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Poetry Daily Archive — Indexed by Date
[Note: our daily poems are archived for one year from first appearance on PD]
August 20, 2006 (Sunday): Kimbrell, James.
The Gulf — "On the fourth birthday of your afterlife"
August 19, 2006 (Saturday): Boutelle, Annie.
My Skittish Scottish Accent — "Where do you hide? Why do you leap"
August 18, 2006 (Friday): Harrison, Jeffrey.
The Names of Things — "Just after breakfast and still"
August 17, 2006 (Thursday): Bonnefoy, Yves / tr. Torracinta, Pascale & Thomas, Harry.
Hopkins Forest — "I'd gone out"
August 16, 2006 (Wednesday): Hart, Henry.
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged — "If you practice, the New Age guru said,"
August 15, 2006 (Tuesday): Sweeney, Matthew.
Two Poems — "Zero Hour" and "The Transformed House"
August 14, 2006 (Monday): McNair, Wesley.
That Nothing — "In the moment"
August 13, 2006 (Sunday): Cording, Robert.
Luther and the Devil — "Someone once remarked the medieval air"
August 12, 2006 (Saturday): Raab, Lawrence.
The Uninvited — "There are two ghosts in the house"
August 11, 2006 (Friday): McNair, Wesley.
As I Am — "Behind my false beard"
August 10, 2006 (Thursday): Selby, Spencer.
Fidelity — "Through firm resolve"
August 9, 2006 (Wednesday): Manguso, Sarah.
Asking for More — "I am not asking to suffer less."
August 8, 2006 (Tuesday): McFadden, Kevin.
Tomfoolery, Seventeen — "Too shy for girls, yet there they were,"
August 7, 2006 (Monday): Becker, Robin.
Sound View — "Like driftwood,"
August 6, 2006 (Sunday): Peterson, Allan.
How Folklore Starts — "It was during the year when masterpiece was not impossible"
August 5, 2006 (Saturday): Millar, Joseph.
Lyrical — "The spaniel next door yaps at the sparrows,"
August 4, 2006 (Friday): Sideris, Hilary.
Good — "Report card B, commodity, food"
August 3, 2006 (Thursday): DeFrees, Madeline.
Two Poems — "Broken Sleep" and "The Visionary under the Knife"
August 2, 2006 (Wednesday): Goldbarth, Albert.
Danielle Suite — "The real story is: that they"
August 1, 2006 (Tuesday): Roeser, Dana.
What Did the Children Know and When Did They Know It? — "I kept the secret well."
July 31, 2006 (Monday): Goedicke, Patricia.
Cheap — "Yesterday drinking too much cheap white wine,"
July 30, 2006 (Sunday): Watson, Ellen Doré.
Sunday Morning — "The mullah wore beautiful shoes"
July 29, 2006 (Saturday): de Coninck, Herman / tr. Bosselaar, Laure-Anne and Brown, Kurt.
Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls... — "Just as this island belongs to the gulls,"
July 28, 2006 (Friday): Parini, Jay.
Aristotle in the Middle Ages — "They came from everywhere to that long table"
July 27, 2006 (Thursday): Plumly, Stanley.
Autumnal — "Not long before she died my mother told me"
July 26, 2006 (Wednesday): Jarman, Mark.
Mother's Friend — "We stopped by and she greeted us so happily,"
July 25, 2006 (Tuesday): Loden, Rachel.
What the Gravedigger Needs — "overalls"
July 24, 2006 (Monday): McHenry, Eric.
Two Poems — "The Novel" and "Figurative North Topeka"
July 23, 2006 (Sunday): McGrath, Campbell.
Two Poems — "Hiroshige" and "Eclogue"
July 22, 2006 (Saturday): Budy, Andrea Hollander.
Woman in the Painting — "Her face has disappeared. This happens"
July 21, 2006 (Friday): Young, Dean.
Sean Penn Anti-Ode — "Must Sean Penn always look like he's squeezing"
July 20, 2006 (Thursday): Macari, Anne Marie.
Mozart's Requiem — "That night in Prague I dreamed singing, lacrimosa,"
July 19, 2006 (Wednesday): Stein, Kevin.
Postcard to Henry James — "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here..."
July 18, 2006 (Tuesday): Armantrout, Rae.
Versed — "The self-monitoring function"
July 17, 2006 (Monday): Hill, Barry.
Two Poems — "Love in the Afternoon" and "Mother""
July 16, 2006 (Sunday): Barber, David.
To the Trespasser — "A quiet akin to ruins —"
July 15, 2006 (Saturday): Beachy-Quick, Dan.
"east east the great lake" — "east east the great lake"
July 14, 2006 (Friday): O'Driscoll, Dennis.
All Over Ireland — "What's general all over Ireland is definitely not snow. Sandbag-"
July 13, 2006 (Thursday): Pekarske, Nicole.
Decadence — "is the houses we might have lived in,"
July 12, 2006 (Wednesday): Jones, Patricia Spears.
Two Poems — "Ghosts" and "Belissima"
July 11, 2006 (Tuesday): Maxwell, Glyn.
Suddenly Signs — "Suddenly signs along the way were new,"
July 10, 2006 (Monday): Greger, Debora.
Too Close — "I haven't met you yet. I'm out the door,"
July 9, 2006 (Sunday): Webb, Charles Harper.
Modern Miracles — "Saints no longer levitate at vespers, keening"
July 8, 2006 (Saturday): Broughton, T. Alan.
Song for Sampson — "What did we do for Sampson our cat?"
July 7, 2006 (Friday): McFadden, Kevin.
Ad Tacitum: Renderings from Tacitus — "To relate a few facts... without bitterness or partiality..."
July 6, 2006 (Thursday): Kirchwey, Karl.
