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Langston Hughes’ “Tired”

Langston Hughes’ “Tired”

Jack Gilbert’s “Alone”

Jack Gilbert’s “Alone”

Ted Kooser’s “Legacy”

Ted Kooser’s “Legacy”

Lord Byron’s “I Stood in Venice…” from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto 4)

Lord Byron’s “I Stood in Venice…” from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto 4)

Evie Shockley’s “job prescription”

Evie Shockley’s “job prescription”

Elizabeth Alexander’s “Ars Poetica #100”

Elizabeth Alexander’s “Ars Poetica #100”

Robert Hedin’s “Raising the Titanic”

Robert Hedin’s “Raising the Titanic”

Michael Kleber-Diggs’ “Canine Superpowers”

Michael Kleber-Diggs’ “Canine Superpowers”

Adam Clay’s “Darkling I Listen”

Adam Clay’s “Darkling I Listen”

Joy Harjo’s “Once the World was Perfect”

Joy Harjo’s “Once the World was Perfect”

Robert Frost’s “Acceptance”

Robert Frost’s “Acceptance”

Dorothy Parker’s “Incurable”

Dorothy Parker’s “Incurable”

Frank X. Walker’s “Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima”

Frank X. Walker’s “Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Epistolary Cyclist”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Epistolary Cyclist”

Sara Teasdale’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Sara Teasdale’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”

Lisel Mueller’s “When I Am Asked”

Lisel Mueller’s “When I Am Asked”

Emily Khilfeh’s “Ekphrasis On ‘The New York Times’ Headline …”

Emily Khilfeh’s “Ekphrasis On ‘The New York Times’ Headline …”

Wendell Berry’s “They Sit Together on the Porch”

Wendell Berry’s “They Sit Together on the Porch”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music”

Czeslaw Milosz’s “Theodicy”

Czeslaw Milosz’s “Theodicy”

Howard Nemerov’s “Adam and Even in Later Life”

Howard Nemerov’s “Adam and Even in Later Life”

Edna St Vincent Millay’s “I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed”

Edna St Vincent Millay’s “I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed”

Matthew Johnson’s “The Greatest Catch by Willie Mays”

Matthew Johnson’s “The Greatest Catch by Willie Mays”

John Betjeman’s “In Westminster Abbey”

John Betjeman’s “In Westminster Abbey”

Amy Lowell’s “Venus Transiens”

Amy Lowell’s “Venus Transiens”

John Crowe Ransom’s “Piazza Piece”

John Crowe Ransom’s “Piazza Piece”

William Blake’s “The Lamb”

William Blake’s “The Lamb”

Lucille Clifton’s “There is a Girl Inside”

Lucille Clifton’s “There is a Girl Inside”

W.B. Yeats’ “September 1913”

W.B. Yeats’ “September 1913”

Sylvia Plath’s “Nick and the Candlestick”

Sylvia Plath’s “Nick and the Candlestick”

Sierra DeMulder’s “How We Are Carried”

Sierra DeMulder’s “How We Are Carried”

Geoffrey Hill’s “September Song”

Geoffrey Hill’s “September Song”

William Blake’s “The Clod and the Pebble”

William Blake’s “The Clod and the Pebble”

James Fowler’s “Life of Riley”

James Fowler’s “Life of Riley”

Peter Kahn’s “Something About…”

Peter Kahn’s “Something About…”

Louise Glück’s “Epithalamium”

Louise Glück’s “Epithalamium”

Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”

Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”

Miller Oberman’s “The Centaur”

Miller Oberman’s “The Centaur”

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 33”

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 33”

Josephine Miles’s “Figure”

Josephine Miles’s “Figure”

Louise Glück’s “The Triumph of Achilles”

Louise Glück’s “The Triumph of Achilles”

Ron Wallace’s “The Friday Night Fights”

Ron Wallace’s “The Friday Night Fights”

Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”

Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”

Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”

Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”

Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”

Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”

Susan Musgrave’s “Hidden Meaning”

