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Laurie Sheck, “The Subway Platform”
6 Mar 2025
“Smoke-blackened smiths” (an anonymous poem from c. 1450)
24 Jan 2025
“A Friar Complains” (anonymous poem from c. 1500)
23 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”
8 Jan 2025
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”
25 Dec 2024
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
23 Dec 2024
Jonathan Swift, “A Description of the Morning”
19 Dec 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
18 Dec 2024
Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring”
16 Dec 2024
Mary Leapor, “Mira’s Will”
9 Dec 2024
Oliver Goldsmith, from “Retaliation”
29 Nov 2024
Thomas Holcroft, “Gaffer Gray”
27 Nov 2024
John O’Keeffe, “Air”
22 Nov 2024
2 Anonymous Poems from the 18th Century
21 Nov 2024
William Wordsworth, Three Sonnets on How to Live
15 Nov 2024
Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
1 Nov 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”
31 Oct 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”
25 Oct 2024
W. B. Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
23 Oct 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Editor Whedon”
3 Oct 2024
Carl Sandburg, “The Harbor”
30 Sep 2024
William Carlos Williams, “Waiting”
25 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
George Oppen, “Pedestrian”
8 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
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
Robert Haas, “Meditation at Lagunitas”
31 Jul 2024
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Leaving”
21 Jul 2024
Laurie Sheck, “Headlights”
18 Jul 2024
Kathleen Jamie, “The Way We Live”
17 Jul 2024
William Langland, from “The Vision of Piers Plowman”
12 Jul 2024
Geoffrey Chaucer, from “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
11 Jul 2024
John Donne, “Elegy: To his Mistress Going to Bed”
24 Jun 2024
Ralph Knevet, “The Vote”
17 Jun 2024
Richard Leigh, “Greatness in Little”
31 May 2024
Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Man”
29 May 2024
Oliver Goldsmith, from “The Deserted Village”
23 May 2024
William Cowper, “The Contrite Heart”
22 May 2024
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
30 Apr 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed”
22 Apr 2024
Robert Louis Stevenson, “To Mrs Will H. Low”
19 Apr 2024
May Kendall, “The Lay of the Trilobite”
12 Apr 2024
Walter de la Mare, “The Railway Junction”
11 Apr 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Minerva Jones”
8 Apr 2024
Marsden Hartley, “As the Buck Lay Dead”
31 Mar 2024
Carl Sandburg, “Mag”
28 Mar 2024
Abbie Huston Evans, “The Old Yellow Shop”
22 Mar 2024
T. E. Hulme, “Image”
20 Mar 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “Inscription for a Gravestone”
16 Mar 2024
V. Sackville-West, “Craftsmen”
28 Feb 2024
Charles Reznikoff, “A grove of small trees”
22 Feb 2024
Kenneth Patchen, “Street Corner College”
5 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
Richard Wilbur, “In Trackless Woods”
19 Jan 2024
Delmore Schwartz, “In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave”
18 Jan 2024
Elma Mitchell, “Thoughts after Ruskin”
12 Jan 2024
Philip Larkin, “Here”
10 Jan 2024
Galway Kinnell, “Tillamook Journal”
4 Jan 2024
Peter Porter, “Eat Early Earthapples”
31 Dec 2023
Roy Fisher, “The Entertainment of War”
29 Dec 2023
Gillian Clarke, “Overheard in County Sligo”
26 Dec 2023
Ted Kooser, “Late February”
24 Dec 2023
Derek Mahon, “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
19 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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