Chases in Arras — "At a B&B in sober Ocean Grove"
July 5, 2006 (Wednesday): Nilsson, Kathy.
Furniture of the World — "Seeing birds flush, you fall to your knees."
July 4, 2006 (Tuesday): Pastan, Linda.
Zephyr — "The three slender poplar trees"
July 3, 2006 (Monday): Ball, Jesse.
Missive in an Icelandic Room 3 — "Clever remarks were no good,"
July 2, 2006 (Sunday): Bitting, Michelle.
Sacrament — "Sometimes when I lift the chalice"
July 1, 2006 (Saturday): Webb, Charles Harper.
The New World Book of Webbs — "The brochure shows a boat passing the Statue of Liberty"
June 30, 2006 (Friday): Chitwood, Michael.
Take Comfort Where You Can — "Not for nothing"
June 29, 2006 (Thursday): Tolides, Tryfon.
Three Poems — "Immigrant," "Almond Tree," "I Will Sleep"
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday): Stallings, A. E.
Olives — "Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet,"
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday): Heatter, Virginia M.
Autopsy — "This is the sky where it meets"
June 26, 2006 (Monday): Henry, Brian.
from Quarantine — "By the time the sun touched the grass"
June 25, 2006 (Sunday): Kiesselbach, Dore.
Quail — "Going where the car"
June 24, 2006 (Saturday): Zavatsky, Bill.
Monologue — "Thank you, but since you"
June 23, 2006 (Friday): Hernandez, David.
Proof — "Once he wrestled a bear, he said,"
June 22, 2006 (Thursday): Hicok, Bob.
The evolving landscape — "The high acres belong to grass, the farmer"
June 21, 2006 (Wednesday): Grennan, Eamon.
Turtle and Two Girls — "Sun-glossed blunt head of a turtle over water."
June 20, 2006 (Tuesday): Cooley, Peter.
Little Immortality Poem — "Alone among animals"
June 19, 2006 (Monday): Mehigan, Joshua.
Two Poems — "Cold Turkey" and "The Sponge"
June 18, 2006 (Sunday): Wenthe, William.
Groucho and Tom — "Tom, with a bitter twist"
June 17, 2006 (Saturday): Buckley, Christopher.
Travel — "I have never been to Buenos Aires or Juan-les-Pins"
June 16, 2006 (Thursday): Revell, Donald.
My Name Is Donald — "Like a fish on a hedge, the horsefly"
June 15, 2006 (Thursday): Lindsay, Nina.
A house at a crossroad, beside a grove, composes another house to take as a husband — "I made him appear"
June 14, 2006 (Wednesday): Boruch, Marianne.
At the Same Time — "An annotated list: rain, not"
June 13, 2006 (Tuesday): McMichael, James.
The British Countryside in Pictures — "The frontispiece fixes as"
June 12, 2006 (Monday): Longenbach, James.
Self and Soul — "When you reach the cliffs"
June 11, 2006 (Sunday): Kane, Joan.
Building the Boats — "Yellow-lit beneath stretched"
June 10, 2006 (Saturday): Kwasny, Melissa.
Berries — "In the painting Gabrielle d'Estrees"
June 9, 2006 (Friday): Johnson, Amaud Jamaul.
Elaine, 1919 — "four men, businessmen, down"
June 8, 2006 (Thursday): Balaban, John.
If Only — "Their cottage sat on a grassy bluff"
June 7, 2006 (Wednesday): Frost, Carol.
To Fishermen — "No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the backbone"
June 6, 2006 (Tuesday): Levin, Dana.
Spring — "The sun, in shafts and spades."
June 5, 2006 (Monday): Wei, Wang / tr. Hinton, David.
9/9, Thinking of My Brothers East of the Mountains — "Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign"
June 4, 2006 (Sunday): Prunty, Wyatt.
Lincoln's Tunnel — "Born during war, I slept by rivers,"
June 3, 2006 (Saturday): Lyons, Richard.
Granite from Sugar Water — "On 'Purple Shades,' to Johnny Griffin's sax,"
June 2, 2006 (Thursday): Hopler, Jay.
Feast of the Ascension, 2004. Planting Hibiscus — "From being to being an idea, nothing comes through that intact."
June 1, 2006 (Thursday): Allen, Dick.
On Tenterhooks — "Suspense seldom kills, but too often"
May 31, 2006 (Wednesday): Gibson, Margaret.
Fuel — "I am, said the voice in the oil spill of rainbow radiance,"
May 30, 2006 (Tuesday): Heaney, Seamus.
Two Poems — "The Nod" and "A Clip"
May 29, 2006 (Monday): Kronen, Steve.
The Wide World — "Moses in the bulrushes, lost, the clouds"
May 28, 2006 (Sunday): White, Michael.
Study — "Unseasonable January's"
May 27, 2006 (Saturday): Hadas, Rachel.
The Nosebleed — "Waiting for a Bennington light to change, I"
May 26, 2006 (Friday): Bonnefoy, Yves / tr. Rogers, Hoyt.
Let This World Endure — "I right a broken branch."
May 25, 2006 (Thursday): McGrath, Campbell.
Two Poems — "Philadelphia" and "Two Poems for Frank O'Hara"
May 24, 2006 (Wednesday): Rosser, J. Allyn.
Two Poems — "Gym Dance with the Doors Wide Open" and "The Smell of Rat Rubs Off"
May 23, 2006 (Tuesday): Pinsky, Robert.
Pliers — "What is the origin of this despair I feel"
May 22, 2006 (Monday): Grennan, Eamon.
A Thrush by Utamaro — "Although it looks the picture of perfect balance..."
May 21, 2006 (Sunday): Taylor, Henry.
