Poetry

“We must believe in poetry translation, if we want to believe in World Literature.”
—Tomas Tranströmer

• A. E. Stallings, “Hares,” The New Yorker (October 9, 2023 Issue).
• ——, “Little Owl,” Like (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
• A. K. Ramanujan, “On the Death of a Poem,” The Collected Poems (Oxford University Press, 1995).
• A. R. Ammons, “Love Song,” The Selected Poems, 1951-1977 (W. W. Norton, 1977).
• ——, “Salute,” The Really Short Poems (W. W. Norton, 1992).
• ——, “Speaking,” Selected Poems (Library of America, 2006).
• ——, “Their Sex Life,” The Really Short Poems.
• Aaron Fogel, “The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra,” The Printer’s Error (Miami University Press, 2001).
• ——, “The Printer’s Error,” The Printer’s Error.
• Ada Limón, “Cannibal Woman,” The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018).
• ——, “On a Pink Moon,” The Carrying.
• ——, “Overpass,” The Carrying.
• ——, “Privacy,” The New Yorker (March 22, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “What I Didn’t Know Before,” The Carrying.
• Adam Zagajewski, “1969,” Mysticism for Beginners (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
• ——, “A Flame,” Without End (Farrar, Strasius and Giroux, 2002).
• ——, “A Provincial Roman Town,” True Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).
• ——, “Anecdote of Rain,” Without End.
• ——, “Another Life,” Asymmetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
• ——, “Apes,” Without End.
• ——, “Barbarians,” Without End.
• ——, “Blake,” Eternal Enemies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
• ——, “Boogie-Woogie,” The New Yorker (July 5, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Chinese Poem,” Mysticism for Beginners.
• ——, “Defending Poetry, Etc.,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Don’t Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve,” Without End.
• ——, “Drottningholm,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Erinna of Telos,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Faces,” Unseen Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
• ——, “Friends,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Gdyby Rosja,” Jechać do Lwowa (1985).
• ——, “Holy Saturday in Paris,” Mysticism for Beginners.
• ——, “Impossible Friendships,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “In a Little Apartment,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “In Valleys,” Unseen Hand.
• ——, “Istanbul,” True Life.
• ——, “Kardamyli,” True Life.
• ——, “Karl Marx,” Two Cities (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995).
• ——, “Karmelicka,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Life Sentence,” Without End.
• ——, “Mandelstam in Theodosia,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Manet,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Marathon,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Moths,” Canvas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990).
• ——, “Mr. Wladziu,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “My Favorite Poets,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Mysticism for Beginners,” Mysticism for Beginners.
• ——, “Next Spring,” Unseen Hand.
• ——, “Northern Sea,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Old Marx,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Ordinary Life,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Our World,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Pencil,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Poetry Reading,” The New Yorker (September 13, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Poetry Searches for Radiance,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Poets Are Presocratics,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Rachmaninoff,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Rain Drop,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Reading Miłosz,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Subject: Brodsky,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “That’s Sicily,” Mysticism for Beginners.
• ——, “The Great Poet Has Gone,” Unseen Hand.
• ——, “The Old Painter on a Walk,” True Life.
• ——, “The Polish Biographical Dictionary in a Library in Houston,” Without End.
• ——, “The Self,” Without End.
• ——, “The Swallows of Auschwitz,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” Without End.
• ——, “Venice, November,” Asymmetry.
• ——, “Wait for an Autumn Day,” Eternal Enemies.
• ——, “We Know What Art Is,” Asymmetry.
• Adélia Prado, “Impressionista,” Poesia reunida (Editora Record, 2016).
• Adonis, “Celebrating Death,” Selected Poems (Yale University Press, 2010).
• ——, “Dialogue,” Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs (BOA Editions, 2008).
• ——, “Homeland,” Mihyar of Damascus.
• ——, ”I Said to You,” Mihyar of Damascus.
• ——, “Leave for Us What’s Behind You,” Mihyar of Damascus.
• ——, “Chair (A Dream),” Mihyar of Damascus.
• Adrienne Rich, “Dreamwood,” Time’s Power (W. W. Norton, 1989).
• ——, “For the Dead,” Diving Into the Wreck (W. W. Norton, 1973).
• ——, “From a Survivor,” Diving Into the Wreck.
• ——, “Power,” The Dream of a Common Language (W. W. Norton, 1978).
• ——, “Song,” Diving Into the Wreck.
• ——, “Translations,” Diving Into the Wreck.
• ——, “What Kind of Times Are These,” Dark Fields of the Republic (W. W. Norton, 1995).
• ——, “Women,” Leaflets (W. W. Norton, 1969).
• Ai, “Twenty-year Marriage,” Cruelty (Houghton Mifflin, 1973).
• Alan Dugan, “Apology (To the Muse),” Poems Five (Ecco Press, 1983).
• ——, “Credo,” Poems Two (Yale University Press, 1963).
• Albert Goldbarth, “Jesse Is Back This Summer,” The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale (Lost Horse Press, 2017).
• Alberto Caeiro, “Beyond the bend in the road,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe (Penguin Classics, 2006).
• ——, “The moon is high up in the sky,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• Alejandra Pizarnik, “El olvido,” Los trabajos y las noches (Sudamericana, 1965).
• ——, “En otra noche, en otro mundo,” Poesía completa (Lumen, 2001).
• ——, “Vértigos o contemplación de algo que termina,” Extracción de la piedra de la locura (Sudamericana, 1968).
• Aleksandar Hemon, “The Old Land,” The New Yorker (November 2, 2020 Issue).
• Aleksandr Pushkin, “Царскосельская статуя” (1830).
• ——, “К Вяземскому” (1826).
• ——, “Не пой, красавица, при мне” (1828).
• ——, “Поэту” (1830).
• ——, “Приметы” (1829).
• Alice Fulton, “Sidereal Elegy,” Barely Composed (W. W. Norton, 2015).
• Alice Oswald, “A Short Story of Falling,” Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape, 2016).
• ——, “You Must Never Sleep Under a Magnolia,” Falling Awake.
• Alicia Ostriker, “Song,” Poetry (February 2011).
• Amit Majmudar, “By Accident,” 0°, 0° (Northwestern University Press, 2009).
• Amy Lowell, “Autumn,” Poetry (September, 1919).
• Ana Ristović, “Snow in Your Shoes,” The New Yorker (October 27, 2014 Issue).
• Andrea Cohen, “Bunker,” The New York Review of Books (June 10, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Cloud Study,” Unfathoming (Four Way Books, 2017).
• ——, “Easter on the Rio Grande,” Unfathoming.
• ——, “Lit,” Unfathoming.
• ——, “Registry,” The New Yorker (January 2, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Road Trip,” The New Yorker (September 18, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Shiva,” The New Yorker (October 9, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “The Committee Weighs In,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2012 Issue).
• ——, “Wrecking Ball,” The New Yorker (July 10 & 17, 2017 Issue).
• Andrew Bertaina, “A Translator’s Note,” The Threepenny Review (Issue 149, Spring 2017).
• Andrew Grace, “Not a Mile,” The New Yorker (April 23, 2018 Issue).
• Andrew Motion, “The Last of England,” The American Scholar (Autumn 2017).
• ——, “Setting the Scene,” The Customs House (Faber and Faber, 2012).
• Anna Kamieńska, “A Prayer That Will Be Answered,” in Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanaugh eds., Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule: Spoiling Cannibals’ Fun (Northwestern University Press, 1991).
• Anna Scotti, “Then Fall Again,” The New Yorker (September 24, 2018 Issue).
• Anna Swir, “I’ll Open the Window,” Talking to My Body (Copper Canyon Press, 1996).
• ——, “I’m Afraid of Fire.”
• Anne Carson, “AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR MYSELF A NEW HEART FROM SALT AND MUD,” The Beauty of the Husband (Knopf, 2001).
• ——, “Beckett’s Theory of Comedy,” Decreation (Knopf, 2005).
• ——, “Beckett’s Theory of Tragedy,” Decreation.
• ——, “BUT TO HONOR TRUTH WHICH IS SMOOTH DIVINE AND LIVES AMONG THE GODS WE MUST (WITH PLATO) DANCE LYING WHICH LIVES DOWN BELOW AMID THE MASS OF MEN BOTH TRAGIC AND ROUGH,” The Beauty of the Husband.
• ——, “Clive Song,” The New Yorker (August 7 & 14, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Despite Her Pain, Another Day,” Decreation.
• ——, “Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage),” The New Yorker (August 10 & 17, 2015 Issue).
• ——, “Epithalamium NYC,” The New Yorker (August 24, 2009 Issue).
• ——, “Father’s Old Blue Cardigan,” Men in the Off Hours (Knopf, 2000).
• ——, “Funny You Should Ask,” The New Yorker (December 11, 2023 Issue).
• ——, “Lark,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 42, No. 10 (21 May 2020).
• ——, “Life,” The New Yorker (June 28, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Linnaeus Town,” The New York Review of Books (November 2, 2023 Issue).
• ——, “Lines,” Decreation.
• ——, “Little Racket,” The New Yorker (December 14, 2015 Issue).
• ——, “Longing, a Documentary,” Decreation.
• ——, “Merry Christmas from Hegel,” Float (Knopf, 2016).
• ——, “Necks,” The New York Review of Books (June 26, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “New Rule,” Men in the Off Hours.
• ——, “O Dad,” The New Yorker (June 13 & 20, 2011 Issue).
• ——, “O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love,” Poem-a-Day (December 10, 2020).
• ——, “On Davey,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 1 (3 January 2019).
• ——, “On Disappointments in Music,” Plainwater (Knopf, 1995).
• ——, “On Hedonism,” Plainwater.
• ——, “On Walking Backwards,” Plainwater.
• ——, “On Waterproofing,” Plainwater.
• ——, “Opposed Glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James,” The Threepenny Review, No. 85 (Spring, 2001).
• ——, “Pronoun Envy,” Float.
• ——, “Saturday Night as an Adult,” The New Yorker (May 1, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Short Talk on Herbology,” The New Yorker (April 22, 2013 Issue).
• ——, “Short Talk on Homer and John Ashbery,” The New Yorker (December 24 & 31, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “Short Talk on My Headache,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 12 (21 June 2018).
• ——, “Short Talk on Todtnauberg.”
• ——, “Sleepchains,” Decreation.
• ——, “Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone,” Decreation.
• ——, “Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics (Paris 1966),” The Nation (January 19, 2011).
• ——, “Tag,” The New Yorker (October 6, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “Tom and TV,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 38, No. 23 (1 December 2016).
• ——, “Wildly Constant,” Float.
• Anne Sexton, “Consorting With Angels,” Live or Die (Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
• ——, “Riding the Elevator into the Sky,” The Awful Rowing Toward God (Houghton Mifflin, 1975).
• ——, “The Starry Night,” All My Pretty Ones (Houghton Mifflin, 1962).
• ——, “The Fury of Overshoes,” The Death Notebooks (Houghton Mifflin, 1974).
• ——, “The One-Legged Man,” The Book of Folly (Houghton Mifflin, 1972).
• ——, “The Poet of Ignorance,” The Awful Rowing Toward God.
• ——, “The Room of My Life,” The Awful Rowing Toward God.
• ——, “Wanting to Die,” Live or Die.
• ——, “When Man Enters Woman,” The Awful Rowing Toward God.
• ——, “Yellow,” Words for Dr. Y. (Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
• Annelyse Gelman, “Boy,” The New Yorker (February 10, 2020 Issue).
• Anonymous, “I syng of a mayden.”
• ——, “Jesus and the Sparrows.”
• ——, “Love Epigram.”
• Antonio Machado, “Dice la esperanza,” Campos de Castilla (Renacimiento, 1912).
• ——, “Noche de verano,” Campos de Castilla.
• António Osório, “A Meaning,” The New Yorker (June 6, 2022 Issue).
• Ari Banias, “Pronoun Study,” The Nation (December 14/21, 2020 Issue).
• Ariana Reines, “[Love],” Mercury (Fence Books, 2011).
• Ariel Francisco, “Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing,” The New Yorker (March 18, 2019 Issue).
• Arseny Tarkovsky, “И это снилось мне, и это снится мне” (1974).
• ——, “Иванова ива,” Земле—земное (Советский писатель, 1966).
• Arthur Sze, “Courtyard Fire,” Sight Lines (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).
• ——, “First Snow,” Sight Lines.
• ——, “The White Orchard,” The Kenyon Review (Vol. XL, No. 4, July/August 2018).
• ——, “Transpirations,” The New Yorker (April 13, 2020 Issue).
• Austin Smith, “Chekhov,” The New Yorker (November 30, 2015 Issue).
• Bắc Đảo, “Năm mới,” Phong cảnh trên độ không (Cửu Ca, 1996).
• Barbara Everett, “Exile,” London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 17 (13 September 2018).
• Barry Gifford, “True Love,” The New Yorker (February 2, 2009 Issue).
• Ben Lerner, “The People’s Republic of China,” Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press, 2006).
• Beth Bachmann, “Realism,” The New Yorker (May 30, 2016 Issue).
• ——, “Mask,” The New Yorker (April 6, 2020 Issue).
• Bill Knott, “Goodbye,” I Am Flying Into Myself (Farar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
• Billy Collins, “Cliché,” Questions About Angels (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
• ——, “Dharma,” Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001).
• ——, “Here and There,” Aimless Love (Random House, 2013).
• ——, “Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet,” Aimless Love.
• ——, “No Time,” Nine Horses (Random House, 2002).
• ——, “On the Deaths of Friends,” Whale Day (Random House, 2020).
• ——, “Safe Travels,” Whale Day.
• ——, “Silence,” The Trouble with Poetry (Random House, 2005).
• ——, “Sleeping on My Side,” Whale Day.
