Poetry Daily Archive — Indexed by Title

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

13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness

Kane, Mary. — "he has a lizard"

1 in 300

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

9/9, Thinking of My Brothers East of the Mountains

Wei, Wang / tr. Hinton, David. — "Each year on this auspicious day, alone and foreign"

Absence

Macari, Anne Marie. — "Talking to the children's absence, you imagine them"

Acrostic: Outhouse

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

Adelaide

Nadelberg, Amanda. — "Was walking on"

Ad Tacitum: Renderings from Tacitus

McFadden, Kevin. — "To relate a few facts... without bitterness or partiality..."

After Callimachus

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

All Over Ireland

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

Already the Heart

Christie, A. V. — "The spinal cord blossoms"

Anabasis

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

Anatomy of Failure

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

Aphasic Echolalia

Beasley, Bruce. — "Lord if soul if Lord if soul preserve"

Ararat

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

Ardor

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

Aristophanes at the Woodpile

Chute, Robert. — "The wind-fall Maple yields"

Aristotle in the Middle Ages

Parini, Jay. — "They came from everywhere to that long table"

Army Tales

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

As I Am

McNair, Wesley. — "Behind my false beard"

Asking for More

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

At Home

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

At Last

Bryan, Sharon. — "At last, a reason"

The Atrophy of Private Life

Moxley, Jennifer. — "In the heavy fashion magazines strewn here and there around the house..."

At the Same Time

Boruch, Marianne. — "An annotated list: rain, not"

Auden

Jarman, Mark. — "How did it feel to have X-ray vision"

Autopsy

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

Autumnal

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

Autumn Passage

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

Avenir (Future)

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

Back

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

Barometric

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

Beast

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

Becoming American

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

Berries

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

Bice Blue and the Continuous Present

Potts, Lynne. — "Past perfect — mode of leaving well enough alone,"

Big Doors

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

Blackbird

Williams, C. K. — "There was nothing I could have done —"

Black Labrador

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

Blind Spot

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

The Blow

Goedicke, Patricia. — "Who struck first and where, in what joint"

Blue Dahlias

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

Blue Sky

Chitwood, Michael. — "Everyone he knew believed in God."

The Blues in Your Own Backyard

Ferrell, Patricia. — "Love my onion rings,"

Blue Umbrella

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

Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane

Wojahn, David. — "Two new words a day & sometimes three — cup & doll, yesterday throat..."

Bones

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

The Brain Tells Us What Is Real

Halme III, Kathleen. — "The nuptials were so sweet. The papier-mâché swan"

Breakfast with Bonnard

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

The British Countryside in Pictures

McMichael, James. — "The frontispiece fixes as"

Bronze Age Helmet

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

Building the Boats

Kane, Joan. — "Yellow-lit beneath stretched"

The Bull

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

Burning Towers, Standing Wall

Gander, Forrest. — "At sunset the surface of the wall gleams gold gleaming"

The Catalog Department

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

Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Starlings

Donlan, John — "Birds repeat their parents' songs"

The Chair She Sits In

Ríos, Alberto. — "I've heard this thing where, when someone dies,"

Charles Street, Late November

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

Chases in Arras

Kirchwey, Karl. — "At a B&B in sober Ocean Grove"

Cheap

Goedicke, Patricia. — "Yesterday drinking too much cheap white wine,"

Chess Match Ends in Fight

Hernandez, David. — "As one opponent calling out checkmate"

The City

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

City Moon/Luna urbana

Aragón, Francisco. — "Perfect disc of moon, huge"

Colosseum

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

Commission

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

from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

Orr, Gregory. — "Resurrection of the body of the beloved,"

Contract Law

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

Coronation

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

Corsons Inlet

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

Cortez Arrives at San Juan de Ulloa

Keplinger, David. — "He belongs to no one now."

Counterman

Paul Violi. — "What'll it be?"

Country Burial

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

Coyotes in Greenwich!

Sheehan, Julie. — "Here hedges are upholstered, each cobblestone"

A Crosstown Breeze

Taylor, Henry. — "A drift of wind"

The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice

Bang, Mary Jo. — "And tightens until language can't bear this"

Crush

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

Coupons

Skeen, Tim. — "The cashier leans forward"

The Daily Racing Form

Seidman, Hugh. — "On my last day at the DRF,"

Danielle Suite

Goldbarth, Albert. — "The real story is: that they"

Day-lily

Stewart, Susan. — "Unrecognizable now, a mash"

A Day Unlike Any Other

Haug, James. — "When Rutherford B. Hayes comes to town,"

Dear Reader

Collins, Billy. — "Baudelaire considers you his brother, / and Fielding calls out to you..."

