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20th Century
Allen Ginsberg, “Blessed be the Muses”
17 Mar 2025
Ted Hughes, “Rain”
14 Mar 2025
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
13 Mar 2025
Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”
12 Mar 2025
Sharon Olds, “The Connoisseuse of Slugs”
11 Mar 2025
Louise Glück, “Matins” and “Vespers”
10 Mar 2025
Eavan Boland, “The Making of an Irish Goddess”
7 Mar 2025
Laurie Sheck, “The Subway Platform”
6 Mar 2025
Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
27 Oct 2024
A. E. Housman, “I hoed and trenched and weeded”
24 Oct 2024
W. B. Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
23 Oct 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Editor Whedon”
3 Oct 2024
Walter de la Mare, “The Scarecrow”
2 Oct 2024
Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
1 Oct 2024
Carl Sandburg, “The Harbor”
30 Sep 2024
Edward Thomas, “Rain”
29 Sep 2024
Wallace Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour”
26 Sep 2024
William Carlos Williams, “Waiting”
25 Sep 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Everyone Sang”
23 Sep 2024
H. D., “The God”
22 Sep 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “New Mexican Mountain”
20 Sep 2024
T. S. Eliot, “Preludes”
19 Sep 2024
Wilfred Owen, 2 War Poems
18 Sep 2024
Hart Crane, “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”
16 Sep 2024
Yvor Winters, “Time and the Garden”
15 Sep 2024
Robert Francis, “Earthworm”
13 Sep 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Hapax”
11 Sep 2024
Vernon Watkins, 2 Poems for Wine & Festival
10 Sep 2024
Louis MacNeice, “Soap suds”
9 Sep 2024
George Oppen, “Pedestrian”
8 Sep 2024
Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”
6 Sep 2024
Elizabeth Bishop, “A Cold Spring”
5 Sep 2024
R. S. Thomas, “The Moor”
4 Sep 2024
Dylan Thomas, “In my craft or sullen art”
2 Sep 2024
Robert Lowell, “History”
1 Sep 2024
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “A Coney Island of the Mind” #20
30 Aug 2024
Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse”
29 Aug 2024
Denise Levertov, “O Taste and See”
28 Aug 2024
Gerald Stern, “The Dancing”
26 Aug 2024
Allen Ginsberg, “Footnote to Howl”
25 Aug 2024
James Merrill, from “The Book of Ephraim”
23 Aug 2024
A. R. Ammons, “The City Limits”
22 Aug 2024
Galway Kinnell, “The Porcupine”
21 Aug 2024
W. S. Merwin, “Air”
19 Aug 2024
James Wright, “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio”
18 Aug 2024
Robert Pinsky, “The Figured Wheel”
16 Aug 2024
Philip Levine, from “Burned”
14 Aug 2024
Anne Sexton, “Her Kind”
12 Aug 2024
Adrienne Rich, “Upper Broadway”
11 Aug 2024
Gary Snyder, “August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer”
9 Aug 2024
Derek Walcott, “Sea Grapes”
8 Aug 2024
Ted Hughes, “October Salmon”
7 Aug 2024
Mary Oliver, “Snow Moon – Black Bear Gives Birth”
5 Aug 2024
Frances Horovitz, “Rain – Birdoswald”
4 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney, 2 Bog Poems
1 Aug 2024
Robert Haas, “Meditation at Lagunitas”
31 Jul 2024
Sharon Olds, “The Month of June: 13½”
29 Jul 2024
Louise Glück, “Summer Night”
28 Jul 2024
Eavan Boland, “The Pomegranate”
26 Jul 2024
Thomas James, “Lambs”
25 Jul 2024
Duncan Forbes, “Recension Day”
24 Jul 2024
Jane Kenyon, “Let Evening Come”
22 Jul 2024
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Leaving”
21 Jul 2024
Laurie Sheck, “Headlights”
18 Jul 2024
Aidan Carl Matthews, “Woodniche”
16 Jul 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Minerva Jones”
8 Apr 2024
Charlotte Mew, “À quoi bon dire”
7 Apr 2024
Laurence Binyon, from “The Burning of the Leaves”
6 Apr 2024
Amy Lowell, “New Heavens for Old”
3 Apr 2024
Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”
2 Apr 2024
Marsden Hartley, “As the Buck Lay Dead”
31 Mar 2024
John Masefield, “Sea-Fever”
29 Mar 2024
Carl Sandburg, “Mag”
