Double Features: Poems to Read Together

Double Features:
Poems to Read Together

*In the Sweetness of Her Holy Loins*
Anonymous
	Inanna spoke [from The Cycle of Inanna: The Courtship of Inanna and Dumazi; c. 2000 BC; Akkadian; trans. DianeWolkstein & Samuel Noah Kramer]
Adelaide Crapsey
	Susanna and the Elders
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	Stronghold [trans. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
Derek Mahon
	Morning
Mira Bai
	My love is in my house [trans. Willis Barnstone & Usha Nilsson]
Grace Paley
	Here
John Crowe Ransom
	Judith of Bethulia
William Butler Yeats
	Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Robert Ronnow
	Of Judith and Inanna

*A Person Is a Person Because of Other People*
Anonymous
	The Blacksmiths [c. 1400-1500]
Elizabeth Bishop
	Letter to N.Y.
Jefferson Carter
	Life Partner
Jeremy Cronin
	Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because of Other People)
Stephen Dunn
	The Imagined
Robert Hass
	Some of David's Story
Nazim Hikmet
	About Mount Uludag [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Etheridge Knight
	The Idea of Ancestry
Robert Ronnow
	Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful as These Purposes

*The Fact of Dying*
Anonymous
	The Day We Die [c. 1800-1925; San; trans. Arthur Markowitz]
Emily Dickinson
	I died for Beauty–but was scarce
Tom Disch
	The Art of Dying
William Empson
	Ignorance of Death
Robert Francis
	Past Tense
	Simple Death
Jack Gilbert
	Michiko Dead
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Making a Fist
Wallace Stevens
	The Death of a Soldier
Robert Ronnow
	Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

*The Clouds Go, Nevertheless, In Their Direction*
Anonymous
	The Day We Die [c. 1800-1925; San; trans. Arthur Markowitz]
Tom Disch
	March
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Clearing
Robert Francis
	Clouds
Philip Larkin
	Cut Grass
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Gift [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Wallace Stevens
	The Death of a Soldier
May Swenson
	Question
Robert Ronnow
	Passion Is Its Own Predicament

*Horseman, Pass By!*
Anonymous
	Death [c. ?; Welsh; trans. Aneirin Talfan Davies]
W.H. Auden
	In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Thomas Hardy
	The Going
Anne Killigrew
	On Death
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Moriturus
Alex Wilkerson
	The Choice
Elinor Wylie
	Sea Lullaby
William Butler Yeats
	Under Ben Bulben
Robert Ronnow
	Cast a cold eye and wait

*I Shall Bolt My Door*
Anonymous
	Death [c. ?; Welsh; trans. Aneirin Talfan Davies]
Fergus Allen
	To Be Read Before Being Born
Tom Disch
	How to Behave when Dead
Natalya Gorbanyevskaya
	And there is nothing at all–--neither fear [trans. David Weissbort]
Derek Mahon
	The Joycentenary Ode
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Moriturus
Molly Peacock
	The Fare
Elinor Wylie
	Prophecy
Robert Ronnow
	Negotiation

*Because I Could Not Stop For Death*
Anonymous
	Death Is Before Me Today [c. 1900 B.C.; Egyptian; trans. W.S. Merwin]
Emily Dickinson
	Because I could not stop for Death
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Trick or Treat [from Three for the Bones]
Robert Frost
	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Donald Justice
	Incident in a Rose Garden (2)
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
Marko Vesovic
	Immortal Instant [trans. Chris Agee]
Robert Ronnow
	Perfect Rest

*A Formal Feeling Comes*
Anonymous
	Death Is Before Me Today [c. 1900 B.C.; Egyptian; trans. W.S. Merwin]
Emily Dickinson
	After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Thomas Hardy
	Afterwards
John Keats
	When I have fears that I may cease to be
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	Mezzo Cammin
John Masefield
	There, on the Darkened Deathbed
William Shakespeare
	When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced [Sonnet 64]
Ken Slaughter
	will I hear it
Robert Ronnow
	Crows, bluejays and pigeons

*Do You Remember?*
Anonymous
	Do You Remember That Night [c. 1800-1900; Irish Gaelic; trans. George Petrie]
Tess Gallagher
	The Ritual of Memories
Jean Garrigue
	Remember That Country
Vladimir Holan
	June, July, and August, 1945 [trans. C.G. Hanzlicek & Dana Habova]
Christina Rossetti
	Remember
	Song
Stevie Smith
	I Remember
Robert Ronnow
	Insignificance

*The Brave Fighter's Fine Shield Shines*
Anonymous
	Huntsong for a Small Son [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Anonymous
	Little Friend [c. 1940-1945?]
Anonymous
	Winter [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Julia Ward Howe
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]
Mark Twain
	The War Prayer
Walt Whitman
	Dirge for Two Veterans
Robert Ronnow
	Until the fight is done

*If It Escapes Then It Can Fly*
Anonymous
	Huntsong for a Small Son [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
	The Names of the Hare [c. 1200-1300; Middle English; trans. Seamus Heaney]
Eustache Deschamps
	Ballade 1 [trans. David Curzon & Jeffrey Fiskin]
Donald Finkel
	Hunting Song
D.H. Lawrence
	Man and Bat
Judith Wright
	Legend
Thomas Wyatt
	Whoso List to Hunt
Robert Ronnow
	Flying. Beeing.

*Her Kind*
Anonymous
	I will make love [c. 1000-1300; Spanish; trans. Willis Barnstone]
	Song of a Marriageable Girl [c. 1800-1900; Pygmy; trans. Willard Trask]
Rosellen Brown
	Thelma was the one in our class most likely to— [from Cora Fry's Pillow Book]
Judy Grahn
	Ella, in a Square Apron, along Highway 80 [from The Common Woman Poems]
	Helen, at 9 A.M., at Noon, at 5:15 [from The Common Woman Poems]
Seamus Heaney
	Punishment
A.D. Hope
	Advice to Young Ladies
Anne Sexton
	Her Kind
Robert Ronnow
	Engineers

*Feeling for the Words*
Anonymous
	Magic Words [c. ?; Inuit, trans. Edward Field]
J. Archer Avary
	Tunnel of Insults
William Meredith
	The Illiterate
Rabindranath Tagore
	On My Birthday [trans. William Radice]
Robert Ronnow
	TED Talk

*I'll Drown My Book*
Anonymous
	Magic Words [c. ?; Inuit, trans. Edward Field]
Jorge Luis Borges
	Everything and Nothing [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Rhina P. Espaillat
	"Hard Sciences"
Donald Justice
	Last Days of Prospero
Derek Mahon
	A Stone Age Figure Far Below
William Meredith
	Walter Jenks' Bath
William Shakespeare
	Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves [The Tempest: V, i, 33-57]
Robert Ronnow
	Man’s Mood

*Horselum, Bridelum, Ridelum*
Anonymous
	Magic Words [c. ?; Inuit, trans. Edward Field]
Tom Disch
	C [from MCMLXXXIV]
Maxine Hong Kingston
	Idea!: Four-word poems!
William Meredith
	The Illiterate
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
Czeslaw Milosz
	My Faithful Mother Tongue [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Robert Hass]
Wislawa Szymborska
	The Joy of Writing [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Rabindranath Tagore
	On My Birthday [trans. William Radice]
Robert Ronnow
	Words/Day

*To Feed on Rock Lichen and Blue Sky*
Anonymous
	The Names of the Hare [c. 1200-1300; Middle English; trans. Seamus Heaney]
Agha Shahid Ali
	The Dacca Gauzes
Alison Hawthorne Deming
	Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut
Emily Dickinson
	I taste a liquor never brewed–
George Herbert
	Grace
Langston Hughes
	Dream Variations
Donald Justice
	Here in Katmandu
Robert Ronnow
	This World of Dew

*I Eat Men Like Air*
Anonymous
	The Old Woman of Beare [c. 800; Irish Gaelic; trans. Brendan Kenneally]
Amy Clampitt
	Medusa
Dante Alighieri
	Master, I said, tell me more: this Fortune [The Inferno, Canto VII, 67-96; trans. Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander]
Keith Douglas
	Time Eating
Alice Fulton
	Fictions of the Feminine: Quasi-Carnal Creatures from the Cloud Decks of Venus
Sylvia Plath
	Lady Lazarus
Robert Ronnow
	Polar Bear Mugs Wino

*Make Yourself Content*
Anonymous
	The Unquiet Grave [c. 1500]
Emily Bronte
	Remembrance
Thomas Hardy
	Channel Firing
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
	Lethe
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]
Christina Rossetti
	Remember
William Shakespeare
	Fear no more the heat o' the sun [Cymbeline: IV, ii, 258-281]
Rabindranath Tagore
	At midnight a bud opens in the dark forest [trans. David Ray; from Three Prayers: After Tagore, 1]
Robert Ronnow
	Aaron's Coconut

*O Wild West Wind*
Anonymous
	Western Wind [c. 1400-1500]
Emily Dickinson
	There came a Wind like a Bugle
Alan Dugan
	On an East Wind from the Wars
Robert Francis
	Old Man's Confession of Faith
Tom Koontz
	wind flipping the leaves
R. Williams Parry
	Wales 1937
Theodore Roethke
	Big Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
	Ode to the West Wind
Robert Ronnow
	Earth

*It Was Snowing*
Anonymous
	Winter [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Robert Francis
	Old Roofs
Robert Frost
	The Onset
Jane Hirshfield
	One Penny
Victor Hugo
	Expiation [Part 1; trans. Louis Simpson]
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party
Wallace Stevens
	No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
Richard Wilbur
	First Snow in Alsace
Robert Ronnow
	The Art of Appreciating Snow

*Ask Again*
Anonymous
	The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic; trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
Tiel Aisha Ansari
	Dervish Lion
Louis Aragon
	Pop Song
Rae Armantrout
	Fact
Denise Duhamel
	Yes
Robert Francis
	New England Mind
Gabriel Preil
	The Power of a Question [trans. Leon Wieseltier]
Paul Violi
	Counterman
Robert Ronnow
	f(x)

*All the Worlds There Are*
Anonymous
	The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic; trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
Jorge Luis Borges
	Museum [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Amy Clampitt
	Marine Surface Low Overcast
Tina Kelley
	An Adoration of Stenches
Pablo Neruda
	Sidereal eagle, vine of mist [from Summits of Macchu Picchu, IX, trans. Kate Flores]
Bob Perelman
	A Literal Translation of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue
Wislawa Szymborska
	A Contribution to Statistics [trans. Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh]
Ray A. Young Bear
	A Season of Provocations and Other Ethnic Dreams
Robert Ronnow
	Fundamental Physics

*Hold Nothing Back*
Anonymous
	The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic; trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
Fleur Adcock
	The Telephone Call
Fred Chappell
	Scarecrow Colloquy
Jean de la Fontaine
	Phoebus and Boreas [trans. Marianne Moore]
Galway Kinnell
	Conversation
David Ray
	A Journey with Basho
Theocritus
	Idyll I [trans. William Carlos Williams]
Paul Violi
	Counterman
Robert Ronnow
	Popper v. Niebuhr

*Feathers to Hard Iron*
Steve Abbott
	When We Sought Justice
Yehuda Amichai
	A Man in His Life [trans. Chana Bloch]
George Herbert
	Unkindnesse
Kim Kwang-kyu
	North South East West [trans. Brother Anthony of Taize]
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]
Phyllis McGinley
	The Giveaway
Janisse Ray
	Justice
Chidiock Tichborne
	Tichborne’s Elegy
Robert Ronnow
	Enemies

*Let the Friend and the Lover Be Handsomely Mixed*
Fleur Adcock
	Advice to a Discarded Lover
Rudyard Kipling
	The Female of the Species
Linda McCarriston
	Wrought Figure
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Even to the moment of our earliest kiss
Elma Mitchell
	Thoughts After Ruskin
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
	The Lover: A Ballad
Laura Riding
	Summary for Alastor
May Swenson
	A Couple
Robert Ronnow
	Janie Huzzie Bows

*May I Feel*
Fleur Adcock
	Against Coupling
Craig Arnold
	Incubus
W.H. Auden
	The Platonic Blow
e.e. cummings
	may i feel said he
Ron Koertge
	Girl Talk
Amy Lowell
	The Weather-Cock Points South
Sharon Olds
	The Sisters of Sexual Treasure
C.K. Williams
	Combat
Robert Ronnow
	Asexual

*Ibn Batutta, Arabian Traveller*
Fleur Adcock
	England's Glory
Agha Shahid Ali
	In Arabic
Jorge Luis Borges
	Alexandria A.D. 641 [trans. Stephen Kessler]
Robert Olen Butler
	Walter Raleigh, courtier and explorer, beheaded by King James I, 1618
Lars Gustafsson
	Ballad of the Dogs [trans. Philip Martin]
Roger Mitchell
	Utitsialangavik
Charles North
	Chaucer
Janet Sutherland
	The Horses of the Kiraidji
Robert Ronnow
	The Invention of Zero

*Childermas*
Fleur Adcock
	For a Five-Year-Old
Amiri Baraka
	Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Rita Dove
	After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Circling the Jellyfish
Robert Francis
	Boy Sleeping
Anthony Hecht
	"It Out-Herods Herod, Pray You Avoid It"
David Ray
	To a Child of Baghdad
Richard Wilbur
	The Writer
Robert Ronnow
	Occupied

Bee, I'm Expecting You
Fleur Adcock
	For a Five-Year-Old
Cecil Bodker
	Calendar [trans. Nadia Christensen & Alexander Taylor]
Robert Burns
	To a Mouse
Emily Dickinson
	Bee! I'm expecting you
Robert Frost
	A Considerable Speck
Lorine Niedecker
	My mother saw the green toad
Kay Ryan
	Turtle
William Carlos Williams
	The Turtle
Robert Ronnow
	Eastern tent caterpillars

*You Can't Teach Disbelief to a Child*
Fleur Adcock
	For a Five-Year-Old
Stephen Dunn
	At the Smithville Methodist Church
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Circling the Jellyfish
Galway Kinnell
	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Gerald Locklin
	The Best Years of Her Life
William Stafford
	With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach
May Swenson
	The Centaur
Ronald Wallace
	The Facts of Life
Robert Ronnow
	Jones' Nose

*Editing Is Itself An Error*
Fleur Adcock
	Future Work
Fergus Allen
	Genealogy
Rosemary Dobson
	Country Press
Aaron Fogel
	The Printer’s Error
Kenneth Koch
	The Railway Stationery
Bob Perelman
	A Literal Translation of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue
James Simmons
	Written, Directed by and Starring . . .
Arlene Weiner
	Dear Editor:
Robert Ronnow
	Poets Just Wanna Have Fun