• ——, “Statues in the Park,” The Trouble with Poetry.
• ——, “The Chairs That No One Sits In,” Horoscopes for the Dead (Random House, 2011).
• ——, “The Dead,” Questions About Angels.
• ——, “The Future,” Horoscopes for the Dead.
• ——, “The Present,” The Rain in Portugal (Random House, 2016).
• ——, “The Great American Poem,” Aimless Love.
• ——, “Today,” Nine Horses.
• ——, “Vade Mecum,” Questions About Angels.
• Blaise Cendrars, “Letter,” Complete Poems (University of California Press, 1993).
• Bob Dylan, “21,” Hollywood Foto-Rhetorict (Simon & Schuster, 2008).
• Bob Hicok, “A History of Origami,” Words for Empty and Words for Full (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
• ——, “Hold your breath: a song of climate change,” The New York Times, August 23, 2018.
• ——, “Man of the House,” The Legend of Light (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
• ——, “Remedy,” The New Yorker (September 21, 2020 Issue).
• Boris Pasternak, “Гамлет” (1946).
• ——, “Осень” (1949).
• ——, “Ветер” (1953).
• ——, “Зимняя ночь” (1946).
• Brenda Hillman, “For One Whose Love Has Gone,” Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University Press, 2013).
• Brenda Shaughnessy, “I Have a Time Machine,” So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• Bruce Andrews, “Bananas are an example.,” The Paris Review, 53 (1972).
• C. D. Wright, “Imaginary Morning Glory,” ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• ——, “Poem with a Dead Tree,” ShallCross.
• ——, “Privacy,” Steal Away (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
• ——, “What Keeps,” Tremble (Ecco, 1996).
• C. L. O’Dell, “My Father Sings Like a Crow,” The New Yorker (October 17, 2016, Issue).
• ——, “Peony,” The New Yorker (June 24, 2019 Issue).
• C. K. Williams, “After Auschwitz,” Selected Later Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
• ——, “Mortality,” All at Once (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “The Beggar,” All at Once.
• ——, “The Coffin Store,” Wait (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
• ——, “Wood,” Wait.
• Cædmon, “Nu scylun hergan/ hefaenricaes Uard” (c. 658–680).
• Caki Wilkinson, “Elvis Week,” The New Yorker (February 17 & 24, 2020 Issue).
• Camille Rankine, “Emergency Management,” The New Yorker (February 3, 2020 Issue).
• Campbell McGrath, “The Human Heart,” Pax Atomica (HarperCollins, 2004).
• Carl Adamshick, “Before,” Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011).
• Carl Dennis, “A Landscape,” Night School (Penguin, 2018).
• ——, “A Maxim,” Another Reason (Penguin, 2014).
• ——, “Bottle of Wine,” The New Yorker (August 6 & 13, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “History,” Practical Gods (Penguin, 2001).
• ——, “Meaning,” Another Reason.
• ——, “New Year’s Eve,” Another Reason.
• ——, “Our Generation,” Unknown Friends (Penguin, 2007).
• ——, “Two Lives,” Night School.
• Carl Phillips, “Black Swan on Water, in a Little Rain,” Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
• ——, “Continuous Until We Stop,” Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “For It Felt Like Power,” Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
• ——, “Gold Leaf,” Wild Is the Wind.
• ——, “Rockabye,” Wild Is the Wind.
• ——, “We Turn Here,” Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
• ——, “White Dog,” The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
• Carl Sandburg, “At a Window,” Chicago Poems (Henry Holt, 1916).
• ——, “Fog,” Chicago Poems.
• ——, “Lost,” Chicago Poems (Henry Holt, 1916).
• ——, “Maybe,” Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1960).
• ——, “Under the Harvest Moon,” Chicago Poems.
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, “Destruição,” Lição de coisas (J. Olympio, 1962).
• ——, “Iniciação amorosa,” Alguma Poesia (Edições Pindorama, 1930).
• ——, “Não se mate,” Brejo Das Almas (Os Amigos do Livro, 1934).
• ——, “Unidade,” Farewell (Editora Record, 1996).
• Carol Ann Duffy, “First Love,” Mean Time (Anvil Press Poetry, 1993).
• ——, “Text,” Rapture (Picador, 2005).
• ——, “Valentine,” Mean Time.
• ——, “Words, Wide Night,” The Other Country (Anvil, 1990).
• Carolyn Forché, “The Boatman,” Poetry (October 2016).
• ——, “The Visitor,” The Country Between Us (Copper Canyon Press, 1981).
• Carrie Fountain, “To White Noise,” The New Yorker (May 28, 2018 Issue).
• Catherine Barnett, “Central Park,” Human Hours (Graywolf Press, 2018).
• ——, “Epistemology,” Human Hours.
• ——, “Essay on ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’,” Human Hours.
• ——, “O Esperanza!,” Human Hours.
• Cecily Parks, “Girlhood,” The New Yorker (April 30, 2018 Issue).
• César Vallejo, “Los anillos fatigados,” Los heraldos negros (1918) (Editorial Losada, 1961).
• ——, “Masa,” España, aparta de mí este cáliz (Ediciones Literarias del Comisariado, Ejército del Este, 1939).
• ——, “Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca,” Poemas humanos (Les Editions des Presses Modernes au Palais-Royal, 1939).
• ——, “Voy a hablar de la esperanza,” Poemas humanos.
• Cesare Pavese, “Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes,” Disaffections (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
• ——, “The cats will know,” Selected Poems (Penguin, 1971).
• Chana Bloch, “Beaux Arts,” The Moon Is Almost Full (Autumn House Press, 2017).
• ——, “Fortress,” Swimming in the Rain (Autumn House Press, 2015).
• ——, “Memento Mori,” The Moon Is Almost Full.
• ——, “The Joins,” Swimming in the Rain.
• ——, “Tired Sex,” Mrs. Dumpty (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
• ——, “War and Peace,” The New Yorker (January 15, 2018 Issue).
• Charles Baudelaire, “The Stranger,” Paris Spleen (New Directions, 1947).
• Charles Bukowski, “The Beats,” Come On In! (Canongate Books, 2007).
• ——, “the suicide kid,” Slouching Toward Nirvana (Ecco, 2005).
• ——, “Three Oranges,” OnTheBus Magazine (No. 10/11, 1992).
• ——, “Throwing Away the Alarm Clock,” The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (Ecco, 2003).
• Charles Olson, “All You Can Do,” The Collected Poems (University of California Press, 1987).
• Charles Rafferty, “Attraction,” The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017).
• ——, “Diminution,” The Smoke of Horses.
• ——, “Forecast,” The Smoke of Horses.
• ——, “The Pond,” The New Yorker (July 30, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “The Problem with Sappho,” The Smoke of Horses.
• Charles Wright, “A Short History of My Life,” Scar Tissue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
• ——, “Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River,” Caribou (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard,” Chickamauga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995).
• ——, “After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon,” Chickamauga.
• ——, “Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey,” Sestets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
• ——, “Consolation and the Order of the World,” Sestets.
• ——, “Edvard Munch,” China Trace (Wesleyan University Press, 1977).
• ——, “In Praise of Han Shan,” Buffalo Yoga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
• ——, “It’s Sweet to Be Remembered,” Sestets.
• ——, “October, Mon Amour,” Caribou.
• ——, “Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky,” Sestets.
• ——, “Portrait of the Artist by Li Shang-Yin,” Buffalo Yoga.
• ——, “Return of the Prodigal,” Sestets.
• ——, “Shadow and Smoke,” Caribou.
• ——, “Still-Life on a Matchbox Lid,” Chickamauga.
• ——, “Sunlight Bets on the Come,” Sestets.
• ——, “Synopsis,” Hard Freight (Wesleyan Poetry Program, 1973).
• ——, “The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away,” Sestets.
• ——, “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight,” Sestets.
• ——, “The New Poem,” Hard Freight.
• ——, “The Silent Generation,” Chickamauga.
• ——, “The Wind Is Calm and Comes from Another World,” A Short History of the Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).
• ——, “‘This World Is Not My Home, I’m Only Passing Through,’” Sestets.
• ——, “Toadstools,” Caribou.
• ——, “Translations from a Forgotten Tongue,” Caribou.
• ——, “We Hope that Love Calls Us, But Sometimes We’re Not So Sure,” Sestets.
• ——, “Whatever Happened to Al Lee?“ Caribou.
• ——, “When the Horses Gallop Away from Us, It’s a Good Thing,” Sestets.
• ——, “Yellow Wings,” Sestets.
• Chase Twichell, “Roadkill,” The New Yorker (January 6, 2014 Issue).
• ——, “Sad Song,” Salmagundi (Spring-Summer 2016).
• Chen Chen, “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities,” When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017).
• Christine Gosnay, “Sex,” Poetry (November 2019 Issue).
• Christopher Benfey, “The Lorries,” The New Yorker (May 9, 2011 Issue).
• Christopher Reid, “The Confusions,” The Curiosities (Faber and Faber, 2015).
• Christopher Soto, “Forgiveness,” Poem-a-Day, February 2, 2018.
• Clarence Major, “Hair,” The New Yorker (May 7, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “The End of the World,” The New Yorker (November 15, 2021 Issue).
• Ciaran Carson, “Let Us Go Then,” On the Night Watch (Gallery Books, 2009).
• ——, “Russia,” Breaking News (Gallery Press, 2003).
• ——, “The Tag,” The New Yorker (February 15, 2010 Issue).
• Claudia Emerson, “Artifact,” Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press, 2005).
• ——, “Catfish,” Secure the Shadow (Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
• ——, “Cyst,” Impossible Bottle (Louisiana State University Press, 2015).
• Claudia Rankine, “Mahalia Jackson is a genius,” Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004).
• ——, “Not long ago,” Citizen (Graywolf Press, 2014).
• ——, “There was a time,” Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.
• Clive James, “Japanese Maple,” Sentenced to Life (Picador, 2015).
• Colm Tóibín, “Father & Son,” Vinegar Hill (Beacon Press, 2022).
• ——, “Vinegar Hill,” Vinegar Hill.
• Cornelius Eady, “Dance Poem,” Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997).
• ——, “Handymen,” Hardheaded Weather (Penguin, 2008).
• Craig Morgan Teicher, “Self-Portrait as the Man I’ve Become,” The Trembling Answers (BOA Editions, 2017).
• Cynthia Cruz, “Artaud,” Bennington Review (Issue Three, 2017).
• Cynthia Zarin, “Gare Du Nord,” The New Yorker (July 26, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Marina,” The New Yorker (May 21, 2018 Issue).
• D. A. Powell, “Open Gesture of an I,” The New Yorker (August 26, 2019 Issue).
• D. H. Lawrence, “Butterfly,” The Complete Poems (Viking Press, 1964).
• ——, “Maximus,” The Complete Poems.
• ——, “Mystic,” The Complete Poems.
• ——, “The White Horse,” The Complete Poems.
• D. Nurkse, “Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes,” A Night in Brooklyn (Knopf, 2012).
• ——, “Return to the Capital,” A Night in Brooklyn.
• ——, “The Bars,” A Night in Brooklyn.
• ——, “The Pearl,” The New Yorker (January 7, 2013 Issue).
• Dan Chiasson, “Man and Derailment,” Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon (Knofp, 2010).
• Danez Smith, “dream where every black person is standing by the ocean,” Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• ——, “little prayer,” Don’t Call Us Dead.
• Daniel Halpern, “Cardinals,” The New Yorker (December 19, 2022 Issue).
• Dante Di Stefano, “Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen,” from The Best American Poetry 2018.
• Danusha Laméris, “The Watch,” The American Poetry Review, Volume 46, No. 06, November/December 2016.
• Dara Wier, “in the still of the night,” Conduit (Winter 2018 Issue).
• ——, “Something for You Because You Have Been Gone,” Open City #27 (May 6, 2009).
• David Bottoms, “Spring, 2012,” Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
• David Brendan Hopes, “Certain Things,” New Ohio Review (Fall 2016).
• David Budbill, “Weather Report,” While We Still Have Feet (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
• David Ferry, “Marriage,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2017 Issue).
• ——, “In the Reading Room,” Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
• David Harsent, “Ghosts,” Night (Faber & Faber, 2011).
• David Ignatow, “The Jobholder,” At My Ease (BOA Editions, 1997).
• David Lehman, “It Could Happen to You,” The New Yorker (December 4, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Poem in the Manner of C. P. Cavafy,” Poems in the Manner Of (Simon and Schuster, 2017).
• ——, “When a Woman Loves a Man,” When a Woman Loves a Man (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
• David Mason, “Fathers and Sons,” Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014 (Red Hen Press, 2014).
• David St. John, “Without Mercy, the Rains Continued,” The Auroras: New Poems (HarperCollins, 2012).
• David Wagoner, “Following a Stream,” The New Yorker (April 26, 2010 Issue).
• ——, “Lost,” Collected Poems, 1956–1976 (Indiana University Press, 1976).
• ——, “The Name,” After the Point of No Return (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
• Dean Young, “Long White Feather in the Knife Drawer,” The Threepenny Review (Summer 2020).
• Deborah Garrison, “A Kiss,” A Working Girl Can’t Win (Random House, 1998).
• Delmore Schwartz, “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day,” Summer Knowledge (Doubleday & Co., 1958).
• Dennis O’Driscoll, “What She Does Not Know Is,” New and Selected Poems (Anvil Press, 2014).
• Denise Duhamel, “House-Sitting,” The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999).
• ——, “My Strip Club,” Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013).
• Denise Levertov, “Living,” The Sorrow Dance (New Directions, 1967).
• ——, “To the Reader,” The Jacob’s Ladder (Jonathan Cape, 1961).
• Derek Mahon, “Everything Is Going to be All Right,” New Collected Poems (Gallery Press, 2011).