Susan Musgrave’s “Hidden Meaning”

W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”

W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues”

Anne Bradstreet’s “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”

Anne Bradstreet’s “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”

Sharon Olds’ “New Year’s Song”

Sharon Olds’ “New Year’s Song”

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “First Fight, Then Fiddle”

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “First Fight, Then Fiddle”

Ira Sadoff’s “Thank You”

Ira Sadoff’s “Thank You”

Hart Crane’s “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

Hart Crane’s “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

Lady Mary Wroth’s “Sonnet 64”

Lady Mary Wroth’s “Sonnet 64”

Michael Drayton’s “Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”

Michael Drayton’s “Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”

Mina Loy’s “There is No Life or Death”

Mina Loy’s “There is No Life or Death”

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee from Me”

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “They Flee from Me”

Ada Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa”

Ada Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa”

Psalm 137 (RSV)

Psalm 137 (RSV)

David Mason’s “Song of the Powers”

David Mason’s “Song of the Powers”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Merciles Beaute “

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Merciles Beaute “

Amiri Baraka’s “Preface to a 20-Volume Suicide Note”

Amiri Baraka’s “Preface to a 20-Volume Suicide Note”

Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

A.E. Housman’s “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”

A.E. Housman’s “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”

Mary Karr’s “Obscenity Poem”

Mary Karr’s “Obscenity Poem”

Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty”

Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Love is a Far Country”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Love is a Far Country”

Mark Johnston’s “War Movie in Reverse”

Mark Johnston’s “War Movie in Reverse”

Lisel Mueller’s “Night Song”

Lisel Mueller’s “Night Song”

W.H. Auden’s “If I Could Tell You.”

W.H. Auden’s “If I Could Tell You.”

Adrienne Rich’s “Planetarium”

Adrienne Rich’s “Planetarium”

Carlie Hoffman’s “After the Farm was Sold to FedEx”

Carlie Hoffman’s “After the Farm was Sold to FedEx”

Katherine Philips’ “A Married State”

Katherine Philips’ “A Married State”

Philip Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb”

Philip Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb”

Peter Pereira’s “Anagrammer”

Peter Pereira’s “Anagrammer”

Margaret Atwood’s “Variation on the Word Sleep”

Margaret Atwood’s “Variation on the Word Sleep”

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 7: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners, Blow”

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 7: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners, Blow”

Billy Collins’ “Boy Shooting at Statue”

Billy Collins’ “Boy Shooting at Statue”

Carol Ann Duffy’s “Medusa”

Carol Ann Duffy’s “Medusa”

Sharon Olds’ “The Preparing”

Sharon Olds’ “The Preparing”

Elizabeth Spires’ “Easter Sunday 1955”

Elizabeth Spires’ “Easter Sunday 1955”

Henry Vaughan’s “And Do They So, Have They a Sense”

Henry Vaughan’s “And Do They So, Have They a Sense”

Stephen Dunn’s “Ars Poetica”

Stephen Dunn’s “Ars Poetica”

Kay Ryan’s “The Excluded Animals”

Kay Ryan’s “The Excluded Animals”

William Butler Yeats’ “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”

William Butler Yeats’ “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”

Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib”

Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib”

William E. Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark”

William E. Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”

Jay Ruud’s Greeting to the 2023 Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature

Jay Ruud’s Greeting to the 2023 Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time”

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time”

Louise Glück’s “The Reproach”

Louise Glück’s “The Reproach”

Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird Came Down the Walk”

Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird Came Down the Walk”

Kay Ryan’s “The Excluded Animals”

Kay Ryan’s “The Excluded Animals”

William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”

William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”

Derrick Austin’s “And Also With You”

Derrick Austin’s “And Also With You”

Shangyang Fang’s “Almost Hour”

Shangyang Fang’s “Almost Hour”

George Herbert’s “The Bag”

George Herbert’s “The Bag”

Margaret Atwood’s “Miss July Grows Older”

Margaret Atwood’s “Miss July Grows Older”

Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush”

Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush”

W.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”

W.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”

Mary Oliver’s “Heavy”

Mary Oliver’s “Heavy”

Henry Vaughan’s “The World”

Henry Vaughan’s “The World”

Matthew Arnold’s “Memorial Verses 1850”

Matthew Arnold’s “Memorial Verses 1850”

Simon Armitage’s “A Floral Tribute”

Simon Armitage’s “A Floral Tribute”

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting”

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting”

Ally Ang’s “On Being Asked ‘What is Your Dream Job?’”