*Future Work*
Fleur Adcock
	Future Work
Billy Collins
	The Moment
William Meredith
	Rhode Island
Sylvia Plath
	The Arrival of the Bee Box
Muriel Rukeyser
	Boy With His Hair Cut Short
Kay Ryan
	Force
James Simmons
	Written, Directed by and Starring . . .
Robert Ronnow
	This Summer, As Ever

*Neither Father Nor Lover*
Fleur Adcock
	A Hymn to Friendship
Gregory Corso
	Marriage
Donald Hall
	The Impossible Marriage
Seamus Heaney
	Bog Queen
Eugenio Montale
	Xenia I [trans. G. Singh]
Theodore Roethke
	Elegy for Jane
Marina Tsvetaeva
	Your name is a–bird in my hand [from Poems for Blok; trans. Jean Valentine & Ilya Kaminsky
Miller Williams
	A Poem for Emily
Robert Ronnow
	The Imaginary i

*Wake Up, Your Dreams Are Bad!*
Fleur Adcock
	Mornings After
Jorge Luis Borges
	Ragnarok [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Gunter Eich
	Dreams [trans. Michael Hofmann]
Homer
	Meanwhile awaken'd from his dream of Love [The Iliad, XV: 6-91, trans. Alexander Pope]
Francis Petrarch
	My galley charged with forgetfulness [trans. Thomas Wyatt]
Po Chu-i
	A Dream of Mountaineering [trans. Arthur Waley]
William Shakespeare
	O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you [Romeo and Juliet: I, iv, 53-94]
Jeffrey Skinner
	The New Music Concert: A Drinking Dream
Robert Ronnow
	Jack in His Boxers

*The Sleep of the Tropics*
Fleur Adcock
	A Surprise in the Peninsula
Fergus Allen
	A Samaritan Surprised
Stephen Vincent Benet
	Metropolitan Nightmare
Rudyard Kipling
	Mandalay
Brad Leithauser
	The Mail from Anywhere
Campbell McGrath
	El Balserito
Tom McLaughlin
	Dialogue With a Household Guest
Nguyen Chi Thien
	A Jungle Night [trans. Huynh Sanh Thong]
Robert Ronnow
	Zach Sklar's Dream

*Strange to Tell!*
Fleur Adcock
	A Surprise in the Peninsula
Fergus Allen
	A Samaritan Surprised
Denver Butson
	Tuesday 9:00 AM
Louise Erdrich
	The Strange People
Jewel Hart
	Riding Light
Homer
	Automedon and Alcimus prepare [The Iliad, XIX: 426-471, trans. Alexander Pope]
Wilfred Owen
	Strange Meeting
Walt Whitman
	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Robert Ronnow
	Long Story Short

*That's Who I Wanted To Be*
Fleur Adcock
	Weathering
Ben Belitt
	Xerox
Lucille Clifton
	hag riding
Rhina P. Espaillat
	On Rereading a Sonnet Written in 1951
Julia Fields
	High on the Hog
Bernard O'Donoghue
	A Nun Takes the Veil
Grace Paley
	Here
Sylvia Plath
	Spinster
Robert Ronnow
	Belonging to the Loved Ones

An Old-Time Sea Fight
Aeschylus
	The Battle of Salamis [from The Persians; trans. Peter Levi]
Louise Erdrich
	Captivity
Robert Hayden
	Middle Passage [Part I]
Homer
	And now to Xanthus' gliding stream they drove [The Iliad, XXI: 1-150 & 229-447, trans. Alexander Pope]
Susan Howe
	The Falls Fight [from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time]
Virgil
	The Sleep of Palinurus [from The Aeneid; trans. C. Day Lewis]
Walt Whitman
	Would you hear of an old-time sea fight? [Song of Myself, 35]
Robert Ronnow
	Seaweed

*I Have Lost A Child*
Ai
	Child Beater
Chanel Brenner
	Happy Hour
	Riley Died Again Yesterday
Gwendolyn Brooks
	the mother
Randall Jarrell
	The Lost Children
Sharon Olds
	The Clasp
David Ray
	Another Trick of the Mind
	Tricks of the Mind
Robert Ronnow
	Bad Movie

*In the Neighbor's Room*
Conrad Aiken
	The Quarrel
Elizabeth Alexander
	The End
Gwendolyn Brooks
	when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	Looking at a Man [trans. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
Mitchell Goodman
	Man and Wife
Gwyneth Lewis
	Strip-Tease [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
Leonard Nathan
	Toast
William Shakespeare
	These are the forgeries of jealousy [A Midsummer Night's Dream: II, ii, 81-137]
Robert Ronnow
	The Listener

*Soon I Will Know Who I Am*
Bella Akhmadulina
	Winter [trans. Barbara Einzig]
Anna Akhmatova
	Alone [trans. Stephen Berg]
Elizabeth Bishop
	One Art
Jorge Luis Borges
	In Praise of Darkness [trans. Hoyt Rogers]
Po Chu-i
	A Dream of Mountaineering [trans. Arthur Waley]
James Wright
	The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martin's Ferry, Ohio
Robert Ronnow
	Alive

*One Must Have a Mind of Winter*
Bella Akhmadulina
	Winter [trans. Barbara Einzig]
Robert Frost
	The Wood-Pile
Eamon Grennan
	Totem
Robert Hayden
	Those Winter Sundays
Thomas McGrath
	A Coal Fire in Winter
Wallace Stevens
	The Snow Man
John Wain
	Reason for Not Writing Orthodox Nature Poetry
William Carlos Williams
	Perfection
Robert Ronnow
	Nature’s Intelligent Partner

*Come With No Company to the Far Side*
Anna Akhmatova
	Lot's Wife [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Dante Alighieri
	Inferno, Canto III [from The Divine Comedy; trans. Armand Schwerner]
Carol Ann Duffy
	Mrs Lazarus
Tess Gallagher
	The Ritual of Memories
D.H. Lawrence
	The Ship of Death
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes [trans. Franz Wright]
Robert Ronnow
	Ohthere

*In the Dark Times*
Anna Akhmatova
	Requiem [trans. Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward]
W.H. Auden
	September 1, 1939
Bertolt Brecht
	Motto [trans. John Willett]
Zbigniew Herbert
	Report from the Besieged City [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter]
Tom Koontz
	thousands killed in the attack
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Gary Snyder
	For the Children
Robert Ronnow
	The Shape of Jazz to Come

*It Will Not Matter That I Was a Woman*
Anna Akhmatova
	Requiem [trans. Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward]
Frank Bidart
	Ellen West
Eavan Boland
	Anna Liffey
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Practice
Carolyn Kizer
	The Erotic Philosophers
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	I, being born a woman and distressed
Fehmida Riyaz
	Iqleema [trans. C.M. Naim]
C.K. Williams
	Helen
Robert Ronnow
	A Designer of Systems

*What Is Poetry Which Does Not Save Nations or People?*
Anna Akhmatova
	Requiem [trans. Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward]
Bertolt Brecht
	To Those Born Later [trans. John Willett, Ralph Manheim & Erich Fried]
Zbigniew Herbert
	Report from the Besieged City [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter]
Emma Lazarus
	The New Colossus
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Elizabeth Spires
	The Streaming
Jules Supervielle
	Rain and the Tyrants [trans. David Gascoyne]
Adam Zagajewski
	Electric Elegy [trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry & C.K. Williams]
Robert Ronnow
	I can clean. I can drive.

*Ways of Looking*
Rafael Alberti
	Blue [trans. Mark Strand]
Sherman Alexie
	Crow Testament
Robert Francis
	Blue Winter
John Grey
	Body Talk
Pablo Neruda
	Sidereal eagle, vine of mist [from Summits of Macchu Picchu, IX, trans. Kate Flores]
Wallace Stevens
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Rachel Wetzsteon
	Time Pieces
Walt Whitman
	A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands [Song of Myself, 6]
Robert Ronnow
	Homework

*I Open New Wine and Taste Several Cups*
Sandra Alcosser
	Michael's Wine
Raymond Carver
	Wine
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
	Before You Came [trans. Naomi Lazard]
James Fenton
	Dead Soldiers
Bruce Hunter
	Spring Opening–Lock Four
James Merrill
	Charles on Fire
Po Chu-i
	On Being Sixty [trans. Arthur Waley]
Charles Simic
	The Old World
Robert Ronnow
	Two White Wines

*It Is Not Far To My Place*
Sandra Alcosser
	A Night on Goat Haunt
A.R. Ammons
	Visit
Elizabeth Bradfield
	Multi-Use Area
Alison Hawthorne Deming
	Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Ragged Island
Gary Snyder
	Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
A.E. Stallings
	On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia
Robert Ronnow
	Cosmo's Moon

*To Undertake the Perilous Descent*
Sandra Alcosser
	Trajectory
W.H. Auden
	Musee des Beaux Arts
Billy Collins
	Passengers
Joseph Harrison
	Air Larry
Richard M. Mishler
	Ceremony
Naomi Shihab Nye
	The Flying Cat
Adrienne Rich
	Diving Into the Wreck
Paul Violi
	As I Was Telling Dave and Alex Kelley
Robert Ronnow
	Cities in Flight

*What If, Tomorrow*
Sandra Alcosser
	Wildcat Path
Stephen Dobyns
	Wind Chimes
Sam Hudson
	The Isle Is Full of Noises
Tom Koontz
	So It Happens/As It Happens
Brad Leithauser
	Undergone
Stevie Smith
	Pretty
Mona Van Duyn
	Causes
Paul Violi
	More On the Heroic Deeds and Manner of the Worthy Rabelais, Doctor of Medicine
Robert Ronnow
	Brodmann Area 4

*He Breaks the Law of Gravity*
Sandra Alcosser
	Wildcat Path
T.S. Eliot
	Macavity: the Mystery Cat
Saqi Farooqi
	An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack [trans. Frances W. Pritchett]
Naomi Shihab Nye
	The Flying Cat
Christopher Smart
	My Cat, Jeoffrey [from Jubilate Agno]
Novica Tadic
	The Cats' Strike [trans. Michael March & Dusan Puvacic]
Robert Ronnow
	The Dead Woman's Cat

*How Love Fled*
Elizabeth Alexander
	The End
Hayden Carruth
	Testament
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
	Before You Came [trans. Naomi Lazard]
Thomas Hardy
	A Broken Appointment
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Pierre de Ronsard
	When you are old and grey and full of sleep [from Sonnets to Helen; trans.William Butler Yeats]
William Shakespeare
	That time of year thou mayst in me behold [Sonnet 73]
Charles Harper Webb
	Cocksucker
Robert Ronnow
	Late Summer

*Only Coyote Doesn't Seem to Care*
Sherman Alexie
	Crow Testament
Fergus Allen
	Dublin Zoo 1930
Ernesto Cardenal
	The Parrots [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
John Grey
	The Ape Enclosure
Barry Lopez
	Desert Reservation
Charles Martin
	Sharks at the New York Aquarium
Marianne Moore
	Elephants
Robert Ronnow
	Return from Desert

*Woven Air*
Sherman Alexie
	Marilyn Monroe [from Tourists, Part 2]
Agha Shahid Ali
	The Dacca Gauzes
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	He Had His Dream
Robert Francis
	The Forced Forsythia
Richard Jones
	The Bell
Ted Kooser
	A Jacquard Shawl
Luisa Villani
	Watching the Mayan Women
Robert Ronnow
	Electron Herders

*Last Words*
Agha Shahid Ali
	Lenox Hill
Marvin Bell
	Ending with a Line from Lear
Marilyn Krysl
	There Is No Such Thing as the Moment of Death
Sharon Olds
	The Race
Anna Swir
	Conversation Through the Door [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan]
William Carlos Williams
	The Last Words of My English Grandmother
Robert Ronnow
	Working to Abandon Immortality

*I Walked a Casual Country Mile*
Fergus Allen
	The Beachcombing
A.R. Ammons
	Corsons Inlet
John Ciardi
	A Walk Down a Mountainside
Robert Francis
	The Stile
Kim Trainor
	Blackmud
Gary Snyder
	A Walk
Robert Ronnow
	Million Dollar Movie

*Someone's Life Is Always At Risk*
Fergus Allen
	The Dartry Dye Works
Sally Ashton
	What Childbirth and the Moon Landing Have in Common
Billy Collins
	Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
John Donne
	A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Guidelines
Langston Hughes
	Life Is Fine
Kenneth Koch
	One Train May Hide Another
Chidiock Tichborne
	Tichborne’s Elegy
Robert Ronnow
	Commonly Seen Bumper Stickers

*The Shape of the Institution*
Fergus Allen
	The Dartry Dye Works
Jeremy Cronin
	Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because of Other People)
Donald Justice
	On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
Etheridge Knight
	Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Philip Levine
	You Can Have It
Robert Pinsky
	Shirt
Robert Ronnow
	Shape of the Institution

*The Fixed Stars Were Fixed in Different Places*
Fergus Allen
	Elegy for Faustina
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Archibald MacLeish
	"Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments"
Eduard Morike
	Forest Murmurs [trans. Randall Jarrell]
Ellie Ritter
	Boyfriend
Theodore Roethke
	I Knew a Woman
William Shakespeare
	When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Robert Ronnow
	To Eat a Continent Is Not So Strange

*The Revolution Is Also One of Lakes, Rivers, Trees, Animals*
Fergus Allen
	The Exile
Ernesto Cardenal
	Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Charles Goodrich
	Millennial Spring
Robinson Jeffers
	The Purse-Seine
Barry Lopez
	Desert Reservation
W.S. Merwin
	The Station
Ray A. Young Bear
	A Drive to Lone Ranger
Robert Ronnow
	Stop & Shop Strike

*The Garden of Eden*
Fergus Allen
	The Fall
Steven Cramer
	Goodbye to the Orchard
Robert Frost
	Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
A.D. Hope
	Imperial Adam
Donald Justice
	The Wall
Louis MacNeice
	Apple Blossom
Gary Snyder
	Milton by Firelight
Yuan Mei
	Last Poem: Goodbye to My Garden [trans. J.P. Seaton]
Robert Ronnow
	Just Us

*Whether I'm a Visitor to My Life or the Actual Owner*
Fergus Allen
	Genealogy
Jimmy Santiago Baca
	Green Chile
Li Kuang-t'ien
	A Dead Turk [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
Jack Marshall
	Sesame
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Felicitous Life [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Peter Dale Scott]
Roger Mitchell
	Utitsialangavik
William Butler Yeats
	Under Ben Bulben
Robert Ronnow
	Aging as a Spiritual Practice