A Crosstown Breeze — "A drift of wind"
May 20, 2006 (Saturday): Bachmann, Ingeborg / tr. Filkins, Peter.
[I Step Outside Myself] — I step outside"
May 19, 2006 (Friday): McCombs, Davis.
The Elgin Marbles — "When Elgin contemplates"
May 18, 2006 (Thursday): White, Michael.
"Plat à Décor — "Whatever my expectations coming here —"
May 17, 2006 (Wednesday): Erba, Luciano / tr. Snodgrass, Ann.
Without a Compass — "According to Darwin, I should be extinct."
May 16, 2006 (Tuesday): Creeley, Robert.
Two Poems — "Talking" and "Valentine for You"
May 15, 2006 (Monday): Carlsen, Ioanna.
Forgiveness — "I can only imagine it."
May 14, 2006 (Sunday): Yenser, Stephen.
Tidepools: La Jolla — "Quick, mystic — this is the world's profoundest mirror."
May 13, 2006 (Saturday): Starbuck, Kathryn.
Thinking of John Clare — "I lived like a gnostic watchman"
May 12, 2006 (Friday): Bidart, Frank.
Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake — "Intricate to celebrate still-delicate"
May 11, 2006 (Thursday): Chang, Victoria.
Proof — "They say my great-uncle read foreign books"
May 10, 2006 (Wednesday): Phillips, Carl.
Riding Westward — "Any sunset, look at him: standing there,"
May 9, 2006 (Tuesday): Sylvester, Janet.
Barometric — "After the October sky's unbleached-fabric color"
May 8, 2006 (Monday): Williams, C. K.
Thighs — "The very great, very tall, truly out of human scale basketball player has been injured..."
May 7, 2006 (Sunday): Steele, Timothy.
Starr Farm Beach — "Although the beach, with its adjacent r's,"
May 6, 2006 (Saturday): Wetzsteon, Rachel.
Two Poems — "Manhattan Triptych" and "Sakura Park"
May 5, 2006 (Friday): Sheehan, Julie.
Coyotes in Greenwich! — "Here hedges are upholstered, each cobblestone"
May 4, 2006 (Thursday): Robertson, Robin.
Three Poems — "Swimming in the Woods," "Firesetting," "On Pharos"
May 3, 2006 (Wednesday): Wiman, Christian.
Two Poems — "The Secret" and "A Poem Is Not a Prayer"
May 2, 2006 (Tuesday): Stewart, Susan.
Day-lily — "Unrecognizable now, a mash"
May 1, 2006 (Monday): Hodgen, John.
When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 — "Not even Dylan then, more like David the Blue-Eyed Shepherd Boy Giant Killer instead,"
April 30, 2006 (Sunday): Silano, Martha.
Getting Kicked by a Fetus — "Like right before you reach your floor, just"
April 29, 2006 (Saturday): Levine, Mark.
Willow — "Okay, willow, breathe on me"
April 28, 2006 (Friday): Cole, Henri.
Haircut — "I sit on the dock for a haircut and watch"
April 27, 2006 (Thursday): Hayes, Terrance.
Woofer (When I Consider the African-American) — "When I consider the much discussed dilemma"
April 26, 2006 (Wednesday): Anonymous / tr. Heaney, Seamus.
Pangur Bán — "Pangur Bán and I at work,"
April 25, 2006 (Tuesday): Ammons, A. R.
Corsons Inlet — "I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning"
April 24, 2006 (Monday): Holley, Margaret.
Breakfast with Bonnard — "Blue of the 5 a.m. kitchen window"
April 23, 2006 (Sunday): Mong-Lan.
Keel of Earth's Axis — "& to think that father's water buffalo days weren't fabricated repeating"
April 22, 2006 (Saturday): Jackson, Major.
Hoops — "By a falling, Cyclone chain-"
April 21, 2006 (Friday): Moore, Emily.
Tale — "The dust of the stable"
April 20, 2006 (Thursday): Sutzkever, Abraham / tr. Osherow, Jacqueline.
from Epitaphs — "If some time someone should find pearls"
April 19, 2006 (Wednesday): Hamer, Forrest / tr. Guzmán, Argel Corpus.
Down by the Riverside / Por la orilla del río — "During the time Daddy was becoming Dad, / Durante los años en que papi se convertía en papa,"
April 18, 2006 (Tuesday): Cross, Elsa / tr. Sood, Sheena.
Los amantes de Tlatelolco / The Lovers of Tlatelolco — "Apenas se desprenden de la sombra. / They barely emerge from the shadow."
April 17, 2006 (Monday): Carruth, Hayden.
Springtime, 1998 — "Our upstate April"
April 16, 2006 (Sunday): Skloot, Floyd.
Dowsing for Joy — "The dowser says he can discover joy"
April 15, 2006 (Saturday): Clark, T. J.
Flying Home — "The earth from above — a cruel place"
April 14, 2006 (Friday): Swann, Brian.
Naked — "Here springs spurt, over and over,"
April 13, 2006 (Thursday): Friman, Alice.
Visitation Rights — "I sit by a ravine dumped with November,"
April 12, 2006 (Wednesday): Hacker, Marilyn.
Le Sancerre: September — "September morning schemes of the possible:"
April 11, 2006 (Tuesday): Koethe, John.
Hamlet — "It was math and physics all the way,"
April 10, 2006 (Monday): Stallings, A. E.
Two Poems — "Fragment" and "The Song Rehearsal"
April 9, 2006 (Sunday): Matthews, Charlotte Hilary.
Country Burial — "A pitch cold February and the preacher's voice, rolling louder,"
April 8, 2006 (Saturday): Brown, Andrea Carter.
The Los Angeles at Lankershim — "After dark when the Santa Anas"
April 7, 2006 (Friday): Snodgrass, W. D.