Death, Etc.

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

Death of a Gull

Mathis, Cleopatra. — "Worse than his pain was his acceptance,"

Decadence

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

Departures

Makuck, Peter. — "At Island Harbor"

Descending Theology: The Resurrection

Karr, Mary. — "From the far star points of his pinned extremities,"

The Dissident Student

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

Down by the Riverside / Por la orilla del río

Hamer, Forrest / tr. Guzmán, Argel Corpus. — "During the time Daddy was becoming Dad, / Durante los años en que papi se convertía en papa,"

Dowsing for Joy

Skloot, Floyd. — "The dowser says he can discover joy"

Dress Rehearsal

Skloot, Floyd. — "His second act costume weighs fifteen pounds,"

"east east the great lake"

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

Edge

Grennan, Eamon. — "When I'd walked out to the sea surfing and spuming"

Elaine, 1919

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

Elegance

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

The Elgin Marbles

McCombs, Davis. — "When Elgin contemplates"

Empty similes

Hicok, Bob. — "Like standing in front of a woman who says thank you"

Ends

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

Enemies of Enormity

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

Entry-Level Elegy

Monson, Ander. — "One is gone, we know; now"

from Epitaphs

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

The evolving landscape

Hicok, Bob. — "The high acres belong to grass, the farmer"

The Exile Speaks

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

Exist

Swann, Brian. — "As a kid I never thought of 'pain' as"

Family Reunion

Merrin, Jeredith. — "The divorced mother and her divorcing"

Far Away Lake

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

Far Niente

McHugh, Heather. — "Nothing's far"

Feast of the Ascension, 2004. Planting Hibiscus

Hopler, Jay. — "From being to being an idea, nothing comes through that intact."

Feeding the Fire

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

Fidelity

Selby, Spencer. — "Through firm resolve"

Finding Vespers

Smith, R. T. — "The wasp on the sill"

Fire in the Doll's House

Brent, Frances. — "The paper house ignites"

The Fire Museum

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

First Breath Last Breath

Antler. — "When a baby boy is born"

First Love

Szymborska, Wislawa. — "They say / the first love's most important."

Flying Home

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

For a Row of Laurel Shrubs

Wagoner, David. — "They don't want to be your hedge,"

Forgiveness

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

Fourteener 279

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

Francis Bacon in His Studio

Gehrke, Steve. — "Like a man sitting inside his own decay,"

Fuel

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

Furniture of the World

Nilsson, Kathy. — "Seeing birds flush, you fall to your knees."

The Game of Tennis in Irish History

Groarke, Vona. — "Blame Lady Alice Howard and her diary of 1873"

Games from Children

Stewart, Susan. — "I lost my copper key"

from the Georgics, Book IV

Virgil / tr. Ferry, David. — "It's true for bees as it is for human beings:"

Get Back to Where You Once Belonged

Hart, Henry. — "If you practice, the New Age guru said,"

Getting Kicked by a Fetus

Silano, Martha. — "Like right before you reach your floor, just"

Ghazal: Waiting

Hacker, Marilyn. — "What follows when imagination's not inspired by waiting,"

Good

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

Grampa's Liquor Bottles

Newman, Richard. — "Stiff in our black funeral ties and jackets,"

Granite from Sugar Water

Lyons, Richard. — "On 'Purple Shades,' to Johnny Griffin's sax,"

Grass Widow

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

A Great Man's House

Szymborska, Wislawa. — "It was written in marble in golden letters:"

Groucho and Tom

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

The Gulf

Kimbrell, James. — "On the fourth birthday of your afterlife"

The Guru

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

Habitus

Satterlee, Thom. — "All morning he read from a thick volume"

Haircut

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

Hamlet

Koethe, John. — "It was math and physics all the way,"

The Hands’ Testament

Swensen, Cole. — "The face veils and gates"

Happiness after Grief

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

The Happy Friend

Mason, David. — "How the happy friend became"

Hatteras Lighthouse

Murawski, Elisabeth. — "We laugh and pant for our hearts"

Hephaistos

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

Here

Kercheval, Jesse Lee. — "I am walking"

Heroine

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

History

Zwicky, Jan. — "It is quiet now."