Ally Ang’s “On Being Asked ‘What is Your Dream Job?’”

Yvor Winters’ “At the San Francisco Airport”

Yvor Winters’ “At the San Francisco Airport”

James Tate’s “On the Subject of Doctors”

James Tate’s “On the Subject of Doctors”

Douglas Dunn’s “The Kaleidoscope”

Douglas Dunn’s “The Kaleidoscope”

W.S. Merwin’s “To Paula in Late Spring”

W.S. Merwin’s “To Paula in Late Spring”

William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”

William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”

Charles Bukowski’s “Oh, Yes”

Charles Bukowski’s “Oh, Yes”

William Butler Yeats’ “Lapis Lazuli”

William Butler Yeats’ “Lapis Lazuli”

Denise Levertov’s “Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell”

Denise Levertov’s “Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell”

John Keats’ “To Autumn”

John Keats’ “To Autumn”

Michael S. Harper’s “We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper”

Michael S. Harper’s “We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper”

Robert Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne”

Robert Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne”

Mary Oliver’s “The Buddha’s Last Instruction”

Mary Oliver’s “The Buddha’s Last Instruction”

“Corpus Christi Carol” in Middle English and Modern English

“Corpus Christi Carol” in Middle English and Modern English

Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”

Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”

Billy Collins’ “Memorizing ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne

Billy Collins’ “Memorizing ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne

Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”

Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”

X.J. Kennedy’s “September Twelfth, 2001”

X.J. Kennedy’s “September Twelfth, 2001”

George Herbert’s “Easter Wings”

George Herbert’s “Easter Wings”

Lucille Clifton’s “Homage to My Hips”

Lucille Clifton’s “Homage to My Hips”

William Carlos Williams’ “Spring and All: The Red Wheel Barrow”

William Carlos Williams’ “Spring and All: The Red Wheel Barrow”

Paulette Guerin’s “The Visit”

Paulette Guerin’s “The Visit”

Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant”

Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant”

Ted Hughes’ “The Thought Fox”

Ted Hughes’ “The Thought Fox”

Billy Collins’ “Note to J. Alfred Prufrock”

Billy Collins’ “Note to J. Alfred Prufrock”

Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”

Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”

Desmond Skirrow’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized”

Desmond Skirrow’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized”

Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily during the War”

Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily during the War”

Louise Glück’s “Night Thoughts”

Louise Glück’s “Night Thoughts”

Afred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Afred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Rudyard Kipling’s “If”

Rudyard Kipling’s “If”

Phillis Wheatley’s “His Excellency General Washington”

Phillis Wheatley’s “His Excellency General Washington”

Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”

Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”

Rita Dove’s “Wayfarer’s Night Song,” a Translation of Goethe

Rita Dove’s “Wayfarer’s Night Song,” a Translation of Goethe

Rita Dove’s “Your Tired, Your Poor…”

Rita Dove’s “Your Tired, Your Poor…”

John Donne’s “Hymn to God the Father”

John Donne’s “Hymn to God the Father”

Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”

Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”

“Lord Randal” (Traditional Ballad)

“Lord Randal” (Traditional Ballad)

C.K. Williams’ “Alzheimer’s: The Wife”

C.K. Williams’ “Alzheimer’s: The Wife”

Langston Hughes’s “I, Too”

Langston Hughes’s “I, Too”

Christina Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas”

Christina Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas”