Two Poems — "Elena Ceauçescu's Bed" and "Lady!—""
April 6, 2006 (Thursday): Gloria, Eugene.
The Law — "When the civil guards approached me"
April 5, 2006 (Wednesday): Salamun, Tomaz / tr. Merrill, Christopher.
To Immerse the Weight — "The hunger of cathedrals, silk, the green silk"
April 4, 2006 (Tuesday): Milosz, Czeslaw.
Two Poems — "A Treatise on Poetry" and "Ars Poetica?"
April 3, 2006 (Monday): Witness's House.
White on White — "From the scratchy sleep of old age,"
April 2, 2006 (Sunday): Michelson, Noah.
Kingdom Come — "When it's finished, and I have regained"
April 1, 2006 (Saturday): Nadelberg, Amanda.
Adelaide — "Was walking on"
March 31, 2006 (Friday): Satterlee, Thom.
Wyclif Practices the Art of Definition While Walking to His Morning Class — "A door is an opening one goes in"
March 30, 2006 (Thursday): Hernandez, David.
Chess Match Ends in Fight — "As one opponent calling out checkmate"
March 29, 2006 (Wednesday): Wright, Franz.
Prescience — "We speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplished"
March 28, 2006 (Tuesday): Cavafy, C. P. / tr. Barnstone, Aliki
Three Poems — "When the Watchman Saw the Light," "Che Fece... Il Gran Rifiuto," "Days of 1909, '10, and '11"
March 27, 2006 (2006): O'Rourke, Meghan.
Anatomy of Failure — "Shadows passed over the statues in the night —"
March 26, 2006 (Sunday): Friedman, David Joel.
The Welcome — "Do you wish to immigrate to my heart?"
March 25, 2006 (Saturday): Johnson, Peter.
The City — "Meanwhile back at the branch, the long-awaited return of the cardinal..."
March 24, 2006 (Friday): Stevenson, Anne.
Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove — "'A wind blows through the clock.'"
March 23, 2006 (Thursday): Bohince, Paula.
Acrostic: Outhouse — "Once this homestead held many children,"
March 22, 2006 (Wednesday): Katherine Larson.
Love at Thirty-two Degrees — "Today I dissected a squid,"
March 21, 2006 (Tuesday): Hoagland, Tony.
Voyage — "I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages"
March 20, 2006 (Monday): Glück, Louise.
Two Poems — "Persephone the Wanderer" and "The Evening Star"
March 19, 2006 (Sunday): Greenway, William.
Otherworld — "This is where a woman fell"
March 18, 2006 (Saturday): Upton, Lee.
Undid in the Land of Undone — "All the things I wanted to do and didn't"
March 17, 2006 (Friday): Peseroff, Joyce.
Lilacs on My Birthday — "The flowerets look edible before they open,"
March 16, 2006 (Thursday): Jarrett, Nigel.
Kindertoten — "Safe in the bosom of Jesus"
March 15, 2006 (Wednesday): Young, David.
Black Labrador — "Churchill called his bad visits from depression"
March 14, 2006 (Tuesday): Jones, Rodney.
Olympiad — "Between time and place"
March 13, 2006 (Monday): Kirby, David.
The Mysteries — "My new friend Mario Materassi has invited me to dinner"
March 12, 2006 (Sunday): Bursk, Christopher.
The Visitor — "On the morning before Dr. Johnson died,"
March 11, 2006 (Saturday): Thomas, Robert.
Sleepwalker — "One night I found you pumping"
March 10, 2006 (Friday): Gross, Philip.
Opera Bouffe — "The count of cappuccino,"
March 9, 2006 (Thursday): Monahan, Jean.
Rough Beast — "Don't tell a camel about need and want."
March 8, 2006 (Wednesday): Rose, Jennifer.
Maintenon Postcard — "Oiseaux with names unknown to me in English too"
March 7, 2006 (Tuesday): Hamby, Barbara.
Some Days I Feel Like Janet Leigh — "Some days I feel like Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil —"
March 6, 2006 (Monday): Trethewey, Natasha.
Miscegenation — "In 1965 my parents broke two laws of Mississippi;"
March 5, 2006 (Sunday): Ball, Sally.
One Story of Conversion — "I was trying to tell my neighbor about Saint Eustace,"
March 4, 2006 (Saturday): Rutsala, Vern.
Becoming American — "The Yankees needed ditch diggers,"
March 3, 2006 (Friday): Hershon, Robert.
Two Poems — "Illusions of Paradise" and "International Incidents"
March 2, 2006 (Thursday): Bogen, Deborah.
Two Poems — "Six at the Beginning" and "Six at the Beginning Again"
March 1, 2006 (Wednesday): Gregg, Linda.
Elegance — "All that is uncared for."
February 28, 2006 (Tuesday): Karr, Mary.
Two Poems — "Delinquent Missive" and "Who the Meek Are Not"
February 27, 2006 (Monday): Wilder, Rex.
Two Poems — "Sounding Aboard the Rafaella" and "The Flood"
February 26, 2006 (Sunday): Ríos, Alberto.
The Chair She Sits In — "I've heard this thing where, when someone dies,"
February 25, 2006 (Saturday): Brackenbury, Alison.
Schemes — "Who plants forsythia now? It is not tasteful;"
February 24, 2006 (Friday): Clare Rossini.
Postmortem — "Having stood at the edge of a hole dug"
February 23, 2006 (Thursday): Hölderlin, Friedrich / tr. Sieburth, Richard.
[I want to build] — "I want to build"
February 22, 2006 (Wednesday): Karim, Fawzi / tr. Simawe, Saadi and Brown, Melissa.