• Derek Walcott, “Dark August,” Sea Grapes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976).
• ——, “Forest of Europe,” The Star-Apple Kingdom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979).
• ——, “Love After Love,” Sea Grapes.
• ——, “Midsummer, Tobago,” Sea Grapes.
• ——, “Preparing for Exile,” Sea Grapes.
• ——, “Reading Machado,” The Bounty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
• ——, “Sea Grapes,” Sea Grapes.
• ——, “The Sea Is History,” The Star-Apple Kingdom.
• ——, “The Fist,” Sea Grapes.
• ——, “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” The Fortunate Traveler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981).
• ——, “The Star,” The Gulf and Other Poems (Jonathan Cape, 1969).
• ——, “[This page is a cloud],” White Egrets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
• ——, “To Norline,” The Arkansas Testament (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987).
• Diane Seuss, “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” frank (Graywolf Press, 2021).
• ——, “Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote,” Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf Press, 2018).
• Dick Allen, “The Selfishness of The Poetry Reader,” The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books, 2003).
• Dionisio D. Martínez, “Flood: Years of Solitude,” Bad Alchemy (W. W. Norton, 1995).
• Donald Hall, “Affirmation,” The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003).
• ——, “Exile,” The Alligator Bride (Harper & Row, 1969).
• ——, “Love’s Progress,” The Back Chamber (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).
• ——, “Orange Knee Socks,” White Apples and the Taste of Stone (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006).
• ——, “Poem Beginning with a Line of Wittgenstein,” Poetry (Feb. 1979).
• ——, “The Master,” White Apples and the Taste of Stone.
• ——, “Ox Cart Man,” Kicking the Leaves (Harper & Row, 1978).
• ——, “The Poem,” A Roof of Tiger Lilies (Viking, 1964).
• ——, “The Porcelain Couple,” Without (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998).
• ——, “The Things,” The Back Chamber.
• ——, “White Apples,” The Town of Hill (Godine, 1975).
• Donald Justice, “A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman,” Collected Poems (Knopf, 2004).
• ——, “An Elegy Is Preparing Itself,” Selected Poems (Atheneum, 1979).
• ——, “Bus Stop,” Night Light (Wesleyan University Press, 1967).
• ——, “Counting the Mad,” The Summer Anniversaries (Wesleyan University Press, 1960).
• ——, “Crossing Kansas by Train,” Night Light.
• ——, “Invitation to a Ghost,” New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 1995).
• ——, “Landscape with Little Figures,” The Summer Anniversaries.
• ——, “Men at Forty,” Night Light.
• ——, “On the Death of Friends in Childhood,” The Summer Anniversaries.
• ——, “Pantoum of the Great Depression,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “Poem,” Departures (Atheneum, 1973).
• ——, “Poem for a Survivor,” Night Light.
• ——, “School Letting Out (Fourth or Fifth Grade),” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Artist Orpheus,” New and Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Confession,” Departures.
• ——, “The Dreams of Water,” Night Light.
• ——, “The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “There Is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Vague Memory from Childhood,” Collected Poems.
• Dorianne Laux, “Enough Music,” What We Carry (BOA Editions, 1994).
• ——, “Lapse,” Plume Poetry (Issue 36, June 2014).
• Dorothea Grossman, “I have to tell you,” Poetry (March 2010).
• Dorothea Tanning, “Destinations,” A Table of Content (Graywolf Press, 2004).
• ——, “Graduation,” A Table of Content.
• ——, “Never Mind,” Coming to That (Graywolf Press, 2011).
• E. E. Cummings, “[as],” Etcetera (Liveright, 1983).
• ——, “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in],” 95 poems (Harcourt, Brace, 1958).
• ——, “[i like my body when it is with your],” & (self-published, 1925).
• ——, “[it is so long since my heart has been with yours],” is 5 (Boni and Liveright, 1926).
• ——, “[it may not always be so;and i say],” Tulips and Chimneys (Thomas Seltzer, 1923).
• ——, “[Lady,i will touch you with my mind],” Etcetera.
• ——, “[little tree],” Tulips and Chimneys.
• ——, “[love is more thicker than forget],” 50 Poems (Grosset and Dunlap, 1940).
• ——, “[may i feel said he],” No Thanks (Golden Eagle Press, 1935).
• ——, “[may my heart always be open to little],” Collected Poems, 1922-1938 (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1938).
• ——, “[since feeling is first],” is 5.
• ——, “[somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond],” ViVa (Horace Liveright, 1931).
• ——, “[Spring is like a perhaps hand],” &.
• ——, “there are so many tictoc,” Etcetera.
• ——, “[when god decided to invent],” 1 x 1 (Henry Holt, 1944).
• ——, “[who knows if the moon’s],” Tulips and Chimneys.
• ——, “[You are tired],” Etcetera.
• ——, “[you said Is],” Etcetera.
• Eavan Boland, “A Habitable Grief,” The Lost Land (W. W. Norton, 1998).
• ——, “A Woman Painted on a Leaf,” In a Time of Violence (W. W. Norton, 1994).
• ——, “Eviction,” The Historians (W. W. Norton, 2020).
• ——, “Love,” In a Time of Violence.
• ——, “Quarantine,” Code (Carcanet, 2001).
• ——, “Rain,” The Historians.
• ——, “This Moment,” In a Time of Violence.
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Spring,” Second April (Harper & Brothers, 1921).
• ——, “Never May the Fruit Be Plucked,” The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (Harper, 1923).
• ——, “[What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why],” The Harp-Weaver.
• Edward Hirsch, “A Baker Swept By,” The New Yorker (November 25, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “I Walked Out of the Cemetery,” The New York Review of Books (October 10, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “Man on a Fire Escape,” Earthly Measures (Knopf, 1994).
• ——, “My Friends Don’t Get Buried,” The New Yorker (June 25, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “Stranger by Night,” The Threepenny Review (Fall 2018 Issue).
• ——, “To Poetry,” The Essential Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).
• Edwin Brock, “Five Ways to Kill a Man,” Five Ways to Kill a Man (Enitharmon, 1990).
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “Swineherd,” Acts and Monuments (The Gallery Press, 1972).
• ——, “Man Watching a Woman,” The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (The Gallery Press, 2001).
• Elaine Equi, “A Story Begins,” Sentences and Rain (Coffee House Press, 2015).
• ——, “Sometimes I Get Distracted,” Decoy (Coffee House Press, 1994).
• Emily Dickinson, “A Light exists in Spring” (c. 1864).
• ——, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –” (c. 1862).
• ——, “Come slowly—Eden!” (c. 1860).
• ——, “I never saw a Moor” (c. 1890).
• ——, “I’ve nothing else – to bring, You know” (c. 1860-1861).
• ——, “‘Nature’ is what we see” (1863).
• ——, “Pain has an Element of Blank.”
• ——, “The Brain – is wider than the Sky –” (c. 1862).
• ——, “To make a prairie,” The Complete Poems (Little, Brown, and Company, 1924).
• ——, “Water is taught by thirst,” Complete Poems (Little, Brown, 1924).
• ——, “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” Poems: Second Series (Roberts Brothers, 1891).
• Eric Pankey, “Sober Then Drunk Again,” Trace (Milkweed Editions, 2013).
• Erica Jong, “Breasts,” The New Yorker (October 12, 2015 Issue).
• ——, “Climbing You,” Half-Lives (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973).
• Ernesto Cardenal, “Visión de la ventanilla azul,” Antología (Editorial Nueva Nicaragua-Ediciones Monimbo, 1983).
• Elizabeth Alexander, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe,” American Sublime (Graywolf Press, 2005).
• Elizabeth Bishop, “A Short, Slow Life,” Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
• ——, “Breakfast Song,” Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box.
• ——, “Casabianca,” North & South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946).
• ——, “Chemin de Fer,” North & South.
• ——, “[In a Cheap Hotel],” Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box.
• ——, “Insomnia,” A Cold Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1955).
• ——, “It is marvellous…,” The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983).
• ——, “One Art,” Geography III (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976).
• ——, “Rain Towards Morning,” A Cold Spring.
• ——, “Sonnet,” Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
• ——, “The Fish,” North & South.
• Elizabeth Bradfield, “We All Want To See a Mammal,” Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015).
• Elizabeth Spires, “Picture of a Soul,” A Memory of the Future (W. W. Norton, 2018).
• Elizabeth Willis, “About the Author,” Alive (New York Review Books, 2015).
• Ellen Bass, “After Long Illness,” The New Yorker (January 9, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Failure,” The New Yorker (June 6 & 13, 2016 Issue).
• Emily Berry, “Two Rooms,” Stranger, Baby (Faber and Faber, 2017).
• Emily Jungmin Yoon, “Decency,” The Paris Review (Issue 227, Winter 2018).
• Ernest Hemingway, “Poem,” Complete Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 1992).
• Eugen Gomringer, “Streets and Flowers,” The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Ecco, 2009).
• Eugenio Montale, “Concerning the universe, the city of God.”
• ——, “I have such faith in you,” Otherwise (Random House, 1984).
• ——, “Maybe one morning,” Collected Poems, 1920–1954 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).
• ——, “My Muse,” The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale 1925-1977 (W. W. Norton, 2012).
• ——, “The Eel,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The House of the Customs Men,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Lemons,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Prisoner’s Dream,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Wind and Flags,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Your hand was trying the keyboard,” Collected Poems.
• Ezra Pound, “A Pact,” Lustra (Elkin Matthews, 1916).
• ——, “An Immorality,” Ripostes (Swift and Co., 1912).
• ——, “Commission,” Lustra.
• ——, “Salutation,” Lustra.
• ——, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” Cathay (Elkin Mathews, 1915).
• Fady Joudah, “Mimesis,” Alight (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).
• Fanny Howe, “Loneliness,” Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014).
• Federico García Lorca, “Agua, ¿dónde vas?,” Canciones 1921–1924.
• ——, “Canción del naranjo seco,” Canciones: selección (Andres Bello, 1996).
• ——, “Casida de la rosa,” Diván del Tamarit (Editorial Losada, 1940).
• ——, “Desde aquí,” Suites (1920–1923) (1983).
• ——, “Despedida,” Canciones 1921–1924.
• ——, “Es verdad,” Canciones 1921–1924.
• ——, “Paisaje,” Poema del cante jondo (Alianza Editorial, S. A., 1982).
• ——, “Pequeño vals vienés,” Poeta en Nueva York (Editorial Séneca, 1940).
• ——, “Por encontrar un beso tuyo,” Poesía (Galaxia Gutenberg, 1997).
• Fernando Pessoa, “A piano on my street,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe (Penguin Classics, 2006).
• ——, “Ah, a Sonnet,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “All the opinions,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Autopsicografia,” Poesias (Ática, 1942).
• ——, “Clouds,”A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “How long it’s been, ten years perhaps,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “I come to the window,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “I got off the train,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “I have a bad cold,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “I took off the mask and looked in the mirror,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Lisbon Revisited (1923),” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Note,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Now that I feel love,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “O church bell of my village,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Passerby,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Pedrouços,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Poem in a Straight Line,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Seagulls are flying close to the ground,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Senhor Silva,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “There are sicknesses worse than any sickness,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “They spoke to me of people, and of humanity,” Fernando Pessoa & Co. (Grove Press, 1998).
• ——, “Toda beleza é um sonho, inda que exista,” Poesia 1931-1935 e não datada (Assírio & Alvim, 2006).
• ——, “Tudo, menos o tédio, me faz tédio,” Novas Poesias Inéditas (Ática, 1973).
• ——, “When I die and you, meadow,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• ——, “Whoever, horizon, passes beyond you,” A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe.
• Forrest Gander, “Madonna del Parto,” Be With (New Directions, 2018).
• François Villon, “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” (1461).
• Frank Bidart, “Against Rage,” Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
• ——, “An American in Hollywood,” Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
• ——, “Disappearing during sleep,” Half-Light (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
• ——, “For the AIDS Dead,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Elegy for Earth,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Half-Light,” Half-Light.
• ——, “Homo Faber,” Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
• ——, “Hunger for the Absolute,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Lament for the Makers,” Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
• ——, “Like,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Little Fugue,” Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002).
• ——, “Metaphysical Dog,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Mourning What We Thought We Were,” The New Yorker (January 23, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Queer,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Rio,” Metaphysical Dog.
• ——, “Song,” Star Dust.
• ——, “The Yoke,” Desire.
• Frank O’Hara, “Animals,” The Collected Poems (Knopf, 1971).
• ——, “Autobiographia Literaria,” Selected Poems (Knopf, 2008).
• ——, “Having a Coke with You,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “Heroic Sculpture,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “Katy,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “Les Étiquettes jaunes,” Meditations in an Emergency (Grove Press, 1957).
• ——, “Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!],” Lunch Poems (City Lights, 1964).
• ——, “Song,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Critic,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “To John Ashbery,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “To the Harbormaster,” Meditations in an Emergency.
• ——, “Why I Am Not a Painter,” The Collected Poems.
• Frank Ormsby, “Bog Cotton,” The New Yorker (March 4, 2013 Issue).
• ——, “The Butterfly House,” The New Yorker (February 4, 2019 Issue).
• Franz Wright, “A Happy Thought,” God’s Silence (Knopf, 2006).
• ——, “Beginning Again,” God’s Silence.
• ——, “E. D. in Coma,” God’s Silence.
• ——, “Learning To Read,” F (Knopf, 2013).
• ——, “On the Death of a Cat,” God’s Silence.
• ——, “Passing Scenes (While Reading Bashō),” Wheeling Motel (Knopf, 2009).
• ——, “P.S.,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Knopf, 2003).
• ——, “Petition,” God’s Silence.
• ——, “Promise,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• ——, “Solution,” Wheeling Motel.