*Time, Our Moment, Is the Mercy of Eternity*
Julia Alvarez
	How I Learned to Sweep
Jorge Luis Borges
	The Cyclical Night [trans. Alastair Reid]
Stephen Dunn
	The Last Hours
Denise Levertov
	Living
Sharon Olds
	The Race
Kenneth Rexroth
	Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
Aharon Shabtai
	Rosh HaShanah [trans. Peter Cole]
Wislawa Szymborska
	The Terrorist, He Watches [trans. Adam Czerniawski]
Robert Ronnow
	Killing Time

*A Lot of Universal Wind*
Julia Alvarez
	How I Learned to Sweep
Fred Chappell
	Teller
Emily Dickinson
	There came a Wind like a Bugle
Stephen Dobyns
	Wind Chimes
Josephine Miles
	Purchase of a Blue, Green, or Orange Ode
Theodore Roethke
	Big Wind
Edward Thomas
	Out in the Dark
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope
Robert Ronnow
	Plate Tectonics Versus Gamma Ray Bursters

*A Circle With No End*
Yehuda Amichai
	The Diameter of the Bomb [trans. Chana Bloch]
Langston Hughes
	Merry-Go-Round
Philip Larkin
	The Explosion
Yannis Ritsos
	Audible and Inaudible [trans. Minas Savvas]
Aharon Shabtai
	Rosh HaShanah [trans. Peter Cole]
James Simmons
	From the Irish
Wislawa Szymborska
	The Terrorist, He Watches [trans. Adam Czerniawski]
Robert Ronnow
	A Gun in Every Home

*I Don't Immediately Get It*
Yehuda Amichai
	A Man in His Life [trans. Chana Bloch]
Jorge Luis Borges
	Break of Day [trans. Stephen Kessler]
T.S. Eliot
	Little Gidding
Donald Justice
	Last Days of Prospero
Philip Levine
	You Can Have It
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Spring
William Shakespeare
	O, what a rogue and peasant slave I am [Hamlet: II, ii, 550-605]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
	Vastness
Robert Ronnow
	Out of Emptiness

*The Unity in All Things and the Difference*
A.R. Ammons
	Ballad
Rhina P. Espaillat
	On the Avenue
Louise Gluck
	Vespers
Langston Hughes
	I, Too
Brad Leithauser
	Furnishings of the Moon
Frank O'Hara
	A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
Ed Roberson
	be careful
Edward Thomas
	Out in the Dark
Robert Ronnow
	Year Million

*You Must Change Your Life*
A.R. Ammons
	Cascadilla Falls
Jorge Luis Borges
	Emerson [trans. Mark Strand]
Emily Dickinson
	My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun
Naomi Shihab Nye
	The Use of Fiction
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Archaic Torso of Apollo [trans.Stephen Mitchell & Vernon Watkins]
Ken Slaughter
	a honk behind me
Gary Snyder
	Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen
James Wright
	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Robert Ronnow
	Infestation

*In Nature There Are Few Sharp Lines*
A.R. Ammons
	Corsons Inlet
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Head [trans. Ciaran Carson]
Emily Dickinson
	I like to see it lap the Miles
William H. Matchett
	Earthworms
William Matthews
	Bystanders
Theodore Roethke
	The Rose
Seido Ray Ronci
	My Skull
Robert Ronnow
	Uncertainty

*That Dey Road No Pave*
A.R. Ammons
	Gravelly Run
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
	A Dangerous Journey
Lorna Goodison
	The Road of the Dread
Jewel Hart
	Riding Light
William Matthews
	Bystanders
W.S. Merwin
	The Approaches
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes [trans. Franz Wright]
William Stafford
	Traveling Through the Dark
Robert Ronnow
	Nicky's Road Kill

*Nothing But a Hog*
A.R. Ammons
	Hardweed Path Going
John Clare
	Badger
Jorge Guillen
	The Horses [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Thomas Hardy
	The Oxen
Ted Hughes
	Teaching a Dumb Calf
Ferenc Juhasz
	Birth of the Foal [trans. David Wevill]
David Lee
	For Jan, with Love
Alan Llwyd
	The Bull of Bryncelyn [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
Robert Ronnow
	It’s A Bear!

*With Disorder in Her Hair*
Ammuvanar
	They Shout Out the Price of Salt [from The Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
John Donne
	To His Mistress Going to Bed
Menna Elfyn
	Nothing but Curves [trans. Elin ap Hywel]
Hafiz
	Ghazal: Half-Way Through the Night [trans. Geoffrey Squires]
Robert Herrick
	Delight in Disorder
Antonio Machado
	Eyes [trans. Rosa Berumen]
Andrew Marvell
	To His Coy Mistress
William Shakespeare
	O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you [Romeo and Juliet: I, iv, 53-94]
Robert Ronnow
	Covid Cashier

*To Not Choose Not to Be*
Betsy Anderson
	Woman in the Well
John Berryman
	Henry's Understanding
Heather Hartley
	Elegy in India Ink
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
Sean O Riordain
	Claustrophobia [trans. Patrick Crotty]
Irina Ratushinskaya
	But only not to think [trans. David McDuff]
Anne Sexton
	Wanting To Die
William Shakespeare
	To be, or not to be, that is the question [Hamlet: III, i, 55-87]
Robert Ronnow
	This looks like jump to me

*Two Neat Geometries Drawn in the Weather*
Sandra Anfang
	The Bamboo Chime
Fred Chappell
	Patience
Robert Frost
	Unharvested
Hester Knibbe
	Last Night [trans. Jacquelyn Pope]
Tom Koontz
	A Face of Winter
Norman MacCaig
	So many summers
Gary Snyder
	Three Deer One Coyote Running in the Snow
May Swenson
	The Wave and the Dune
Robert Ronnow
	Exponential Decay Function

*It's in the Reach of My Arms*
Maya Angelou
	Phemomenal Woman
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	Nude [trans. Paul Muldoon]
Tess Gallagher
	The Hug
Jane Hirshfield
	Heat
Rudyard Kipling
	If
Pablo Neruda
	We Are Many [trans.Alastair Reid]
Walt Whitman
	The pure contralto sings in the organ loft [Song of Myself, 15]
Robert Ronnow
	Injury

*If Design Govern In a Thing So Small*
Guillaume Apollinaire
	Flies [trans. Robert Bly]
Robert Francis
	The Wasp
Robert Frost
	Design
D.H. Lawrence
	Mosquito
William H. Matchett
	Earthworms
May Swenson
	Unconscious Came a Beauty
E.B. White
	Natural History
Walt Whitman
	A Noiseless Patient Spider
Robert Ronnow
	While Sleeping

*Unconscious Came a Beauty*
Guillaume Apollinaire
	The Little Car [trans. Oliver Bernard]
e.e. cummings
	poem
Tom Disch
	Swimming
Robert Hayden
	The Night-Blooming Cereus
John Hollander
	Swan and Shadow
Mary Oliver
	The Swan
May Swenson
	Unconscious Came a Beauty
Walt Whitman
	Dirge for Two Veterans
Robert Ronnow
	Monk's shaved pate

*The Grating Roar of Pebbles*
Matthew Arnold
	Dover Beach
Elizabeth Bishop
	The Bight
John Clare
	The Flood
Tom Disch
	XXX [from MCMLXXXIV]
Thomas Hardy
	The Darkling Thrush
Harvey Shapiro
	National Cold Storage Company
May Swenson
	Morning at Point Dume
William Butler Yeats
	The Second Coming
Robert Ronnow
	Eye of the tropical January sun

*On the Shore of the Wide World*
Matthew Arnold
	Dover Beach
John Keats
	When I have fears that I may cease to be
May Swenson
	Morning at Point Dume
Algernon Charles Swinburne
	A Forsaken Garden
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
	Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips
Richard Wilbur
	On the Marginal Way
Oscar Williams
	The Golden Fleece
William Carlos Williams
	Flowers by the Sea
Robert Ronnow
	Blackbrush

*The Revelers*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Raymond Carver
	Wine
Robert Francis
	The Revelers
Robert Herrick
	Corinna's Going A-Maying
Horace
	Priapus [Satire 1.8; trans. David Ferry]
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Recuerdo
Paul Violi
	Abundance
Robert Ronnow
	On the Avenue

*Ideas for Writing Filled His Mind*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Seamus Heaney
	Personal Helicon
Langston Hughes
	Theme for English B
Maxine Hong Kingston
	Idea!: Four-word poems!
Kenneth Koch
	The Railway Stationery
Czeslaw Milosz
	Ars Poetica? [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Lillian Vallee]
William Butler Yeats
	A Coat
Robert Ronnow
	Number and Verse
	Prose

*It Could Not Be Dangerous To Be Living in a Town Like This*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Nick Carbo
	Directions to My Imaginary Childhood
Ussin Kerim
	Babahak [trans. William Matthews]
Czeslaw Milosz
	Mittelbergheim [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Marianne Moore
	The Steeple-Jack
Fernando Pessoa
	The Tobacco Shop [trans. Richard Zenith]
Mona Van Duyn
	Into Mexico
Robert Ronnow
	Election Day

*Coincidences Too Old to Credit*
Sally Ashton
	What Childbirth and the Moon Landing Have in Common
Tom Disch
	C [from MCMLXXXIV]
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Contingencies
Louise Gluck
	Celestial Music
Patrick Kavanagh
	Epic
Philip Larkin
	The Whitsun Weddings
William Shakespeare
	If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well [Macbeth: I, vii, 1-28]
Paul Violi
	As I Was Telling Dave and Alex Kelley
Robert Ronnow
	Contingency

*Once the Countdown Begins There Is No Turning Back*
Sally Ashton
	What Childbirth and the Moon Landing Have in Common
Jean de la Fontaine
	Phoebus and Boreas [trans. Marianne Moore]
Robert Francis
	Nothing Is Far
Mira Bai
	Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House [trans. Robert Bly]
David Ray
	Climbing the Tree
Rabindranath Tagore
	At midnight a bud opens in the dark forest [trans. David Ray]
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope
Robert Ronnow
	Penetrating the Unknown

*Some Have Courage, Others Don't*
Margaret Atwood
	Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
W.H. Auden
	O What Is That Sound
Lawrence Kearney
	After the Interrogation
Etheridge Knight
	Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Adrienne Rich
	I come home from you through the early light of spring [from Twenty-One Love Poems, IV]
Charles Simic
	Psalm
Marina Tsvetaeva
	They took–suddenly–and took–openly– [from Poems to Czechia; trans. Jean Valentine & Ilya Kaminsky]
Miller Williams
	Love and How It Becomes Important in Our Day to Day Lives
Robert Ronnow
	Courage

*We Try Not to Notice*
Margaret Atwood
	Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
Sterling A. Brown
	Bitter Fruit of the Tree
Robert Hass
	Shame: An Aria
Holly Magill
	Hums
David Ray
	The Knowledge
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Going Blind [trans Walter Arndt]
John Updike
	Dog’s Death
Bill Zavatsky
	Bald
Robert Ronnow
	Urination, don't take it for granted

*This Is the Thunderous City*
W.H. Auden
	As I Walked Out One Evening
Mark Doty
	Crepe de Chine
Rita Dove
	The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe
Tom McLaughlin
	Dialogue With a Household Guest
James Merrill
	An Urban Convalescence
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Pakistan with Open Arms
Carl Sandburg
	Chicago
William Wordsworth
	Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
Robert Ronnow
	Not enough heat

*Poems Should Be Written Rarely and Reluctantly*
W.H. Auden
	In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Jorge Luis Borges
	Parable of the Palace [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Maxine Hong Kingston
	Idea!: Four-word poems!
William Matthews
	A Poetry Reading at West Point
Czeslaw Milosz
	Ars Poetica? [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Lillian Vallee]
Ogden Nash
	Very Like a Whale
Frank O'Hara
	A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
Gary Snyder
	What You Should Know to Be a Poet
Robert Ronnow
	Mortal Poets

*Where the Dogs Go On With Their Doggy Life*
W.H. Auden
	Musee des Beaux Arts
Robert Francis
	His Own
Robert Frost
	The Most of It
Ted Hughes
	Buzz in the Window [from Orts, 17]
Archibald MacLeish
	The End of the World
Marilyn Nelson
	Bali Hai Calls Mama
Charles Simic
	Country Fair
Robert Ronnow
	Toy story

*Love Is the Crooked Thing*
W.H. Auden
	O Tell Me the Truth About Love
Gwendolyn Brooks
	A Song in the Front Yard
William Matthews
	The Accompanist
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Well, I have lost you
Philip Sidney
	My true love hath my heart, and I have his
Ruth Stone
	Plumbing
William Butler Yeats
	Brown Penny
Robert Ronnow
	Okay Love

*Even Those Who Have Never Heard It Know What It Is*
W.H. Auden
	O What Is That Sound
Matsuo Basho
	The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
Jane Hirshfield
	The Bell Zygmunt
Richard Jones
	The Bell
Maxine Kumin
	The Bangkok Gong
Maurice Riordan
	A Word from the Loki
Walt Whitman
	I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen [Song of Myself, 26]
Robert Ronnow
	Birding by Ear

*Never May the Anarchic Man Find Rest at My Hearth*
W.H. Auden
	September 1, 1939
Elizabeth Bishop
	Manners
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	We Wear the Mask
Robinson Jeffers
	Shine, Perishing Republic
Louis Simpson
	The Inner Part
Sophocles
	Numberless are the world’s wonders [Chorus from Antigone; trans Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald]
Elinor Wylie
	The Eagle and the Mole
Robert Ronnow
	Ulzana's Raid

*In Soft September*
W.H. Auden
	September 1, 1939
Elizabeth Bishop
	Sestina
Ernesto Cardenal
	Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Carol Ann Duffy
	Mrs Midas
Patrick Kavanagh
	Tarry Flynn
D.H. Lawrence
	Bavarian Gentians
Cesare Pavese
	Grappa in September [trans. William Arrowsmith]
Robert Ronnow
	Avoiding Beautiful September

*Report From the Besieged City*
W.H. Auden
	The Shield of Achilles
Stephen Vincent Benet
	Metropolitan Nightmare
Dante Alighieri
	The good master said: Now, my son, we approach the city known as Dis [The Inferno, Canto VIII, 67-130 & Canto IX, 1-105; trans. Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander]
Enheduanna
	Inanna and the City of Uruk [adapted by Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone from trans. by William W. Hallo & J.J.A. van Dijk]
Zbigniew Herbert
	Report from the Besieged City [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter]
Homer
	There sate the seniors of the Trojan race [The Iliad, III: 191-288, trans. Alexander Pope]
Deborah Paredez
	Wife's Disaster Manual
Robert Ronnow
	City of Hope