Hole

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

The Holy Men of Jersey

Voorakkara, Sharmila. — "By the audible vaudeville of laundry lines,"

Homage to Lupe

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

Home Front and Gardens

Glaser, Elton. — "Why am I standing here with this American Beauty, its roots"

Homecoming

Skloot, Floyd. — "The place he always hoped to live"

Honey Suckles

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

The Hoopoe's Crown

Osherow, Jacqueline. — "I suppose it's something I should embrace:"

Hoops

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

Hopkins Forest

Bonnefoy, Yves / tr. Torracinta, Pascale & Thomas, Harry. — "I'd gone out"

A house at a crossroad, beside a grove, composes another house to take as a husband

Lindsay, Nina. — "I made him appear"

House Guest

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

How Folklore Starts

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

Hummingbird

Laux, Dorianne. — "We buried the hummingbird"

Icarus Descending

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

If Only

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

The Ill-Tempered Clavier

Paloff, Benjamin. — "I sing of arms and ears in piles,"

Image on a Sandstone Disc

Pape, Greg. — "Snakes conjured up"

In a Field

Spires, Elizabeth. — "Like stones"

Introduction to Poetry

Collins, Billy. — "I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide..."

The Invitation

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

I Pass the Arctic Circle

Hauge, Olav H. / tr. Hedin, Robert. — "A man on the train points to the cairn on the mountain."

[I Step Outside Myself]

Bachmann, Ingeborg / tr. Filkins, Peter. — I step outside"

I Think Stan Done It

Kirby, David. — "After my poem 'I Think Satan Done It' appears in"

[I want to build]

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

It Was Yoked to a Black Hunger

Levin, Dana. — "The raven lifted."

Jittery

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

Job Interview

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

The Jubilee! The Jubilee!

Logan, William. — "It was a landscape full of itself: disfigured arches"

Just as This Island Belongs to the Gulls...

de Coninck, Herman / tr. Bosselaar, Laure-Anne and Brown, Kurt. — "Just as this island belongs to the gulls,"

Keel of Earth's Axis

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

Keepsake

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

Kindertoten

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

Kingdom Come

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

The Kiss

Dunn, Stephen. — "How many years I must have yearned"

Lake Effect

Glaser, Elton. — "Pewter this morning, and shadows,"

A Lamb by Its Ma

Twichell, Chase. — "Just before it rains, the lilacs"

Landfarer: A Wife's Log

Benedict, Elinor. — "My first ocean"

Lantern Festival

Chang, Victoria. — "Some open like accordions, honoring the arrival of a newborn,"

The Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers

Belieu, Erin. — "Southern romantic that you always"

The Last Time

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

The Laughter of Adam and Eve: A Detail

Sommer, Jason. — "As has been established in Midrash"

The Law

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

Le Sancerre: September

Hacker, Marilyn. — "September morning schemes of the possible:"

Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail

Dolin, Sharon. — ". . . out of your niche, Galatea'd on hate,"

Letter to State Hospital

Millar, Joseph. — "You've told me the light you will read this by"

Let This World Endure

Bonnefoy, Yves / tr. Rogers, Hoyt. — "I right a broken branch."

Liberation of Dissonance

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

Library

Goldbarth, Albert. — "This book saved my life."

Lightning at Dinner

Moore, Jim. — "Basta! shouts the waiter,"

Lilacs on My Birthday

Peseroff, Joyce. — "The flowerets look edible before they open,"

Lincoln's Tunnel

Prunty, Wyatt. — "Born during war, I slept by rivers,"

Little Immortality Poem

Cooley, Peter. — "Alone among animals"

Living Sacrifices

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

Local Heroes

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

The Locust Song

Goldbarth, Albert. — "The tyranny of poets: 'Like.' O we were like"

Logo Rhythms

Elder, Karl. — "Judas's cockeyed"

The Long Queen

Duffy, Carol Ann. — "The Long Queen couldn't die."

Loose Leaf from a Destroyed Journal

Sheehan, Julie. — "In my dream's dream"

Los amantes de Tlatelolco / The Lovers of Tlatelolco

Cross, Elsa / tr. Sood, Sheena. — "Apenas se desprenden de la sombra. / They barely emerge from the shadow."