Robert Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder”

Robert Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder”

Donald Justice’s “Counting the Mad”

Donald Justice’s “Counting the Mad”

Sir John Suckling’s “Song”

Sir John Suckling’s “Song”

Catherine Tufariello’s “Useful Advice”

Catherine Tufariello’s “Useful Advice”

from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Passing of Arthur”

from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Passing of Arthur”

Michalle Gould’s “How To Not Need Resurrection”

Michalle Gould’s “How To Not Need Resurrection”

Richard Lovelace’s “To Althea From Prison”

Richard Lovelace’s “To Althea From Prison”

Charles Bukowski’s “The Great Escape”

Charles Bukowski’s “The Great Escape”

John Milton’s “How Soon Hath Time”

John Milton’s “How Soon Hath Time”

Ben Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”

Ben Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”

Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”

Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”

Maxine Kumin’s “Oblivion”

Maxine Kumin’s “Oblivion”

William Butler Yeats’ “The Magi”

William Butler Yeats’ “The Magi”

John Donne’s “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day”

John Donne’s “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day”

Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”

Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”

Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break”

Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break”

Alan Dugan’s “Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken”

Alan Dugan’s “Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken”

Alan Duran’s “Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken”

Alan Duran’s “Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken”

George Herbert’s “The Pulley”

George Herbert’s “The Pulley”

W.S. Merwin’s “For the Anniversary of My Death “

W.S. Merwin’s “For the Anniversary of My Death “

Robert Frost’s “Design”

Robert Frost’s “Design”

Chaucer’s Miller’s Portrait from the “General Prologue”

Chaucer’s Miller’s Portrait from the “General Prologue”

Grady Chambers’ “A Summer”

Grady Chambers’ “A Summer”

Stacey Margaret Jones’ “Iglesia de San Francisco, Saturday Afternoon”

Stacey Margaret Jones’ “Iglesia de San Francisco, Saturday Afternoon”

From Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”

From Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”

Sharon Olds’ “Stags’ Leap”

Sharon Olds’ “Stags’ Leap”

Billy Collins’ “Divorce”

Billy Collins’ “Divorce”

Jericho Brown’s “Another Elegy”

Jericho Brown’s “Another Elegy”

Camille T. Dungy’s “Ultrasound”

Camille T. Dungy’s “Ultrasound”

William Blakes’s “London”

William Blakes’s “London”

Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”

Shakespeare’s Sonnet #30: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”

John Crowe Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”

John Crowe Ransom’s “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 from “Sonnets from the Portuguese”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 from “Sonnets from the Portuguese”

T.S. Eliot’s “The Burial of the Dead,” part I of “The Waste Land”

T.S. Eliot’s “The Burial of the Dead,” part I of “The Waste Land”

e.e. cummings’ XAIPE 63 (“honour corruption villainy holiness”

e.e. cummings’ XAIPE 63 (“honour corruption villainy holiness”

Benjamin Bradley’s “Chaucer”

Benjamin Bradley’s “Chaucer”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Chaucer”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Chaucer”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Portrait” from the General Prologue

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Portrait” from the General Prologue

Frank Bidart’s “Poem Ending with a Sentence by Heath Ledger”

Frank Bidart’s “Poem Ending with a Sentence by Heath Ledger”

Rick Barot’s “Tarp”

Rick Barot’s “Tarp”

John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

Ted Hughes’ “6 September 1997”

Ted Hughes’ “6 September 1997”

Jonathan Swift’s “A Description of the Morning”

Jonathan Swift’s “A Description of the Morning”

William Blake’s “Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau”

William Blake’s “Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All”

John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

“Bonny Barbara Allan”

“Bonny Barbara Allan”

Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”

John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”

William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”

William Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Wandrers Nachtlied II”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Wandrers Nachtlied II”

E.E. Cummings’ “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond”

E.E. Cummings’ “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond”

Chaucer's Cook's Portrait from the General Prologue

Chaucer's Cook's Portrait from the General Prologue