*Wanting, Wanting, Wanting*
Rafiq Azad
	Give me Bhaat, Bastard [trans. Quader Mahmud]
Frank Bidart
	Ellen West
Susan Browne
	Buddha's Dogs
Stephen Dobyns
	Spiritual Chickens
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
	Bury Me in a Free Land
Nguyen Gia Thieu
	Sorrows of an Abandoned Queen [trans. Nguyen Ngoc Bich]
Adelia Prado
	Serenade [trans. Ellen Dore Watson]
Charles Reznikoff
	Outside the night was cold, the snow was deep [from Testimony]
Robert Ronnow
	2 Jobs, 2 Kids, 2 Houses, 2 Hobbies

*In This Case Plastic Forks Paper Plates and Cups Will Do*
Jimmy Santiago Baca
	Green Chile
Nora Dauenhauer
	How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River
Homer
	Health to Achilles! happy are thy guests! [The Iliad, IX: 295-413, trans. Alexander Pope]
Howard Kogan
	Tree Swallows
Jack Marshall
	Sesame
Sravani Singampalli
	Rooh Afza
David Wagoner
	Salmon Boy
Robert Ronnow
	Yogurt and Honey

*What Were They Like?*
John Balaban
	The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Facing It
	Starlight Scope Myopia
Denise Levertov
	What Were They Like?
Richard M. Mishler
	Ceremony
David Ray
	Tableaux
	To a Child of Baghdad
Wislawa Szymborska
	Vietnam [trans. Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh]
Reed Whittemore
	On Looking Through a Photo Album (of Viet Cong Prisoners)
Robert Ronnow
	America the seeing-eye dog

*I Have Walked and Prayed For This Young Child*
John Balaban
	Words for My Daughter
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	Little Brown Baby
Dorianne Laux
	Twilight
Sharon Olds
	Her First Week
Linda Pastan
	To a Daughter Leaving Home
Gary Soto
	How Things Work
David Wagoner
	Leaving Something Behind
William Butler Yeats
	A Prayer for My Daughter
Robert Ronnow
	Reverse Gestation

*The Room Is a Conch Shell*
Raffaello Baldini
	Hygiene [trans. Adria Bernardi]
Langston Hughes
	Desire
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Sharon Olds
	First Sex
Gyorgy Petri
	Gratitude [trans. Clive Wilmer & George Gomori]
Marge Piercy
	Salt in the Afternoon
Edith Wharton
	Terminus
Walt Whitman
	When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Robert Ronnow
	Silence of Winter

*How Dare One Speak About the Beyond?*
Amy Bartlett
	Chest X-Ray
e.e. cummings
	a man who had fallen among thieves
Emily Dickinson
	A bird came down the walk
Thomas Hardy
	Paying Calls
Howard Kogan
	Echo
Ken Slaughter
	just after
Cesar Vallejo
	A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder [trans. Clayton Eshleman]
Robert Ronnow
	Robot-Assisted Surgery

*The Darkness Around Us Is Deep*
Amy Bartlett
	2 A.M.
Jorge Luis Borges
	Break of Day [trans. Stephen Kessler]
Nissim Ezekiel
	I met a man once [from Hymns in Darkness]
D.H. Lawrence
	Bavarian Gentians
W.S. Merwin
	Leviathan
Isaac Rosenberg
	Break of Day in the Trenches
William Stafford
	A Ritual to Read to Each Other
Adam Zagajewski
	At Daybreak [trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry & C.K. Williams]
Robert Ronnow
	Wings of Desire

*Freedom to Have Never Been*
Matsuo Basho
	Though I'm in Kyoto [trans. John Tarrant]
Billy Collins
	Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles From Tintern Abbey
Philip Levine
	Keats in California
Cecil Day Lewis
	Departure in the Dark
Paul Muldoon
	Why Brownlee Left
Cathal O Searcaigh
	A Runaway Cow [trans. Patrick Crotty]
David Ray
	Travelling and Sitting Still
Robert Ronnow
	East Harlem to the Grand Tetons

*So Sweet and So Cold*
Matsuo Basho
	The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
Tom Koontz
	The Gift
Maxine Kumin
	In the Root Cellar
Agnes Maxwell-Hall
	Jamaica Market
Josephine Miles
	Purchase of a Blue, Green, or Orange Ode
Gary Snyder
	Soy Sauce
William Carlos Williams
	This Is Just to Say
Elinor Wylie
	Wild Peaches
Robert Ronnow
	Supermarket Celebration

*Hope, We Do Yet Live*
Aphra Behn
	When you Love, or speak of it
Michael Drayton
	Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
John Dryden
	Roundelay
Andrew Lang
	Rondel of Charles D'Orleans
John Lyly
	Cards and Kisses
Philip Sidney
	Sapphics
Thomas Wyatt
	Rondeau
Robert Ronnow
	To Have Loved Mary

*Incised At Times By the Illusory*
Ben Belitt
	Xerox
Elizabeth Bishop
	Insomnia
Jorge Luis Borges
	Mirrors [trans. Alastair Reid]
Alan Dugan
	The Mirror Perilous
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Sacrament
John Hewitt
	Substance and Shadow
Tada Chimako
	Mirror [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi]
Robert Ronnow
	Mirrors

*My Home, My Father's and Grandfather's Home*
Joachim du Bellay
	Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse, a Fait un Beau Voyage [trans. Anthony Hecht]
Constantine Cavafy
	Ithaka [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
Heinrich Heine
	Sea-Sickness [trans. Vernon Watkins]
Homer
	There sate the seniors of the Trojan race [The Iliad, III: 191-288, trans. Alexander Pope]
Etheridge Knight
	The Idea of Ancestry
Antonio Machado
	To Jose Maria Palacio [trans. Angel Flores]
Cheryl Savageau
	Looking For Indians
Robert Ronnow
	Rereading

*Her Mother Has Just Said Goodbye*
Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict
	Sweetgrass Is Around Her
Anne Bradstreet
	In Reference to Her Children, 23, June, 1656
Edith Bruck
	Birth [trans. Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann]
Willa Cather
	Grandmither, Think Not I Forget
Adelaide Crapsey
	Amaze
Roger Mitchell
	The Story of the White Cup
Dan Pagis
	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car [trans. Stephen Mitchell]
Robert Ronnow
	South Bronx

*America's Longest River Is New York*
Stephen Vincent Benet
	Metropolitan Nightmare
Charles Martin
	Sharks at the New York Aquarium
James Merrill
	An Urban Convalescence
Sharon Olds
	Summer Solstice: New York City
James Schuyler
	Dining Out with Doug and Frank
Jonathan Swift
	A Description of a City Shower
Anne Winters
	Night Wash
Robert Ronnow
	How cool!

*I Got My Tools*
Gottfried Benn
	Chopin [trans. Michael Hofmann]
Rosellen Brown
	They need a sign: No mothers in the body shop! [from Cora Fry's Pillow Book]
Eamon Grennan
	Men Roofing
Bruce Hunter
	The Scale
Cecil Day Lewis
	Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park
Luis J. Rodriguez
	Carrying My Tools
Charles Simic
	Watch Repair
Gary Snyder
	Axe Handles
Robert Ronnow
	Chainsaw Certified

*The Shape, the Label, the Labor, the Color*
Stephen Berg
	The Coat
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
	I Sit and Sew
Jonathan Harrington
	Underwear of the Dead
Jane Kenyon
	The Shirt
Amy Lowell
	Patterns
James Merrill
	Self-Portrait in Tyvek^TM Windbreaker
Robert Pinsky
	Shirt
Seido Ray Ronci
	Cheap Shoes
Robert Ronnow
	Cleaning Out Their House

*That Hat Appears To Me For No Discernible Reason*
Stephen Berg
	In a New Leaf
Elizabeth Bishop
	Exchanging Hats
Rita Dove
	Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove
Rachel Hadas
	The Red Hat
Robert Hass
	The Dry Mountain Air
William Shakespeare
	Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin [The Taming of the Shrew: III, ii, 43-71]
James Tate
	Inspiration
Al Zolynas
	The Hat in the Sky
Robert Ronnow
	Peace Out

*The Bones of His Dwindling Father*
Stephen Berg
	In a New Leaf
Tony Hoagland
	Phone Call
Richard Jones
	Sky Funeral
Donald Justice
	Sonnet to My Father
Li-Young Lee
	Persimmons
Michael Longley
	Laertes [from Homeric Poems]
William Matthews
	My Father's Body
Anna Swir
	I Wash the Shirt [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan]
Robert Ronnow
	Much Like Living

*Trapped By the God's Foot*
Olga Berggolts
	Infidelity [trans. Daniel Weissbort]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	A Musical Instrument
Carol Ann Duffy
	Mrs Midas
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Vignette
Mira Bai
	Let me see you [trans. Willis Barnstone & Usha Nilsson]
Yannis Ritsos
	Marpessa’s Choice [trans. Edmund Keeley]
Sappho
	On your dazzling throne, Aphrodite [trans. Willis Barnstone]
William Butler Yeats
	Leda and the Swan
Robert Ronnow
	Watching Homer Struggle

*God Scooped the Clay*
Wendell Berry
	Creation Myth
Jorge Luis Borges
	Ragnarok [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	A Musical Instrument
George Herbert
	The Pulley
James Weldon Johnson
	The Creation
Sheenagh Pugh
	Geography 2
Anne Spencer
	Sybil Warns Her Sister
William Butler Yeats
	The Indian Upon God
Robert Ronnow
	To the Gods

*For Despair There Is No Forgiveness*
Wendell Berry
	Healing
Jorge Luis Borges
	I Am Not Even Dust [trans. Eric McHenry]
Adelaide Crapsey
	Release
Emily Dickinson
	There is a pain–so utter–
Anna Hajnal
	Fear [trans. Daniel Hoffman]
George Herbert
	The Collar
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Carrion Comfort
David Ray
	Economies
Robert Ronnow
	I prefer to sleep and dream

*Never to Fail As Others Fail*
Wendell Berry
	Healing
Emily Dickinson
	Sweet Mountains–Ye tell me no lie–
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	He Had His Dream
Padraic Fallon
	Gurteen [from Three Houses, I]
Maxine Kumin
	Seven Caveats in May
Theodore Roethke
	The Geranium
William Stafford
	It's All Right
Robert Ronnow
	To Fail Well

*No Day Is Right For the Apocalypse*
John Berryman
	The Moon and the Night and the Men
Homer
	As when the winds, ascending by degrees [The Iliad, IV: 478-542, trans. Alexander Pope]
Langston Hughes
	Harlem
Robinson Jeffers
	The Purse-Seine
William Matthews
	The Waste Carpet
W.S. Merwin
	The Last One
William Shakespeare
	O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth [Julius Caesar, III, i, 254-275]
Robert Ronnow
	The Compensatory Force of Nemesis

When the King Be Witnessed in the Room
John Betjeman
	The Cottage Hospital
Adelaide Crapsey
	Triad
Emily Dickinson
	I heard a Fly buzz–when I died
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Wheelchairs
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Felix Randal
Donald Justice
	Cool Dark Ode [from Three Odes, 1]
W.D. Snodgrass
	A Flat One
David Wagoner
	Curtains
Robert Ronnow
	Adnate to the Funicle

*The Night Before My Love's Last Morning*
Frank Bidart
	If I Could Mourn Like a Mourning Dove
Tess Gallagher
	Laughter and Stars
Thom Gunn
	Lament
Donald Hall
	Last Days
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	If I should learn, in some quite casual way
Pablo Neruda
	Dead Woman [trans.Brian Cole]
C.K. Williams
	Helen
James Wright
	To the Muse
Robert Ronnow
	Ectopic Heart

*Making the Batter Understand Too Late*
George Bilgere
	The Garage
Fred Chappell
	Fast Ball
Robert Francis
	Pitcher
Miroslav Holub
	Bullfight [trans. Ian Milner & Jarmila Milner]
A.K. Ramanujan
	At Forty,
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
	Casey at the Bat
C.K. Williams
	Combat
Robert Ronnow
	At Basketball

*Good To Be So Flawed*
George Bilgere
	Magellan
Stephen Dunn
	A Postmortem Guide
Robert Frost
	Departmental
George Herbert
	Love
Josephine Miles
	Government Injunction Restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co.
Marilyn Murray
	Imagine a Heart
Wislawa Szymborska
	The End and the Beginning [trans. Joanna Trzeciak]
Robert Ronnow
	Organization man

*Let Me Buy a Red Painted Boat and Carry You Away*
Bingxin
	Mother, if you see a tiny white paper boat in your sleep [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Language Issue [trans. Paul Muldoon]
Orhan Veli Kanik
	Rumors [trans. Murat Nemet-Nejat]
Sappho
	Some say cavalry and others claim [trans. Willis Barnstone]
So Chongju
	Wanderer’s Bouquet [trans. David R. McCann]
Robert Louis Stevenson
	Where Go the Boats
Wu Tsao
	For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung]
Robert Ronnow
	Searching for Symbols in a Town Without a River

*Numberless Are the World's Wonders*
Elizabeth Bishop
	At the Fishhouses
Jorge Luis Borges
	The Maker [trans. Stephen Kessler]
Nazim Hikmet
	Things I Didn't Know I Loved [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Galway Kinnell
	Why Regret?
Sophocles
	Numberless are the world’s wonders [Chorus from Antigone; trans. Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald]
Dylan Thomas
	Fern Hill
Walt Whitman
	The pure contralto sings in the organ loft [Song of Myself, 15]
Robert Ronnow
	All the Worlds There Are

*Naming of Parts*
Elizabeth Bishop
	The Bight
Marilyn Hacker
	Rune of the Finland Woman
Gunter Eich
	Inventory [trans. Joshua Mehigan]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Pied Beauty
Henry Reed
	Lessons of the War
William Shakespeare
	Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin [The Taming of the Shrew: III, ii, 43-71]
Walt Whitman
	I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen [Song of Myself, 26]
Robert Ronnow
	Data Delivered to Your Inbox

*To What Purpose, April, Do You Return Again?*
Elizabeth Bishop
	A Cold Spring
Peter Fallon
	Spring Song
Charles Goodrich
	Millennial Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Spring
Algernon Charles Swinburne
	When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces [from Atalanta in Calydon]
Frederick Turner
	Spring Evening
William Carlos Williams
	Spring and All
William Wordsworth
	Lines Written in Early Spring
Robert Ronnow
	Almost Spring

*Floating in God's Brain*
Elizabeth Bishop
	Crusoe in England
Averill Curdy
	Dark Room
Emily Dickinson
	The Brain–is wider than than the Sky–
Lorine Niedecker
	Darwin [I-V]
Adrienne Rich
	Diving Into the Wreck
Pattiann Rogers
	The Origin of Order
May Swenson
	First Walk on the Moon
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope
Robert Ronnow
	Sub-atomic particles

*Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall*
Elizabeth Bishop
	Filling Station
Alan Dugan
	Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
Robert Frost
	Mending Wall
Robinson Jeffers
	Carmel Point
Donald Justice
	The Wall
Charles Martin
	Speech Against Stone
Richard Wilbur
	A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Robert Ronnow
	Wetland Song

*The Summer Sun Had the Chill of Snow*
Elizabeth Bishop
	First Death in Nova Scotia
Seamus Heaney
	Mid-Term Break
Bernard O'Donoghue
	The Weakness
Sean O Riordain
	My Mother's Burial [trans. Patrick Crotty]
Lucia Mae Pitts
	Requiem
David Ray
	Tricks of the Mind
Anna Swir
	A Conversation Through the Door [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan]
John Greenleaf Whittier
	Telling the Bees
Robert Ronnow
	The Writer Working Hard

*He Came to the Road*
Elizabeth Bishop
	The Moose
Robert Bly
	The Dead Seal
Hayden Carruth
	The Cows at Night
Terrance Hayes
	The Same City
Stanley Kunitz
	The Wellfleet Whale
Mary Oliver
	The Black Snake
William Stafford
	Traveling Through the Dark
Robert Ronnow
	Night Drive Home

*The Goat God*
Elizabeth Bishop
	The Fish
John Clare
	Badger
Miroslav Holub
	Bullfight [trans. Ian Milner & Jarmila Milner]
Galway Kinnell
	The Bear
D.H. Lawrence
	Snake
Marianne Moore
	The Pangolin
Cesare Pavese
	The Goat God [trans. William Arrowsmith]
Ruth Stone
	Cocks and Mares
Robert Ronnow
	Family of Weasels

*The Long Secret Nights You Gave Me*
Elizabeth Bishop
	It Is Marvellous
Stephen Dunn
	Little Essay on Communication
Galway Kinnell
	Rapture
Philip Larkin
	Talking in Bed
Mona Van Duyn
	In Bed with a Book
Edith Wharton
	Terminus
Walt Whitman
	When I Heard at the Close of the Day
Robert Ronnow
	Got Sleep?

