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Poetry Daily Archive — Indexed by Poet

[Note: our daily poems are archived for one year from first appearance on PD]

Addonizio, Kim.
Happiness after Grief — "feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied..."

Alexander, Elizabeth.
Autumn Passage — "On suffering, which is real."

Allen, Richard D.
One-Time Use — "Camera in a twelve-room house."
On Tenterhooks — "Suspense seldom kills, but too often"

Althaus, Keith.
Something About the Stars — "They are blind,"

Ammons, A. R.
Corsons Inlet — "I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning"

Anderson, Daniel.
Sunflowers in a Field — "Sunflowers in a field."

Anonymous / tr. Heaney, Seamus.
Pangur Bán — "Pangur Bán and I at work,"

Ansel, Talvikki.
Mycorrhizae — "When you dig up a tree,"

Antin, David.
what happened to walter? — "i came here with something on my mind..."

Antler.
First Breath Last Breath — "When a baby boy is born"

Aragón, Francisco.
City Moon/Luna urbana — "Perfect disc of moon, huge"

Armantrout, Rae.
Results — "Click here to vote"
Versed — "The self-monitoring function"

Armitage, Simon.
The Shout — "We went out"

Arvio, Sarah.
Two Poems — "Acrolith" and "Pantheon"

Aungier, Liam.
Hephaistos — "A man of few words and little grace,"

Ayala, Naomi.
Hole — "One morning they dig up the sidewalk and leave"

Bachmann, Ingeborg / tr. Filkins, Peter.
[I Step Outside Myself] — "I step outside"

Bahr, Jeffery.
Anabasis — "I have straightened the watercolor"

Baker, Aaron.
Commission — "Where memory divides like the first language"

Baker, David.
Two Poems — "Monarchs Landing and Flying" and "White Heron Pond"

Balaban, John.
If Only — "Their cottage sat on a grassy bluff"

Ball, Jesse.
Missive in an Icelandic Room 3 — "Clever remarks were no good,"
Two Poems — "Parades" and "I Followed a Ribbon"

Ball, Sally.
One Story of Conversion — "I was trying to tell my neighbor about Saint Eustace,"

Bang, Mary Jo.
The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice — "And tightens until language can't bear this"

Barbarese, J. T.
Trying to Be Penitent — "on the leather pews,"

Barber, David.
To the Trespasser — "A quiet akin to ruins —"

Barnstone, Aliki (tr.)
Three Poems — "When the Watchman Saw the Light," "Che Fece... Il Gran Rifiuto," "Days of 1909, '10, and '11"

Barot, Rick.
Pastoral — "Here is the dusk with its pink plastic bag"

Barresi, Dorothy.
Spellbind — "When the surgeon handed me"

Barter, Christian.
The Singers I Prefer — "The singers I prefer are the ones"

Beachy-Quick, Dan.
"east east the great lake" — "east east the great lake"

Beasley, Bruce.
Aphasic Echolalia — "Lord if soul if Lord if soul preserve"
Self-Portrait in Ink — "As the gone-"

Becker, Robin.
Sound View — "Like driftwood,"

Belieu, Erin.
The Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers — "Southern romantic that you always"

Bell, Marvin.
Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet — "The petty interference with light occasioned by shade."

Benedict, Elinor.
Landfarer: A Wife's Log — "My first ocean"

Bever, Lillias.
Mehmet Sniffing a Rose — "It is an unlikely pose:"

Bidart, Frank.
Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake — "Intricate to celebrate still-delicate"

Bitting, Michelle.
Sacrament — "Sometimes when I lift the chalice"

Blasing, Randy.
Two Poems — "Raw Bar" and "Animal Self"

Bly, Robert.
Two Poems — "Eating Blackberry Jam" and "Bach's B Minor Mass"

Bogen, Deborah.
Two Poems — "Six at the Beginning" and "Six at the Beginning Again"

Bohince, Paula.
Acrostic: Outhouse — "Once this homestead held many children,"

Bond, Bruce.
Liberation of Dissonance — "It's what he called his work, his liberation,"

Bonnefoy, Yves / tr. Torracinta, Pascale & Thomas, Harry.
Hopkins Forest — "I'd gone out"
Let This World Endure — "I right a broken branch."

Boruch, Marianne.
At the Same Time — "An annotated list: rain, not"

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne (tr.)
Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls...— "Just as this island belongs to the gulls,"

Boutelle, Annie.
My Skittish Scottish Accent — "Where do you hide? Why do you leap"

Brackenbury, Alison.
Schemes — "Who plants forsythia now? It is not tasteful;"

Brent, Frances.
Fire in the Doll's House — "The paper house ignites"

Brock, Geoffrey.
Two Poems — "And Day Brought Back My Night" and "Snake Man"

Broughton, T. Alan.
Song for Sampson — "What did we do for Sampson our cat?"

Brouwer, Joel.
Two Poems — "Fish or Like Fish" and "Lesser Evils"

Brown, Andrea Carter.
The Los Angeles at Lankershim — "After dark when the Santa Anas"

Brown, Kurt (tr.)
Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls... — "Just as this island belongs to the gulls,"

Brown, Melissa (tr.)
The Dissident Student — "For years he listens to me"

Bryan, Sharon.
At Last — "At last, a reason"

Buck, Paula Closson.
Report from My Own Backyard — "October's done its mischief here already."

Buckley, Christopher.
Travel — "I have never been to Buenos Aires or Juan-les-Pins"

Budy, Andrea Hollander.
Still Life with Jonquils — "The usual bowl of fruit, yes,"
Woman in the Painting — "Her face has disappeared. This happens"

Bursk, Christopher.
The Visitor — "On the morning before Dr. Johnson died,"

Burt, Stephen.
After Callimachus — "By using no spice but salt,"

Busch, Frederick.
Back — "He returns again, remembering Cossacks as sweaty as their horses"

Button, Margo.
Blue Dahlias — "A celebration of life seems appropriate. For the living at least."