The Dissident Student — "For years he listens to me"
February 21, 2006 (Tuesday): Haug, James.
A Day Unlike Any Other — "When Rutherford B. Hayes comes to town,"
February 20, 2006 (Monday): Fried, Daisy.
Used One Speed, Princeton — "I painted my bike purple,"
February 19, 2006 (Sunday): Smith, Dave.
Shoes — "Boots above all. Slack-skinned throats, cracked"
February 18, 2006 (Saturday): Rivard, David.
Enemies of Enormity — "And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in Bern"
February 17, 2006 (Friday): Shapiro, Harvey.
Three Poems — "To Nature," "Commentary," "The Generations"
February 16, 2006 (Thursday): Pugh, Christina.
Twenty-third — "And at the picnic table under the ancient elms,"
February 15, 2006 (Wednesday): Armantrout, Rae.
Results — "Click here to vote"
February 14, 2006 (Tuesday): Brock, Geoffrey.
Two Poems — "And Day Brought Back My Night" and "Snake Man"
February 13, 2006 (Monday): Hirshfield, Jane.
Two Poems — "Flowering Vetch" and "'To': An Assay"
February 12, 2006 (Sunday): Dolin, Sharon.
Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail — ". . . out of your niche, Galatea'd on hate,"
February 11, 2006 (Saturday): Bell, Marvin.
Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet — "The petty interference with light occasioned by shade."
February 10, 2006 (Friday): Burt, Stephen.
After Callimachus — "By using no spice but salt,"
February 9, 2006 (Thursday): Bever, Lillias.
Mehmet Sniffing a Rose — "It is an unlikely pose:"
February 8, 2006 (Wednesday): Chandhok, Lynn Aarti.
The View from Zero Bridge — "My father made his way to Zero Bridge"
February 7, 2006 (Tuesday): Wagoner, David.
Two Poems — "My Mother's Poem" and "In Youngs Creek"
February 6, 2006 (Monday): Kenney, Richard.
New Year, with Nipperkin — "And so the world begins again"
February 5, 2006 (Sunday): Violi, Paul.
Counterman — "What'll it be?"
February 4, 2006 (Saturday): Hollander, Martha.
My Three Eclipses — "Direct viewing was forbidden, of course."
February 3, 2006 (Friday): Arvio, Sarah.
Two Poems — "Acrolith" and "Pantheon"
February 2, 2006 (Thursday): Groarke, Vona.
The Game of Tennis in Irish History — "Blame Lady Alice Howard and her diary of 1873"
February 1, 2006 (Wednesday): Wojahn, David.
Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane — "Two new words a day & sometimes three — cup & doll, yesterday throat..."
January 31, 2006 (Tuesday): Koch, Kenneth.
Sleeping with Women — "Caruso: a voice."
January 30, 2006 (Monday): Klink, Joanna.
Winter Field — "What better witness than this evening snow,"
January 29, 2006 (Sunday): Koethe, John.
The Unlasting — "Like a vain man practicing a vain art,"
January 28, 2006 (Saturday): Lieberman, Laurence.
Love Nips of the Boa — "Secret despoiler of herds,"
January 27, 2006 (Thursday): Moritz, A. F.
The Guru — "Here comes the wise man in the story of sick times,"
January 26, 2006 (Thursday): Corn, Alfred.
Living Sacrifices — "To love and work, not die. The longer effort"
January 25, 2006 (Wednesday): Irwin, Mark.
Ends — "All that we did here — talking, reading, sleeping —"
January 24, 2006 (Tuesday): Leithauser, Hailey.
White on White — "Rug dropped sugar,"
January 23, 2006 (Monday): Skeen, Tim.
Coupons — "The cashier leans forward"
January 22, 2006 (Sunday): McFee, Michael.
Surely — "As we stood shivering at the pasture's crest,"
January 21, 2006 (Saturday): Brent, Frances.
Fire in the Doll's House — "The paper house ignites"
January 20, 2006 (Friday): Norberg, Carolyn.
March 17th — "I'm making Avgolemono soup"
January 19, 2006 (Thursday): Woodsum, Douglas Woody.
Fourteener 279 — "Please help me get this pig, dear Lord, into my truck."
January 18, 2006 (Wednesday): Bahr, Jeffery.
Anabasis — "I have straightened the watercolor"
January 17, 2006 (Tuesday): Karr, Mary.
Descending Theology: The Resurrection — "From the far star points of his pinned extremities,"
January 16, 2006 (Monday): Funkhouser, Erica.
Charles Street, Late November — "A friend on the edge of death tap-taps"
January 15, 2006 (Sunday): Hacker, Marilyn.
Ghazal: Waiting — "What follows when imagination's not inspired by waiting,"
January 14, 2006 (Saturday): Bang, Mary Jo.
The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice — "And tightens until language can't bear this"
January 13, 2006 (Friday): Swann, Brian.
The Whistler and His Dog — "I steal out to see stars"
January 12, 2006 (Thursday): Hicok, Bob.
Empty similes — "Like standing in front of a woman who says thank you"
January 11, 2006 (Wednesday): Canaday, John.
Two Poems — "Louis Slotin Assembles the Plutonium Implosion Core for the Trinity Test, July 1945" and "Kitty Oppenheimer Tends Louis Slotin after an Accident in the Lab"
January 10, 2006 (Tuesday): Miller, Leslie Adrienne.
Wandering Uterus — "Leonardo believed that semen came down"
January 9, 2006 (Monday): Dent, Tory.
Two Poems — "Huge Fragility" and "Luna"
January 8, 2006 (Sunday): Mason, David.
The Happy Friend — "How the happy friend became"
January 7, 2006 (Saturday): Hecht, Jennifer Michael.