28 Mar 2024
Edward Thomas, “Digging”
26 Mar 2024
Wallace Stevens, “How to Live. What to Do”
25 Mar 2024
Witter Bynner, “Wistaria”
24 Mar 2024
Abbie Huston Evans, “The Old Yellow Shop”
22 Mar 2024
Sara Teasdale, “Moonlight”
21 Mar 2024
T. E. Hulme, “Image”
20 Mar 2024
Elinor Wylie, “Wild Peaches”
18 Mar 2024
D. H. Lawrence, “The Piano”
17 Mar 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “Inscription for a Gravestone”
16 Mar 2024
H. D., “Wine Bowl”
14 Mar 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Attack”
13 Mar 2024
Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”
11 Mar 2024
T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
10 Mar 2024
Archibald MacLeish, “Voyage West”
8 Mar 2024
Alan Seeger, “Rendezvous”
7 Mar 2024
Conrad Aiken, “The Room”
6 Mar 2024
e.e. cummings, “O sweet spontaneous”
4 Mar 2024
C. Day-Lewis, “My Mother’s Sister”
1 Mar 2024
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Spring”
29 Feb 2024
V. Sackville-West, “Craftsmen”
28 Feb 2024
Wilfred Owen, “Disabled”
26 Feb 2024
Ruth Pitter, “But For Lust”
25 Feb 2024
Mark Van Doren, “Axle Song”
23 Feb 2024
Charles Reznikoff, “A grove of small trees”
22 Feb 2024
Austin Clarke, “The Planter’s Daughter”
21 Feb 2024
Louise Bogan, “The Alchemist”
19 Feb 2024
Janet Lewis, “Winter Garden”
18 Feb 2024
Hart Crane, “Voyages #1”
16 Feb 2024
Yvor Winters, “The Slow Pacific Swell”
15 Feb 2024
Stevie Smith, “Dirge”
14 Feb 2024
Kathleen Raine, “Two Invocations of Death”
12 Feb 2024
Richard Eberhardt, “This Fevers Me”
11 Feb 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Spring, Coast Range”
9 Feb 2024
Stephen Spender, “I think continually of those who were truly great”
7 Feb 2024
Kenneth Patchen, “Street Corner College”
5 Feb 2024
Louis MacNeice, “Wolves”
4 Feb 2024
Vernon Watkins, “Peace in the Welsh Hills”
2 Feb 2024
James Agee, “So it begins. Adam is in his earth”
31 Jan 2024
Norman MacCaig, “Aunt Julia”
30 Jan 2024
Theodore Roethke, “Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, & Frau Schwartze”
29 Jan 2024
George Barker, “To My Mother”
28 Jan 2024
Elizabeth Bishop, “The Shampoo”
26 Jan 2024
R. S. Thomas, “Affinity”
23 Jan 2024
Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
22 Jan 2024
Dylan Thomas, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower”
21 Jan 2024
Richard Wilbur, “In Trackless Woods”
19 Jan 2024
Delmore Schwartz, “In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave”
18 Jan 2024
Laurie Lee, “Milkmaid”
16 Jan 2024
Robert Lowell, “Bobby Delano”
15 Jan 2024
Charles Causley, “Eden Rock”
14 Jan 2024
Elma Mitchell, “Thoughts after Ruskin”
12 Jan 2024
Philip Larkin, “Here”
10 Jan 2024
Karen Gershon, “I Was Not There”
9 Jan 2024
Denise Levertov, “A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England”
8 Jan 2024
Allen Ginsberg, from “Kaddish”
7 Jan 2024
Philip Levine, “Among Children”
5 Jan 2024
Galway Kinnell, “Tillamook Journal”
4 Jan 2024
Molly Holden, “Photograph of a Haymaker, 1890”
3 Jan 2024
George Theiner, “The Fly”
1 Jan 2024
Peter Porter, “Eat Early Earthapples”
31 Dec 2023
Roy Fisher, “The Entertainment of War”
29 Dec 2023
Derek Walcott, “Tales of the Islands #10”
28 Dec 2023
Ted Hughes, “Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days”
27 Dec 2023
Gillian Clarke, “Overheard in County Sligo”
26 Dec 2023
Michael Longley, “The Butchers”
25 Dec 2023
Ted Kooser, “Late February”
24 Dec 2023
Seamus Heaney, “Bogland”
21 Dec 2023
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “Swineherd”
20 Dec 2023
Derek Mahon, “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
19 Dec 2023
Louise Glück, “Brown Circle”
18 Dec 2023
Eavan Boland, “Irish Poetry”
17 Dec 2023
Paul Muldoon, “Why Brownlee Left”
15 Dec 2023
Sean O’Brien, “Cousin Coat”
13 Dec 2023
Laurie Sheck, “The Stockroom”
12 Dec 2023
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