Cahill, Jennifer Fumiko.
The Fire Museum — "Beside the copper bell and hammer,"

Calvocoressi, Gabrielle.
Save Me Joe Louis — "When I was small no one stopped the fights."

Campion, Peter.
The Population — "One of the feelings which returns so often:"

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"

Carlsen, Ioanna.
Forgiveness — "I can only imagine it."

Carruth, Hayden.
Springtime, 1998 — "Our upstate April"

Carson, Anne.
Three Poems — "Sleep Chains," "Sunday," "Nothing For It"

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"

Chandhok, Lynn Aarti.
The View from Zero Bridge — "My father made his way to Zero Bridge"

Chang, Jennifer.
Obedience, or The Lying Tale — "I will do everything you tell me, Mother."

Chang, Victoria.
Lantern Festival — "Some open like accordions, honoring the arrival of a newborn,"
Proof — "They say my great-uncle read foreign books"

Chiasson, Dan.
Two Poems — "After Party" and "Peeled Horse"
Two Poems — "Pliny I & II" and "'There Is a Star in the Sea'"
Two Poems — "The Hyenas" and "The Bear"

Chitwood, Michael.
Blue Sky — "Everyone he knew believed in God."
A Marriage Must Be Worked At — "Newlyweds on the honeymoon trip,"
Take Comfort Where You Can — "Not for nothing"
Walking — "At the same time every morning"

Christie, A. V.
Already the Heart — "The spinal cord blossoms"

Chute, Robert.
Aristophanes at the Woodpile — "The wind-fall Maple yields"

Clark, T. J.
Flying Home — "The earth from above — a cruel place"

Claus, Hugo.
At Home — "Father was eating partridge and Mother was out"

Cole, Henri.
Haircut — "I sit on the dock for a haircut and watch"

Cooley, Peter.
Little Immortality Poem — "Alone among animals"

Collins, Billy.
Dear Reader — "Baudelaire considers you his brother, / and Fielding calls out to you..."
Introduction to Poetry — "I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide..."
One Self — "I am trying to imagine that I am someone else,"
Traveling Alone — "At the hotel coffee shop that morning,"
Two Poems — "Theme" and "Freud"

Connor, Jean L.
Overcast — "The day, of no great merit,"

Cooper, Wyn.
Postcard from the Party — "You have to be invited, and there's nothing"

Cording, Robert.
Luther and the Devil — "Someone once remarked the medieval air"

Corn, Alfred.
Living Sacrifices — "To love and work, not die. The longer effort"

Creeley, Robert.
Two Poems — "Talking" and "Valentine for You"

Cros, Charles / tr. Kinsella, John.
Avenir (Future) — "The black poppies and faded cornflowers"

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."

Crozier, Lorna.
Rapture — "Will Jesus come to the small towns first?"

Delanty, Greg.
Two Poems — "Fiabhras / Fever" and "Saoirse / Freedom"

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,"

DeFrees, Madeline.
Two Poems — "Broken Sleep" and "The Visionary under the Knife"

de Mello Breyner Andresen, Sophia / tr. Levitin, Alexis.
Three Poems — "Dual," "Gloss on a Text by Plutarch," "Homer"

Dennis, Carl.
Our Generation — "Whatever they'll say about our delinquencies,"

Dent, Tory.
Two Poems — "Huge Fragility" and "Luna"

Dobyns, Stephen.
Two Poems — "The Birth of Angels" and "The Mercy of Lazarus"

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,"

Donlan, John.
Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Starlings — "Birds repeat their parents' songs"

Duffin, K. E.
Bronze Age Helmet — "The brow permanently furrowed in worry or alarm."

Duffy, Katherine.
Haute Couture — "On Howth Head,"

Dunn, Stephen.
The Kiss — "How many years I must have yearned"
Two Poems — "In the Open Field" and "The Insistence of Beauty"

Edelstein, Carol.
Icarus Descending — "I ride my bicycle to work, leaving earlier than usual"

Elder, Karl.
Logo Rhythms — "Judas's cockeyed"

Ellis, Thomas Sayers.
Slow Fade to Black — "Like a clothesline of whites"

Emerson, Claudia.
Three Poems — "Aftermath," "The Spanish Lover," "Homecoming"

Erba, Luciano / tr. Snodgrass, Ann.
Without a Compass — "According to Darwin, I should be extinct."

Espada, Martín.
You Got a Song, Man — "You told me the son of Acton's town nurse"

Fargnoli, Patricia.
The Invitation — "I have opened the doors"

Ferrell, Patricia.
The Blues in Your Own Backyard — "Love my onion rings,"

Ferry, David (tr.)
from the Georgics, Book IV — "It's true for bees as it is for human beings:"
from the Second Georgic — "O greatly fortunate farmers, if only they knew"

Fields, Kenneth.
Separate Camp — "The scattered books on my side of the bed,"

Filkins, Peter (tr.)
[I Step Outside Myself] — I step outside"

Ford, Katie.
Colosseum — "I stared at the ruin, the powder of the dead"

Foy, John.
Two Poems — "Orpheus — World Tour" and "Subterranean Cities"

Fried, Daisy.
Used One Speed, Princeton — "I painted my bike purple,"

Friedman, David Joel.
The Welcome — "Do you wish to immigrate to my heart?"