*Lose Something Every Day*
Elizabeth Bishop
	One Art
Cecil Bodker
	Calendar [trans. Nadia Christensen & Alexander Taylor]
Thomas Hardy
	Friends Beyond
Homer
	Alas! what weight of anguish hast thou known? [The Iliad, XXIV: 653-839, trans. Alexander Pope]
Adrienne Rich
	Diving Into the Wreck
William Shakespeare
	When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced [Sonnet 64]
Philip Sidney
	Sapphics
William Butler Yeats
	An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Robert Ronnow
	Is It Stress?

*Little Moons Fall Down Like Tears*
Elizabeth Bishop
	Sestina
Anne Bradstreet
	Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
Constantine Cavafy
	Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
Donald Justice
	On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
Stevie Smith
	A House of Mercy
Natasha Tretheway
	Letters from Storyville
Ronald Wallace
	Sestina for the House
Robert Ronnow
	Motel Room

*At Fourteen I Married My Lord You*
John Peale Bishop
	Speaking of Poetry
Greg Clary
	New York City, August 7, 1974
John Ennis
	Alice of Daphne, 1799
Dorianne Laux
	The Shipfitter's Wife
Li Po
	The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
Mayumi Tanaka
	A Sneeze [trans. Naoshi Koriyama & Edward Lueders]
Okot p'Bitek
	The Woman with Whom I Share My Husband [from Song of Lawino, 2]
Yosano Akiko
	What shall I wear to sleep in alone? [from The Channel Boat; trans. Janine Beichman]
Robert Ronnow
	A Job in the Garden of Eden

*Izle, Xyster, and Thalassacon*
Paula Bohince
	A Brief History of the Cocktail
Ciaran Carson
	Bagpipe Music
Mike Chasar
	Conches on Christmas
Alfred Corn
	A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
A.D. Hope
	Meditation on a Bone
Tina Kelley
	An Adoration of Stenches
Galway Kinnell
	Why Regret?
Sharon Olds
	Toth Farry
Robert Ronnow
	Blue Grama Grass

*Free From Love*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Anticipation of Love [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
Rosellen Brown
	They need a sign: No mothers in the body shop! [from Cora Fry's Pillow Book]
Chiyo
	After a long winter, giving [trans. David Ray]
Albert Goldbarth
	Thermodynamics/Sumer
Robert Henryson
	Robin and Makyn
Galway Kinnell
	Rapture
William Carlos Williams
	Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [Book I]
William Butler Yeats
	Among School Children
Robert Ronnow
	Chambermaid with Ravens

*Beyond the Last Thought*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Baruch Spinoza [trans. Willis Barnstone]
John Donne
	At the round earth’s imagined corners
A.D. Hope
	Australia
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	God's Grandeur
Kay Ryan
	Sharks' Teeth
Wallace Stevens
	Of Mere Being
Richard Wilbur
	"A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness"
William Butler Yeats
	Long-Legged Fly
Robert Ronnow
	God is correction, feedback and bifurcation

*The Other One, the One Called Borges*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Borges and I [trans. James E. Irby]
	The Watcher [trans. Alastair Reid]
Julia de Burgos
	To Julia de Burgos [trans. Grace Schulman]
Tom Disch
	The Doppelganger
Louise Erdrich
	The Strange People
Meirion MacIntyre Huws
	Conscience [trans. Geraint Lovgreen]
Gary Snyder
	Long Hair
Cesar Vallejo
	Black Stone on Top of a White Stone [trans. Thomas Merton]
Robert Ronnow
	Meditation

*The Long Journey Towards Oblivion*
Jorge Luis Borges
	The Cyclical Night [trans. Alastair Reid]
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	Aubade [trans. Michael Longley]
John Donne
	A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
Philip Larkin
	Aubade
D.H. Lawrence
	The Ship of Death
Mina Loy
	Parturition
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]
Robert Ronnow
	Man’s Machines

*The Band Played On*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Everything and Nothing [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
George Gascoigne
	Gascoigne’s Lullaby
R.S. Gwynn
	Shakespearean Sonnet
William Matthews
	Mingus At The Showplace
	A Night at the Opera
William Shakespeare
	All the world’s a stage [As You Like It, II, vii, 139-166]
A.E. Stallings
	The Song Rehearsal
Bill Zavatsky
	Live at the Village Vanguard
Robert Ronnow
	Numerous Blue Notes

*A Hundred Years Are But a Moment of Sleep*
Jorge Luis Borges
	For Leopoldo Lugones [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
T. Rowland Hughes
	Crib Goch [trans. Catherine Fisher]
Norman Nicholson
	The Elm Decline
Po Chu-i
	Sleeping on Horseback [trans. Arthur Waley]
Kenneth Rexroth
	Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
Luis J. Rodriguez
	Then Comes a Day
Gary Snyder
	Piute Creek
Wu Tsao
	In the Home of the Scholar Wu Su-chiang From Hsin-an, I Saw Two Psalteries of the Late Sung General Hsieh Fang-te [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung]
Robert Ronnow
	The Happy Tectonics

*How a Brave Man Dies on the Tree*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Luke XXIII [trans. Mark Strand]
John Ennis
	The Road to Patmos
Seamus Heaney
	Punishment
George Herbert
	The Bag
X.J. Kennedy
	In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
Ezra Pound
	Ballad of the Goodly Fere
John Crowe Ransom
	Captain Carpenter
Anne Sexton
	Her Kind
Robert Ronnow
	The Shootist

*The Ancient Night is Bottomless*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Manuscript Found in a Book of Joseph Conrad [trans. Alastair Reid]
Fred Chappell
	The Bible of the Unlucky Soldier
Seamus Heaney
	The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise [from Lightenings, VIII]
Marcus Jackson
	Full-Time Driver
Christian Morgenstern
	The Daynightlamp [trans. William Snodgrass]
Sharon Olds
	Summer Solstice: New York City
Taufiq Rafat
	Lights
Randall Watson
	Rest Stop/Marfa Lights
Robert Ronnow
	Night

*Kingly and Grand*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Nightmare [trans. Willis Barnstone]
Walter de la Mare
	Napoleon
Llywarch Hen
	The Head of Urien [a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Itaikkunrurkilar
	His Legs Strong and Lithe [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
Al-Khansa
	On Her Brother Sakhr [trans. Willis Barnstone]
Okkur Macatti
	What Her Girlfriend Said to Her [trans. A.K. Ramanujan]
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]
William Shakespeare
	No, they cannot touch me for coining, I am the King himself [King Lear, IV, vi, 83-186]
Robert Ronnow
	Atman. Atman.

*Lord Let Me Suffer Much*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Of Heaven and Hell [trans. Alastair Reid]
Dinos Christianopoulos
	Interval of Joy [trans. Kimon Friar]
Bernard Dadie
	I Thank You God [trans. John O. Reed & Clive Wake]
George Herbert
	Grace
Nazim Hikmet
	On Living [trans. Deniz Perin]
Andrew Hudgins
	Praying Drunk
Francis Jammes
	A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Anna Kamienska
	A Prayer That Will Be Answered [trans. Thomas P. Krzeszowski & Desmond Graham]
Robert Ronnow
	On Suffering

*I Confess My Doubt*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Of Heaven and Hell [trans. Alastair Reid]
Eunice de Souza
	Sacred River
Stephen Dunn
	At the Smithville Methodist Church
Robert Francis
	Old Man's Confession of Faith
William Meredith
	The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
Czeslaw Milosz
	My Faithful Mother Tongue [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Robert Hass]
Naomi Mulvihill
	Gospel
Gwyn Thomas
	The Nativity Play [trans. Gwyn Thomas]
Robert Ronnow
	The End of Faith

*Get the Cement Truck Into the Poem*
Jorge Luis Borges
	Parable of the Palace [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
Albert Goldbarth
	Things I've Put in This Poem
Donald Hall
	Ox Cart Man
Tony Hoagland
	Cement Truck
Ted Hughes
	Tractor
Tom Koontz
	Poetry Is the Life of the Soul
Marianne Moore
	Elephants
David Ray
	The Greatest Poem in the World
Robert Ronnow
	The Scariest Stanza in All of Poetry

*Once Out of Nature*
Jorge Luis Borges
	The Unending Rose [trans. Alastair Reid]
Fred Chappell
	Latencies
John Keats
	Ode on a Grecian Urn
Derek Mahon
	Courtyards in Delft
E.J. Pratt
	Come Not the Seasons Here
Wallace Stevens
	Of Mere Being
William Butler Yeats
	Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Ronnow
	The Scientific Way To Do Mathematics

*O Love, Where Are You Leading Me Now?*
Todd Boss
	The Hush of the Very Good
Wendy Cope
	Summer Villanelle [from From June to December]
Robert Creeley
	Kore
Kenneth Gangemi
	First Marriage
Donald Hall
	Summer Kitchen
Irving Layton
	Berry Picking
Richard Wilbur
	Playboy
Robert Ronnow
	When Peg Laughs Like Liz

*That Which Opens Its Wings On the Breast of Things*
David Bottoms
	Under the Vulture-Tree
Ralph Waldo Emerson
	Each and All
Robert Francis
	Condor
Robert Frost
	The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Robinson Jeffers
	Vulture
D.H. Lawrence
	Mosquito
Pattiann Rogers
	The Next Story
Robert Wrigley
	The Church of Omnivorous Light
Robert Ronnow
	Two Hawks Aloft

*We Like Trees*
David Bottoms
	Under the Vulture-Tree
Odysseus Elytis
	The Mad Pomegranate Tree [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
Robert Frost
	Birches
Roberto Juarroz
	Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
Charlotte Mew
	The Trees Are Down
Mary Oliver
	The Black Walnut Tree
P.K. Page
	Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree
Lucia Perillo
	Shrike Tree
Robert Ronnow
	Juniper. Quince.

*Boy, You Don't Belong Here*
Kevin Bowen
	Incoming
Sterling A. Brown
	Old Lem
Ernesto Cardenal
	Mosquito Kingdom [trans. Donald D. Walsh]
James Fenton
	Dead Soldiers
Bruce Weigl
	Girl at the Chu Lai Laundry
Robert Wrigley
	The Church of Omnivorous Light
Ray A. Young Bear
	A Drive to Lone Ranger
Robert Ronnow
	Something

*Lieutenant! This Corpse Will Not Stop Burning!*
Anne Bradstreet
	Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
Paul Durcan
	We resided in a Loreto convent in the centre of Dublin city [from Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno, I]
Robinson Jeffers
	Fire on the Hills
Galway Kinnell
	The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible
James Merrill
	Charles on Fire
Robert Pinsky
	Shirt
Bruce Weigl
	Burning Shit at An Khe
Walt Whitman
	Would you hear of an old-time sea fight? [Song of Myself, 35]
Robert Ronnow
	The Burning of the Jews

*To Serve Therewith My Maker*
Anne Bradstreet
	Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Guidelines
Aaron Fogel
	The Printer’s Error
Robert Hayden
	A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
George Herbert
	The Priesthood
John Milton
	When I consider how my light is spent
Alexander Pope
	Solitude
Edward Taylor
	Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
Robert Ronnow
	Jack’s Commitments

*Ballad*
Bertolt Brecht
	Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar [trans. H.R. Hays]
Eustache Deschamps
	Ballade 1 [trans. David Curzon & Jeffrey Fiskin]
Gail Gardner
	The Sierry Petes
Lars Gustafsson
	Ballad of the Dogs [trans. Philip Martin]
Marilyn Hacker
	Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
	The Lover: A Ballad
Ezra Pound
	Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Robert Ronnow
	The snail will get to Easter just as soon

*How Much More Fortunate They Are Than We Are*
Bertolt Brecht
	Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar [trans. H.R. Hays]
Gwendolyn Brooks
	Beverly Hills, Chicago
Stephen Dunn
	The Last Hours
Robert Frost
	Two Tramps in Mud Time
Leona Gom
	November
Tom Koontz
	Rhymes for a Master of Social Work
David Schubert
	Midston House
Hannah Stone
	Eurycleia entertains a stranger in Armley
Robert Ronnow
	Troy and Trinity

*The Cider-Maker and Appletree-Shaker*
Joseph Brodsky
	Autumn in Norenskaia
Robert Francis
	Bluejays
Robert Frost
	After Apple-Picking
Thomas Hardy
	Shortening Days at the Homestead
P.K. Page
	Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Autumn Day [trans. John Felstiner]
R.S. Thomas
	Autumn on the Land
Richard Wilbur
	Blackberries for Amelia
Robert Ronnow
	The Perfect Year

*The Whipcrack of the Mortgage*
Gwendolyn Brooks
	Beverly Hills, Chicago
Sterling A. Brown
	Master and Man
Padraic Fallon
	Gurteen [from Three Houses, I]
Patrick Kavanagh
	Shancoduff
Harry Edmund Martinson
	The Cable Ship [trans. Robert Bly]
Mary Oliver
	The Black Walnut Tree
Thomas Alan Orr
	Soybeans
Robert Ronnow
	Problems