• ——, “The Only Animal,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• ——, “The Poem,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• ——, “The Word ‘I’,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• ——, “The World of the Senses,” Wheeling Motel.
• ——, “To Myself,” Ill Lit (Oberlin College Press, 1998).
• ——, “Untitled,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• ——, “Visiting the Library in a Strange City,” The New Yorker (November 19, 2007 Issue).
• ——, “Year One,” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.
• Frederick Seidel, “American,” Evening Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
• ——, “Baudelaire in Brussels,” Peaches Goes It Alone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
• ——, “Homage to Pessoa,” Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
• ——, “That Fall,” These Days (Knopf, 1989).
• Frieda Hughes, “Selfie,” The New Yorker (September 21, 2015 Issue).
• Fyodor Tyutchev, “Silentium!” (1830).
• Gabriela Mistral, “Decálogo del artista,” Desolación (Instituto de las Españas, 1922).
• Gabrielle Glancy, “An Exercise in Sadness,” The New Yorker (April 17, 1995 Issue).
• Galway Kinnell, “Astonishment,” Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).
• ——, “Cemetery Angels,” A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001).
• ——, “Crying,” Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980).
• ——, “Daybreak,” Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1982).
• ——, “Hide-and-Seek 1933,” Strong Is Your Hold (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006).
• ——, “Last Gods,” When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (Knopf, 1990).
• ——, “Promissory Note,” Strong Is Your Hold.
• ——, “Shelley,” Strong Is Your Hold.
• ——, “The Man in the Chair,” A New Selected Poems.
• ——, “Turkeys,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Wait,” Mortal Acts, Mortal Words.
• ——, “When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone,” When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone.
• Garret Keizer, “When the Snake Became a Man,” The New Yorker (March 30, 2009 Issue).
• Gary J. Whitehead, “Lot’s Wife,” A Glossary of Chickens (Princeton University Press, 2013).
• Gary Snyder, “How Poetry Comes to Me,” No Nature (Pantheon Books, 1992).
• ——, “Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany,” This Present Moment (Counterpoint, 2015).
• Gennady Aygi, “The People Are a Temple,” Child-and-Rose (New Directions, 2003).
• George Herbert, “Love (III),” The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (1633).
• George Oppen, “Boy’s Room,” This in Which (New Directions, 1965).
• ——, “Leviathan,” The Materials (New Directions, 1962).
• ——, “The Building of the Skyscraper,” This in Which.
• ——, “The Forms of Love,” This in Which.
• ——, “The Poem,” New Collected Poems (New Directions, 2008).
• George Seferis, “Calligraphy,” Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1995).
• ——, “Days of June ’41,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Dream,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Euripides the Athenian,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Flowers of the rock,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Kerk Str. Oost, Pretoria, Transvaal,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Memory I,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Memory II,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “On Aspalathoi,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Pentheus,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Postscript,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Companions in Hades,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Jasmine,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Return of the Exile,” Collected Poems.
• Gerald Stern, “Alone,” American Sonnets (W. W. Norton, 2002).
• ——, “The Crossing,”In Beauty Bright (W. W. Norton, 2012).
• ——, “No House,” Blessed as We Were (W. W. Norton, 2020).
• ——, “Gelato,” Galaxy Love (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• ——, “Spring,”In Beauty Bright.
• ——, “Warbler,” Blessed as We Were.
• ——, “Waving Goodbye,” This Time (W. W. Norton, 1979).
• Giacomo Leopardi, “Alla luna,” Canti (Presso Saverio Starita, 1835).
• Giovanni Pascoli, “Feast Day in the Distance” (1891).
• ——, “In a Huddle” (1891).
• ——, “Ploughing” (1891).
• ——, “The Dog” (1891).
• ——, “The Fallen Oak”(1900).
• ——, “The Iron Road” (1886).
• ——, “The Owl” (1897).
• ——, “Washerwomen” (1891).
• Glyn Maxwell, “Southeast of Eden,” Pluto (Picador, 2013).
• Grace Paley, “Anti-Love Poem,” Fidelity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
• Graham Foust, “Star Turn,” Nightingalelessness (Flood Editions, 2018).
• Gregory Orr, “Love Poem,” Burning the Empty Nests (Harper & Row, 1973).
• ——, “[Weeping, weeping, weeping.],” from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
• Guillaume Apollinaire, “Automne,” Alcools (Mercure de France, 1913).
• ——, “Cors de chasse,” Alcools.
• ——, “Il y a,” Poèmes à Lou.
• ——, “Le Pont Mirabeau,” Alcools.
• Günter Grass, “Familiär,” Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (Luchterhand, 1956).
• ——, “Glück,” Gleisdreieck (Luchterhand, 1960).
• ——, “Im Ei,” Gleisdreieck.
• ——, “Kinderlied,” Gleisdreieck.
• ——, “Liebe geprüft,” Liebe geprüft (Carl Schünemann, 1974).
• Gwendolyn Brooks, “a song in the front yard,” Selected Poems (Harper and Row, 1963).
• Ha Jin, “I Woke Up—Smiling,” Facing Shadows (Hanging Loose Press, 1996).
• ——, “Missed Time,” A Distant Center (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
• ——, “The Past,” Facing Shadows.
• Hadrian, “Animula, vagula, blandula.”
• Hafizah Geter, “The Break-In,” The New Yorker (March 6, 2017 Issue).
• Hagit Grossman, “On Friendship,” The New Yorker (February 8 & 15, 2016 Issue).
• Hai-Dang Phan, “A Brief History of Reënactment,” Reenactments (Sarabande Books, 2019).
• ——, “My Father’s Norton Introduction to Literature, Third Edition (1981),” Reenactments.
• ——, “Osprey,” Reenactments.
• Hal Sirowitz, “Lending Out Books,” My Therapist Said (Crown, 1998).
• Hart Crane, “My Grandmother’s Love Letters,” White Buildings (Boni and Liveright, 1926).
• Heather Christle, “Advent,” The New Yorker (January 7, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “BASIC,” What Is Amazing (Wesleyan University Press, 2012).
• Helena Nelson, “What Not to Write on the Back Jacket of Your Debut Collection,” Down With Poetry! (HappenStance, 2016).
• Henri Cole, “Black Mushrooms,” Blizzard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
• ——, “Corpse Pose,” Blizzard.
• ——, “Daffodils,” The New Yorker (October 12, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Doves,” Blizzard.
• ——, “Gravity and Center,” Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
• ——, “Mouse in the Grocery,” The New York Review of Books (December 17, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “No Homecoming,” Blizzard.
• ——, “Oil & Steel,” Blackbird and Wolf.
• ——, “On Friendship,” Blizzard.
• ——, “The Tree Cutters,” Blackbird and Wolf.
• Henrik Nordbrandt, “Når et menneske dør,” Egne digte (Gyldendal, 1999).
• Hieu Minh Nguyen, “Chasm,” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter 2018).
• ——, “Heavy,” Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018).
• ——, “Politics of an Elegy,” Not Here.
• Hoa Nguyen, “Napalm Notes,” A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021).
• ——, “Seeds and Crumbs,” A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
• ——, “What Is,” As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012).
• Howard Nemerov, “Style,” The Blue Swallows (University of Chicago Press, 1967).
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Reiselied” (1898).
• Humberto Akʼabal, “Árbol,” Ajkem tzij (Cholsamaj Fundación, 2001).
• Iain Crichton Smith, “The World’s a Minefield,” Love Poems and Elegies (Victor Gollancz, 1972).
• Ileana Mălăncioiu, “Prayer,” Legend of the Walled-Up Wife (Gallery Press, 2011).
• Ilya Kaminsky, “And Yet, on Some Nights,” Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, 2019).
• ——, “Eulogy,” Deaf Republic.
• ——, “In a Time of Peace,” Deaf Republic.
• ——, “Question,” Deaf Republic.
• ——, “We Lived Happily During the War,” Deaf Republic.
• Ingeborg Bachmann, “Alle Tage,” Die gestundete Zeit (Deutschen Verlags-Anstalt, 1953).
• ——, “Anrufung des Großen Bären,” Anrufung des Großen Bären (R. Piper, 1956).
• ——, “Botschaft,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Das erstgeborene Land,” Anrufung des Großen Bären.
• ——, “Das Spiel ist aus,” Anrufung des Großen Bären.
• ——, “Die Brücken,” Die gestundete Zeit (Deutschen Verlags-Anstalt, 1953).
• ——, “Die gestundete Zeit,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Dunkles zu sagen,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Enigma,” Kursbuch 15 (1968).
• ——, “Fall ab, Herz,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Im Gewitter der Rosen,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Mein Vogel,” Anrufung des Großen Bären.
• ——, “Nach dieser Sintflut” (1957).
• ——, “Nebelland,” Anrufung des Großen Bären.
• ——, “Paris,” Die gestundete Zeit.
• ——, “Schatten Rosen Schatten,” Anrufung des Großen Bären.
• Ira Sadoff, “I Never Needed Things,” The New Yorker (February 29, 2016 Issue).
• Ishigaki Rin, 『シジミ』、表札など (Shinchosha, 1968).
• Ishion Hutchinson, “David,” The New York Review of Books (December 5, 2019 Issue).
• Ismail Kadare, “Poetry,” Anthology of Modern Albanian Poetry (Forest Books, 1993).
• J. D. McClatchy, “Chinese Poem,” Mercury Dressing (Knopf, 2009).
• —— “Resignation,” Mercury Dressing.
• J. Estanislao Lopez, “Meditation on Beauty,” The New Yorker (March 26, 2018 Issue).
• Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense,” Refusing Heaven (Knopf, 2005).
• ——, “After Love,” The Dance Most of All (Knopf, 2009).
• ——, “Alone,”The Great Fires (Knopf, 1994).
• ——, “Games,” Monolithos (Knopf, 1982).
• ——, “Failing and Flying,” Refusing Heaven.
• ——, “Homage to Wang Wei,” Refusing Heaven.
• ——, “The Abandoned Valley,” Refusing Heaven.
• ——, “The Greek Gods Don’t Come in Winter,” Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012).
• Jack Kerouac, “Three American Haikus,” The New Yorker (March 3, 2003 Issue).
• Jack Spicer, “A Poem Without a Single Bird in It,” My Vocabulary Did This to Me (Wesleyan University Press, 2008).
• ——, “Any fool can get into an ocean…,” My Vocabulary Did This to Me.
• ——, “We find the body difficult to speak…,” My Vocabulary Did This to Me.
• Jaime Sabines, “Espero curarme de ti,” Yuria (Joaquín Mortiz, 1967).
• ——, “Los amorosos,” Horal (Departamento de Prensa y Turismo, 1950).
• ——, “Tú tienes lo que busco,” Diario semanario y poemas en prosa (Universidad Veracruzana, 1961).
• Jake Adam York, “Abide,” Abide (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).
• Jamaal May, “There Are Birds Here,” The Big Book of Exit Strategies (Alice James Books, 2016).
• James Arthur, “The Death of the Painter,” Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012).
• James Baldwin, “Untitled,” Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems (Beacon Press, 2014).
• James Cummins, “The Poets March on Washington,” Jacket Magazine (No. 25, February 2004).
• James Fenton, “Rain,” Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 (Faber and Faber, 2012).
• James Galvin, “On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses,” Everything We Always Knew Was True (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• James L. White, “Making Love to Myself,” The Salt Ecstasies (Graywolf Press, 1982).
• James Laughlin, “A Winter’s Night,” The Country Road (Zoland Books, 1995).
• James Longenbach, “112th Street,” Forever (W. W. Norton, 2021).
• ——, “Earthling,” Earthling (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• ——, “Forever,” Forever.
• ——, “In the Village,” Forever.
• ——, “Snow,” The Iron Key (W. W. Norton, 2010).
• ——, “Suitcase,” Earthling.
• James Merrill, “The Mad Scene,” Nights and Days (Atheneum, 1966).
• James Richardson, “Essay on Wood,” During (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• ——, “In Shakespeare,” By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
• ——, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang…,” For Now (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
• James Schuyler, “Footnote,” The Morning of the Poem (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980).
• ——, “Haze,” Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1993).
• ——, “I Think,” Hymn To Life (Random House, 1974).
• ——, “Poem,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Salute,” Freely Espousing (Doubleday, 1969).
• James Tate, “Ancient Story,” The New Yorker (December 9, 2002 Issue).
• ——, “Bounden Duty,” Return to the City of White Donkeys (HarperCollins, 2004).
• ——, “Coda,” The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Little, Brown, 1970).
• ——, “Depression,” Dome of the Hidden Pavilion (Ecco Press, 2015).
• ——, “Distance from Loved Ones,” Distance from Loved Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 1990).
• ——, “First Lesson,” Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013).
• ——, “Free,” The New York Times (November 7, 2010).
• ——, “Man With Wooden Leg Escapes Prison,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “Rapture,” Memoir of the Hawk (Ecco Press, 2001).
• ——, “Teaching the Ape to Write Poems,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Diagnosis,” The Best American Poetry 2001 (Scribner, 2001).
• ——, “The Trap,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “Untitled,” The Paris Review, Vol. 58, No. 216, Spring 2016.
• James Valvis, “Something,” The Sun (July 2016 Issue).
• James Wright, “A Blessing,” The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 1963).
• ——, “A Dream of Burial,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “Beginning,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “By a Lake in Minnesota,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems,” Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1971).
• ——, “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “Milkweed,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “On Having My Pocket Picked in Rome,” The Shape of Light (White Pine Press, 2007).
• ——, “Rain,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “Saturday Morning,” The New Yorker (May 5, 1962 Issue).
• ——, “Small Frogs Killed On The Highway,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Today I Was Happy, So I Made This Poem,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• ——, “Trying to Pray,” The Branch Will Not Break.