Friedman, Jeff (tr.)
Ararat — "After the ark plunges out of the water"

Friman, Alice.
Visitation Rights — "I sit by a ravine dumped with November,"

Frost, Carol.
To Fishermen — "No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the backbone"

Funkhouser, Erica.
Charles Street, Late November — "A friend on the edge of death tap-taps"

Galbraith, Isabel.
Grass Widow — "We never thought to use a bed."

Galvin, Brendan.
Two Poems — "Riffing Deciduous" and "A Footnote to Power"

Gander, Forrest.
Burning Towers, Standing Wall — "At sunset the surface of the wall gleams gold gleaming"

Garland, Max.
You Miss It — "It's less lonely than it used to be,"

Garren, Christine.
The Catalog Department — "It was a wide room with white linoleum floors"

Gehrke, Steve.
Francis Bacon in His Studio — "Like a man sitting inside his own decay,"

Gibb, Robert.
Posthumous — "It was like uncovering the foundations of the world"

Gibson, Dobby.
No Surrender — "Now that my poetry is finished"

Gibson, Margaret.
Fuel — "I am, said the voice in the oil spill of rainbow radiance,"

Gildroy, Doreen.
Viva Vox — "Every time I looked out the window,"

Glaser, Elton.
Home Front and Gardens — "Why am I standing here with this American Beauty, its roots"
Lake Effect — "Pewter this morning, and shadows,"

Gloria, Eugene.
The Law — "When the civil guards approached me"

Glück, Louise.
Two Poems — "Persephone the Wanderer" and "The Evening Star"

Goedicke, Patricia.
The Blow — "Who struck first and where, in what joint"
Cheap — "Yesterday drinking too much cheap white wine,"

Goldbarth, Albert.
Danielle Suite — "The real story is: that they"
Library — "This book saved my life."
"Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" — "We believed they were horses; and so"
The Locust Song — "The tyranny of poets: 'Like.' O we were like"
Two Poems — "Washington's Ovens, Adamses' Letters" and "Problemata Aristotelis"

Goldberg, Beckian Fritz.
Far Away Lake — "We can't get there"

Goldstein, Laurence.
On Rereading "Ode to Duty" — "Most derided and feared of all midlife poems,"

González, Kevin A.
To You — "How will it taste — the beer the gravedigger"

Gonzalez, Ray.
Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall — "Seven of them pinned in blood by"

Goodyear, Dana.
Two Poems — "Oasis" and "Day and Age"

Graham, Mary Walker.
Parts of a Story — "Or, it could go like this, since"

Gregg, Linda.
Elegance — "All that is uncared for."

Greene, James.
The Not-To-Be-Named — "The technicians"

Greenlaw, Lavinia.
The Spirit of the Staircase — "In our game of flight, half-way down"

Greenway, William.
Otherworld — "This is where a woman fell"
Stroke — "Johnny Cloud had one the summer"

Greger, Debora.
My First Mermaid — "In Florida, where these things can happen,"
Too Close — "I haven't met you yet. I'm out the door,"

Gregory, Robert.
With and Without — "I'm walking in the everyday (like everyday) and looking"

Grennan, Eamon.
Edge — "When I'd walked out to the sea surfing and spuming"
A Thrush by Utamaro — "Although it looks the picture of perfect balance..."
Turtle and Two Girls — "Sun-glossed blunt head of a turtle over water."
Two Poems — [Now the buried stones...] and [When that great conflagration...]

Groarke, Vona.
The Game of Tennis in Irish History — "Blame Lady Alice Howard and her diary of 1873"
Two Poems — "Re-gifting" and "Parnell"

Gross, Philip.
Opera Bouffe — "The count of cappuccino,"

Guzmán, Argel Corpus (tr.)
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,"

Hacker, Marilyn
Ghazal: Waiting — "What follows when imagination's not inspired by waiting,"
Le Sancerre: September — "September morning schemes of the possible:"

Hadas, Rachel.
The Nosebleed — "Waiting for a Bennington light to change, I"
The Verge — "Since her stroke, your mother calls the state"

Hahn, Susan.
Two Poems — "The Pity of Punctuation" and "Goose Pity"

Hall, Donald.
Witness's House — "From the scratchy sleep of old age,"

Halme III, Kathleen.
The Brain Tells Us What Is Real — "The nuptials were so sweet. The papier-mâché swan"

Hamby, Barbara.
Some Days I Feel Like Janet Leigh — "Some days I feel like Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil —"

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,"

Hamilton, Saskia.
The Weight of the Inside of the Body — "It is a good thing to be in the vestibule."

Harrington, Janice N.
They All Sang — "Even the cast iron skillet sang"

Harrison, Jeffrey.
The Names of Things — "Just after breakfast and still"

Hart, Henry.
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged — "If you practice, the New Age guru said,"

Hart, Kevin.
Snow — "Some days"

Haskins, Lola.
Parsing Mother — "You're a sky that drops its camouflage one cloud at a time, until"

Haug, James.
A Day Unlike Any Other — "When Rutherford B. Hayes comes to town,"

Haxton, Brooks.
Two Poems — "Our Bedroom Window Plastered Thick with Ice" and "Anent the Yellow Field, Fa-La"

Hayes, Terrance.
Woofer (When I Consider the African-American) — "When I consider the much discussed dilemma"

Heaney, Seamus (tr.)
Pangur Bán — "Pangur Bán and I at work,"
Three-Piece — " 'I'll make you one,' he said, 'and balance it...' "
Two Poems — "The Nod" and "A Clip"

Hearne, Vicki.
The Tree That Plucks Fruit — "The tree that from the bare air"

Heatter, Virginia M.
Autopsy — "This is the sky where it meets"

Hecht, Jennifer Michael.
Story of My Life — "Each day goes down in history, wets its feet,"

Henry, Brian.
from Quarantine — "By the time the sun touched the grass"

Hernandez, David.
Proof — "Once he wrestled a bear, he said,"

Hershon, Robert.
Two Poems — "Illusions of Paradise" and "International Incidents"

Hicok, Bob.
Empty similes — "Like standing in front of a woman who says thank you"
The evolving landscape — "The high acres belong to grass, the farmer"
Odyssey — "I sat in different places with different winds:"
Solstice: voyeur — "I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close"

Hilberry, Jane.
Relativity — "Our lives will not flash before our eyes."