*Strangers Would Have Shut Their Doors*
Gwendolyn Brooks
	kitchenette building
e.e. cummings
	anyone lived in a pretty how town
Robinson Jeffers
	Fawn's Foster-Mother
David Lee
	Benediction
William Matthews
	Little Blue Nude
Heather McHugh
	Take Care
Edwin Arlington Robinson
	Mr. Flood’s Party
Elena Shvarts
	Remembrance of Strange Hospitality [trans. Michael Molnar]
Robert Ronnow
	Anomie

*Now He Can Smell Doom*
Gwendolyn Brooks
	A Sunset of the City
Emily Dickinson
	There came a Wind like a Bugle
Bruce Hunter
	Warlock's Arsenal
Derek Mahon
	The Joycentenary Ode
Christian Morgenstern
	Anxiety for the Future [trans. William Snodgrass]
David Ray
	Climbing the Tree
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
	Vastness
C.K. Williams
	Tar
Robert Ronnow
	Outside the Circle

*The Crop From the Weed*
LoVerne Brown
	Meeting of Mavericks
Robert Francis
	Stellaria
Paul Goodman
	I Planned to Have a Border of Lavender
Bruce Hunter
	Between the Old and the Knowing
Suji Kwock Kim
	The Korean Community Garden
William H. Matchett
	Reclaiming the Strawberries
Theodore Roethke
	The Geranium
William Carlos Williams
	Spring and All
Robert Ronnow
	Not like a figwort

*One's Pretty Lively When Ruined*
Rosellen Brown
	I'm listening, I said. [from Cora Fry's Pillow Book]
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Unfaithful Wife [trans. Paul Muldoon]
Paul Durcan
	The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone
Donald Hall
	When the Young Husband
Thomas Hardy
	The Ruined Maid
Bruce Hunter
	Sardinia
Carolyn Kizer
	Summer Near the River
Okot p'Bitek
	The Woman with Whom I Share My Husband [from Song of Lawino]
Robert Ronnow
	Jack's Time Out

*The Peaceful Animals, Close to God*
Stephen Brown
	The Chase
James Dickey
	The Heaven of Animals
Robert Francis
	The Seed Eaters
Francis Jammes
	A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Eclogue at Twilight
Sylvia Plath
	Pheasant
David Ray
	A Few for the Peacock Outside My Window
Umberto Saba
	To My Wife [trans. Felix Stefanile]
Robert Ronnow
	Black-capped Chickadees

*De Whitefolks Got Laws*
Sterling A. Brown
	Slim in Atlanta
Countee Cullen
	Incident
Mahmoud Darwish
	In Jerusalem [trans. Fady Joudah]
Terrance Hayes
	segregate
Zbigniew Herbert
	Mr. Cogito–The Return [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter]
Nazim Hikmet
	The Evening Walk [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Langston Hughes
	Merry-Go-Round
A. Van Jordan
	Rope
Robert Ronnow
	Who's Got Trouble?

*The Model Is Indeed Near At Hand*
Susan Browne
	Buddha's Dogs
Fred Chappell
	Heath at Two: Learning to Talk
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Impasse: Glose
Marilyn Hacker
	Rune of the Finland Woman
Langston Hughes
	Theme for English B
Theodore Roethke
	The Waking
Gary Snyder
	Axe Handles
David Wagoner
	Staying Alive
Robert Ronnow
	The Master Algorithm

*Not As Other Girls Have Given Their Loves*
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Lady Izumi Shikibu
	You told me it was [trans. Willis Barnstone]
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Sappho
	Honestly I wish I were dead! [trans. Willis Barnstone]
Sulpicia
	Do you have a sweet thought, Cerinthus [trans. Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
	Delilah
Wu Tsao
	For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung]
William Butler Yeats
	Before the World Was Made
Robert Ronnow
	Cameron Diaz

*The Real River Is Beautiful*
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
	A Musical Instrument
Amy Clampitt
	The Reedbeds of the Hackensack
Nora Dauenhauer
	How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River
Eunice de Souza
	Sacred River
Tom Disch
	Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus
Homer
	And now to Xanthus' gliding stream they drove [The Iliad, XXI: 1-150 & 229-447, trans. Alexander Pope]
Bruce Hunter
	Two O'Clock Creek
Alden Nowlan
	St. John River
Robert Ronnow
	Grand Canyon

*No Light*
Edith Bruck
	Equality, Father [trans. Ruth Feldman]
Anthony Hecht
	"More Light, More Light!"
Etheridge Knight
	To Make a Poem in Prison
Charles Reznikoff
	Entertainment [from Holocaust, IX]
Isaac Rosenberg
	Dead Man's Dump
Ira Sadoff
	Nazis
Siamanto
	The Dance [trans. Peter Balakian & Nevart Yaghlian]
Robert Ronnow
	The seasons inure us to loss

*Therefore I Decided to Live a Long Time*
William Cullen Bryant
	Thanatopsis
Frances Cornford
	Childhood
George Gascoigne
	The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy
Ibaragi Noriko
	When I Was Prettiest in My Life [trans. Naoshi Koriyama & Edward Lueders]
Mina Loy
	Letters of the Unliving
Paul Violi
	Toward a February Songbook
Aleksander Wat
	Before Breughel the Elder [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Yuan Mei
	Last Poem: Goodbye to My Garden [trans. J.P. Seaton]
Robert Ronnow
	Long As You're Living

*The Backside of a Hundred Acre Run*
Robert Burns
	To a Mouse
Randall Jarrell
	Field and Forest
Patrick Kavanagh
	To the Man After the Harrow
W.S. Merwin
	Alba
Carter Revard
	In Kansas
Gary Snyder
	Hay for the Horses
Edward Thomas
	As the team’s head brass
Robert Ronnow
	Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War

*Everything Is Normal*
Denver Butson
	Tuesday 9:00 AM
Fred Chappell
	A Glorious Twilight
Russell Edson
	The Large Thing
Bruce Hunter
	The Day We Tore Up Stanley's Lawn
William Matthews
	Whiplash
Carl Sandburg
	Why did the children put beans in their ears?
Novica Tadic
	The Cats' Strike [trans. Michael March & Dusan Puvacic]
James Tate
	Bounden Duty
Robert Ronnow
	Peter has gotten a new job

*Like a Wolf on the Fold*
George Gordon, Lord Byron
	The Destruction of Sennacherib
Fred Chappell
	Tiger in the Field of Flame Grass
Victor Hugo
	Expiation [Part 1; trans. Louis Simpson]
Itaikkunrurkilar
	His Legs Strong and Lithe [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
Ogden Nash
	Very Like a Whale
John Crowe Ransom
	Judith of Bethulia
William Shakespeare
	Now is the winter of our discontent [Richard III: I, i, 1-41]
Robert Ronnow
	Ukrainians Are Not Russians

*The Thunder of the Sail*
Roy Campbell
	Choosing a Mast
Robinson Jeffers
	Boats in a Fog
W.S. Merwin
	The Helmsmen
Richard Murphy
	The Last Galway Hooker
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
	Ulysses
Paul Violi
	Phenakistes Urges His Crew Onward
Derek Walcott
	The Schooner Flight
Robert Penn Warren
	Masts at Dawn
Robert Ronnow
	Get the Most Out of Life of Pi

*Decimate Us!*
Ernesto Cardenal
	"For Those Dead, Our Dead . . ." [trans. Jonathan Cohen]
Raymond Carver
	Wine
James Dickey
	Drinking from a Helmet
Alan Dugan
	The Decimation Before Phraata
Robert Hass
	Horace: Three Imitations
Homer
	As when the winds, ascending by degrees [The Iliad, IV: 478-542, trans. Alexander Pope]
William Matthews
	The Wolf of Gubbio
William Butler Yeats
	An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Robert Ronnow
	Make War, With Love

*Death Is Indifferent to What Hide He Tans*
Ernesto Cardenal
	The Parrots [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Tristan Corbiere
	Letter from Mexico [trans. William Meredith]
Keith Douglas
	Vergissmeinnicht
Thomas Hardy
	The Man He Killed
Seamus Heaney
	Casualty
Li Kuang-t'ien
	A Dead Turk [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
Paul Muldoon
	Anseo
Robert Ronnow
	The force that placed us here cannot be trusted

*Not Even the Rain Has Such Small Hands*
Hayden Carruth
	The Cows at Night
Robert Creeley
	The Rain
e.e. cummings
	somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
Tom Koontz
	rain all morning
Li Ch'ing-chao
	A Weary Song to a Slow Sad Tune [trans. Kenneth Rexroth]
Nguyen Chi Thien
	A Jungle Night [trans. Huyng Sanh Thong]
Jules Supervielle
	Rain and the Tyrants [trans. David Gascoyne]
Wu Tsao
	Bitter rain in my courtyard [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung]
Robert Ronnow
	Rain

*No Go the Merrygoround*
Ciaran Carson
	Bagpipe Music
Tom Disch
	Zewhyexary
Langston Hughes
	Merry-Go-Round
Roberto Juarroz
	Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
Tina Kelley
	Predicting the Kiss
Louis MacNeice
	Bagpipe Music
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
	Vastness
Robert Ronnow
	That Was Random

*Facing Death Was How They Knew They Were Alive*
Ciaran Carson
	Hamlet
Homer
	Why comes Aeneas thro' the ranks so far? [The Iliad, XX: 214-307, trans. Alexander Pope]
Bruce Hunter
	The Scale
Patrick Kavanagh
	Epic
Cathal O Searcaigh
	The Clay Pipes [trans. Seamus Heaney]
Rainer Maria Rilke
	The Man Watching [trans. Robert Bly]
Maurice Riordan
	A Word from the Loki
William Shakespeare
	How all occasions do inform against me [Hamlet: IV, iv, 32-66]
Robert Ronnow
	Anyone who wants to fight me all the time

*Happiness, It Comes On Unexpectedly*
Raymond Carver
	Happiness
Countee Cullen
	Tableau
Tina Kelley
	Free Day for Sale
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Recuerdo
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Song on the End of the World [trans. Tony Milosz]
Jules Supervielle
	Prophecy [trans. Patricia Terry]
Jalal al-din Rumi
	Who Says Words with My Mouth [trans. John Moyne & Coleman Barks]
Ahmad Shamlou
	Existence [trans. Zara Houshmand]
Robert Ronnow
	Who should I thank?

*My Brother, You Have Been Taken From Me*
Catullus
	By Strangers’ Coasts and Waters [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
Al-Khansa
	On Her Brother Sakhr [trans. Willis Barnstone]
Steve Kowit
	The Prodigal Son’s Brother
Philip Levine
	You Can Have It
Naomi Shihab Nye
	The Little Brother Poem
Tu Fu
	Dreaming of Li Po [trans. David Hinton]
Cesar Vallejo
	To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam [trans. James Wright]
James Wright
	The Flying Eagles of Troop 52
Robert Ronnow
	Brother Death

*There Are Introductions*
Constantine Cavafy
	Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
Pennar Davies
	Ave Atque Vale [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
Dana Gioia
	Summer Storm
Forest Hamer
	Goldsboro Narrative #28
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party
Sharon Olds
	The One Girl at the Boys Party
Edwin Arlington Robinson
	Mr. Flood’s Party
William Shakespeare
	But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? [Romeo and Juliet: II, ii, 2-135]
Robert Ronnow
	At a Party

*Now It's Tomorrow, As Usual*
Richard Cecil
	Internal Exile
David Chin
	A Seven-Day Diary
Adelaide Crapsey
	Trapped
Nora Dauenhauer
	How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Spring
James Schuyler
	Dining Out with Doug and Frank
William Shakespeare
	To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow [Macbeth: V, v, 19-28]
Robert Ronnow
	The Canopy and Economy

*Speak the Speech*
Fred Chappell
	Heath at Two: Learning to Talk
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Evan, Breathing
Heather McHugh
	What He Thought
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Maurice Riordan
	A Word from the Loki
William Shakespeare
	Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you [Hamlet: III, ii, 1-45]
Robert Wrigley
	Do You Love Me?
Robert Ronnow
	A Good Day to Die

*Far From the Ailing Earth*
Fred Chappell
	Moonswarm
Emily Dickinson
	I taste a liquor never brewed–
Tom Disch
	March
Robert Francis
	Clouds
Zbigniew Herbert
	Report from Paradise [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Peter Dale Scott]
Homer
	Sweet pleasing Sleep! (Saturnia thus began) [The Iliad, XIV: 266-416, trans. Alexander Pope]
Mary Ruefle
	Kiss of the Sun
William Butler Yeats
	The Fiddler of Dooney
Robert Ronnow
	Jet, cracked paint, tea

*Dismissed From Military Service*
Dinos Christianopoulos
	Dismissed from Military Service [trans. Kimon Friar]
James Dickey
	Drinking from a Helmet
Alan Dugan
	Portrait From the Infantry
Gunter Eich
	Inventory [trans. Joshua Mehigan]
Paul Muldoon
	Anseo
Perry Oldham
	Noon
Henry Reed
	Lessons of the War
Walt Whitman
	Dirge for Two Veterans
Robert Ronnow
	Marines Call to Say Hello

*More Than Understanding I Longed for Joy*
Dinos Christianopoulos
	Interval of Joy [trans. Kimon Friar]
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	When Malindy Sings
Andrew Hudgins
	Blur
Galway Kinnell
	First Song
Gerald Locklin
	The Best Years of Her Life
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]
Anne Spencer
	At the Carnival
Wislawa Szymborska
	The Joy of Writing [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Robert Ronnow
	Start Knowing Joy

*I Was That Lonely*
Chu Shu-chen
	Morning [trans. Kenneth Rexroth]
Allen Ginsberg
	A Supermarket in California
Thomas Hardy
	The Going
Patrick Kavanagh
	Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Theodore Roethke
	The Geranium
William Shakespeare
	How many thousand of my poorest subjects [Henry IV: III, i, 4-31]
Charles Simic
	The Immortal
Robert Ronnow
	Chinese Sonnets

*Its Silence Speaks For Me*
Amy Clampitt
	The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews
Robert Francis
	Juniper
Robert Hayden
	The Night-Blooming Cereus
Amy Lowell
	The Weather-Cock Points South
Roger Mitchell
	The Stones at Callinish, Isle of Lewis
Molly Peacock
	The Surge
William Carlos Williams
	Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [Book I]
Robert Ronnow
	Miniature Juniper

*The Geese Overhead Warring South*
Henri Cole
	The Prince Enters the Forest
Alan Dugan
	Variation on a Theme by Stevens
Brendan Galvin
	An Intermission
John Hollander
	Swan and Shadow
Marilyn Nelson
	Bali Hai Calls Mama
Mary Oliver
	The Swan
William Butler Yeats
	The Wild Swans at Coole
Robert Ronnow
	Geese in Winter