• Jana Prikryl, “Fence Post,” The Paris Review (Issue 238, Winter 2021).
• ——, “Why Not,” The New Yorker (March 7, 2022 Issue).
• Jane Hirshfield, “Ants’ Nest,” Ledger (Knopf, 2020).
• ——, “Amor Fati,” Ledger.
• ——, “Burlap Sack,” After (Harper Perennial, 2006).
• ——, “February 29,” The Beauty (Knopf, 2015).
• ——, “French Horn,” Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011).
• ——, “Critique of Pure Reason,” Come, Thief.
• ——, from “Twelve Pebbles,” The Beauty.
• ——, “Each Morning Calls Us to Praise This World That Is Fleeting,” The Asking (Knopf, 2023).
• ——, “Global Warming,” The Beauty.
• ——, “Husband,” Ledger.
• ——, ”I Wanted Only a Little,” The Beauty.
• ——, “I Wanted to Be Surprised,” Ledger.
• ——, “If Truth Is the Lure, Humans Are Fishes,” Come, Thief.
• ——, “In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed,” The Beauty.
• ——, “In Daylight, I Turned on the Lights,” The Beauty.
• ——, “In Praise of Coldness,” Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001).
• ——, “It Was Like This: You Were Happy,” After.
• ——, “Leather,” Given Sugar, Given Salt.
• ——, “Ledger,” Ledger.
• ——, “Let Them Not Say,” Ledger (Knopf, 2020).
• ——, “Like Others,” Ledger.
• ——, “Manifest,” The Asking.
• ——, “My Corkboard,” The Beauty.
• ——, “My Eyes,” The Beauty.
• ——, “My Life Was the Size of My Life,” The Beauty.
• ——, “My Proteins,” The Beauty.
• ——, “On Reading Brecht,” Of Gravity & Angels (Wesleyan University Press, 1988).
• ——, “Quartz Clock,” The Beauty.
• ——, “The Bearded Woman,” The Lives of the Heart (HarperCollins, 1997).
• ——, “The Bowl,” Ledger.
• ——, “The Pawpaw,” Ledger.
• ——, ”The Poet,” The Lives of the Heart.
• ——, “Things Seem Strong,” Ledger (Knopf, 2020).
• ——, “This Morning, I Wanted Four Legs,” The Beauty.
• ——, ”Three Times My Life Has Opened,” The Lives of the Heart.
• ——, “Tin,” The Asking.
• ——, “To Be a Person,” The Asking.
• ——, “Today, When I Could Do Nothing,” The Asking.
• ——, “Tree,” Given Sugar, Given Salt.
• ——, “Two Kerosene Lanterns,” The Asking.
• ——, “Two Versions,” The Asking.
• ——, “Washing Doorknobs,” Come, Thief.
• ——, “Wild Turkey,” Ledger.
• Jane Kenyon, “Back,” Constance (Graywolf Press, 1993).
• ——, “Evening Sun,” The Boat of Quiet Hours (Graywolf Press, 1986).
• ——, “Heavy Summer Rain,” Let Evening Come (Graywolf Press, 1990).
• ——, “Let Evening Come,” Let Evening Come.
• ——, “Otherwise,”Constance.
• ——, “Reading Aloud to My Father,”Otherwise (Graywolf Press, 1996).
• ——, “Song,” The Boat of Quiet Hours.
• ——, “The Shirt,” From Room to Room (Alice James Books, 1978).
• ——, “The Sick Wife,” Otherwise.
• ——, “Thinking of Madame Bovary,” The Boat of Quiet Hours.
• Jane Mead, “I Have Been Living,” House of Poured-Out Waters (University of Illinois Press, 2001).
• Jane Miller, “Whether the Goat Is a Metaphor,” Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
• Jane Shore, “Encyclopædia Britannica,” The New Yorker (September 7, 2015 Issue).
• ——, “The Couple,” The New Yorker (September 7, 2020 Issue).
• Jason Schneiderman, “Moscow,” Sublimation Point (Four Way Books, 2004).
• Jay Parini, “Woman by the Way,” New and Collected Poems (Beacon Press, 2016).
• Jean Follain, “Bout de monde,” Appareil de la terre (Gallimard, 1964).
• ——, “La musique des sphères,” Poèmes et prose choisis (Gallimard, 1961).
• ——, “L’Ecole et la nature,” Exister (Gallimard, 1947).
• Jean Valentine, “Do flies remember us,” Door in the Mountain (Wesleyan University Press, 2003).
• ——, “Door in the Mountain,” Door in the Mountain.
• ——, “Hawkins Stable,” Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
• ——, “In Prison,” Break the Glass.
• ——, “My words to you,” Shirt in Heaven (Copper Canyon Press, 2015).
• ——, “On a Passenger Ferry,” Break the Glass.
• ——, “Sheep,” Door in the Mountain.
• ——, “Tell Me, What Is the Soul,” Door in the Mountain.
• ——, “The Cricket,” The New Yorker (January 18, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “The Summer Was Not Long Enough,” The River at Wolf (Alice James Books, 1992).
• ——, “To My Soul,” Little Boat (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
• ——, “When I lost my courage,” Shirt in Heaven.
• Jeff Dolven, “Rituals,” The New Yorker (April 2, 2012 Issue).
• Jeffrey Harrison, “Afterword,” The New York Times Magazine (October 18, 2015).
• ——, “Higher Education,” The Yale Review (Volume 104, Issue 1, 2016).
• Jennifer Clement, “Making Love in Spanish,” New and Selected Poems (Shearsman Books, 2008).
• Jennifer Grotz, “Medium,” The New Yorker (January 22, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “Poppies,” Window Left Open (Graywolf Press, 2016).
• Jenny George, “Origins of Violence,” The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
• ——, “Two Rabbits,” Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling (April 16, 2019).
• Jenny Xie, “No Exit,” The Yale Review (Spring 2020).
• Jericho Brown, “Bullet Points,” The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019).
• ——, “Colosseum,” The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).
• ——, “Ganymede,” The Tradition.
• ——, “Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry,” The New York Times (June 15, 2020).
• Jim Harrison, “Another Country,” Dead Man’s Float (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• ——, “Debtors,” Songs of Unreason (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).
• Jim Moore, “Love in the Ruins,” Invisible Strings (Graywolf Press, 2011).
• ——, “Poem That Ends at the Ocean,” Prognosis (Graywolf Press, 2021).
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, “I Am Offering This Poem,” Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (New Directions, 1990).
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Über allen Gipfeln,” Wandrers Nachtlied (1780).
• John Ashbery, “A Blessing in Disguise,” Rivers and Mountains (Ecco Press, 1966).
• ——, “A Love Poem,” As We Know (Viking Press, 1979).
• ——, “A Mood of Quiet Beauty,” April Galleons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987).
• ——, “A November,” A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007).
• ——, “A Sweet Disorder,” Breezeway (Ecco, 2015).
• ——, “Anticipated Stranger,” A Worldly Country.
• ——, “At North Farm,” A Wave (Viking, 1984).
• ——, “Brute Image,” Hotel Lautréamont (Knopf, 1992).
• ——, “But What Is the Reader to Make of This?“ A Wave.
• ——, “East February,” Breezeway.
• ——, “Fallen Tree,” As We Know.
• ——, “Fear of Death,” Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking Press, 1975).
• ——, “Gravy for the Prisoners,” Breezeway.
• ——, “Homeless Heart,” Quick Question (Ecco, 2012).
• ——, “In Those Days,” Where Shall I Wander (Ecco, 2005).
• ——, “Introduction,” A Wave.
• ——, “Just Walking Around,” A Wave.
• ——, “La Bonne Chanson,” A Worldly Country (Ecco Press, 2007).
• ——, “Late Echo,” As We Know.
• ——, “Later Me,” Planisphere (Ecco Press, 2009).
• ——, “Life as a Book That Has Been Put Down,” April Galleons.
• ——, “Life Is a Dream,” Your Name Here (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).
• ——, “Like a Photograph,” A Worldly Country.
• ——, “Listening Tour,” Breezeway.
• ——, “My Erotic Double,” As We Know.
• ——, “Myrtle,” And the Stars Were Shining (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994).
• ——, “Paradoxes and Oxymorons,” Shadow Train (Viking Books, 1981).
• ——, “Poem at the New Year,” Hotel Lautréamont.
• ——, “Portrait with a Goat,” Chinese Whispers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).
• ——, “Stanzas Before Time,” Your Name Here.
• ——, “Short-Term Memory,” Your Name Here.
• ——, “Song,” The Double Dream of Spring (Dutton, 1970).
• ——, “Spring Cries,” And the Stars Were Shining.
• ——, “Spring Light,” Houseboat Days.
• ——, “Strange Things Happen at Night,” And the Stars Were Shining.
• ——, “The Problem of Anxiety,” Can You Hear, Bird (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997).
• ——, “This Room,” Your Name Here.
• ——, “The History of My Life,” Your Name Here.
• ——, “The Love Scenes,” And the Stars Were Shining.
• ——, “The Template,” Where Shall I Wander.
• ——, “Train Rising Out of the Sea,” As We Know.
• ——, “We Were on the Terrace Drinking Gin and Tonics,” As We Know.
• ——, “What Is Written,” Your Name Here.
• ——, “What Is Poetry,” Houseboat Days.
• ——, “World’s End,” And the Stars Were Shining.
• John Berger, “Dream,” And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (Pantheon, 1984).
• John Berryman, “Dream Song 1,” 77 Dream Songs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964).
• ——, “Dream Song 4,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 14,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 28,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 29,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 36,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 45,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 67,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 69,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 74,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 76,” 77 Dream Songs.
• ——, “Dream Song 103,” His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968).
• ——, “Dream Song 235,” His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
• ——, “Henry’s Understanding,” Delusions, Etc. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972).
• ——, “The Ball Poem,” Collected Poems, 1937-1971 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989).
• John Burnside, “Late Show,” Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape, 2011).
• ——, “The Night Ferry,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 42, No. 24 (December 17, 2020).
• John Freeman, “Allowances,” Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2017).
• ——, “Among the Trees,” Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon Press 2022).
• ——, “Love Letter,” The Park (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
• John Glenday, “A Pint of Light,” The Golden Mean (Picador, 2015).
• ——, “Landscape with Flying Man,” Grain (Picador, 2009).
• John Hollander, “An Old-Fashioned Song,” Tesserae and Other Poems (Knopf, 1993).
• ——, “Fidget,” The New Yorker (January 28, 2008 Issue).
• John Keats, “This living hand” (1819).
• John Koethe, “Covers Band in a Small Bar,” The Swimmer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
• ——, “Sally’s Hair,” Sally’s Hair (HarperCollins, 2006).
• John Kinsella, “Drowning in Wheat,” The Hunt & Other Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1998).
• John Minczeski, “Martyrdom,” The New Yorker (May 23, 2016 Issue).
• John Montague, “Silences,” Speech Lessons (Gallery Books, 2011).
• John Skoyles, “My Mother, Heidegger, and Derrida,” The New Yorker (July 24, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “The Second Olga,” The Paris Review, No. 232, Spring 2020.
• John Updike, “Requiem,” Endpoint and Other Poems (Knopf, 2009).
• John Wieners, “Time,” Poetry (September 2018).
• John Witte, “Snails,” Disquiet (University of Washington Press, 2015).
• John Yau, “January 18, 1979,” Corpse and Mirror (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983).
• Jonathan Aaron, “Listening To Richter,” The New Yorker (December 21, 2009 Issue).
• ——, “The End of Out of the Past,” Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006).
• Jordan Davis, “Otters,” Shell Game (Edge Books, 2018).
• Jorie Graham, “Rail,” The New Yorker (November 20, 2017 Issue).
• ——, “Reading Plato,” Erosion (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 1983).
• ——, “San Sepolcro,” Erosion.
• Joseph Stroud, “After the Opera,” Of This World (Copper Canyon, 2008).
• Joy Harjo, “For Keeps,” Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015).
• ——, “It’s Raining in Honolulu,” How We Became Human (W. W. Norton, 2002).
• ——, “Perhaps the World Ends Here,” The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994).
• ——, “Remember,” She Had Some Horses (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1983).
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942,” Where I’ve Been, and Where I’m Going (Plume, 1999).
• ——, “The Suicide,” Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (Louisiana State University Press, 1978).
• ——, “This Is Not a Poem,” The New Yorker (February 8, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “This Is the Season,” The New Yorker (April 4, 2016 Issue).
• ——, “Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die,” The New Yorker (August 5, 2013 Issue).
• Joyce Sutphen, “A Dream of the Future,” The Green House (Salmon Poetry, 2017).
• Juan Felipe Herrera, “Basho & Mandela,” The New Yorker (September 7, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Five Directions to My House,” Half of the World in Light (The University of Arizona Press, 2008).
• ——, “Vamos a cantar,” Half of the World in Light.
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, “La verdecilla,” Canción (Editorial Signo, 1935).
• ——, “Mares,” Piedra y cielo (Imprenta de Fortanet, 1919).
• ——, “Mariposa de luz,” Piedra y cielo.
• ——, “Te deshojé,” Diario de un poeta recién casado (1917).
• Julia Story, “Toad Circus,” The New Yorker (April 20, 2020 Issue).
• Julie Bruck, “A Marriage,” Monkey Ranch (Brick Books, 2012).
• Kamau Brathwaite, “Guanahani (11),” Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan University Press, 2005).
• Kate Tempest, “What we lose,” Hold Your Own (Picador, 2014).
• ——, “A Woman Wipes the Face of Jesus,” Deposition (Graywolf, 2002).
• Kaveh Akbar, “Against Dying,” Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017).
• ——, “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal,” Calling a Wolf a Wolf.
• Kay Ryan, “Crown,” Say Uncle (Grove Press, 2000).