The Los Angeles at Lankershim

Brown, Andrea Carter. — "After dark when the Santa Anas"

Love at Thirty-two Degrees

Larson, Katherine. — "Today I dissected a squid,"

Love Nips of the Boa

Lieberman, Laurence. — "Secret despoiler of herds,"

Lower Manhattan Pantoum

Sexton, Elaine. — "Always a bad sign"

Lullaby

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

Lullaby for a Colicky Baby

Stallings, A. E. — "For crying out loud,"

Luther and the Devil

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

Lyrical

Millar, Joseph. — "The spaniel next door yaps at the sparrows,"

Maiden Name

Pastan, Linda. — "My daughter's teacher is named"

Maintenon Postcard

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

The Man Who Vanished

Manzione, Gianmarc. — "Assembling unsheathed cloves of garlic"

March 17th

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

A Marriage Must Be Worked At

Chitwood, Michael. — "Newlyweds on the honeymoon trip,"

Marvell Noir

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

Mehmet Sniffing a Rose

Bever, Lillias. — "It is an unlikely pose:"

Midwestern Summer: My Dead Mother as Muse

Roeser, Dana. — "My mother doesn't"

Miscegenation

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

Miss Congeniality

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

Missive in an Icelandic Room 3

Ball, Jesse. — "Clever remarks were no good,"

Miss October

Loden, Rachel. — "If I have to be a playmate"

Modern Miracles

Webb, Charles Harper. — "Saints no longer levitate at vespers, keening"

Monologue

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

More Scenes from a Body

Triplett, Pimone. — "As for that field, mud-rutted, a stammer"

Mother's Friend

Jarman, Mark. — "We stopped by and she greeted us so happily,"

Mozart's Requiem

Macari, Anne Marie. — "That night in Prague I dreamed singing, lacrimosa,"

Mrs. Robinson

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

Mycorrhizae

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

My Father's Track and Field Medal, 1932

Hirsch, Edward. — "Cup the tarnished metal in your palm."

My First Mermaid

Greger, Debora. — "In Florida, where these things can happen,"

My Mother's Hands

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

My Name Is Donald

Revell, Donald. — "Like a fish on a hedge, the horsefly"

myopia

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

My Skittish Scottish Accent

Boutelle, Annie. — "Where do you hide? Why do you leap"

The Mysteries

Kirby, David. — "My new friend Mario Materassi has invited me to dinner"

My Three Eclipses

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

Naked

Swann, Brian. — "Here springs spurt, over and over,"

The Names of Things

Harrison, Jeffrey. — "Just after breakfast and still"

Nasturtium

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

Near Hag's Head

Tobin, Daniel. — "This headland is the battered prow"

A New Poet

Pastan, Linda. — "Finding a new poet / is like finding a new wildflower / out in the woods."

The New World Book of Webbs

Webb, Charles Harper. — "The brochure shows a boat passing the Statue of Liberty"

New Year, with Nipperkin

Kenney, Richard. — "And so the world begins again"

Noah at Dusk

Witek, Terri. — "Horizon by horizon, the sea had dropped,"

The Nosebleed

Hadas, Rachel. — "Waiting for a Bennington light to change, I"

No Surrender

Gibson, Dobby. — "Now that my poetry is finished"

Nothing's As It Should Be

Phillips, Robert. — "The pie is not easy."

The Not-To-Be-Named

Greene, James. — "The technicians"

November 18

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

Oatmeal

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

Obedience, or The Lying Tale

Chang, Jennifer. — "I will do everything you tell me, Mother."

Odyssey

Hicok, Bob. — "I sat in different places with different winds:"

"Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly"

Goldbarth, Albert. — "We believed they were horses; and so"

Old Age

Hoffman, Daniel. — "When it began he was already losing"

Olives

Stallings, A. E. — "Sometimes a craving comes for salt, not sweet,"

Olympiad

Jones, Rodney. — "Between time and place"

On Broadway

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

One Self

Collins, Billy. — "I am trying to imagine that I am someone else,"

One Story of Conversion

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

One-Time Use

Allen, Richard D. — "Camera in a twelve-room house."

On Munsungun

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

On Rereading "Ode to Duty"

Goldstein, Laurence. — "Most derided and feared of all midlife poems,"

On Tenterhooks

Allen, Dick. — "Suspense seldom kills, but too often"

Opera Bouffe

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

Or Thorns Compose So Rich a Crown

Pankey, Eric. — "The greens — kingfisher, fern, cut shoot, mineral — constellate amid the understory."

