Charles Simic

• ——, “A Book Full of Pictures,” Hotel Insomnia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992).
• ——, “A Letter,” The Book of Gods and Devils (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990).
• ——, “A Quiet Afternoon,” The Lunatic (HarperCollins, 2015).
• ——, “A Wall,” Charon’s Cosmology (‎George Braziller, 1977).
• ——, “About Myself,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “After the Bombing,” Come Closer and Listen (Ecco, 2019).
• ——, “Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching,” Unending Blues (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986).
• ——, “Against Winter,” Walking the Black Cat (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996).
• ——, “All Gone into the Dark,” Scribbled in the Dark (HarperCollins, 2017).
• ——, “Ambiguity’s Wedding,” Jackstraws (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999).
• ——, “Among My Late Visitors,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Among the Exiles,” Master of Disguises (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• ——, “An Address with Exclamation Points,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Ancient Autumn,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Arson,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “As You Come Over the Hill,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “At the Cookout,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Aunt Dinah Sailed to China,” That Little Something (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).
• ——, “Autumn Sky,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006).
• ——, “Babylon,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “Bed Music,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Birds at Dusk,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Birds of a Feather,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Blackout,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Blood Orange,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Breasts,” Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk (George Braziller, 1974).
• ——, “Butcher Shop,” Dismantling the Silence (George Braziller, 1971).
• ——, “Cabbage,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “Café Paradiso,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Cameo Appearance,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Carrying on like a Crow,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Charles Simic,” Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk.
• ——, “Cherry Pie,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “Circus,” No Land in Sight (Knopf, 2022).
• ——, “Clouds,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Clouds Gathering,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Cockroach,” Selected Early Poems (George Braziller, 1999).
• ——, “Could This Be Me?,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Country Fair,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Country Lunch,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Crazy About Her Shrimp,” A Wedding in Hell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994).
• ——, “Dark Window,” The Threepenny Review (Winter 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Darkened Chessboard,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Dear Helen,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Death, the Philosopher,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “December,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Description,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “Description of a Lost Thing,” My Noiseless Entourage (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005).
• ——, “Dog on a Chain,” Night Picnic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001).
• ——, “Dreaming or Awake?,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Driving Around,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Driving Home,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Early Evening Algebra,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Emily’s Theme,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Empire of Dreams,” Classic Ballroom Dances (George Braziller, 1980).
• ——, “Empires,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Empty Rocking Chair,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “Encyclopedia of Horrors,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Entertaining the Canary,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Eternity’s Orphans,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Evening Chess,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Everybody Had Lost Track of Time,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Explaining a Few Things,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Factory,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “February,” Austerities (George Braziller, 1982).
• ——, “Filthy Landscape,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “Folk Songs,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “For the Sake of Amelia,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Fork,” Somewhere Among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes (Kayak Press, 1969).
• ——, “Frightening Toys,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “Ghost Ship,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Gray-Headed Schoolchildren,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “Graveyard on a Hill,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Harsh Climate,” Classic Ballroom Dances.
• ——, “Have You Met Miss Jones?” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Haystack,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Head of a Doll,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “Help Wanted,” Charon’s Cosmology.
• ——, “Hide and Seek,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Hoot, Little Owl,” No Land in Sight (Knopf, 2022).
• ——, “Hot Summer Night,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Hotel Starry Sky,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “House of Cards,” That Little Something.
• ——, “I ran into…,” The Monster Loves His Labyrinth (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
• ——, “I See Lots of Sticks on the Ground,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Icarus’s Dog,” New and Selected Poems, 1962-2012 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
• ——, “If Only I Could Find Again,” The Threepenny Review (Spring 2023 Issue).
• ——, “Impersonator of Blank Walls,” That Little Something.
• ——, “In Praise of Worms,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “In the Afternoon,” That Little Something.
• ——, “In the Courtroom,”  Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “In the Egyptian Wing of the Museum,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “In the Junk Store,” That Little Something.
• ——, “In the Library,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “In the Lockdown,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “In the Snow,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “In the Street,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “In Someone’s Backyard,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “In Wonder,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “It’s a Day Like Any Other,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “January,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “Keep This to Yourself,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Knife,” Somewhere Among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes.
• ——, “Labor and Capital,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Last Picnic,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Late Arrival,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Late September,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “Late Train,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Leaves,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Left Out of the Bible,” The New Yorker (May 31, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Light Sleeper,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Lingering Ghosts,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “Listen,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Little Unwritten Book,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Lost Glove,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Love Flea,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Mad People,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Madame Thebes,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Madmen Are Running the World,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Madonnas Touched Up with Goatees,” Selected Early Poems.
• ——, “Marina’s Epic,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Marked Playing Cards,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Master of Disguises,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “May My Death Come,” The Threepenny Review (Winter 2024).
• ——, “Meditation in the Gutter,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Minds Roaming,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Mirrors at 4 A.M.,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Missing Child,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Mother Tongue,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “My Beloved,” Selected Early Poems.