• ——, “Eggs,” Erratic Facts (Grove Press, 2015).
• ——, “On the Nature of Understanding,” Erratic Facts.
• ——, “Outsider Art,” Elephant Rocks (Grove Press, 1996).
• ——, “Silence,” Elephant Rocks.
• ——, “Some Transcendent Addiction to the Useless,” from Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
• ——, “The Long Up,” Erratic Facts.
• ——, “The Niagara River,” The Niagara River (Grove Press, 2005).
• ——, “The Octopus,” The New Yorker (June 4 & 11, 2012 Issue).
• ——, “Token Loss,” Erratic Facts.
• ——, “Velvet,” Erratic Facts.
• Ken Babstock, “Edge,” The New York Review of Books (December 19, 2019 Issue).
• Kenneth Koch, “One Train May Hide Another,” One Train (Knopf, 1994).
• ——, “Proverb,” A Possible World (Knopf, 2002).
• ——, “The Allegory of Spring,” Hotel Lambosa, and Other Stories (Coffee House Press, 1993).
• ——, “To You,” Thank You and Other Poems (Grove Press, 1962).
• ——, “You Want a Social Life, with Friends,” Straits (Knopf, 1998).
• ——, “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams,” Thank You and Other Poems.
• Kenneth Rexroth, “Confusion,” The Collected Shorter Poems (New Directions, 1967).
• ——, “IV,” The Love Poems of Marichiko (Christopher’s Books, 1978).
• ——, “IX,” The Love Poems of Marichiko.
• ——, “VII,”The Love Poems of Marichiko.
• ——, “XXV,” The Love Poems of Marichiko.
• Kevin Prufer, “On Mercy,” In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011).
• Kevin Young, “Bereavement,” Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014).
• ——, “Black Cat Blues,” Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008).
• ——, “Colostrum,” Book of Hours.
• ——, “Grief,” Book of Hours.
• ——, “Hive,” Brown (Knopf, 2018).
• ——, “I shall be released,” Dear Darkness.
• ——, “Oblivion,” Brown.
• ——, “Shade,” The Paris Review, No. 232, Spring 2020.
• ——, “Truce,” Book of Hours.
• Kim Hyesoon, “A Lullaby,” Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018).
• Kirmen Uribe, “Back from the Cannery,” The New Yorker (November 23, 2020 Issue).
• Ko Un, “In the Old Days a Poet Once Said,” Flowers of a Moment (BOA Editions, 2006).
• ——, “New Year’s Day,” Songs for Tomorrow (Green Integer, 2008).
• Langston Hughes, “Advice,” Montage of a Dream Deferred (Henry Holt & Co, 1951).
• ——, “Island,” The Selected Poems (Knopf, 1959).
• ——, “Love Song for Lucinda,” The Collected Poems (Knopf, 1994).
• ——, “Suicide’s Note,” The Selected Poems.
• Larissa Szporluk, “Meteor,” Isolato (University of Iowa Press, 2000).
• Lars Gustafsson, “For All Those Who Wait for Time to Pass,” Elegies and Other Poems (New Directions, 2000).
• Laura Cronk, “Like a Cat,” Ghost Hour (Persea Books, 2020).
• Laura Kasischke, “O elegant giant,” Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).
• ——, “Perspective,” The Infinitesimals (Copper Canyon Press, 2015).
• ——, “The Widows’ Neighborhood,” Where Now (Copper Canyon Press, 2017).
• Lawrence Joseph, “So Where Are We?“ So Where Are We? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
• Lawrence Raab, “Slowly, Then in a Hurry,” The Life Beside This One (Tupelo Press, 2017).
• ——, “The Poem That Can’t Be Written,” The History of Forgetting (Penguin, 2009).
• Layli Long Soldier, “Wakȟályapi,” WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• Lee Upton, “The Apology,” The New Yorker (March 16, 2015 Issue).
• Leonard Cohen, “A Street,” The Flame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
• ——, “Almost Like the Blues,” The Flame.
• ——, “As the Mist Leaves No Scar,” The Spice-Box of Earth (McClelland & Stewart, 1961).
• ——, “Drank a Lot,” The Flame.
• ——, “Gift,” The Spice-Box of Earth (McClelland and Stewart, 1961).
• ——, “If I Didn’t Have Your Love,” The Flame.
• ——, “Leaving the Table,” The Flame.
• ——, “Lullaby,” The Flame.
• ——, “Moving On,” The Flame.
• ——, “My Lady Can Sleep,” The Spice-Box of Earth.
• ——, “My Lawyer,” The Flame.
• ——, “One Night I Burned the House I Loved,” Parasites of Heaven (McClelland & Stewart, 1966).
• ——, “Show Me the Place,” The Flame.
• ——, “Steer Your Way,” The Flame.
• ——, “The Moon,” Book of Longing (McClelland and Stewart, 2006).
• ——, “Tired,” Book of Longing.
• ——, “Treaty,” The Flame.
• ——, “You Do Not Have To Love Me,” Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (McClelland and Stewart, 1968).
• Leonard Nathan, “Conversation,” The Potato Eaters (Orchises Press, 1998).
• ——, “The Potato Eaters,” The Potato Eaters.
• Les Murray, “Deaf Language,” Subhuman Redneck Poems (Carcanet, 1996).
• ——, “Dreambabwe,” Subhuman Redneck Poems.
• ——, “Science Fiction,” Taller When Prone (Carcanet, 2010).
• ——, “The Averted,” Killing the Black Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
• Lia Purpura, “Future Perfect,” It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin, 2015).
• ——, “Prayer,” It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful.
• ——, “Probability,” It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful.
• ——, “Study with Melon,” It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful.
• Linda Gregg, “Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing,” In the Middle Distance (Graywolf Press, 2006).
• ——, “Beauty,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “Elegance,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “It Goes Away,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “Kept Burning and Distant,” The Sacraments of Desire (Graywolf Press, 1991).
• ——, “New York Address,” Alma (Random House, 1985).
• ——, “Now I Understand,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “Summer in a Small Town,” Too Bright to See & Alma (Graywolf Press, 2001).
• ——, “The Problem of Sentences,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “The Secrets of Poetry,” Things and Flesh (Graywolf Press, 1999).
• ——, “The Singers Change, the Music Goes On,” In the Middle Distance.
• ——, “The War,” All of It Singing (Graywolf Press, 2008).
• ——, “Winter Love,” Chosen by the Lion (Graywolf Press, 1994).
• Linda Pastan, “25th Anniversary,” PM/AM (W. W. Norton, 1982).
• ——, “Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526,” Insomnia (W. W. Norton, 2015).
• ——, “Choosing Sides,” Insomnia.
• ——, “Consider the Space Between Stars,” Insomnia.
• ——, “Edward Hopper, Untitled,” Insomnia.
• ——, “Ethics,” Waiting for My Life.
• ——, “Fireflies,” Insomnia.
• ——, “First Snow,” Insomnia.
• ——, “I Am Learning to Abandon the World,” PM/AM.
• ——, “In Back Of,” PM/AM.
• ——, “Insomnia,” Insomnia.
• ——, “Instruction,” The Paris Review (Issue 227, Winter 2018).
• ——, “The Burglary,” Traveling Light (W. W. Norton, 2011).
• ——, “The Gardener,” Insomnia.
• Linh Dinh, “Continuous Bullets Over Flattened Earth,“ American Tatts (Chax Press, 2005).
• ——, “Eating Fried Chicken,” American Tatts.
• ——, “Eternal Flies and Postmodern Men,” A Mere Rica (Chax Press, 2017).
• ——, “Fish Eyes,” All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish, 2003).
• ——, “Maria’s Cures,” A Mere Rica.
• ——, “The Most Beautiful Word,” All Around What Empties Out.
• ——, “What Words Do,” Jam Alerts (Chax Press, 2007).
• Lisel Mueller, “Imaginary Paintings,” Alive Together (Louisiana State University Press, 1996).
• ——, “In November,” Alive Together.
• ——, “Love Like Salt,” The Private Life (Louisiana State University Press, 1976).
• ——, “Sometimes, When the Light,” The Need to Hold Still (Louisiana State University Press, 1980).
• ——, “The Lonesome Dream,” Dependencies (University of North Carolina Press, 1965).
• ——, “When I Am Asked,” Waving from Shore (Louisiana State University Press, 1989).
• Liu Xia, 一九八九年六月二日
• Li-Young Lee, “A Story,” The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990).
• ——, “Adore,” The Undressing (W. W. Norton, 2018).
• ——, “Big Clock,” Poets.org (December 8, 2021).
• ——, “Dwelling,” Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001).
• ——, “Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet,” The Undressing.
• ——, “From Blossoms,” Rose (BOA Editions, 1986).
• ——, “God Is Burning,” The Undressing.
• ——, “Eating Alone,” Rose.
• ——, “Eating Together,” Rose.
• ——, “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” Rose.
• ——, “I Loved You Before I Was Born,” The Undressing.
• ——, “Immigrant Blues,” Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton, 2008).
• ——, “Leaving,” The Undressing.
• ——, “Little Father,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “My Indigo,” Rose.
• ——, “Night Mirror,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “One Heart,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “Mnemonic,” Rose.
• ——, “Persimmons,” Rose.
• ——, “Pillow,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “Restless,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “Sandalwood,” The Undressing.
• ——, “Spoken For,” The Undressing.
• ——, “The Hammock,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “The Sleepless,” Book of My Nights.
• ——, “The Undressing,” The Undressing.
• ——, “The Weight of Sweetness,” Rose.
• ——, “This Hour and What Is Dead,” The City in Which I Love You.
• ——, “This Room and Everything in It,” The City in Which I Love You.
• ——, “To Hold,” Behind My Eyes.
• ——, “With Ruins,” The City in Which I Love You.
• Liz Waldner, “On Distance,” The New Yorker (January 23, 2017 Issue).
• Louis Simpson, “Newspaper Nights,” Collected Poems (Paragon House Publishers, 1988).
• ——, “Suddenly,” Struggling Times (BOA Editions, 2009).
• Lloyd Schwartz, “A True Poem,” Cairo Traffic (The University of Chicago Press, 2000).
• ——, “Pornography,” Cairo Traffic.
• ——, “Six Words,” Little Kisses (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
• ——, “Vermeer’s Pearl,” The Harvard Review (Issue 52, 2018).
• ——, “Who’s on First?” These People (Wesleyan University Press, 1981).
• Louis MacNeice, “Coda,” The Burning Perch (Faber and Faber, 1963).
• Louise Bogan, “Solitary Observation Brought Back from a Sojourn in Hell,” Poems and New Poems (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941).
• Louise Erdrich, “Love Stone,” The Best American Poetry 2021 (Simon and Schuster, 2021).
• ——, “Passion,” The New Yorker (December 16, 2019 Issue).
• Louise Glück, “A Children’s Story,” Winter Recipes from the Collective (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).
• ——, “A Fantasy,” Ararat (Ecco, 1990).
• ——, “A Myth of Devotion,” Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
• ——, “A Night in Spring,” A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
• ——, “A Village Life,” A Village Life.
• ——, “A Work of Fiction,” Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “Afternoons and Early Evenings,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Afterword,” Faithful and Virtuous Night.
• ——, “An Endless Story,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Aphrodite,” Descending Figure (Ecco, 1980).
• ——, “Autumn,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Before the Storm,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Burning Leaves,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Castile,” Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999).
• ——, “Celestial Music,” Ararat.
• ——, “Circe’s Power,” Meadowlands (Ecco, 1996).
• ——, “Copper Beech,” The Seven Ages (HarperCollins, 2001).
• ——, “Departure,” Meadowlands.
• ——, “Elms,” The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco, 1985).
• ——, “Eros,” The Seven Ages.
• ——, “Fatigue,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Field Flowers,” The Wild Iris (Ecco, 1992).
• ——, “First Memory,” Ararat.
• ——, “First Snow,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Formaggio,” Vita Nova.
• ——, “Image,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “In the Plaza,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Ithaca,” Meadowlands.
• ——, “Labor Day,” Ararat.
• ——, “Letter from Provence,” Firstborn (New American Library, 1968).
• ——, “March,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Marriage,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Mirror Image,” Ararat.
• ——, “Mock Orange,” The Triumph of Achilles.
• ——, “Nest,” Vita Nova.
• ——, “Night Migrations,” Averno.
• ——, “Night School,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Night Song,” The Triumph of Achilles.
• ——, “Noon,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Nostos,” Meadowlands.
• ——, “Omens,” Averno.
• ——, “Pietà,” Descending Figure.
• ——, “Poem,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Presidents’ Day,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Primavera,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Reunion,” Meadowlands.
• ——, “Screened Porch,” The Seven Ages.
• ——, “Snowdrops,” The Wild Iris.
• ——, ”Solitude,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Song,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• ——, “Telescope,” Averno.
• ——, “The Balcony,” The Seven Ages.
• ——, “The Drowned Children,” Descending Figure.
• ——, “The Gold Lily,” The Wild Iris.
• ——, “The Magi,” The House on the Marshland (Ecco Press, 1975).
• ——, “The Pond,” The House on the Marshland.
• ——, “The Queen of Carthage,” Vita Nova.
• ——, “The Silver Lily,” The Wild Iris.
• ——, “The Wild Iris,” The Wild Iris.
• ——, “Theory of Memory,” Faithful and Virtuous Night.
• ——, “Time,” The Seven Ages.
• ——, “Tributaries,” A Village Life.
• ——, “Unpainted Door,” The Seven Ages.
• ——, “Utopia,” Faithful and Virtuous Night.
• ——, “Vespers [In your extended absence],” The Wild Iris.
• ——, “Vita Nova,” Vita Nova.
• ——, “Winter Journey,” Winter Recipes from the Collective.