*It Is Him, My Leader, My Love*
Billy Collins
	Dharma
Thom Gunn
	Yoko
Jane Hirshfield
	Bone
Carolyn Kizer
	Bitch
Tom Koontz
	Currrr
William Matthews
	Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog
Robert Sward
	Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9
Rhydwen Williams
	Dogs
Robert Ronnow
	Shade

*What Luck To Have Had a Mother*
Billy Collins
	The Lanyard
Stephen Dunn
	The Routine Things Around the House
Robert Francis
	While I Slept
Lorna Goodison
	For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength)
Seamus Heaney
	In Memoriam M.K.H. (1911-1984) [from Clearances, 3]
Stanley Kunitz
	The Portrait
Timothy McBride
	Road Metal
Shamsur Rahman
	Into Olive Leaves [trans. Sajed Kamal]
Robert Ronnow
	New Haven Terminal

*What My Students Teach Me*
Billy Collins
	Marginalia
Emily Dickinson
	There is no Frigate like a Book
Norman Dubie
	Of Politics & Art
Eve L. Ewing
	Requiem for Fifth Period and the Things That Went On Then
Robert Francis
	Farm Boy after Summer
Tony Hoagland
	Grammar
Bruce Hunter
	What My Students Teach Me
Al Zolynas
	Love in the Classroom
Robert Ronnow
	Middle School Math Teacher

*Why Do Your Poems Give Me a Headache?*
Billy Collins
	Marginalia
Tony Hoagland
	Grammar
William Matthews
	A Poetry Reading at West Point
Heather McHugh
	What He Thought
W.S. Merwin
	Berryman
Roger Mitchell
	Homage to Beatrix Potter
Paul Zimmer
	Suck It Up
Robert Ronnow
	Tweets

Keeping the Company of Time and Eternity
Billy Collins
	The Moment
Thomas Hardy
	Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
Jane Hirshfield
	A Room
William Meredith
	The American Living Room: A Tract
Howard Nemerov
	A Singular Metamorphosis
Charles Simic
	Mirrors at 4 A.M.
Reed Whittemore
	Still Life
Robert Ronnow
	Antifragility

*Part of No Earthly Estate*
Billy Collins
	A Sense of Place
Thomas Hardy
	Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
John Hewitt
	Landscape
Patrick Kavanagh
	Tarry Flynn
Cody Kucker
	Task
Michael Longley
	Peace
Jules Supervielle
	The House Surrounded [trans. Patricia Terry]
Robert Ronnow
	Providence

*A Hug Comes Over Me*
Billy Collins
	Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Tess Gallagher
	The Hug
Gary Gildner
	A Mouse
Louise Gluck
	Hawk's Shadow
J. Gwyn Griffiths
	Two Are Embracing [trans. Richard Poole]
Tina Kelley
	Predicting the Kiss
Sharon Olds
	Greed and Agression
William Butler Yeats
	Politics
Robert Ronnow
	All Soft Feathers and Flight Muscles

*From Now On a Haircut is Two Bits*
John William Corrington
	on my 18th birthday
Robert Desnos
	Mid-Way [trans. William Kulik & Carole Frankel]
Deborah Harding
	How I Knew Harold
William Meredith
	A Vision of Good Secrets
W.S. Merwin
	For the Anniversary of My Death
Sulpicia
	Have you heard? The troubles [trans. Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone]
Rabindranath Tagore
	On My Birthday [trans. William Radice]
Cesar Vallejo
	Black Stone on Top of a White Stone [trans. Thomas Merton]
Robert Ronnow
	Sunset

*You Are My One God*
Mae V. Cowdery
	Longings
Emily Dickinson
	Wild Nights–Wild Nights!
Andrew Hudgins
	Praying Drunk
Akka Mahadevi
	Riding the blue sapphire mountains [trans. A.K. Ramanujan]
Mira Bai
	Let me see you [trans. Willis Barnstone & Usha Nilsson]
Frank O'Hara
	To the Harbormaster
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
	Song of Krishna (5) [trans. Velcheru Narayana Rao]
Stevie Smith
	God the Eater
Robert Ronnow
	Oh Pilot Me

*Group Photo*
Jeremy Cronin
	Group Photo from Pretoria Local on the Occasion of a Fourth Anniversary (Never Taken)
Ted Hughes
	Wilfred Owen's Photographs
Dian Million
	The Housing Poem
Wilfred Owen
	Dulce Et Decorum Est
Heberto Padilla
	Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]
David Ray
	Tableaux
Reed Whittemore
	On Looking Through a Photo Album (of Viet Cong Prisoners)
Robert Ronnow
	Building Fence

*How One Day Coaxes Itself Out of Another*
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
	But Venus first [from First Dream; trans. Samuel Beckett]
Emily Dickinson
	There's a certain slant of light
Paul Durcan
	Maureen Durcan
Robert Francis
	Emergence
Thomas Hardy
	Afternoon Service at Mellstock
Denise Levertov
	The Mutes
William Stafford
	It's All Right
Robert Ronnow
	In a Day

*Life Is Fine!*
e.e. cummings
	the boys i mean are not refined
Albert Goldbarth
	Stomackes
Nazim Hikmet
	Things I Didn't Know I Loved [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Langston Hughes
	Life Is Fine
Galway Kinnell
	Why Regret?
Rudyard Kipling
	Mandalay
Denise Levertov
	Living
R.S. Thomas
	Lore
Robert Ronnow
	Types of Joy

*Black and White and Black*
Bernard Dadie
	I Thank You God [trans. John O. Reed & Clive Wake]
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Two Nuns at the Mall
Robert Frost
	The Onset
Langston Hughes
	Cross
Tom Koontz
	A Face of Winter
Roger Mitchell
	The Story of the White Cup
Gary Snyder
	Three Deer One Coyote Running in the Snow
Natasha Tretheway
	Flounder
Robert Ronnow
	Snow. . .

*It's My Lunch Hour, So I Go for a Walk*
Mahmoud Darwish
	In Jerusalem [trans. Fady Joudah]
James Hannon
	Sarajevo Monday
Nazim Hikmet
	The Evening Walk [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Giacomo Leopardi
	Saturday Night in the Village [trans. Robert Lowell]
Frank O'Hara
	A Step Away from Them
Purple Mark
	Being Vincent Van Gogh
Robert Ronnow
	Life Out of Balance

*The Years Bloomed By*
Pennar Davies
	I Was with Ulysses [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
Nikki Giovanni
	Nikki-Rosa
Muriel Spark
	Going up to Sotheby's
Mona Van Duyn
	The Block
Robert Ronnow
	Come What May

*There's No There There*
Pennar Davies
	When I Was a Boy [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Race [trans. Derek Mahon]
Freda Downie
	Starlight
Philip Larkin
	Here
Archibald MacLeish
	The End of the World
W.S. Merwin
	The Last One
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Ragged Island
Derek Walcott
	Easter
Robert Ronnow
	My Giant

*A Light Wave and a Particle*
Alison Hawthorne Deming
	Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut
Laurence Lieberman
	The Coral Reef
W.S. Merwin
	Leviathan
Robert Pinsky
	The Figured Wheel
David Ray
	The Waves
Theodore Roethke
	The Rose
Walt Whitman
	I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end [Song of Myself, 3]
Robert Ronnow
	The Ordinary Care of Providence

*A Commuter In a Strange Land*
Eunice de Souza
	Sacred River
Wing Tek Lum
	The Butcher
Lynne McMahon
	We Take Our Children to Ireland
William Meredith
	An Account of a Visit to Hawaii
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Coming into Cuzco
David Ray
	Reply from New Zealand
Ravi Shankar
	Exile
James Wright
	The Journey
Robert Ronnow
	The Dark Green Conifers

*I'm Damn Sick of Ape*
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Shan Van Vocht [trans. Ciaran Carson]
Russell Edson
	Ape
John Grey
	The Ape Enclosure
Moishe Leib Halpern
	Man, That Ape [trans. John Hollander]
Paul Muldoon
	Why Brownlee Left
Gary Soto
	Practicing Eulogies
Bruce Weigl
	The Last Lie
Terence Winch
	Mysteries
Robert Ronnow
	Morsel of Biomass

*He Trembled Like a Heatwave and Faded*
James Dickey
	Drinking from a Helmet
T.S. Eliot
	Little Gidding
Robert Francis
	He died at eighty. Out in the fields that summer [Four Men, IV]
Seamus Heaney
	I had come to the edge of the water [from Station Island, 7]
Czeslaw Milosz
	Cafe [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Marcia Southwick
	A Portrait of Larry with Trogons
William Butler Yeats
	The Host of the Air
Robert Ronnow
	The Wound That Never Heals

*A Green Thought In a Green Shade*
Emily Dickinson
	As imperceptibly as Grief
Tom Koontz
	The Gift
Andrew Marvell
	Thoughts in a Garden
Theodore Roethke
	The Waking
Gary Snyder
	Three Deer One Coyote Running in the Snow
Wallace Stevens
	The Glass of Water
William Butler Yeats
	Long-Legged Fly
Robert Ronnow
	White Waits

*Life Draws a Bird*
Emily Dickinson
	A bird came down the walk
Stephen Dunn
	Seriousness
Robert Frost
	The Oven Bird
Roberto Juarroz
	Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
Greg Pape
	Birds of Detroit
Lucia Perillo
	Shrike Tree
Sylvia Plath
	Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Wallace Stevens
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Robert Ronnow
	Words for Birds

*Here Where the Dead Lie Hidden*
Emily Dickinson
	I died for Beauty–but was scarce
Robert Francis
	Hide-and-Seek
Thomas Hardy
	The Levelled Churchyard
Philip Larkin
	Church Going
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Derek Mahon
	Consolations of Philosophy
Walt Whitman
	As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods
Robert Ronnow
	The Recent and Long Dead

*A Rough Plain Hearse*
Emily Dickinson
	I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Tom Disch
	In Defense of Forest Lawn
Seamus Heaney
	Funeral Rites
Bruce Hunter
	The Funeral
Richard Jones
	Sky Funeral
William H. Matchett
	Quaker Funeral
William Shakespeare
	What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright or the carpenter? [Hamlet: V, i, 41-216]
William Carlos Williams
	Tract
Robert Ronnow
	Mom's Eulogy

*I Hear the Minute Hand Moving*
Emily Dickinson
	I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Denise Levertov
	Living
Derek Mahon
	Craigvara House
Sharon Olds
	Life with Sick Kids
Kenneth Rexroth
	Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
Charles Simic
	Watch Repair
Wislawa Szymborska
	The Terrorist, He Watches [trans. Adam Czerniawski]
Robert Ronnow
	No cows to look at

*Out of Endurance, Exaltation*
Emily Dickinson
	Sweet Mountains–Ye tell me no lie–
Robert Francis
	Monadnock
Anthony Hecht
	A Hill
George Herbert
	The Pilgrimage
W.S. Merwin
	The Mountain
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Negotiations with a Volcano
Sylvia Plath
	Above the Oxbow
Mona Van Duyn
	A View
Robert Ronnow
	Under Mummy Mountain

*Two Thousand Feet Above the Creek*
Tom Disch
	Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus
Bruce Hunter
	Two O'Clock Creek
Donald Justice
	Here in Katmandu
William H. Matchett
	Water Ouzel
William Matthews
	Scenic View
W.S. Merwin
	The Mountain
Sylvia Plath
	Above the Oxbow
Gary Snyder
	Above Pate Valley
Robert Ronnow
	Snake Creek

*One Genesis Mention's All You Get*
Tom Disch
	Zewhyexary
Robbie Gamble
	Reading from the Desert Fathers at the Laundromat
Albert Goldbarth
	A Song about Colonial Times
C.S. Lewis
	The Late Passenger
Naomi Mulvihill
	Gospel
Paul Violi
	Huggermugger
Charles Harper Webb
	Biblical Also-Rans
Robert Ronnow
	Helterskelter Huggermugger Heebiejeebies

*The Merry Love To Dance*
Rita Dove
	Fox Trot Fridays
Robert Francis
	The Revelers
Patrick Kavanagh
	Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Alicia Ostriker
	Wrinkly Lady Dancer
Theodore Roethke
	My Papa's Waltz
Louis Simpson
	The Riders Held Back
William Carlos Williams
	Danse Russe
William Butler Yeats
	The Fiddler of Dooney
Robert Ronnow
	Eronel

*The Oldest Element in Her Universe*
Norman Dubie
	A Grandfather’s Last Letter
Ted Hughes
	Ravens
Howard Kogan
	Bailey at the Museum
David Ray
	In the Gallery Room
	The Waves
William Stafford
	With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach
May Swenson
	The Centaur
William Carlos Williams
	The Turtle
Robert Ronnow
	Home Schooling

*Gold, Near Gold, Off-Gold, Ultra-Golden*
Carol Ann Duffy
	Mrs Midas
Robert Francis
	Gold
Robert Frost
	Nothing Gold Can Stay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
William Shakespeare
	So may the outward shows be least themselves [The Merchant of Venice: III, ii, 73-107]
Elinor Wylie
	Wild Peaches
William Butler Yeats
	Sailing to Byzantium
Robert Ronnow
	Change

*Between My Reason and My Heart*
Alan Dugan
	Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Impasse: Glose
George Gascoigne
	Gascoigne’s Lullaby
Howard Nemerov
	Style
Kay Ryan
	A Hundred Bolts of Satin
James Tate
	Bona Fides
Mona Van Duyn
	Open Letter from a Constant Reader
Robert Ronnow
	Either Way

*A Great Transverse Tear*
Alan Dugan
	Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
Robert Francis
	Part for the Whole
Donald Justice
	Mule Team and Poster
Philip Larkin
	Sunny Prestatyn
Charles Martin
	Sharks at the New York Aquarium
Frank O'Hara
	Why I am not a Painter
Heberto Padilla
	Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]
Robert Ronnow
	Soot

*The Line Between Prose and Poetry*
Paul Laurence Dunbar
	A Choice
Rhina P. Espaillat
	On the Impossibility of Translation
Robert Francis
	Catch
Eamon Grennan
	Detail
Archibald MacLeish
	Ars Poetica
Lisel Mueller
	When I Am Asked
Howard Nemerov
	Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry
Gary Snyder
	What You Should Know to Be a Poet
Robert Ronnow
	Can poetry matter

*Long as a Man and Wide as an Eagle*
Stephen Dunn
	Seriousness
Brendan Galvin
	An Intermission
Robinson Jeffers
	Fire on the Hills
William H. Matchett
	Water Ouzel
James Wright
	The Flying Eagles of Troop 52
Elinor Wylie
	The Eagle and the Mole
William Butler Yeats
	Leda and the Swan
Robert Ronnow
	Communicating the Bird