Story of My Life — "Each day goes down in history, wets its feet,"
January 6, 2006 (Friday): Thomas, Beth.
Blind Spot — "Two days, the eye in the horse's head worked"
January 5, 2006 (Thursday): Gildroy, Doreen.
Viva Vox — "Every time I looked out the window,"
January 4, 2006 (Wednesday): Glaser, Elton.
Home Front and Gardens — "Why am I standing here with this American Beauty, its roots"
January 3, 2006 (Tuesday): O'Callaghan, Conor.
Three Poems — "Lovelife - The First Flush," "Lovelife - The Middle Years," "Lovelife - The Home Strait"
January 2, 2006 (Monday): Addonizio, Kim.
Happiness after Grief — "feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied..."
January 1, 2006 (Sunday): Mariani, Paul.
P.S. — "But is it true to say, "better the past as book,"
December 31, 2005 (Saturday): Jernigan, Amanda.
Lullaby — "My little lack-of-light, my swaddled soul,"
December 30, 2005 (Friday): Wright, Franz.
Woods Hole Ferry — "Crossing briefly this mirrory still Galilean blue water to the heaven"
December 29, 2005 (Wednesday): Nystrom, Debra.
Crush — "We were dead bored. Some hot brown room"
December 28, 2005 (Wednesday): Jarman, Mark.
Auden — "How did it feel to have X-ray vision"
December 27, 2005 (Tuesday): Goedicke, Patricia.
The Blow — "Who struck first and where, in what joint"
December 26, 2005 (Monday): Chute, Robert.
Aristophanes at the Woodpile — "The wind-fall Maple yields"
December 25, 2005 (Sunday): Hart, Kevin.
Snow — "Some days"
December 24, 2005 (Saturday): Mishol, Agi / tr. Katz, Lisa..
The Swimmers — "Old ladies from the retirement home"
December 23, 2005 (Friday): Pastan, Linda.
Maiden Name — "My daughter's teacher is named"
December 22, 2005 (Thursday): Chitwood, Michael.
A Marriage Must Be Worked At — "Newlyweds on the honeymoon trip,"
December 21, 2005 (Wednesday): Brouwer, Joel.
Two Poems — "Fish or Like Fish" and "Lesser Evils"
December 20, 2005 (Tuesday): Kane, Mary.
13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness — "he has a lizard"
December 19, 2005 (Monday): Claus, Hugo.
At Home — "Father was eating partridge and Mother was out"
December 18, 2005 (Sunday): Stewart, Susan.
Games from Children — "I lost my copper key"
December 17, 2005 (Saturday): Groarke, Vona.
Two Poems — "Re-gifting" and "Parnell"
December 16, 2005 (Friday): Kasischke, Laura.
Miss Congeniality — "There's a name given"
December 15, 2005 (Thursday): Galbraith, Isabel.
Grass Widow — "We never thought to use a bed."
December 14, 2005 (Wednesday): Salter, Mary Jo.
A Phone Call to the Future — "Who says science fiction"
December 13, 2005 (Tuesday): Laux, Dorianne.
Vacation Sex — "We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border"
December 12, 2005 (Monday): Garren, Christine.
The Catalog Department — "It was a wide room with white linoleum floors"
December 11, 2005 (Sunday): Phillips, Robert.
Nothing's As It Should Be — "The pie is not easy."
December 10, 2005 (Saturday): Skeen, Tim.
To Failure — "You and I are like a marriage of convenience"
December 9, 2005 (Friday): Lynch, Thomas.
Local Heroes — "Some days the worst that can happen happens."
December 8, 2005 (Thursday): Tobin, Daniel.
Near Hag's Head — "This headland is the battered prow"
December 7, 2005 (Wednesday): Grennan, Eamon.
Edge — "When I'd walked out to the sea surfing and spuming"
December 6, 2005 (Tuesday): Aungier, Liam.
Hephaistos — "A man of few words and little grace,"
December 5, 2005 (Monday): Sobin, Gustaf.
Prelude XVIII — ". . . for the taut, overlapping ligature of the"
December 4, 2005 (Sunday): Gibb, Robert.
Posthumous — "It was like uncovering the foundations of the world"
December 3, 2005 (Saturday): Snively, Susan.
A Riff of Zoloft — "The bug is on the outside of the glass."
December 2, 2005 (Friday): Espada, Martín.
You Got a Song, Man — "You told me the son of Acton's town nurse"
December 1, 2005 (Thursday): Prufer, Kevin.
Army Tales — "The boy who drowned in the bog, the boy caught in the rotors..."
November 30, 2005 (Wednesday): Stuart, Dabney.
Traveling Light — "Moving through still time, its opposite,"
November 29, 2005 (Tuesday): Ó Ríordáin, Seán. / tr. Delanty, Greg.
Two Poems — "Fiabhras / Fever" and "Saoirse / Freedom"
November 28, 2005 (Monday): Buck, Paula Closson.
Report from My Own Backyard — "October's done its mischief here already."
November 27, 2005 (Sunday): Satterlee, Thom.
The Private Meditations of John Wyclif: On Angels — "By now no one cares how many would fit on the head of a pin."
November 26, 2005 (Saturday): Halme III, Kathleen.
The Brain Tells Us What Is Real — "The nuptials were so sweet. The papier-mâché swan"
November 25, 2005 (Friday): Twichell, Chase.
A Lamb by Its Ma — "Just before it rains, the lilacs"
November 24, 2005 (Thursday): McAdam, Rhona.
Porch — "All day on the front porch of your house"
November 23, 2005 (Wednesday): Jordan, June.
Racial Profile #2 — "You bring out the Jamaica in me"
November 22, 2005 (Tuesday): Leight, Peter.
Resistance — "We retreated to the forests"
November 21, 2005 (Monday): Makuck, Peter.
