver --
California dreaming / Charles Wright --
[at last we killed the roaches] --
the death of fred clifton --
to my last period / Lucille Clifton --
Poem about my rights / June Jordan --
Blades / C.K. Williams --
The mechanic / Diane Wakoski --
Dear John, Dear Coltraine --
Last affair : Bessie's blues song --
Nightmare begins responsibility / Michael S. Harper --
Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic --
Grandmother / Paula Gunn Allen --
Ellen West / Frank Bidart --
Two or three wishes / Carl Dennis --
Samurai song / Robert Pinsky --
Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch --
Introduction to poetry --
The dead / Billy Collins --
The Weakness / Toi Derricotte --
Lullaby / Stephen Dobyns --
The return of Robinson Jeffers / Robert Hass --
From My life : A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Lyn Hejinian --
The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / B.H. Fairchild --
But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights --
A poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) --
In memory of the Utah stars --
The accompanist / William Matthews
The language of the brag --
The lifting / Sharon Olds --
Barbed wire / Henry Taylor --
Under stars / Tess Gallagher --
I do not / Michael Palmer --
The lost pilot / James Tate --
Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear --
The funeral / Norman Dubie --
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Winter stars / Larry Lewis --
Looking for Judas / Adrian C. Louis --
The people of the other village / Thomas Lux --
The ballad of Aunt Geneva --
Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson --
Nude interrogation / Yusef Komonyakaa --
Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Nathaniel Mackey --
Gathering the bones together --
Two lines from the Brothers Grimm --
Origin of the marble forest / Gregory Orr --
Reaching Yellow River / Roberta Hill Whiteman --
What he thought / Heather McHugh --
In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Calypso / Olga Broumas --
Latin & soul / Victor Hernández Cruz --
Miami heart / Jane Miller --
Why Ralph refuses to dance --
Crescent / C.D. Wright --
Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché --
San Sepolcro / Jorie Graham --
What the living do / Marie Howe --
My house is the red earth / Joy Harjo --
The legend / Garrett Hongo --
We were simply talking / Andrew Hudgins --
Imagining their own hymns --
Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
The throwback / Paul Muldoon --
Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed --
Claudette Colvin goes to work / Rita Dove --
Our calling / Alice Fulton --
Unholy sonnet 13 / Mark Jarman --
Wedding cake / Naomi Shihab Nye --
England finally, like my mother always said we would / Alberto Ríos --
The unfinished / Laurie Sheck --
Black hair / Gary Soto --
The forest / Susan Stewart --
Bill's story / Mark Doty --
Black Nikes / Harryette Mullen --
Alcohol / Franz Wright --
"Love of my flesh, living death" / Lorna Dee Cervantes --
Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros --
Jack Johnson does the eagle rock --
Crows in a strong wind --
I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady --
Indian Boarding School : The runaways / Louise Erdrich --
Spooning / David Mason --
Composed near the Bay Bridge --
The survivor / Marilyn Chin --
The youngest daughter / Cathy Song --
Eating together / Li-young Lee
As from a quiver of arrows / Carl Phillips --
Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn --
Affirmative action blues (1993) --
Equinox / Elizabeth Alexander --
From White elephants : A million balconies ; Train windows / Reetika Vazirani --
What the orphan inherits --
The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie --
Flounder / Natasha Trethewey --
The tantrum / A.E. Stallings --
Your one good dress / Brenda Shaughnessy --
Everywhere is out of town --
Whatever you want / Kevin Young --
Lady sings the blues / Terrance Hayes.
