For A Five-Year-Old — Fleur Adcock
Down in the Valley — Anonymous
Ten Legs, Eight Broken — Anonymous
Untitled (“Oh Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie”) — Phillip Appleman
No Tool or Rope or Pail — Bob Arnold
Song — W. H. Auden
Who’s Who — W. H. Auden
At Last The Secret Is Out — W. H. Auden
Snowflake — William Baer
Street Ballad — George Barker
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front — Wendell Berry
The Vacation — Wendell Berry
Manners (for a Child of 1918) — Elizabeth Bishop
Proverbs of Hell — William Blake
Calling Your Father — Robert Bly
A Man in Maine — Philip Booth
First Lesson — Philip Booth
Dilemma — David Budbill
The Sixth of January — David Budbill
Con Job — Charles Bukowski
The Last Song — Charles Bukowski
Oh, Yes — Charles Bukowski
Poetry Readings — Charles Bukowski
Little Citizen, Little Survivor — Hayden Carruth
At Least — Raymond Carver
Bonnard’s Nudes — Raymond Carver
Happiness — Raymond Carver
The Waiting — Raymond Carver
My Dad’s Wallet — Raymond Carver
Internal Exile — Richard Cecil
Passengers — Billy Collins
The Parade — Billy Collins
Nightclub — Billy Collins
The Orange — Wendy Cope
Nothing is Lost — Noel Coward
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out — Jimmie Cox
Ordinary Life — Barbara Crooker
In The Middle — Barbara Crooker
Leisure — W. H. Davies
Invitation — Carl Dennis
Untitled (“Success is counted sweetest”) — Emily Dickinson
The Yellow Slicker — Stuart Dischell
The Music One Looks Back On — Stephen Dobyns
No Map — Stephen Dobyns
For Whom The Bell Tolls — John Donne
Dawn Revisited — Rita Dove
The Unsaid — Stephen Dunn
A Secret Life — Stephen Dunn
To a Frustrated Poet — R.J. Ellmann
The Dumka — B. H. Fairchild
In Paris With You — James Fenton
Death Mask — Edward Field
My Cup — Robert Friend
Unharvested — Robet Frost
The Investment — Robert Frost
On A Tree Fallen Across The Road (To Hear Us Talk) — Robert Frost
Bunthorne's Song — W.S. Gilbert
Summer Storm — Dana Gioia
Theater — William Greenway
Routine — Arthur Guiterman
Last Days — Donald Hall
Affirmation — Donald Hall
Her Long Illness — Donald Hall
Ode to American English — Barbara Hanby
What I Want Is — C.G. Hanzlicek
Egg — C. G. Hanzlicek
Easter Morning — Jim Harrison
The Feast — Robert Hass
Those Winter Sundays — Robert Hayden
On The Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love — Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Life of a Day — Tom Hennen
Soaking Up Sun — Tom Hennen
Grow Up With Me — Keaton Henson
I'm With You — Keaton Henson
The Pugilist — Keaton Henson
Polite Plea — Keaton Henson
Smoke Signals — Keaton Henson
The Sailor — Geof Hewitt
Calling Him Back From Layoff — Bob Hicok
Disappointment — Tony Hoagland
Wedding Poem for Schele and Phil — Bill Holm
The Icelandic Language — Bill Holm
In Praise of My Bed — Meredith Holmes
Into my heart an air that kills — A.E. Housman
What the Living Do — Marie Howe
For My Daughter In Reply To A Question — David Ignatow
Woolworth’s — Mark Irwin
Diner — Louis Jenkins
Parable of the Four-Poster — Erica Jong
Poems to Be Read at 3 A.M. — Donald Justice
What I Learned From My Mother — Julia Kasdorf
The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything From Happening At Once — X. J. Kennedy
Otherwise — Jane Kenyon
A Walk Along The Old Tracks — Robert Kinsley
Spiral Notebook — Ted Kooser
The Prodigal Son's Brother — Steve Kowit
After Love — Maxine Kumin
Morning Swim — Maxine Kumin
The Portrait — Stanley Kunitz
Sad Steps — Philip Larkin
The Trees — Philip Larkin
Alley Violinist — Robert Lax
Her Door — Mary Leader
There Comes The Strangest Moment — Kate Light
No Longer a Teenager — Gerald Locklin
The Iceberg Theory — Gerald Locklin
Where We Are — Gerald Locklin
Oh Luxury — Guy W. Longchamps
The Meeting — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Excelsior — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wrist-Wrestling Father — Orval Lund
The Swimming Pool — Thomas Lux
Lesson of the Moth — Don Marquis
The Middle Years — Walter McDonald
Upon Hearing About The Suicide of the Daughter of Friends — Jo McDougall
The Future — Wesley McNair
Berryman — W. S. Merwin
Yesterday — W. S. Merwin
The Courage My Mother Had — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Working in the Rain — Robert Morgan
White Autumn — Robert Morgan
Late Hours — Lisel Mueller
Romantics — Lisel Mueller
Hope — Lisel Mueller
Not Only The Eskimos — Lisel Mueller
Toast — Leonard Nathan
To David, About His Education — Howard Nemerov
September, The First Day of School — Howard Nemerov
Testimonial — Harry Newman Jr.
Animals — Frank O’Hara
The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away From the Curb — Sharon Olds
Everything — Mary Oliver
Spring — Mary Oliver
When Death Comes — Mary Oliver
Soy Beans — Thomas Allen Orr
Love Cook — Ron Padgett
Here — Grace Paley
It Is Raining On The House of Anne Frank — Linda Pastan
Weather — Linda Pastan
Instrument of Choice — Robert Phillips
The Changed Man — Robert Phillips
To Be Of Use — Marge Piercy
Sometimes — Sheenagh Pugh
Since You Asked — Lawrence Raab
My Life Before I Knew It — Lawrence Raab
Childhood — Barbara Ras
A Dialogue of Watching — Kenneth Rexroth
A Singing Voice — Kenneth Rexroth
Rules of Evidence — Lee Robinson
Susquehanna — Liz Rosenberg
A Million Young Workmen, 1915 — Carl Sandburg
Riveted — Robyn Sarah
Death and the Turtle — May Sarton
Prayer for a Marriage — Steve Scafidi
Welcome Morning — Anne Sexton
Courage — Anne Sexton
Sonnet CVI — William Shakespeare
Passing Through A Small Town — David Shumate
Teaching a Child the Art of Confession — David Shumate
High Water Mark — David Shumate
The Altar — Charles Simic
Summer Morning — Charles Simmic
Ed — Louis Simpson
The Benefits of Ignorance — Hal Sirowitz
Lending Out Books — Hal Sirowitz
Hay for the Horses — Gary Snyder
The Three Kings — Muriel Spark
At the Arraignment — Debra Spencer
A Ritual to Read to Each Other — William Stafford
Once In The Forties — William Stafford
Stepping Out Of Poetry — Gerald Stern
Where Go The Boats — Robert Louis Stevenson
Homage: Doo-Wop — Joseph Stroud
Living in the Body — Joyce Sutphen
All That Time — May Swenson
Moderation is Not a Negotiation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony — John Tagliabue
March Blizzard — John Tagliabue
Tichborne’s Elegy — Chidiock Tichborne
Rye Whiskey — Traditional
My Father Gets Up In The Middle of the Night to Watch an Old Movie — Dennis Trudell
Dogs Death — John Updike
Perfection Wasted — John Updike
Boy At The Window — Richard Wilbur
Solitude — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poem For Emily — Miller Williams
Slow Children — Cecilia Woloch
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven — W. B. Yeats
Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow — Paul Zimmer
I Met At Eve — Walter De La Mare
Love Song — Rainer Maria Rilke
This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin
“Where does such tenderness come from?” — Marina Tsvetaeva
Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. — Gabrielle Calvocoressi
One Art — Elizabeth Bishop
The Thing Is — Ellen Bass
Here and Now — Peter Balakian
The Laughing Heart — Charles Bukowski