*Cease Thy Counsel*
Paul Durcan
	The Divorce Referendum, Ireland, 1986
Louise Gluck
	Telemachus' Detachment
X.J. Kennedy
	First Confession
Maxine Kumin
	Seven Caveats in May
William Meredith
	Thoughts on One's Head
Kay Ryan
	This Life
William Shakespeare
	I pray thee cease thy counsel [Much Ado About Nothing: V,i,3-32]
William Butler Yeats
	Ribh Considers Christian Love Insufficient
Robert Ronnow
	By the Seat of the Soul's Pants

*That's That You Think But In Fact It's Not*
Gunter Eich
	Dreams [trans. Michael Hofmann]
Jane Hirshfield
	A Room
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Gift [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Marilyn Nelson
	Bali Hai Calls Mama
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Office 337, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley
Kay Ryan
	Doubt
Mona Van Duyn
	In Bed with a Book
Robert Wrigley
	Fifth Morning
Robert Ronnow
	Nineteen Minutes to Bedtime

*This Is Our Body*
Menna Elfyn
	The Theology of Hair [trans. Elin ap Hywel]
Tess Gallagher
	Each Bird Walking
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Felix Randal
Stephen Kampa
	The Quiet Boy
Lisel Mueller
	Palindrome
Linda Pastan
	Notes from the Delivery Room
Seido Ray Ronci
	Snow
Gary Snyder
	The Bath
Robert Ronnow
	Colonoscopy

*Not the Flower But the Seed Endures*
Odysseus Elytis
	The Mad Pomegranate Tree [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
	The Rhodora
Robert Francis
	Spicebush and Witch-Hazel
Robert Frost
	Birches
Louise Gluck
	Mock Orange
Bruce Hunter
	Magnolia Fraseri Walt
Marianne Moore
	Smooth Gnarled Crape Myrtle
Norman Nicholson
	The Elm Decline
Robert Ronnow
	Rhodora in Winter

*I Have Seen No Deity*
Ralph Waldo Emerson
	Each and All
Robert Francis
	Nothing Is Far
George Herbert
	Redemption
William Meredith
	The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
Ezra Pound
	Cino
Pattiann Rogers
	The Objects of Immortality
William Shakespeare
	Tell me good Brutus, can you see your face? [Julius Caesar: I, ii, 51-177]
Robert Ronnow
	Upside Down the Ancient Bole

*There Is No Capital of the World*
Rhina P. Espaillat
	Bread
Langston Hughes
	Afro-American Fragment
Emma Lazarus
	The New Colossus
Campbell McGrath
	El Balserito
Lynne McMahon
	We Take Our Children to Ireland
William Meredith
	On Jenkins' Hill
Czeslaw Milosz
	Bypassing rue Descartes [trans. Renata Gorczynski & Robert Hass]
David Ray
	The Rickshaw Wallah Told Us
Robert Ronnow
	Immigration

*The Night Cooing and Pigeons Roosting*
Rhina P. Espaillat
	A Eulogy, Maybe
Lawrence Kearney
	After the Interrogation
William Meredith
	The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
Greg Pape
	Birds of Detroit
Alastair Reid
	Pigeons
Wallace Stevens
	Sunday Morning
Richard Wilbur
	After the Last Bulletins
Robert Ronnow
	Take the Ripe Plum

*Leave Them Nothing, Nothing*
Rhina P. Espaillat
	This Is To Tell You
Thomas Hardy
	Friends Beyond
Claude McKay
	If We Must Die
Bimal Nibha
	Cycle [trans. Manjushree Thapa]
David Ray
	Estate Sale
Charles Simic
	The Altar
Richard Wilbur
	Museum Piece
William Carlos Williams
	This Is Just to Say
Robert Ronnow
	Gotta Go

*To His Lady*
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
	The Love I Gave You Once [trans. Mahbub-ul-Haq]
Nazim Hikmet
	Letter from My Wife [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Bruce Hunter
	Manta Ray
Giacomo Leopardi
	To His Lady [trans. Jonathan Galassi]
Ogden Nash
	To My Valentine
Pablo Neruda
	Dead Woman [trans.Brian Cole]
Umberto Saba
	To My Wife [trans. Felix Stefanile]
Ramon Lopez Velarde
	Because of this Modest Style [trans. Michael Schmidt]
Robert Ronnow
	A Yellow Rose

*Pull the Knot Tight*
Padraic Fallon
	Kiltarten Legend
Robert Hass
	Sonnet
Howard Kogan
	The Way We Met
Hugh MacDiarmid
	O Wha’s the Bride?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	This beast that rends me in the sight of all
Timothy Pilgrim
	Wedding Rescue
Yannis Ritsos
	Penelope's Despair [trans. Edmund Keeley]
W.D. Snodgrass
	Mementos, 1
Robert Ronnow
	Stay together. Learn the flowers. Go light

*I Became a Wanderer*
Peter Fallon
	Himself
Valery Larbaud
	Images [trans. William Jay Smith]
Philip Levine
	Salami
Mina Loy
	Three Moments in Paris
Mira Bai
	Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House [trans. Robert Bly]
So Chongju
	Wanderer’s Bouquet [trans. David R. McCann]
Janet Sutherland
	Quarantine
William Butler Yeats
	The Song of Wandering Aengus
Robert Ronnow
	Ricardo’s Lunch

*Put On Your Foliage*
Peter Fallon
	Spring Song
Robert Hayden
	The Night-Blooming Cereus
Robert Herrick
	Corinna's Going A-Maying
Kim Kwang-kyu
	North South East West [trans. Brother Anthony of Taize]
Suji Kwock Kim
	The Korean Community Garden
William H. Matchett
	Reclaiming the Strawberries
Robert Ronnow
	Caterpillar fur

*A Stone Look on the Stone's Face*
Carolyn Forche
	Museum of Stones
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Facing It
Charles Martin
	Speech Against Stone
Roger Mitchell
	Utitsialangavik
Robert Pinsky
	The Figured Wheel
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Archaic Torso of Apollo [trans. Stephen Mitchell & Vernon Watkins]
Richard Wilbur
	Advice to a Prophet
Robert Ronnow
	The Terminator

*Thousands Have Died Since Dawn*
Franco Fortini
	Far Away, Far Away . . . [trans. Geoffrey Brock]
Thomas Hardy
	The Eve of Waterloo
Miroslav Holub
	The fly [trans. George Theiner]
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party
Wilfred Owen
	Strange Meeting
James Schuyler
	May, 1972
William Shakespeare
	If we are mark'd to die, we are enow [Henry V: IV, iii, 20-67]
Louis Simpson
	The Riders Held Back
Robert Ronnow
	Fear and Awe

*The Only Philosopher's Stone Worth Bothering About*
Robert Francis
	Bouquets
Donald Hall
	Summer Kitchen
Leonard Nathan
	Bladder Song
P.K. Page
	Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree
Sylvia Plath
	You're
William Shakespeare
	Let me not to the marriage of true minds [Sonnet 116]
Charles Simic
	Breasts
Richard Wilbur
	Playboy
Robert Ronnow
	Peaches

*Summer Is to Spring as One to Ten*
Robert Francis
	Farm Boy after Summer
Robert Frost
	The Oven Bird
Dana Gioia
	Summer Storm
Donald Hall
	Summer Kitchen
Carolyn Kizer
	Summer Near the River
Norman MacCaig
	So many summers
Louis Simpson
	Summer Storm
Oksana Zabuzhko
	Letter from the Summer House [trans. Douglas Smith]
Robert Ronnow
	The Summer Noosphere

*The Blowing Wind I Let It Blow*
Robert Francis
	Old Man's Confession of Faith
Donald Justice
	A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida
Roger Mitchell
	Why We're Here
Cesare Pavese
	Instinct [trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni]
Po Chu-i
	On Being Sixty [trans. Arthur Waley]
Leonardo Sinisgalli
	Old Grief [trans. W.S. DiPiero]
William Butler Yeats
	Politics
Robert Ronnow
	Rules for Old Men Waiting

*Firefly Jewelweed*
Robert Francis
	Silent Poem
Tom Koontz
	It's Nothing, Really
Lorine Niedecker
	You are my friend
Charles North
	Air and Angels
Kay Ryan
	Doubt
Nelly Sachs
	Line Like [trans. Michael Hamburger]
Paul Violi
	Rifacimento
Andrei Voznesensky
	Darkmotherscream [trans. Robert Bly & Vera Dunham]
Robert Ronnow
	blueberries

*My Mistress' Eyes*
Robert Frost
	The Silken Tent
Richard Jones
	The Loft
Ben Jonson
	Her Triumph
Kenneth Rexroth
	Quietly
William Shakespeare
	My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun [Sonnet 130]
Charles Simic
	My Beloved
Richard Wilbur
	The Catch
William Butler Yeats
	For Anne Gregory
Robert Ronnow
	Subs v. Dubs

*Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes*
Louise Gluck
	Celestial Music
Albert Goldbarth
	12th Century Chinese Painting with a Few Dozen Seal Imprints Across It
Langston Hughes
	The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Bruce Hunter
	Spring Opening–Lock Four
Li Po
	The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party
Wu Tsao
	In the Home of the Scholar Wu Su-chiang From Hsin-an, I Saw Two Psalteries of the Late Sung General Hsieh Fang-te [trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung]
William Butler Yeats
	Lapis Lazuli
Robert Ronnow
	The Shootist

*A House of Mercy*
Louise Gluck
	Widows
Robert Hass
	The Dry Mountain Air
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Office 337, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley
Theodore Roethke
	Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
Stevie Smith
	A House of Mercy
Natasha Tretheway
	Letters from Storyville
Ronald Wallace
	Sestina for the House
Sherley Anne Williams
	Letters to a New England Negro
Robert Ronnow
	October Sky

*Different Ways to Pray*
Albert Goldbarth
	Sumerian Votive Figurines [from Ancient Musics]
George Herbert
	Prayer
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	The Habit of Perfection
Andrew Hudgins
	Praying Drunk
William H. Matchett
	Quaker Funeral
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Different Ways to Pray
Ray A. Young Bear
	Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial
Robert Ronnow
	Upper Manhattan Medical Group

*Before My Helpless Sight*
J. Gwyn Griffiths
	There Are Limits to Brotherly Love [trans. Richard Poole]
Kakkaipirtiniyar Naccellaiyar
	Many Said [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
Tom Koontz
	from a letter, Sarajevo...
Cecil Day Lewis
	The Dead
Wilfred Owen
	Dulce Et Decorum Est
Siamanto
	The Dance [trans. Peter Balakian & Nevart Yaghlian]
Walt Whitman
	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Robert Ronnow
	The Rwandan Dead

*In the Corner Missed By the Mower*
Jorge Guillen
	The Horses [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Randall Jarrell
	Field and Forest
Tom Koontz
	In Such a Light
Carter Revard
	In Kansas
Theodore Roethke
	The Far Field
Edward Thomas
	Tall Nettles
Robert Ronnow
	Undersky Sleeping, Bonekeeping

*How We Go On*
Hafiz
	Companion for Life [trans. Daniel Ladinsky]
Yalie Kamara
	Besaydoo
Li-Young Lee
	The Hammock
William H. Matchett
	Ivory-Bill
William Matthews
	107th and Amsterdam
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Felicitous Life [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Peter Dale Scott]
Gary Snyder
	Axe Handles
David Wagoner
	Staying Alive
Robert Ronnow
	Let's Work the Problem

*The Sadness of Joy*
Corrine Hales
	Power
Nazim Hikmet
	Since I Was Thrown Inside [trans. Deniz Perin]
Galway Kinnell
	First Song
D.H. Lawrence
	A Youth Mowing
Jon Stallworthy
	The Almond Tree
Richard Wilbur
	Boy at the Window
William Wordsworth
	Lines Written in Early Spring
Robert Ronnow
	Max Joy Marries Minnie Pain

*Demon or Bird?*
Thomas Hardy
	The Darkling Thrush
Robinson Jeffers
	Hurt Hawks
John Keats
	Ode to a Nightingale
D.H. Lawrence
	Man and Bat
Kay Ryan
	Flamingo Watching
Percy Bysshe Shelley
	To a Skylark
Robert Penn Warren
	Evening Hawk
Walt Whitman
	Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Robert Ronnow
	Samsara

*I Come To Be Useful and To Entertain*
Robert Hass
	Paschal Lamb
William H. Matchett
	Boxing the VW
Naomi Shihab Nye
	Catalogue Army
Delmore Schwartz
	Pleasure [from Coriolanus and His Mother]
William Shakespeare
	Do thou stand for my father and examine me upon the particulars of my life [1 Henry IV: II, iv, 376-481]
Jeffrey Skinner
	The New Music Concert: A Drinking Dream
Hannah Stone
	Eurycleia entertains a stranger in Armley
Robert Ronnow
	Good at Marketing

*My Father Hated Weakness*
Robert Hayden
	Those Winter Sundays
George Herbert
	Constancie
Leonard Nathan
	Family Circle
Michael Longley
	Phemios & Medon [from Homeric Poems]
W.S. Merwin
	Yesterday
Alden Nowlan
	Weakness
Belle Waring
	Before Penicillin
Robert Ronnow
	Dad’s Bark

*It Is Better to Say 'I Am Suffering' Than to Say 'This* *Landscape is Ugly'*
George Herbert
	Bitter-Sweet
Jane Hirshfield
	Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body
Carolyn Kizer
	The Intruder
Howard Kogan
	Winter Wren
Heather McHugh
	The Matter Over
Sharon Olds
	On the Hearth of the Broken Home
Anne Sexton
	The Room of My Life
Robert Ronnow
	Netflix, Hulu

*He Works His Work, I Mine*
George Herbert
	Time
A.D. Hope
	Tiger
Gary Margolis
	Shovel and Rake
William H. Matchett
	Reclaiming the Strawberries
Naomi Mulvihill
	Gospel
Cesare Pavese
	South Seas [trans. Willam Arrowsmith]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
	Ulysses
Robert Ronnow
	Defiance

*My Train Pulled Out*
Nazim Hikmet
	Things I Didn't Know I Loved [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
A.D. Hope
	Observation Car
Kenneth Koch
	The Railway Stationery
Philip Larkin
	The Whitsun Weddings
Louis MacNeice
	To Wales once more, though not on holiday now [from Autumn Sequel, Canto XX]
May Swenson
	Riding the A
Adam Zagajewski
	At Daybreak [trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry & C.K. Williams]
Robert Ronnow
	For Spring No Hesitation Is Great

*Life Is Not a Curse*
Homer
	Alas! what weight of anguish hast thou known? [The Iliad, XXIV: 653-839, trans. Alexander Pope]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Felix Randal
Langston Hughes
	Cross
Bruce Hunter