Otherworld

Greenway, William. — "This is where a woman fell"

Our Generation

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

Overcast

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

Packing up the Lute

Snodgrass, W. D. — "I ease you down, your strings set loose"

Pangur Bán

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

Paper Anniversary

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

Paper Anniversary

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

Paradise-Un

Wing, Catherine. — "In the beginning God, unaccompanied,"

Parsing Mother

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

Partch Stations

Holmes, Janet. — "You only put that music on to annoy people, she said."

Parts of a Story

Graham, Mary Walker. — "Or, it could go like this, since"

Pastoral

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

A Phone Call to the Future

Salter, Mary Jo. — "Who says science fiction"

The Pier Aspiring

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

"Plat à Décor

White, Michael. — "Whatever my expectations coming here —"

Pliers

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

Poem for Jenny

Osherow, Jacqueline. — "Larkspur and delphinium, wild and tame"

Poppies

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

The Population

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

Porch

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

Postcard from the Party

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

Postcard to Henry James

Stein, Kevin. — "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here..."

Posthumous

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

Postmortem

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

Prelude XVIII

Sobin, Gustaf. — ". . . for the taut, overlapping ligature of the"

Prescience

Wright, Franz. — "We speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplished"

The Private Meditations of John Wyclif: On Angels

Satterlee, Thom. — "By now no one cares how many would fit on the head of a pin."

Proof

Chang, Victoria. — "They say my great-uncle read foreign books"

Proof

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

P.S.

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

Pyramid Scheme

Powell, Jim. — "Crone,"

Quail

Kiesselbach, Dore. — "Going where the car"

from Quarantine

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

Racial Profile #2

Jordan, June. — "You bring out the Jamaica in me"

Rapture

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

Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall

Gonzalez, Ray. — "Seven of them pinned in blood by"

Reflectors: Drive 1

Kinsella, John. — "At The Lakes, the V takes you away"

Relativity

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

Repair

Kirchwey, Karl. — "The parquet has become all sinks and man-traps,"

Report from My Own Backyard

Buck, Paula Closson. — "October's done its mischief here already."

Resistance

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

The Restorers

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

Results

Armantrout, Rae. — "Click here to vote"

Return

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

Riding Westward

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

A Riff of Zoloft

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

Rough Beast

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

Sacrament

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

Sand

Seyburn, Patty. — "It's not mine"

Save Me Joe Louis

Calvocoressi, Gabrielle. — "When I was small no one stopped the fights."

Schemes

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

Sean Penn Anti-Ode

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

from the Second Georgic

Virgil / tr. Ferry, David. — "O greatly fortunate farmers, if only they knew"

Self and Soul

Longenbach, James. — "When you reach the cliffs"

Self-Portrait in Ink

Beasley, Bruce. — "As the gone-"

Separate Camp

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

Shocks

Hoffman, Daniel. — "Trouble with the brakes? I'll have a look"

Shoes

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

The Shout

Armitage, Simon. — "We went out"

The Singers I Prefer

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

Sleeping with Women

Koch, Kenneth. — "Caruso: a voice."

Sleepwalker

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

Slow Fade to Black

Ellis, Thomas Sayers. — "Like a clothesline of whites"

Snow

Hart, Kevin. — "Some days"

Solstice: voyeur

Hicok, Bob. — "I watched the young couple walk into the tall grass and close"

Some Days I Feel Like Janet Leigh

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

Something About the Stars

Althaus, Keith. — "They are blind,"

Song for Autumn

Oliver, Mary. — "In the deep fall"

Song for My Daughter

Smith, Bruce. — "There is a space both small and vast between"

The Song of 10

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

Song for Sampson

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

Sound View

Becker, Robin. — "Like driftwood,"

Spellbind

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

The Spirit of the Staircase

Greenlaw, Lavinia. — "In our game of flight, half-way down"

Spring

Levin, Dana. — "The sun, in shafts and spades."

Springtime, 1998

Carruth, Hayden. — "Our upstate April"

Starr Farm Beach

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

A Stick, A Cup, A Bowl, A Comb

Wier, Dara. — "These were some of their laws:"

Still Life with Jonquils

Budy, Andrea Hollander. — "The usual bowl of fruit, yes,"

Stomacher

Witek, Terri. — "Put on a front and you're a man with a codpiece,"

Story of My Life

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

Street Corner

Hillman, Brenda. — "There was an angle"

Stroke

Greenway, William. — "Johnny Cloud had one the summer"

Stubby Sag Harbor Sonnet

Bell, Marvin. — "The petty interference with light occasioned by shade."

