Poems

• Friedrich Hölderlin (1808), The Rhine
• Mahmud Shabistari (1317), A Fancied Dot
• Fernando Pessoa, poem
• Arthur Sze (1998), The Shapes of Leaves
• W. H. Auden (1937), As I Walked Out One Evening
• Walt Whitman (1856), Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
• Rudyard Kipling (1897), Recessional
• Ijeoma Umebinyuo, poem from Questions For Ada
• Muriel Rukeyser (1974), Islands
• Ron Padgett (2001), Fairy Tale
• William Stafford (1993), Are you Mr. William Stafford?
• William Stafford (1962), At the Aesthetics Meeting
• Nadia de Vries (2017), Technological Sublime
• Shy Watson (2021), WAKING DREAM #2
• Emily Berry (2022), Gods
• Ed Dorn (1964), Daffodil Song
• W. H. Auden (1938), Musee des Beaux Arts
• Margaret Atwood (1970), from The Creatures of the Zodiac
• Alabaster dePlume, Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
• Kobayashi Issa, owl haiku
• Joseph Ceravolo (1979), Ghosts of Spring
• Ruth Krauss (1970), Poem
• Niina Pollari (2022), from The Frog
• Muriel, Rukeyser (1968), Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars) (1968)
• Richard Brautigan (1967), A Mid-February Sky Dance
• Diane Wakoski (1972), My Little Heart Pops Out, Like Springs
• Joshua Poteat (2015), Tintype
• Joseph Ceravolo (1979), Infinite Thunder
• Michael Ondaatje (1998), Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus
• Saba (c. 1250), Luxury
• Eileen Myles (2001), And
• Garous Abdolmalekian, Pattern
• Langston Hughes (1951), Harlem
• Richard Wright (1960), Haiku 519
• W. H. Auden (1939), Epitaph on a Tyrant
• Eileen Myles (1997), Road Warrior
• Richard Wright (1960), Haiku 526
• Tom Snarsky (2021), Song
• Ann Kim (2012), A Cold November Night
• Crispin Best (2019), One Good Thing
• Jim Moore (2021), A Young Man, a Stranger, Smiled at Me
• W.S. Merwin (1988), Conqueror
• Li Bai, Waking drunk on a spring day
• Leonard Cohen, My Career
• Cody-Rose Clevidence, from Nectaries
• Jim Harrison, I Believe
• Michael Sheen performing the Welsh poetry of Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood (video)
• Diane di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #2
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The People
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
• Richard Siken (2015), Turpentine
• Philip Larkin, Aubade
• Laura Gilpin, Two-Headed Calf
• James Galvin, About
• Elaine Kahn (2020), from Somewhere There’s a Nothing I’m a Part Of
• Hubei Qingwa (2016), The Moon’s Professional Life
• Antonio Porchia (1943), The cold
• E.E. Cummings (1931), i sing of Olaf
• Rachelle Toarmino (2020), from I Said Okay
• Robert Creeley (1966), A Prayer
• Anne Carson (2020), O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love
• James Tate (1970), The Immortals
• Henry David Thoreau, I Knew A Man By Site