Hill, Barry.
Two Poems — "Love in the Afternoon" and "Mother"

Hillman, Brenda.
Street Corner — "There was an angle"

Hinton, David (tr.)
9/9, Thinking of My Brothers East of the Mountains — "Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign"

Hirsch, Edward.
My Father's Track and Field Medal, 1932 — "Cup the tarnished metal in your palm."

Hirshfield, Jane.
Two Poems — "Flowering Vetch" and "'To': An Assay"

Hoagland, Tony.
Voyage — "I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages"

Hodgen, John.
When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 — "Not even Dylan then, more like David the Blue-Eyed Shepherd Boy Giant Killer instead,"

Hoffman, Daniel.
Old Age — "When it began he was already losing"
Shocks — "Trouble with the brakes? I'll have a look"

Hölderlin, Friedrich / tr. Sieburth, Richard.
[I want to build] — "I want to build"

Hollander, Martha.
My Three Eclipses — "Direct viewing was forbidden, of course."

Holley, Margaret.
Breakfast with Bonnard — "Blue of the 5 a.m. kitchen window"

Hopler, Jay.
Feast of the Ascension, 2004. Planting Hibiscus — "From being to being an idea, nothing comes through that intact."

Hummer, T. R.
Three Poems — "'Taint What You Do," "Blues In The Night," "Uptown Blues"

Inez, Colette.
Two Wheeler Spins — "She wakes up and she's a bicycle."

Irwin, Mark.
Ends — "All that we did here — talking, reading, sleeping —"

Ivanescu, Mircea / tr. Sorkin, Adam J. with Vianu, Lidia.
myopia — "in the evening she says to me—today susan herself read"

Jackson, Major.
Hoops — "By a falling, Cyclone chain-"

Jacobstein, Roy.
Ardor — "No wonder ardour couldn't survive"

Jarman, Mark.
Auden — "How did it feel to have X-ray vision"
Mother's Friend — "We stopped by and she greeted us so happily,"

Jarrett, Nigel.
Kindertoten — "Safe in the bosom of Jesus"

Jennings, Edison.
Feeding the Fire — "Down the chute the coal chunks come, black and brittle"

Jernigan, Amanda.
Lullaby — "My little lack-of-light, my swaddled soul,"

Johnson, Amaud Jamaul.
Elaine, 1919 — "four men, businessmen, down"

Johnson, Peter
The City — "Meanwhile back at the branch, the long-awaited return of the cardinal..."

Jones, Patricia Spears.
Two Poems — "Ghosts" and "Belissima"

Jones, Rodney.
Olympiad — "Between time and place"
The United States — "If you asked what it is all about"

Jordan, June.
Racial Profile #2 — "You bring out the Jamaica in me"

Kane, Joan.
Building the Boats — "Yellow-lit beneath stretched"

Kane, Mary.
13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness — "he has a lizard"

Karim, Fawzi / tr. Simawe, Saadi and Brown, Melissa
The Dissident Student — "For years he listens to me"

Karr, Mary.
Descending Theology: The Resurrection — "From the far star points of his pinned extremities,"
Two Poems — "Delinquent Missive" and "Who the Meek Are Not"

Kasischke, Laura.
Miss Congeniality — "There's a name given"

Katz, Lisa (tr.)
The Swimmers — "Old ladies from the retirement home"

Kenney, Richard.
New Year, with Nipperkin — "And so the world begins again"

Kenyon, Jane.
Twilight: After Haying — "Yes, long shadows go out"

Keplinger, David.
Cortez Arrives at San Juan de Ulloa — "He belongs to no one now."

Kercheval, Jesse Lee.
Here — "I am walking"

Kiesselbach, Dore.
Quail — "Going where the car"

Kimbrell, James.
The Gulf — "On the fourth birthday of your afterlife"
Up Late, Reading Whitman — "whose soul was like a spider, but was also like the grass,"

Kinsella, John.
Reflectors: Drive 1 — "At The Lakes, the V takes you away"

Kinsella, John (tr.)
Avenir (Future) — "The black poppies and faded cornflowers"

Kirby, David.
I Think Stan Done It — "After my poem 'I Think Satan Done It' appears in"
The Mysteries — "My new friend Mario Materassi has invited me to dinner"

Kirchwey, Karl.
Chases in Arras — "At a B&B in sober Ocean Grove"
Repair — "The parquet has become all sinks and man-traps,"

Klink, Joanna.
Winter Field — "What better witness than this evening snow,"

Koch, Kenneth.
Sleeping with Women — "Caruso: a voice."

Koethe, John.
Hamlet — "It was math and physics all the way,"
The Unlasting — "Like a vain man practicing a vain art,"

Komunyakaa, Yusef.
Tree Ghost — "There's a rush, a rustle"

Kooser, Ted.
They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office — "They had torn off my face at the office."