Study

White, Michael. — "Unseasonable January's"

Subway Seethe

Rosser, J. Allyn. — "What could have been the big to-do"

Suddenly

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

Suddenly Signs

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

Summit

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

Sunday Morning

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

Sunflowers in a Field

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

Surely

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

Sursum Corda

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

The Swimmers

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

Take Comfort Where You Can

Chitwood, Michael. — "Not for nothing"

Tale

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

Testament

Sobin, Gustaf. — ". . . that part that"

That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour

Wheeler, Susan. — "Purse be full again, or else must I die. This is the wish"

That Nothing

McNair, Wesley. — "In the moment"

Thé Dansant

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

They All Sang

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

They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office

Kooser,Ted. — "They had torn off my face at the office."

Thighs

Williams, C. K. — "The very great, very tall, truly out of human scale basketball player has been injured..."

Thinking of John Clare

Starbuck, Kathryn. — "I lived like a gnostic watchman"

This

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

Thoughts at Paliani

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

Three Greek Lyric Poems

Santos, Sherod. — "Abantian Warriors," "Concerning a Young Woman," "Water Drinkers"

Three-Piece

Heaney, Seamus. — " 'I'll make you one,' he said, 'and balance it...' "

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

Cavafy, C. P. / tr. Barnstone, Aliki — "When the Watchman Saw the Light," "Che Fece... Il Gran Rifiuto," "Days of 1909, '10, and '11"

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

Merwin, W. S. — "To Waiting," "To Impatience," "To Grief"

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

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

Three Poems

Sorescu, Marin / tr. Sorkin, Adam J. and Vianu, Lidia. — "Elegy," "A Glimmer," "A Turn for the Better"

Three Poems

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

A Thrush by Utamaro

Grennan, Eamon. — "Although it looks the picture of perfect balance..."

A Ticklish Situation

Webb, Charles Harper. — "Then there is the question: how to disrobe for swimming?"

Tidepools: La Jolla

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

To Failure

Skeen, Tim. — "You and I are like a marriage of convenience"

To Fishermen

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

To Immerse the Weight

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

Tomfoolery, Seventeen

McFadden, Kevin. — "Too shy for girls, yet there they were,"

Too Close

Greger, Debora. — "I haven't met you yet. I'm out the door,"

To the Soul

Merwin, W. S. — "Is anyone there"

To the Trespasser

Barber, David. — "A quiet akin to ruins —"

To You

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

Travel

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

Traveling Alone

Collins, Billy. — "At the hotel coffee shop that morning,"

Travel Plans

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

Traveling Light

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

Tree Ghost

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

Trees

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

The Tree That Plucks Fruit

Hearne, Vicki. — "The tree that from the bare air"

Trust

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

Trying to Be Penitent

Barbarese, J. T. — "on the leather pews,"

Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake

Bidart, Frank. — "Intricate to celebrate still-delicate"

Turtle and Two Girls

Grennan, Eamon. — "Sun-glossed blunt head of a turtle over water."

Twilight: After Haying

Kenyon, Jane. — "Yes, long shadows go out"

Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale

Pankey, Eric. — "Attentive as one is to a whisper, the children wade..."

Two Lines

Beckman, Joshua & Rohrer, Matthew. — "I fell at the party."

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Ball, Jesse. — "Parades" and "I Followed a Ribbon"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Canaday, John. — "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"

Two Poems

Chiasson, Dan. — "After Party" and "Peeled Horse"

Two Poems

Chiasson, Dan. — "Pliny I & II" and "'There Is a Star in the Sea'"

Two Poems

Chiasson, Dan. — "The Hyenas" and "The Bear"

Two Poems

Collins, Billy. — "Theme" and "Freud"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Dunn, Stephen. — "In the Open Field" and "The Insistence of Beauty"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Goldbarth, Albert. — "Washington's Ovens, Adamses' Letters" and "Problemata Aristotelis"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Grennan, Eamon. — [Now the buried stones...] and [When that great conflagration...]