• Lucia Perillo, “Again, the Body,” On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Copper Canyon Press, 2012).
• Lucille Clifton, “blessing the boats,” Quilting (BOA Editions, 1991).
• ——, “praise song,” Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions, 2000).
• ——, “signs,” Blessing the Boats.
• ——, “sorrow song,” Next (BOA Editions, 1987).
• ——, “sorrows,” Voices (BOA Editions, 2008).
• ——, “the mississippi river empties into the gulf,” The Terrible Stories (BOA Editions, 1996).
• ——, “walking the blind dog,” Mercy (BOA Editions, 2004).
• ——, “why some people be mad at me sometimes,” Next.
• ——, “won’t you celebrate with me,” Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993).
• Lynne Sharon Schwartz, “The Afterlife,” See You in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012).
• Maggie Smith, “Bride,” The New Yorker (January 27, 2020, Issue).
• ——, “Good Bones,” Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017).
• Mahmoud Darwish, “Here the Birds’ Journey Ends,” The New Yorker (August 25, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “Remainder of a Life,” The New Yorker (May 14, 2007 Issue).
• ——, “The Essence of the Poem,” A River Dies of Thirst (Archipelago Books, 2009).
• ——, “To Describe an Almond Blossom,” Almond Blossoms and Beyond (Interlink Books, 2009).
• ——, “Two Strangers,” A River Dies of Thirst.
• ——, “Viewpoint,” The New York Review of Books (September 25, 2008 Issue).
• Mai Der Vang, “Yellow Rain,” Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• Major Jackson, “Winter,” The Absurd Man (W. W. Norton, 2020).
• Manolis Anagnostakis, “Apologia of the Law-Abiding,” The Target (Pella Publishing Company, 1980).
• Martha Ronk, “Payment,” The Paris Review (No. 266 Fall 2018).
• Marvin Bell, “Oppression,” Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).
• Mary Jean Chan, “Happiness,” The Poetry Review, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Spring 2018).
• ——, “The Window,” Flèche (Faber and Faber, 2019).
• Mary Jo Bang, “Admission,” A Doll for Throwing (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• ——, “The Head of a Dancer,” A Doll for Throwing.
• ——, “Once,” Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007).
• Mary Jo Salter, “We’ll Always Have Parents,” The Surveyors: Poems (Knopf, 2017).
• Mary Ruefle, “Deconstruction,” The Most of It (Wave Books, 2008).
• ——, “Earthly Failure,” Dunce (Wave Books, 2019).
• ——, “Empathy of Cod,” The Poetry Review, Vol. 111, No. 2 (Summer 2021).
• ——, “Genesis,” Dunce.
• ——, “I Cannot Be Quiet an Hour,” Dunce.
• ——, “Lorraine,” Dunce.
• ——, “Middle School,” Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013).
• ——, “Provenance,” Trances of the Blast.
• ——, “The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity,” Trances of the Blast.
• ——, “The Butcher’s Story,” Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996).
• ——, “The Tenor of Your Yes,” Indeed I Was Pleased With the World (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007).
• Margaret Atwood, “After the Flood, We,” The Circle Game (House of Anansi Press, 1998).
• ——, “Bored,” Morning in the Burned House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995).
• ——, “Descent,” The New Yorker (June 27, 1970 Issue).
• ——, “Morning in the Burned House,” Morning in the Burned House.
• ——, “Secrecy,” The Door (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
• ——, “The Page,” Murder in the Dark (Coach House Books, 1983).
• ——, “The Animals in That Country,” The Animals in That Country (Oxford University Press, 1968).
• ——, “This Is a Photograph of Me,” The Circle Game.
• ——, “Variation on the Word Sleep,” True Stories (Oxford University Press, 1981).
• ——, “Women’s Novels,” Murder in the Dark.
• Marie Howe, “Fifty,” The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W. W. Norton, 2008).
• ——, “Fourteen,” Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• ——, “How Many Times,” The Good Thief (Persea Books, 1988).
• ——, “Low Tide, Late August,” Magdalene.
• ——, “Marriage,” The Kingdom of Ordinary Time.
• ——, “On Men, Their Bodies,” Magdalene.
• ——, “Sorrow,” The Good Thief.
• ——, “The Dream,” What the Living Do (W. W. Norton, 1997).
• ——, “The Letter, 1968,” The New Yorker (March 21, 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Walking Home,” Magdalene.
• Marie Ponsot, “Bliss and Grief,” Easy (Knopf, 2011).
• Marilyn Chin, “October Song,” Hard Love Province (W. W. Norton, 2014).
• Mark Doty, “Pescadero,” Deep Lane (Random House, 2015).
• Mark Ford, “Love Triangle,” Enter, Fleeing (Faber and Faber, 2018).
• Mark Strand, “2032,” Man and Camel (Knopf, 2006).
• ——, “A Morning,” Selected Poems (Atheneum, 1980).
• ——, “A Piece of the Storm,” Blizzard of One (Knopf, 1998).
• ——, “A Poem on Dancing,” Sleeping with One Eye Open (Stone Wall Press, 1964).
• ——, “About a Man,” The Late Hour (Atheneum, 1978).
• ——, “Afterwords,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Another Place,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Black Sea,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Cake,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Cento Virgilianus,” The Continuous Life (Knopf, 1990).
• ——, “Coming to This,” Darker (Atheneum, 1970).
• ——, “Courtship,” Darker.
• ——, “Danse d’Hiver,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Dream Testicles, Vanished Vaginas,” Almost Invisible (Knopf, 2012).
• ——, “Eating Poetry,” Reasons for Moving (Atheneum, 1968).
• ——, “Elegy for My Father,” The Story of Our Lives (Atheneum, 1973).
• ——, “Elevator,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Error,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Fiction,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Fire,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “For Her,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “For Jessica, My Daughter,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “From the Long Sad Party,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Here,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “In Memory of Joseph Brodsky,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “In the Privacy of the Home,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• ——, “Itself Now,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Keeping Things Whole,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• ——, “Letter,” Darker.
• ——, “Life in the Valley,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Like a Leaf Carried Off by the Wind,” Almost Invisible.
• ——, “Lines for Winter,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Man and Camel,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Marsyas,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Mirror,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Moon,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Moontan,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “Morning, Noon, and Night,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “Mother and Son,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “My Life,” Darker.
• ——, “My Life by Someone Else,” Darker.
• ——, “My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “My Name,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Not Dying,” Darker.
• ——, “Old People on the Nursing Home Porch,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• ——, “Orpheus Alone,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “People Walking through the Night,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Poem,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• ——, “Poems of Air,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Pot Roast,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Provisional Eternity,”Almost Invisible.
• ——, “Reading in Place,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “Seven Poems,” Darker.
• ——, “Sleeping with One Eye Open,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• ——, “Snowfall,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “So You Say,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Storm,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “The Babies,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Buried Melancholy of the Poet,” Almost Invisible.
• ——, “The Coming of Light,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “The Continuous Life,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “The Dance,” Darker.
• ——, “The Dirty Hand,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Dress,” Darker.
• ——, “The End,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “The Garden,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “The Great Poet Returns,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “The Good Life,” Darker.
• ——, “The Guardian,” Darker.
• ——, “The Hill,” Darker.
• ——, “The History of Poetry,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “The Idea,” The Continuous Life.
• ——, “The King,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “The Late Hour,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “The Mailman,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Man in Black,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Man in the Tree,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Night, the Porch,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter,” Almost Invisible.
• ——, “The New Poetry Handbook,” Darker.
• ——, “The Poem of the Spanish Poet,” Almost Invisible.
• ——, “The Prediction,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Recovery,” Darker.
• ——, “The Remains,” Darker.
• ——, “The Room,” Darker.
• ——, “The Rose,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “The Tunnel,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The Sleep,” Darker.
• ——, “The Story,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “The Story of Our Lives,” The Story of Our Lives.
• ——, “The Suicide,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “The View,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “There Was Nothing to Be Done,” Almost Invisible.
• ——, “Tomorrow,” Darker.
• ——, “Two Horses,” Man and Camel.
• ——, “Untitled,” Blizzard of One.
• ——, “What to Think Of,” Reasons for Moving.
• ——, “Where Are the Waters of Childhood?,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “White,” The Late Hour.
• ——, “Winter in North Liberty,” Sleeping with One Eye Open.
• Mark Wunderlich, “The Bats,” God of Nothingness (Graywolf Press, 2021).
• Martín Espada, “I Now Pronounce You Dead,” The Massachusetts Review (Vol. 58, No. 4, Winter 2017).
• ——, “The Republic of Poetry,” The Republic of Poetry (W. W. Norton, 2006).
• Mary Karr, “Last Love,” Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006).
• ——, “X. Psalms: Carnegie Hall Rush Seats,” Tropic of Squalor: Poems (Harper, 2018).
• Mary Oliver, “A Lesson from James Wright,” Evidences (Beacon Press, 2009).
• ——, “Everything That Was Broken,” Felicity (Penguin, 2015).
• ——, “I Want to Write Something So Simply,” Evidence.
• ——, “In Provincetown, and Ohio, and Alabama,” Swan (Beacon Press, 2010).
• ——, “Lingering in Happiness,” Why I Wake Early (Beacon Press, 2004).
• ——, “Moments,” Felicity.
• ——, “One Winter Day,” Long Life (Da Capo Press, 2004).
• ——, “Poem of the One World,” A Thousand Mornings (Penguin Press, 2012).
• ——, “Praying,” Thirst (Beacon Press, 2006).
• ——, “Red,” Red Bird (Beacon Press, 2008).
• ——, “Sleeping in the Forest,” New and Selected Poems, Volumn One (Beacon Press, 2004).
• ——, “Some Questions You Might Ask,” House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990).
• ——, “Some Things, Say The Wise Ones,” Why I Wake Early.
• ——, “The Arrowhead,” Why I Wake Early.
• ——, “The Poet With His Face in His Hands,” New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (Beacon Press, 2006).
• ——, “The Summer Day,” House of Light.
• ——, “The Uses of Sorrow,” Thirst.
• ——, “Wild Geese,” Dream Work (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986).
• Matt Rasmussen, “After Suicide,” Black Aperture (Louisiana State University Press, 2013).
• ——, “Reverse Suicide,” Black Aperture.
• Matthea Harvey, “I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run,” Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf Press, 2004).
• Matthew Dickman, “Minimum Wage,” The New Yorker (October 12, 2015 Issue).
• ——, “Grief,” The New Yorker (May 5, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “Rhododendron,” The New Yorker (February 12 & 19, 2018 Issue).
• Matthew Olzmann, “Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz,” Poem-a-Day (January 5, 2016).
• ——, “Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice,” Waxwing, Issue XVII (Spring 2019).
• Matthew Sweeney, “The Blue Hammock,” Horse Music (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
• Maureen N. McLane, “For You,” Some Say (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
• ——, “Taking a Walk in the Woods After Having Taken a Walk in the Woods with You,” Some Say.
• ——, “Terrible Things Are Happening…,” Same Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “What I’m Looking For,” This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “Winter,” The New York Review of Books (March 25, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “syntax,” Same Life.
• Max Ritvo, “Snow Angels,” Four Reincarnations (Milkweed Editions, 2016).
• Maxine Kumin, “After Love,” The Nightmare Factory (Harper & Row, 1970).
• ——, “The Revisionist Dream,” Still to Mow (W. W. Norton, 2007).
• Meghan O’Rourke, “Navesink,” Sun in Days (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• ——, “Poem (Problem),” Sun in Days.
• ——, “Poem of Regret for an Old Friend,” Sun in Days.
• ——, “The Window at Arles,” Sun in Days.
• Meredith Root-Bernstein, “Dismemberment,” The New Yorker (May 2, 2011 Issue).
• Michael Dickman, “From the Lives of My Friends,” Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).
• ——, “The Poem Said,” Days & Days (Knopf, 2019).
• Michael Earl Craig, “The Helmet,” Talkativeness (Wave Books, 2014).
• Michael Hofmann, “Cooking for One,” One Lark, One Horse (Faber and Faber, 2018).
• ——, “Found Poem,” The New York Review of Books (February 23, 2023 Issue).
• Michael Longley, “Absence,” The Stairwell (Jonathan Cape, 2014).
• ——, “Amelia’s Model,” The New Yorker (August 16, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Cavafy’ Desires,” The Ghost Orchid (Jonathan Cape, 1995).
• ——, “Ceasefire,” The Ghost Orchid.
• ——, “Cloudberries,” A Hundred Doors (Jonathan Cape, 2011).
• ——, “December,” The Candlelight Master (Random House, 2020).
• ——, “In the New York Public Library,” The New Yorker (April 14, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “The Branch,” The Weather in Japan (Johnathan Cape, 2000).
• ——, “The Trees,” The Stairwell.
• ——, “The Waterfall,” The Weather in Japan.
• Michael Ondaatje, “Bruise,” The New Yorker (January 13, 2014 Issue).
• ——, “Definition,” A Year of Last Things (Knopf, 2024).
• ——, “The Cinnamon Peeler,” Secular Love (W. W. Norton, 1984).
• ——, “The Time Around Scars,” There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do (W. W. Norton, 1979).
• Michael Palmer, “A Man Undergoes Pain Sitting at a Piano,” Sun (North Point Press, 1988).
• ——, “Nord-Sud,” Harper’s Magazine (October 2018 Issue).
• Michael Ryan, “Outside,” New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004).
• Michael Shewmaker, “Advent,” Penumbra (Ohio University Press, 2017).
• Mike Owens, “Sad Math,” The Way Back (Random Lane Press, 2017).
• Miller Williams, “One Day A Woman,” Imperfect Love (LSU Press, 1986).
• Miroslav Holub, “The Corporal Who Killed Archimedes,” Poems Before & After (Bloodaxe, 2006).