Kronen, Steve.
The Wide World — "Moses in the bulrushes, lost, the clouds"

Kumin, Maxine.
Death, Etc. — "I have lived my whole life with death, said William Maxwell,"

Kwasny, Melissa.
Berries — "In the painting Gabrielle d'Estrees"

Lamon, Laurie.
Two Poems — "Pain Tries to Think of Something" and "When You Tell Me"

Larsen, Lance.
Trust — "It was after the pot roast and home-made bread"

Larson, Katherine.
Love at Thirty-two Degrees — "Today I dissected a squid,"

Lauinger, Ann.
Marvell Noir — "Sweetheart, if we had the time,"

Laux, Dorianne.
Hummingbird — "We buried the hummingbird"
Vacation Sex — "We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border"

Leight, Peter.
Resistance — "We retreated to the forests"

Leithauser, Hailey.
White on White — "Rug dropped sugar,"

Leo, Teresa.
The World According to Narcissus — "Her. But not her. Her. N.'s whole world"

Levin, Dana.
It Was Yoked to a Black Hunger — "The raven lifted."
Spring — "The sun, in shafts and spades."

Levine, Jeffrey.
Thé Dansant — "See her down there? Our planet as a child —"

Levine, Mark.
Willow — "Okay, willow, breathe on me"

Levitin, Alexis (tr.)
Three Poems — "Dual," "Gloss on a Text by Plutarch," "Homer"

Lieberman, Laurence.
Love Nips of the Boa — "Secret despoiler of herds,"

Lindesay, James.
Beast — "out of his hands the clay"

Lindsay, Nina.
A house at a crossroad, beside a grove, composes another house to take as a husband — "I made him appear"

Liu, Timothy.
On Broadway — "The planes in the sky still half-empty as ticket sales"

Loden, Rachel.
Miss October — "If I have to be a playmate"
What the Gravedigger Needs — "overalls"

Logan, William.
The Jubilee! The Jubilee! — "It was a landscape full of itself: disfigured arches"
Two Poems — "The Rotting Stars" and "Horseneck Beach Odalisque"

Longenbach, James.
Self and Soul — "When you reach the cliffs"

Luna, Sheryl.
Bones — "Once, as a girl, she saw a woman shrink"

Lux, Thomas.
The Pier Aspiring — "See if you can see how far out it goes; see? You can't see the end!"

Lynch, Thomas.
Local Heroes — "Some days the worst that can happen happens."

Lyons, Richard.
Granite from Sugar Water — "On 'Purple Shades,' to Johnny Griffin's sax,"

Macari, Anne Marie.
Absence — "Talking to the children's absence, you imagine them"
Mozart's Requiem — "That night in Prague I dreamed singing, lacrimosa,"

Makuck, Peter.
Departures — "At Island Harbor"

Manguso, Sarah.
Asking for More — "I am not asking to suffer less."

Manzione, Gianmarc.
The Man Who Vanished — "Assembling unsheathed cloves of garlic"

Mariani, Paul.
P.S. — "But is it true to say, "better the past as book,"

Marks, Gigi.
Nasturtium — "is a ring of simple petals"

Martin, Sara Michas.
Return — "I walk to make certain I was ever there."

Mason, David.
The Happy Friend — "How the happy friend became"

Mathis, Cleopatra.
Death of a Gull — "Worse than his pain was his acceptance,"

Matthews, Charlotte Hilary.
Country Burial — "A pitch cold February and the preacher's voice, rolling louder,"

Matthews, William.
Job Interview — " 'Where do you see yourself five years from now?' "

Maxwell, Glyn.
Suddenly Signs — "Suddenly signs along the way were new,"

Mazur, Gail.
Blue Umbrella — "Kai says, 'Here, let me fix that, you don't know'"

McAdam, Rhona.
Porch — "All day on the front porch of your house"

McCombs, Davis.
The Elgin Marbles — "When Elgin contemplates"

McFadden, Kevin.
Ad Tacitum: Renderings from Tacitus — "To relate a few facts... without bitterness or partiality..."
Tomfoolery, Seventeen — "Too shy for girls, yet there they were,"

McFee, Michael.
Surely — "As we stood shivering at the pasture's crest,"

McGrath, Campbell.
Two Poems — "Hiroshige" and "Eclogue"
Two Poems — "Philadelphia" and "Two Poems for Frank O'Hara"

McHenry, Eric.
Two Poems — "The Novel" and "Figurative North Topeka"

McHugh, Heather.
Far Niente — "Nothing's far"

McMichael, James.
The British Countryside in Pictures — "The frontispiece fixes as"

McNair, Wesley.
As I Am — "Behind my false beard"
That Nothing — "In the moment"

Mehigan, Joshua.
Two Poems — "Cold Turkey" and "The Sponge"

Mehta, Diane.
1 in 300 — "To lose at science is the accident of trying,"

Menes, Orlando Ricardo.
Homage to Lupe — "They ate bofe — lungs of cattle —"

Merrill, Christopher (tr.)
To Immerse the Weight — "The hunger of cathedrals, silk, the green silk"

Merwin, W. S.
Three Poems — "To Waiting," "To Impatience," "To Grief"
To the Soul — "Is anyone there"

Michelson, Noah.
Kingdom Come — "When it's finished, and I have regained"

Millar, Joseph
Letter to State Hospital — "You've told me the light you will read this by"
Lyrical — "The spaniel next door yaps at the sparrows,"

Miller, Leslie Adrienne.
Wandering Uterus — "Leonardo believed that semen came down"

Milosz, Czeslaw.
Two Poems — "A Treatise on Poetry" and "Ars Poetica?"

Mishol, Agi / tr. Katz, Lisa.
The Swimmers — "Old ladies from the retirement home"

Molinary, Mary.
Three Poems — "Small parts slowly," "Faced with 8:38," "On us too"

Monahan, Jean.
Rough Beast — "Don't tell a camel about need and want."