Two Poems

Groarke, Vona. — "Re-gifting" and "Parnell"

Two Poems

Hacker, Marilyn (tr.) — "The Forgotten Traveler" and "To Cavafy"

Two Poems

Hahn, Susan. — "Conclusion I" & "The Interior of the Sun III"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Heaney, Seamus. — "The Nod" and "A Clip"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Karr, Mary. — "Delinquent Missive" and "Who the Meek Are Not"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Lerman, Eleanor. — "The Mystery of Meteors" & "One Night in the 7-Eleven"

Two Poems

Logan, William. — "The Rotting Stars" and "Horseneck Beach Odalisque"

Two Poems

McGrath, Campbell. — "Hiroshige" and "Eclogue"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Twenty-third

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Rosser, J. Allyn. — "Gym Dance with the Doors Wide Open" and "The Smell of Rat Rubs Off"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Simic, Charles. — "Description of a Lost Thing" and "Talk Radio"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Snodgrass, W. D. — "Elena Ceauçescu's Bed" and "Lady!—""

Two Poems

Stallings, A. E. — "Fragment" and "The Song Rehearsal"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Wagoner, David. — "My Mother's Poem" and "In Youngs Creek"

Two Poems

Welch, James. — "In My First Hard Springtime" and "Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat"

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

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

Two Poems

Wiman, Christian. — "Darkness Starts" and "Reading Herodotus"

Two Poems

Wiman, Christian. — "The Secret" and "A Poem Is Not a Prayer"

Two Poems

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

Two Wheeler Spins

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

Undid in the Land of Undone

Upton, Lee. — "All the things I wanted to do and didn't"

The United States

Jones, Rodney. — "If you asked what it is all about"

The Uninvited

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

The Unlasting

Koethe, John. — "Like a vain man practicing a vain art,"

Used One Speed, Princeton

Fried, Daisy. — "I painted my bike purple,"

Up Late, Reading Whitman

Kimbrell, James. — "whose soul was like a spider, but was also like the grass,"

Vacation Sex

Laux, Dorianne. — "We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border"

Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove

Stevenson, Anne. — "'A wind blows through the clock.'"

The Verge

Hadas, Rachel. — "Since her stroke, your mother calls the state"

Versed

Armantrout, Rae. — "The self-monitoring function"

Very Hot Day

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

Via Appia

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

The View from Zero Bridge

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

Visitation Rights

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

The Visitor

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

Viva Vox

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

Voyage

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

Walking

Chitwood, Michael. — "At the same time every morning"

Wandering Uterus

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

The Wanton Life

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

The Weight of the Inside of the Body

Hamilton, Saskia. — "It is a good thing to be in the vestibule."

The Welcome

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

What Did the Children Know and When Did They Know It?

Roeser, Dana. — "I kept the secret well."

what happened to walter?

Antin, David. — "i came here with something on my mind..."

What the Gravedigger Needs

Loden, Rachel. — "overalls"

When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959

Hodgen, John. — "Not even Dylan then, more like David the Blue-Eyed Shepherd Boy Giant Killer instead,"

The Whistler and His Dogs

Swann, Brian. — "I steal out to see stars"

White Buildings by Water with Steps Going Down

Greenway, William. — "This scene of my dreams"

White on White

Leithauser, Hailey. — "Rug dropped sugar,"

The Wide World

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

Willow

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

Winter Field

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

Wishful Rhetoric

Stein, Kevin. — "Finis. I love the oh-so-postmodern opening —"

With and Without

Gregory, Robert. — "I'm walking in the everyday (like everyday) and looking"

Without a Compass

Erba, Luciano / tr. Snodgrass, Ann. — "According to Darwin, I should be extinct."

Witness's House

Hall, Donald. — "From the scratchy sleep of old age,"

Woman in the Painting

Budy, Andrea Hollander. — "Her face has disappeared. This happens"

The Wooden Toy

Simic, Charles. — "The brightly-painted horse"

Woods Hole Ferry

Wright, Franz. — "Crossing briefly this mirrory still Galilean blue water to the heaven"

Woofer (When I Consider the African-American)

Hayes, Terrance. — "When I consider the much discussed dilemma"

The World According to Narcissus

Leo, Teresa. — "Her. But not her. Her. N.'s whole world"

Wyclif Practices the Art of Definition While Walking to His Morning Class

Satterlee, Thom. — "A door is an opening one goes in"

You Got a Song, Man

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

You Miss It

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

Zephyr

Pastan, Linda. — "The three slender poplar trees"

Zion

Revell, Donald. — "Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood."