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AGAINST THE ENCROACHING GRAYS - C.D. Wright
Self-Pity (East River) - Larry Fagin
MY EPITAPH - Bill Knott
Poem - Aram Saroyan
Leaves - Ursula K. LeGuin
One June - Naomi Shihab Nye
Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns - Dean Young
Brushing Teeth with My Sister After The Wake - Jim Daniel’s
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart - Ada Limón
Rending the Garments - Ronna Bloom
Tin Bucket - Jenny George
Danez Smith
Wild Beasts - James Tate
“…I think you knew what was going to happen, I think you were ready. I could not bear to see you…
I’VE SEEN MORE GRIEF IN GROCERY STORES THAN I HAVE IN FUNERAL HOMES - Sara Rian
Untitled - Jason Shinder
I AM IN LOVE WITH UOU BUT I AM CURSED TO SPEAK LIKE GUY FIERI - Megan Williams
Nothing Gold - Kim Addonizio
blessing the boats - Lucille Clifton
Silkworms. Yamagaiko yōhō : zen. Methods for Raising Mountain Silkworms. v.1. 1873.
Ode to Friendship - Noor Hindi
COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL - Frank O’Hara
First Lesson - James Tate
After great pain, a formal feeling comes - Emily Dickinson
Poem - Denis Johnson
Cormac McCarthy
On Seatbelts and Sunsets
Hanif Abdurraqib
Next, Please - Philip Larkin
Rain and Stars - Jenny George
BOOGIE-WOOGIE - Adam Zagajewski
From “Perhaps the world ends here” - Joy Harjo
BOOTS (INFANTRY COLUMNS) - Rudyard Kipling
Nikki Giovanni
Aerial Photograph Before the Atomic Bomb - Toi Derricotte
“There is no other home!” - Boris Rogachevsky
Kobayashi Issa
SPRING - Jack Gilbert
AGAINST THE ENCROACHING GRAYS - C.D. Wright
Fire Bird - Ray González
First Love - Jean Valentine
The Song - David Ignatow
WORLD’S BLISS - Alice Notley
Larry Eigner
Yes - William Stafford
THE DARK HOUR - Jane Hirshfield
RITE OF SPRING - Seamus Heaney
The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats
AND IF I FALL - Carl Philips
OUR SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT - Heather Cristle
Aerial Photograph Before the Atomic Bomb - Toi Derricotte
Lives of the Saints - Charles Wright
Dear Reader - James Tate
If I Could Tell You - W.H. Auden
TO DRINK - Jane Hirshfield
Ode to Friendship - Noor Hindi
A Drinking Song - W.B. Yeats
In Time - W.S. Merwin
THE UNEXPRESS’D - Walt Whitman
Postcard to Baudelaire - Thomas Lux
Not Horses - Natalie Shapero
Windswept Tree, Injidup Dunes
HOUR - Mark Strand
How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and…
How It Happens - Victoria Chang
POETRY - Frank O’Hara
Scheherazade - Richard Siken
For love - Jean Valentine
Cormac McCarthy - “Of Whales and Men”
YOU & THE BANKER - Rosa Alcalá
In the Meantime - Lisa Olstein
Noelle Kocot
anti poetica - Danez Smith
THE MOMENT - Theodore Roethke
FEBRUARY EVENINGS - Andrew Crozier
Late Echo - John Ashbery
Dawn Revisited - Rita Dove
THE AUDRE LORDE QUESTIONAIRE TO ONESELF
Some Rules - Wendy Cope
THERE ARE MORNINGS - Lisel Mueller
THE AUDRE LORDE QUESTIONAIRE TO ONESELF
The Problem with Early Warnings - Charles Rafferty
from “The Creative Act - A Way of Being” - Rick Rubin
Wendell Berry
Cosmopolitan Greetings - Allen Ginsberg
William Carlos Williams
JANUARY - Charles Simic
BEGINNING - Sarah Mills
A BED FOR THE NIGHT - Bertie Brecht
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idea - Kate Baer
Postcard, Ashleigh Brilliant
Yes, That’s When - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Maybe This Year - Megan Williams
HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine
To the New Year - W.S. Merwin
January Night Prayer - Ursula Le Guin
Last portion of For the Time Being – A Christmas Oratorio - W.H. Auden
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Narrator:
Well, so…
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For the New Year, 1981 - Denise Levertov
The Print the Whales Make - Marjorie Saiser
GRANDMA #2 - nila NorthSun
Gate A-4 - Naomi Shihab Nye
TONIGHT, I HOPE ALL MY ENEMIES ARE FALLING IN LOVE
The Coming of Light - Mark Strand
Nikki Giovanni
There You Are - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Elegy - Mong-Lan
Advent - Heather Christle
THE BA, THE KA, THE ANKH, THE NAME, AND THE SHADOW - Eleni Sikelianos
from “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” - Annie Dillard
ONE DAY & THE NEXT - Paul Celan, tr. Will Bennett
The Head of Orpheus - Jenny George
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace -...
ON HIS BLINDNESS - Jorge Luis Borges
Suburban Bison - James Tate
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER - Kim Addonizio
Horse In The Dark - Vievee Francis
DARK HORSE - Vievee Francis
Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
Nicholas Bon, “We Could Get Drunk in This Field Because We’re in a Field & We’re in Love & What Else…
Enough Music - Dorianne Laux
Advice to visual artists concerning the fate of their works in the coming wars
The solution by Bertolt Brecht
To Those Born After, Bertolt Brecht, late 1930s
“General, your tank is a powerful vehicle
Mac the Knife - Bertold Brecht
Antilamentation - Dorianne Laux
Reasons to Survive November - Tony Hoagland
I AM LEARNING TO ABANDON THE WORLD - Linda Pastan
Edward Burra,
Cabbage - Jim Harrison
34 Mile Hour Wind - Frank O’Hara
Adagio - Ellen Bryant Voigt
San Antonio - Naomi Shihab Nye
CHRISTMAS TREE - James Merrill
I’m going to sleep - Jean Valentine
Mirabai
Archaic Torso of Apollo - Rainer Marie Rilke, tr. Stephen Mitchell
SNOWDROPS - Louise Glück
YES, I KNOW - Taiwo Hassan
In Passing - Lisel Muller
In cartoons, one can paint a hole in the wall - Bill Nuemire
Ode I. 11
THE BLESSING - James Wright
The Nightfields - Joanna Klink
Obstacle - Jane Hirshfield
continuation day
The Bright Field - RS Thomas
October Arriving - Charles Simic
MASKS - Shel Silverstein
The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso - Ilya Kaminsky
GRACE - Wendell Berry
The solitude of an apricot - Carl Adamshick
I Live My Life in Widening Circles - Rainer Maria Rilke
Marcel Proust - The Sea
To Whoever Is Reading Me - Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Alastair Reed
Wing-Spread Pelt - Dean Young
BURDEN STITCH - Ashley McWaters
A field in Scurry County - Christian Wiman
Once in a While I Am Reminded - Leila Chatti
Devin Kelly, from Ordinary Plots: “J. Estanislao Lopez’s ‘What the Fingers Do’” [transcript in ALT]
GALACTIC - Jim Harrison
And Now It’s September - Barbara Crooker
From “Perhaps the world ends here” - Joy Harjo
Untitled - [This is what was bequeathed us] - Gregory Orr
The Gun Joke - Jamaal May
The Mower - Philip Larkin
ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? - Devin Kelly
Existence: Thich Nhat Hanh