Mong-Lan.
Keel of Earth's Axis — "& to think that father's water buffalo days weren't fabricated repeating"

Monson, Ander.
Entry-Level Elegy — "One is gone, we know; now"

Monsour, Leslie.
Travel Plans — "The pepper tree spilled round us from its source,"

Moore, Emily.
Tale — "The dust of the stable"

Moore, Jim.
Lightning at Dinner — "Basta! shouts the waiter,"

Moritz, A. F.
The Guru — "Here comes the wise man in the story of sick times,"

Moxley, Jennifer.
The Atrophy of Private Life — "In the heavy fashion magazines strewn here and there around the house..."

Muske-Dukes, Carol.
Heroine — "Then Jane says: there is an invisible thread between"

Nadelberg, Amanda.
Adelaide — "Was walking on"

Newman, Richard.
Grampa's Liquor Bottles — "Stiff in our black funeral ties and jackets,"

Nilsson, Kathy.
Furniture of the World — "Seeing birds flush, you fall to your knees."

Norberg, Carolyn.
March 17th — "I'm making Avgolemono soup"

Nystrom, Debra.
Crush — "We were dead bored. Some hot brown room"

O'Callaghan, Conor.
Three Poems — "Lovelife - The First Flush," "Lovelife - The Middle Years," "Lovelife - The Home Strait"

O'Driscoll, Dennis.
All Over Ireland — "What's general all over Ireland is definitely not snow. Sandbag-"

Oliver, Mary.
Song for Autumn — "In the deep fall"

Ó Ríordáin, Seán. / tr. Delanty, Greg.
Two Poems — "Fiabhras / Fever" and "Saoirse / Freedom"

O'Rourke, Meghan.
Anatomy of Failure — "Shadows passed over the statues in the night —"

Orr, Gregory.
from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved — "Resurrection of the body of the beloved,"

Osherow, Jacqueline (tr.)
from Epitaphs — "If some time someone should find pearls"
The Hoopoe's Crown — "I suppose it's something I should embrace:"
Poem for Jenny — "Larkspur and delphinium, wild and tame"

Pagis, Dan / tr. Friedman, Jeff and Zohar, Nati.
Ararat — "After the ark plunges out of the water"

Palmer, Michael.
This — "This perfect half-moon"

Paloff, Benjamin.
The Ill-Tempered Clavier — "I sing of arms and ears in piles,"

Pankey, Eric.
Or Thorns Compose So Rich a Crown — "The greens — kingfisher, fern, cut shoot, mineral — constellate amid the understory."
Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale — "Attentive as one is to a whisper, the children wade..."

Pape, Greg.
Image on a Sandstone Disc — "Snakes conjured up"

Parini, Jay.
Aristotle in the Middle Ages — "They came from everywhere to that long table"

Pastan, Linda.
Maiden Name — "My daughter's teacher is named"
A New Poet — "Finding a new poet / is like finding a new wildflower / out in the woods."
Zephyr — "The three slender poplar trees"

Pekarske, Nicole.
Decadence — "is the houses we might have lived in,"

Peseroff, Joyce.
Lilacs on My Birthday — "The flowerets look edible before they open,"

Peterson, Allan.
How Folklore Starts — "It was during the year when masterpiece was not impossible"

Phillips, Carl.
Riding Westward — "Any sunset, look at him: standing there,"

Phillips, Robert.
Nothing's As It Should Be — "The pie is not easy."

Pinsky, Robert.
Pliers — "What is the origin of this despair I feel"

Plumly, Stanley.
Autumnal — "Not long before she died my mother told me"

Pope, Jacquelyn.
Mrs. Robinson — "He's fixed her off the page, where she's"

Powell, Jim.
Pyramid Scheme — "Crone,"

Prufer, Kevin.
Army Tales — "The boy who drowned in the bog, the boy caught in the rotors..."

Prunty, Wyatt.
Lincoln's Tunnel — "Born during war, I slept by rivers,"

Pugh, Christina.
Twenty-third — "And at the picnic table under the ancient elms,"

Raab, Lawrence.
The Uninvited — There are two ghosts in the house"

Rector, Liam.
Two Poems — "About the Money" and "Jack Warden"

Revell, Donald
My Name Is Donald — "Like a fish on a hedge, the horsefly"
Zion — "Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood."

Reyes, José Edmundo Ocampo.
Two Poems — "Jardin des Plantes" and "Ledger"

Rhodes, Martha.
The Restorers — "We saw them in the hedges"

Rigby, Karen.
Poppies — "Last winter on the corner"

Riley, Atsuro.
Two Poems — "Drift-Raft" and "River"

Ríos, Alberto.
The Chair She Sits In — "I've heard this thing where, when someone dies,"

Rivard, David.
Enemies of Enormity — "And thanks to a polymer the chemists jimmied-up in Bern"

Robertson, Robin.
Three Poems — "Swimming in the Woods," "Firesetting," "On Pharos"

Rodríguez, Luis J.
The Wanton Life — "The long fingers of a wanton life,"

Roeser, Dana.
Midwestern Summer: My Dead Mother as Muse — "My mother doesn't"
What Did the Children Know and When Did They Know It? — "I kept the secret well."

Rogers, Bobby C.
Paper Anniversary — "A forgiving spring and now July's heat. You can almost see"

Rogers, Hoyt (tr.)
Let This World Endure — "I right a broken branch."