Departures — "At Island Harbor"
November 20, 2005 (Sunday): Sirr, Peter.
Two Poems — "Peter Street" and "Hunger"
November 19, 2005 (Saturday): Seyburn, Patty.
Sand — "It's not mine"
November 18, 2005 (2005): Moxley, Jennifer.
The Atrophy of Private Life — "In the heavy fashion magazines strewn here and there around the house..."
November 17, 2005 (Thursday): González, Kevin A.
To You — "How will it taste — the beer the gravedigger"
November 16, 2005 (Wednesday):Simpson, Louis.
Suddenly — "The truck came at me,"
November 15, 2005 (Tuesday): Szymborska, Wislawa.
First Love — "They say / the first love's most important."
November 14, 2005 (Monday): Tillinghast, Richard.
Big Doors — "I have seen with my own eyes doors so massive"
November 13, 2005 (Sunday): Liu, Timothy.
On Broadway — "The planes in the sky still half-empty as ticket sales"
November 12, 2005 (Saturday): Menes, Orlando Ricardo.
Homage to Lupe — "They ate bofe — lungs of cattle —"
November 11, 2005 (Friday): Hillman, Brenda.
Street Corner — "There was an angle"
November 10, 2005 (Thursday): Ball, Jesse.
Two Poems — "Parades" and "I Followed a Ribbon"
November 9, 2005 (Wednesday): Bond, Bruce.
Liberation of Dissonance — "It's what he called his work, his liberation,"
November 8, 2005 (Tuesday): Alexander, Elizabeth.
Autumn Passage — "On suffering, which is real."
November 7, 2005 (Monday): Hirsch, Edward.
My Father's Track and Field Medal, 1932 — "Cup the tarnished metal in your palm."
November 6, 2005 (Sunday): Baker, Aaron.
Commission — "Where memory divides like the first language"
November 5, 2005 (Saturday): Antler.
First Breath Last Breath — "When a baby boy is born"
November 4, 2005 (Friday): Kirchwey, Karl.
Repair — "The parquet has become all sinks and man-traps,"
November 3, 2005 (Thursday): Osherow, Jacqueline.
The Hoopoe's Crown — "I suppose it's something I should embrace:"
November 2, 2005 (Wednesday): Hearne, Vicki.
The Tree That Plucks Fruit — "The tree that from the bare air"
November 1, 2005 (Tuesday): Gander, Forrest.
Burning Towers, Standing Wall — "At sunset the surface of the wall gleams gold gleaming"
October 31, 2005 (Monday): Chiasson, Dan.
Two Poems — "The Hyenas" and "The Bear"
October 30, 2005 (Sunday): Orr, Gregory.
from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved — "Resurrection of the body of the beloved,"
October 29, 2005 (Saturday): White, Philip.
Keepsake — "We had our days, didn't we — sun-stained,"
October 28, 2005 (Friday): Oliver, Mary.
Song for Autumn — "In the deep fall"
October 27, 2005 (Thursday): Chang, Jennifer.
Obedience, or The Lying Tale — "I will do everything you tell me, Mother."
October 26, 2005 (Wednesday): Greger, Debora.
My First Mermaid — "In Florida, where these things can happen,"
October 25, 2005 (Tuesday): Lux, Thomas.
The Pier Aspiring — "See if you can see how far out it goes; see? You can't see the end!"
October 24, 2005 (Monday): Jones, Rodney.
The United States — "If you asked what it is all about"
October 23, 2005 (Sunday): Elder, Karl.
Logo Rhythms — "Judas's cockeyed"
October 22, 2005 (Saturday): Swensen, Cole.
The Hands’ Testament — "The face veils and gates"
October 21, 2005 (Friday): Baker, David.
Two Poems — "Monarchs Landing and Flying" and "White Heron Pond"
October 20, 2005 (Thursday): Mazur, Gail.
Blue Umbrella — "Kai says, 'Here, let me fix that, you don't know'"
October 19, 2005 (Wednesday): Campion, Peter.
The Population — "One of the feelings which returns so often:"
October 18, 2005 (Tuesday): Kirby, David.
I Think Stan Done It — "After my poem 'I Think Satan Done It' appears in"
October 17, 2005 (Monday): Antin, David.
what happened to walter? — "i came here with something on my mind..."
October 16, 2005 (Sunday): Gehrke, Steve.
Francis Bacon in His Studio — "Like a man sitting inside his own decay,"
October 15, 2005 (Saturday): Jennings, Edison.
Feeding the Fire — "Down the chute the coal chunks come, black and brittle"
October 14, 2005 (Friday): Hoffman, Daniel.
Old Age — "When it began he was already losing"
October 13, 2005 (Thursday): Macari, Anne Marie.
Absence — "Talking to the children's absence, you imagine them"
October 12, 2005 (Wednesday): Logan, William.
Two Poems — "The Rotting Stars" and "Horseneck Beach Odalisque"
October 11, 2005 (Tuesday): Collins, Billy.
Two Poems — "Theme" and "Freud"
October 10, 2005 (Monday): Ryan, Kay.
Three Poems — "Sharks' Teeth," "Latents," "Backward Miracle"
October 9, 2005 (Sunday): Kinsella, John.
Reflectors: Drive 1 — "At The Lakes, the V takes you away"
October 8, 2005 (Saturday): Rodríguez, Luis J.
The Wanton Life — "The long fingers of a wanton life,"
October 7, 2005 (Friday): Skloot, Floyd.
Homecoming — "The place he always hoped to live"
October 6, 2005 (Thursday): Martin, Sara Michas.
Return — "I walk to make certain I was ever there."
October 5, 2005 (Wednesday): Hahn, Susan.