• ——, “My Double,” The Threepenny Review (Spring 2022).
• ——, “My Father Attributed Immortality to Waiters,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “My Goddess,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “My Life Is as Real as Yours,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “My Noiseless Entourage,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “My Turn to Confess,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “My Wife Lifts a Finger to Her Lips,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “New York,” The New Yorker (December 14, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Night Thoughts,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Nineteen Thirty-Eight,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Nothing Else,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “November,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “O Spring,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Obscurely Occupied,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “October Arriving,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “October Light,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Odd Sympathies,” Jackstraws. 
• ——, “Old Soldier,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “On a Side Street,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “On Grove Street,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “On the Brooklyn Bridge,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “On the Farm,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “On the Meadow,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “On This Street,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Once December Comes,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “One-Man Circus,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “Outside a Dirtroad Trailer,” Unending Blues.
• ——, “Poem Without a Title,” Dismantling the Silence.
• ——, “Postcard from S.,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “Prison Guards Silhouetted Against the Sky,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “Psalm,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Pigeons at Dawn,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Preachers Warn,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Prodigy,” Classic Ballroom Dances.
• ——, “Puppet Maker,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Read Your Fate,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Reading History,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Roadside Stand,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “Sad as a Ship in a Bottle,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Seeing Things,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “Self-Portrait in Bed,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Separate Truths,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “Slaughterhouse Flies,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Sightseeing in the Capital,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Sit Tight,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Skywalking,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “So Early in the Morning,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Some Birds Chirp,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “Spoon,” Somewhere Among Us a Stone Is Taking Notes.
• ——, “St. Thomas Aquinas,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “Stone,” What the Grass Says (Kayak Press, 1967).
• ——, “Stories,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Stub of a Red Pencil,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Summer Light,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “Sunset’s Coloring Book,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Swept Away,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “Tapestry,” Dismantling the Silence.
• ——, “That Little Something,” That Little Something.
• ——, “The Absentee Landlord,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “The Alarm,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “The American Dream,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “The Anniversary,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “The Bather,” That Little Something.
• ——, “The Big War,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “The Blizzard,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Dictionary,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Escapee,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Executioner’s Daughter,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Funeral,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “The Future,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk.
• ——, “The Great Disappearing Act,” That Little Something.
• ——, “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “The Headline,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “The History of Costumes,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “The Infinite,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Initiate,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Invisible,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “The Lifeboat,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Light,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Lights Are on Everywhere,” That Little Something.
• ——, “The Lives of the Alchemists,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “The Lover,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Lovers,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “The Lunatic,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Many Lauras,” Come Closer and Listen.
• ——, “The Massacre of the Innocents,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “The Medium,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The Melon,” Master of Disguises.
• ——, “The Music Box,” No Land in Sight
• ——, “The Movie,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Night and the Cold,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Oldest Child,” A Wedding in Hell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994).
• ——, “The One to Worry About,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “The One Who Disappeared,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Pleasures of Reading,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “The Poor Man’s Horse,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “The Prisoner,” Charon’s Cosmology.
• ——, “The Role of Insomnia in History,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “The Saint,” Scribbled in the Dark.
• ——, “The Secret Doctrine,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “The Secret of the Yellow Room,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “The Something,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “The Scarecrow,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “The Tragic Sense of Life,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “The Voice at 3:00 A.M.,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “The White Labyrinth,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “The White Room,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “The Wind,” Dismantling the Silence.
• ——, “The Wind Has Died,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2020 Issue).
• ——, “The World Runs on Futility,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “There Is Nothing Quieter,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “There was a maid…,” The Monster Loves His Labyrinth.
• ——, “This Morning,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “Three Photographs,” Jackstraws.
• ——, “Thus,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “To Boredom,” That Little Something.
• ——, “To Dreams,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “To the One Tunnelling,” The Voice at 3:00 A.M.
• ——, “To Think Clearly,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Today’s Menu,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Toy Factory,” Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity (Station Hill, 1983).
• ——, “Tragic Architecture,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Transport,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “True History,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “Two Dogs,” The Book of Gods and Devils.
• ——, “Unmade Beds,” Night Picnic.
• ——, “Used Book Store,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Used Clothing Store,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Vices of the Evening,” The Lunatic.
• ——, “Voyage to Cythera,” My Noiseless Entourage.
• ——, “Waiting for the Sun to Set,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Wanted Poster,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “War,” Hotel Insomnia.
• ——, “What I Overheard,” A Wedding in Hell.
• ——, “What the Gypsies Told My Grandmother While She Was Still a Young Girl,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Windy Day,” No Land in Sight.
• ——, “Winter Evening,” Walking the Black Cat.
• ——, “Winter Night,” Weather Forecast for Utopia & Vicinity.
• ——, “Wire Hangers,” That Little Something.
• ——, “Without a Sough of Wind,” Unending Blues.