Rose, Jennifer.
Maintenon Postcard — "Oiseaux with names unknown to me in English too"

Rosenberg, Liz.
The Last Time — "The last time I saw him awake and talking"

Rosser, J. Allyn.
Subway Seethe — "What could have been the big to-do"
Two Poems — "Gym Dance with the Doors Wide Open" and "The Smell of Rat Rubs Off"

Rossini, Clare.
Postmortem — "Having stood at the edge of a hole dug"

Rutsala, Vern.
Becoming American — "The Yankees needed ditch diggers,"

Ryan, Kay.
Three Poems — "Sharks' Teeth," "Latents," "Backward Miracle"

Ryan, Michael.
Very Hot Day — "I know what's going to happen"

Salamun, Tomaz / tr. Merrill, Christopher.
To Immerse the Weight — "The hunger of cathedrals, silk, the green silk"

Salter, Mary Jo.
A Phone Call to the Future — "Who says science fiction"

Santos, Sherod.
Three Greek Lyric Poems — "Abantian Warriors," "Concerning a Young Woman," "Water Drinkers"

Satterlee, Thom.
Habitus — "All morning he read from a thick volume"
The Private Meditations of John Wyclif: On Angels — "By now no one cares how many would fit on the head of a pin."
Wyclif Practices the Art of Definition While Walking to His Morning Class — "A door is an opening one goes in"

Scharf, Michael.
Contract Law — "If every exchange is negotiated with the presumption of bad faith,"

Schwartz, Hillel.
Sursum Corda — "Through the bracken of Children's Island, its sedge and mallow,"

Seidman, Hugh.
The Daily Racing Form — "On my last day at the DRF,"

Selby, Spencer.
Fidelity — "Through firm resolve"

Seyburn, Patty.
Sand — "It's not mine"

Sexton, Elaine.
Lower Manhattan Pantoum — "Always a bad sign"

Shapiro, Alan.
Two Poems — "Takeoff" and "The Conversation"

Shapiro, Harvey.
Three Poems — "To Nature," "Commentary," "The Generations"

Sheehan, Julie.
Coyotes in Greenwich! — "Here hedges are upholstered, each cobblestone"
Loose Leaf from a Destroyed Journal — "In my dream's dream"

Sheerin, Joe.
Three Poems — "Medical Advice," "A Small Demonstration," "Persephone"

Shumaker, Peggy.
Oatmeal — "Dry slide of Bob's Red Mill"

Sideris, Hilary.
Good — "Report card B, commodity, food"

Sieburth, Richard (tr.)
[I want to build] — "I want to build"

Silano, Martha.
Getting Kicked by a Fetus — "Like right before you reach your floor, just"

Simawe, Saadi (tr.)
The Dissident Student — "For years he listens to me"

Simic, Charles.
Two Poems — "Description of a Lost Thing" and "Talk Radio"
The Wooden Toy — "The brightly-painted horse"

Simmerman, Jim.
Jittery — "Nancy takes me to a coffee shop called "Jitters""

Simpson, Louis.
Suddenly — "The truck came at me,"

Sirr, Peter.
Two Poems — "Peter Street" and "Hunger"

Skeen, Tim.
Coupons — "The cashier leans forward"
To Failure — "You and I are like a marriage of convenience"

Skinner, Jeffrey.
Two Poems — "The Long Marriage" and "The Singer"

Skloot, Floyd.
Dowsing for Joy — "The dowser says he can discover joy"
Dress Rehearsal — "His second act costume weighs fifteen pounds,"
Homecoming — "The place he always hoped to live"

Slate, Ron.
Two Poems — "The Demise of Camembert" and "Light Fingers"

Smith, Bruce.
Song for My Daughter — "There is a space both small and vast between"

Smith, Dave.
Shoes — "Boots above all. Slack-skinned throats, cracked"

Smith, Rad.
Three Poems — "Bees," "Before It's Too Late," "Writing in Water"

Smith, Ron.
Via Appia — "and I: “More like Contrail of Roman Resolve"

Snively, Susan.
A Riff of Zoloft — "The bug is on the outside of the glass."

Snodgrass, Ann (tr.)
Without a Compass — "According to Darwin, I should be extinct."

Snodgrass, W. D.
Packing up the Lute — "I ease you down, your strings set loose"
Two Poems — "Elena Ceauçescu's Bed" and "Lady!—""

Sobin, Gustaf.
Prelude XVIII — ". . . for the taut, overlapping ligature of the"
Testament — ". . . that part that"

Sommer, Jason.
The Laughter of Adam and Eve: A Detail — "As has been established in Midrash"

Soniat, Katherine.
Thoughts at Paliani — "On the plain below, dozens of cloth windmills spin,"

Sood, Sheena (tr.)
Los amantes de Tlatelolco / The Lovers of Tlatelolco — "Apenas se desprenden de la sombra. / They barely emerge from the shadow."

Sorkin, Adam J. (tr.)
myopia — "in the evening she says to me—today susan herself read"

Spires, Elizabeth.
In a Field — "Like stones"

Stallings, A. E.
Lullaby for a Colicky Baby — "For crying out loud,"
Olives — "Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet,"
Two Poems — "Fragment" and "The Song Rehearsal"

Starbuck, Kathryn.
Thinking of John Clare — "I lived like a gnostic watchman"

Stebbins, Ethan.
On Munsungun — "My father in the aluminum stern, cursing"

Steele, Timothy.
Starr Farm Beach — "Although the beach, with its adjacent r's,"

Stein, Kevin.
Postcard to Henry James — "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here..."
Wishful Rhetoric — "Finis. I love the oh-so-postmodern opening —"

Sterling, Phillip.
November 18 — "On a train into Washington"

Stern, Gerald.
Two Poems — "Never Went to Birdland" and "Sylvia"

Stevenson, Anne.
Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove — "'A wind blows through the clock.'"