Two Poems — "The Pity of Punctuation" and "Goose Pity"
October 4, 2005 (Tuesday): Emerson, Claudia.
Three Poems — "Aftermath," "The Spanish Lover," "Homecoming"
October 3, 2005 (Monday): Merwin, W. S.
Three Poems — "To Waiting," "To Impatience," "To Grief"
October 2, 2005 (Sunday): Goldbarth, Albert.
"Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" — "We believed they were horses; and so"
October 1, 2005 (Saturday): Rector, Liam.
Two Poems — "About the Money" and "Jack Warden"
September 30, 2005 (Friday): Levine, Jeffrey.
Thé Dansant — "See her down there? Our planet as a child —"
September 29, 2005 (Thursday): Lamon, Laurie.
Two Poems — "Pain Tries to Think of Something" and "When You Tell Me"
September 28, 2005 (Wednesday): Chiasson, Dan.
Two Poems — "Pliny I & II" and "'There Is a Star in the Sea'"
September 27, 2005 (Tuesday): Santos, Sherod.
Three Greek Lyric Poems — "Abantian Warriors," "Concerning a Young Woman," "Water Drinkers"
September 26, 2005 (Monday): Jacobstein, Roy.
Ardor — "No wonder ardour couldn't survive"
September 25, 2005 (Sunday): Smith, Ron.
Via Appia — "and I: “More like Contrail of Roman Resolve"
September 24, 2005 (Saturday): Stallings, A. E.
Lullaby for a Colicky Baby — "For crying out loud,"
September 23, 2005 (Friday): Blasing, Randy.
Two Poems — "Raw Bar" and "Animal Self"
September 22, 2005 (Wednesday): Monsour, Leslie.
Travel Plans — "The pepper tree spilled round us from its source,"
September 21, 2005 (Wednesday): Graham, Mary Walker.
Parts of a Story — "Or, it could go like this, since"
September 20, 2005 (Tuesday): Millar, Joseph.
Letter to State Hospital — "You've told me the light you will read this by"
September 19, 2005 (Monday): Smith, Rad.
Three Poems — "Bees," "Before It's Too Late," "Writing in Water"
September 18, 2005 (Sunday): Molinary, Mary.
Three Poems — "Small parts slowly," "Faced with 8:38," "On us too"
September 17, 2005 (Saturday): Gonzalez, Ray.
Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall — "Seven of them pinned in blood by"
September 15, 2005 (Thursday): Althaus, Keith.
Something About the Stars — "They are blind,"
September 14, 2005 (Wednesday): Soniat, Katherine.
Thoughts at Paliani — "On the plain below, dozens of cloth windmills spin,"
September 13, 2005 (Tuesday): Williams, John Hartley.
Summit — "A hungry wind devours your breath"
September 12, 2005 (Monday): Hicok, Bob.
Odyssey — "I sat in different places with different winds:"
September 11, 2005 (Sunday): Skloot, Floyd.
Dress Rehearsal — "His second act costume weighs fifteen pounds,"
September 10, 2005 (Saturday): Budy, Andrea Hollander.
Still Life with Jonquils — "The usual bowl of fruit, yes,"
September 9, 2005 (Friday): Witek, Terri.
Noah at Dusk — "Horizon by horizon, the sea had dropped,"
September 8, 2005 (Thursday): Skinner, Jeffrey.
Two Poems — "The Long Marriage" and "The Singer"
September 7, 2005 (Wednesday): Glaser, Elton.
Lake Effect — "Pewter this morning, and shadows,"
September 6, 2005 (Tuesday): Carson, Anne.
Three Poems — "Sleep Chains," "Sunday," "Nothing For It"
September 5, 2005 (Monday): de Mello Breyner Andresen, Sophia / tr. Levitin, Alexis.
Three Poems — "Dual," "Gloss on a Text by Plutarch," "Homer"
September 4, 2005 (Sunday): Button, Margo.
Blue Dahlias — "A celebration of life seems appropriate. For the living at least."
September 3, 2005 (Saturday): Teague, Alexandra.
House Guest — "When he comes to your door, you cannot risk refusal."
September 2, 2005 (Friday): Spires, Elizabeth.
In a Field — "Like stones"
September 1, 2005 (Thursday): Gregory, Robert.
With and Without — "I'm walking in the everyday (like everyday) and looking"
August 31, 2005 (Wednesday): Greene, James.
The Not-To-Be-Named — "The technicians"
August 30, 2005 (Tuesday): Pankey, Eric.
Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale — "Attentive as one is to a whisper, the children wade..."
August 29, 2005 (Monday): Sheerin, Joe.
Three Poems — "Medical Advice," "A Small Demonstration," "Persephone"
August 28, 2005 (Sunday): Cros, Charles / tr. Kinsella, John.
Avenir (Future) — "The black poppies and faded cornflowers"
August 27, 2005 (Saturday): Mehta, Diane.
1 in 300 — "To lose at science is the accident of trying,"
August 26, 2005 (Friday): Moore, Jim.
Lightning at Dinner — "Basta! shouts the waiter,"
August 25, 2005 (Thursday): Haskins, Lola.
Parsing Mother — "You're a sky that drops its camouflage one cloud at a time, until"
August 24, 2005 (Wednesday): Roeser, Dana.
Midwestern Summer: My Dead Mother as Muse — "My mother doesn't"
August 23, 2005 (Tuesday): Edelstein, Carol.
Icarus Descending — "I ride my bicycle to work, leaving earlier than usual"
August 22, 2005 (Monday): Hilberry, Jane.
Relativity — "Our lives will not flash before our eyes."
August 21, 2005 (Sunday): Goldstein, Laurence.
On Rereading "Ode to Duty" — "Most derided and feared of all midlife poems,"
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