Stewart, Susan.
Day-lily — "Unrecognizable now, a mash"
Games from Children — "I lost my copper key"

Stuart, Dabney.
Traveling Light — "Moving through still time, its opposite,"

Suárez, Virgil.
The Exile Speaks — "of a red tongue, black words,"

Sutzkever, Abraham / tr. Osherow, Jacqueline.
from Epitaphs — "If some time someone should find pearls"

Swann, Brian.
Exist — "As a kid I never thought of 'pain' as"
Naked — "Here springs spurt, over and over,"
The Whistler and His Dog — "I steal out to see stars"

Sweeney, Matthew.
Two Poems — "Zero Hour" and "The Transformed House"

Swensen, Cole.
The Hands� Testament — "The face veils and gates"

Sylvester, Janet.
Barometric — "After the October sky's unbleached-fabric color"

Szymborska, Wislawa.
First Love — "They say / the first love's most important."
A Great Man's House — "It was written in marble in golden letters:"

Taylor, Henry.
A Crosstown Breeze — "A drift of wind"

Teague, Alexandra.
House Guest — "When he comes to your door, you cannot risk refusal."

Thomas, Beth.
Blind Spot — "Two days, the eye in the horse's head worked"

Thomas, Harry (tr.)
Hopkins Forest — "I'd gone out"

Thomas, Robert.
Sleepwalker — "One night I found you pumping"

Tillinghast, Richard.
Big Doors — "I have seen with my own eyes doors so massive"

Tobin, Daniel.
Near Hag's Head — "This headland is the battered prow"

Tolides, Tryfon.
Three Poems — "Immigrant," "Almond Tree," "I Will Sleep"

Torracinta, Pascale (tr.)
Hopkins Forest — "I'd gone out"

Trethewey, Natasha.
Miscegenation — "In 1965 my parents broke two laws of Mississippi;"

Triplett, Pimone.
More Scenes from a Body — "As for that field, mud-rutted, a stammer"

Tseng, Jennifer.
Trees — "One summer he planted a tree."

Twichell, Chase.
A Lamb by Its Ma — "Just before it rains, the lilacs"

Ulku, Alpay.
Coronation — "High winds, and the streetlights on all day..."

Upton, Lee.
Undid in the Land of Undone — "All the things I wanted to do and didn't"

Vianu, Lidia (tr.)
myopia — "in the evening she says to me—today susan herself read"

Violi, Paul
Counterman — "What'll it be?"

Virgil / tr. Ferry, David.
from the Georgics, Book IV — "It's true for bees as it is for human beings:"
from the Second Georgic — "O greatly fortunate farmers, if only they knew"

Voorakkara, Sharmila.
The Holy Men of Jersey — "By the audible vaudeville of laundry lines,"

Wagoner, David.
For a Row of Laurel Shrubs — "They don't want to be your hedge,"
Two Poems — "My Mother's Poem" and "In Youngs Creek"

Watson, Ellen Doré.
Sunday Morning — "The mullah wore beautiful shoes"

Webb, Charles Harper.
Modern Miracles — "Saints no longer levitate at vespers, keening"
The New World Book of Webbs — "The brochure shows a boat passing the Statue of Liberty"
A Ticklish Situation — "Then there is the question: how to disrobe for swimming?"

Wehle, Ellen.
The Song of 10 — "From the Romans' decem our decibels and decimal system, O tenfold"

Wei, Wang / tr. Hinton, David.
9/9, Thinking of My Brothers East of the Mountains — "Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign"

Weisburd, Stefi.
The Bull — "In the beginning, he enjoyed volume"

Wells, Robert.
Sybarites — "The coin of our pleasure,"

Wenthe, William.
Groucho and Tom — "Tom, with a bitter twist"

Wetzsteon, Rachel.
Two Poems — "Manhattan Triptych" and "Sakura Park"

Wheeler, Susan.
That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour — "Purse be full again, or else must I die. This is the wish"

White, Michael.
"Plat à Décor — "Whatever my expectations coming here —"
Study — "Unseasonable January's"

White, Philip.
Keepsake — "We had our days, didn't we — sun-stained,"

Wier, Dara.
A Stick, A Cup, A Bowl, A Comb — "These were some of their laws:"

Wilder, Rex.
Two Poems — "Sounding Aboard the Rafaella" and "The Flood"

Williams, C. K.
Blackbird — "There was nothing I could have done —"
Thighs — "The very great, very tall, truly out of human scale basketball player has been injured..."

Williams, John Hartley.
Summit — "A hungry wind devours your breath"

Wiman, Christian.
Two Poems — "Darkness Starts" and "Reading Herodotus"
Two Poems — "The Secret" and "A Poem Is Not a Prayer"

Wing, Catherine.
Paradise-Un — "In the beginning God, unaccompanied,"

Witek, Terri.
Noah at Dusk — "Horizon by horizon, the sea had dropped,"
Stomacher — "Put on a front and you're a man with a codpiece,"

Wojahn, David.
Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane — "Two new words a day & sometimes three — cup & doll, yesterday throat..."

Wolff, Daniel.
Honey Suckles — "In caves created by waves of wild rose"

Woo, David.
My Mother's Hands — "Now that she's ashamed of their ancient burls and gibbous knobs —"

Woodsum, Douglas Woody.
Fourteener 279 — "Please help me get this pig, dear Lord, into my truck."

Wright, Charles.
Two Poems — "Appalachian Farewell" and "High Country Canticle"

Wright, Franz.
Prescience — "We speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplished"
Woods Hole Ferry — "Crossing briefly this mirrory still Galilean blue water to the heaven"

Yenser, Stephen.
Tidepools: La Jolla — "Quick, mystic — this is the world's profoundest mirror."

Young, David.
Black Labrador — "Churchill called his bad visits from depression"

Young, Dean.
Sean Penn Anti-Ode — "Must Sean Penn always look like he's squeezing"

Zavatsky, Bill.
Monologue — "Thank you, but since you"

Zohar, Nati (tr.)
Ararat — "After the ark plunges out of the water"

Zwicky, Jan.
History — "It is quiet now."