• ——, “Love,” Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 1967).
• ——, “Žito the Magician,” Selected Poems.
• Molly Peacock, “The Return,” from “Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm?” in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997 (Scribners, 1998).
• Monica Youn, “Blackacre,” Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016).
• ——, “Palinode,” Blackacre.
• ——, “Quinta del Sordo,” Blackacre.
• ——, “Study of Two Figures (Midas/Marigold),” From From (Graywolf Press, 2023).
• ——, “Study of Two Figures (Orpheus/Eurydice),” From From.
• Muriel Rukeyser, “Song,” Beast in View (Doubleday, 1944).
• Mutsuo Takahashi, “Dove,” Poems of a Penisist (Chicago Review Press, 1975).
• Naomi Shihab Nye, “Famous,” Words Under the Words (Far Corner Books, 1995).
• ——, “Shoulders,” Red Suitcase (BOA Editions, 1994).
• Natalie Shapero, “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done,” The New Yorker (July 24, 2017 Issue).
• Natalie Wise, “Tell Us a Story, Grandma,” The New Yorker (February 2, 2015 Issue).
• Natasha Trethewey, “After Your Death,” Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
• ——, “Duty,” Monument (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018).
• ——, “Incident,” Native Guard.
• ——, “Miscegenation,” Native Guard.
• ——, “Repentance,” Monument.
• ——, “Theories of Time and Space,” Native Guard.
• Nicanor Parra, “La Historia lo absolverá,” Páginas en blanco (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2011).
• Nicholas Christopher, “The Last Hours of Laódikê, Sister of Hektor,” Crossing the Equator (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004).
• Nick Flynn, “The King of Fire,” The New Yorker (June 18, 2018 Issue).
• Nick Laird, “Property,” The New Yorker (May 25, 2020 Issue).
• Nicole Callihan, “The End of the Pier,” Poem-a-Day, June 16, 2016.
• Nicole Sealey, “A Violence,” Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017).
• Nikki Giovanni, “Poets,” Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (William Morrow, 2013).
• Nin Andrews, “How to Have an Orgasm: Examples,” The Book of Orgasms (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2000).
• ——, “Notes on the Orgasm,” The Book of Orgasms.
• Nina Zivancevic, “Letter to Tsvetaeva,” The New Yorker (November 2, 2009 Issue).
• Ocean Vuong, “Almost Human,” The New Yorker (August 5 & 12, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “Headfirst,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
• ——, “Kissing in Vietnamese,” Burnings (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010).
• ——, “Logophobia,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
• ——, “Rise & Shine,” The Paris Review (No. 236, Spring 2021).
• ——, “Scavengers,” The New Yorker (November 7, 2016 Issue).
• ——, “Thanksgiving 2006,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
• ——, “The Photo,” The Asia Literary Review, Vol. 16, Summer 2010.
• ——, “Threshold,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
• ——, “Torso of Air,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
• Ofelia Zepeda, “Carrying Our Words.”
• Olav H. Hauge, “Today I Saw,” The Dream We Carry (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).
• Oscar Milosz, “Le Pont” (1917).
• ——, “Symphonie de Novembre” (1915).
• ——, “Tous les morts sont ivres” (1906).
• PJ Harvey, “The Guest Room,” The Hollow of the Hand (Bloomsbury, 2015).
• Pablo Medina, “In Defense of Melancholy,” Poets.org, August 17, 2015.
• Pablo Neruda, Libro de las preguntas (Editorial Losada, 1974).
• ——, “A Fidel Castro,” Canción de gesta (Debolsillo, 1960).
• ——, “Ausencia,” Los versos del capitán (1952).
• ——, “Cierto cansancio,” Estravagario (Editorial Losada, 1958).
• ——, “Deber del poeta,” Plenos poderes (Editorial Losada, 1962).
• ——, “El culpable,” Las manos del día (Editorial Losada, 1968).
• ——, “El gran orinador,” Defectos escogidos (Editorial Losada, 1974).
• ——, “El pasado,” Las manos del día.
• ——, “En Vietnam,” Las manos del día.
• ——, “Explico algunas cosas,” España en el corazón (Ediciones Ercilla, 1937).
• ——, “La rama robada,” Los versos del capitán.
• ——, “La soledad,” Memorial de Isla Negra (Editorial Losada, 1964).
• ——, “Pido silencio,” Estravagario.
• ——, “Poema VI,” Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Editorial Nascimento, 1924).
• ——, “Poema VII,” Veinte poemas de amor.
• ——, “Poema XIV,” Veinte poemas de amor.
• ——, “Poema XV,” Veinte poemas de amor.
• ——, “Poema XX,” Veinte poemas de amor.
• ——, “Siempre,” Los versos del capitán.
• ——, “Soneto XLIV,” Cien sonetos de amor (Editorial Losada, 1959).
• ——, “Soneto XLVIII,” Cien sonetos de amor.
• ——, “Tristísimo siglo,” Fin del mundo (Editorial Losada, 1969).
• ——, “Tus manos,” Los versos del capitán.
• ——, “Walking Around,” Residencia en la tierra (Ediciones del Árbol, 1935).
• ——, “Yo volveré,” Las piedras de Chile (Editorial Losada, 1961).
• Patricia Smith, “Incendiary Art: The Body,” Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press, 2017).
• Patrick Phillips, “Elegy for Smoking,” Elegy for a Broken Machine (Knopf, 2015).
• Paul Auster, “Narrative,” Collected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2014).
• ——, “White Nights,” Collected Poems.
• Paul Muldoon, “A Graveyard in New England,” The New Yorker (March 6, 2023 Issue).
• ——, “Bramleys, Not Grenadiers,” Howdie-Skelp (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).
• ——, “Bran,” Why Brownlee Left (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980).
• ——, “Hay,” Hay (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).
• ——, “History,” Why Brownlee Left.
• ——, “Sonogram,” The Annals of Chile (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994).
• ——, “Why Brownlee Left,” Why Brownlee Left.
• Paul Tran, “Bioluminescence,” The New Yorker (June 28, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Copernicus,” The New Yorker (January 20, 2020, Issue).
• Paul Valéry, “Hélène,” Album de vers anciens: 1890-1900 (A. Monnier et Cie., 1920).
• Paula Meehan, “Seed,” Mysteries of the Home (Bloodaxe Books, 1996).
• Peter Balakian, “Eggplant,” The New Yorker (May 28, 2018 Issue).
• ——, “Leaving Aleppo,” Ozone Journal (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
• ——, “Zucchini,” The New Yorker (March 2, 2020, Issue).
• Peter Everwine, “Lullaby,” From the Meadow (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).
• Philip Larkin, “Talking in Bed,” The Whitsun Weddings (Faber and Faber, 1964).
• ——, “The Mower,” Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
• ——, “The Trees,” High Windows (‎Faber and Faber‎, 1974).
• Philip Levine, “During the War,” News of the World (Knopf, 2009).
• ——, “Going Home,” 1933 (Atheneum, 1974).
• ——, “‘He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do,’” The Mercy (Knopf, 1999).
• ——, “I Was Married on the Fiftieth Birthday of Pablo Neruda,” The Last Shift (Knopf, 2016).
• ——, “Let Me Begin Again,” 7 Years from Somewhere (Atheneum, 1979).
• ——, “Of Love and Other Disasters,” News of the World.
• ——, “Pennsylvania Pastoral,” The Last Shift.
• ——, “Rain in Winter,” The Last Shift.
• ——, “Snow,” 7 Years from Somewhere.
• ——, “The Music of Time,” News of the World.
• ——, “The Poem of Chalk,” The Simple Truth (Knopf, 1994).
• ——, “The Return,” The Mercy.
• ——, “Two Voices,” News of the World.
• Philip Schultz, “Googling Ourselves,” Luxury (W. W. Norton, 2018).
• ——, “My Dog,” Failure (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007).
• ——, “The God of Loneliness,” The God of Loneliness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• ——, “The Truth,” Failure.
• ——, “The Women’s March,” Luxury.
• ——, “Why,” Failure.
• Philippe Jacottet, “Toute fleur n’est que de la nuit,” Airs (Gallimard, 1967).
• Phuong T. Vuong, “The Beginning of the Beginning,” The American Poetry Review, Vol. 49, No. 04 (July/August 2020).
• Pierre Reverdy, “Adieu,” Cravates de chanvre (Éditions Nord-Sud, 1922).
• ——, “Ce souvenir,” Grande nature (Éditions des Cahiers libres, 1925).
• ——, “Pour le moment,” La lucarne ovale (Paul Birault, 1916).
• ——, “Verso,” Cravates de chanvre.
• Primo Levi, “The Opus,” The New Yorker (October 12, 1987 Issue).
• Quan Barry, “If dy/dx=(4x³+x²-12)/√(2x²-9), Then,” Asylum (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).
• R. S. Thomas, “Dimensions,” Uncollected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013).
• Rachel Coye, “New Year,” The New Yorker (March 5, 2018 Issue).
• Rachel Galvin, “Little Death,” The Nation (April 15, 2019 Issue).
• Rachel Hadas, “The Cold Hill Side,” Strange Relation (Paul Dry Books, 2011).
• ——, “The Yawn,” Questions in the Vestibule (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
• Radmila Lazić, “Love,” The Paris Review (No. 213, Summer 2015).
• Rae Armantrout, “Answer,” Money Shot (Wesleyan University Press, 2011).
• ——, “Care,” Conjure (Wesleyan University Press, 2020).
• ——, “Cathexis,” Conjure.
• ——, “Control,” Itself (Wesleyan University Press, 2015).
• ——, “Drills,” The New Yorker (August 1, 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Everything,” Conjure.
• ——, “Fusion,” Wobble (Wesleyan University Press, 2018).
• ——, “Hang On,” Conjure.
• ——, “Imaginary Places,” Up to Speed (Wesleyan University Press, 2004).
• ——, “Lions,” Granta (June 27, 2021).
• ——, “Making,” Wobble.
• ——, “Our Days,” Conjure.
• ——, “Petard,” Conjure.
• ——, “Smidgins,” The New Yorker (April 4, 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Sponsor,” Itself.
• ——, “Scumble,” Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).
• ——, “Stitch,” The New Yorker (April 15, 2024 Issue).
• ——, “The Gift,” Money Shot.
• ——, “The Steps,” Conjure.
• Ray Young Bear, “John Whirlwind’s Doublebeat Songs, 1956,” The New Yorker (September 25, 2017 Issue).
• Raymond Carver, “An Afternoon,” All of Us (Harvill Press, 1996).
• ——, “Grief,” Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (Random House, 1985).
• ——, “Hummingbird,” A New Path to the Waterfall (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989).
• ——, “Kafka’s Watch,” Ultramarine (Random House, 1986).
• ——, “Your Dog Dies,” All of Us.
• Rebecca Morgan Frank, “At Sea,” Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017).
• René Char, “Allegiance,” Selected Poems (New Directions, 1992).
• ——, “Every Life…,”Selected Poems.
• ——, “Restored to Them,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “Room in Space,” Selected Poems.
• Richard Brautigan, fourteen poems.
• Richard Howard, “Like Most Revelations,” Like Most Revelations (Pantheon Books, 1994).
• Richard Kenney, “Alba Red,” The One-Strand River (Knopf, 2008).
• Richard Siken, “Dirty Valentine,” Crush (Yale University Press, 2005).
• ——, “The Museum,” War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015).
• ——, “Scheherazade,” Crush.
• Richard Wilbur, “A Measuring Worm,” Anterooms (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• ——, “A Prelude,” Anterooms.
• ——, “A Short History,” Mayflies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000).
• ——, “Ecclesiastes 11:1,” Anterooms.
• ——, “Flying,” Anterooms.
• ——, “For C.,” Mayflies.
• ——, “For W. H. Auden,” New and Collected Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988).
• ——, “Horsetail,” The New Yorker (February 14 & 21, 2011 Issue).
• ——, “In Trackless Woods,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “On Having Mis-identified a Wild Flower,” Collected Poems, 1943-2004 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006).
• ——, “Parable,” Ceremony and Other Poems (Harcourt, Brace, 1950).
• ——, “Psalm,” Anterooms.
• ——, “Soon,” Anterooms.
• ——, “Sugar Maples, January,” The New Yorker (January 16, 2012 Issue).
• ——, “Tanka,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “Terza Rima,” Anterooms.
• ——, “The House,” Anterooms.
• ——, “The Reader,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Writer,” The Mind-Reader (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976).
• ——, “To the Etruscan Poets,” New and Collected Poems.
• ——, “Young Orchard,” Anterooms.
• Richie Hofmann, “Birthday,” Poets.org, January 27, 2015.
• ——, “French Novel,” The New Yorker (April 8, 2019 Issue).
• Rick Barot, “Child Holding Potato,” Chord (Sarabande Books, 2015).
• Rita Dove, “All Souls’,” American Smooth (W. W. Norton, 2004).
• ——, “Demeter’s Prayer to Hades,” Mother Love (W. W. Norton, 1995).
• ——, “Geometry,” The Yellow House on the Corner (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1980).
• ——, “Happenstance,” The Yellow House on the Corner.
• ——, “Pithos,” Museum (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983).
• Robert Bly, ”Conversation with the Soul,” Morning Poems (HarperCollins, 1997).
• ——, “Courting Forgetfulness,” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey (W. W. Norton, 2011).
• ——, “I Have Daughters And I Have Sons,” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey.
• ——, “Love Poem,” Silence in the Snowy Fields (Wesleyan University Press, 1962).
• ——, “Sunday Afternoon,” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey.
• ——, “The Russian,” Morning Poems.
• ——, “Things to Think,” Morning Poems.
• ——, “Turkish Pears,” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey.
• ——, “Warning to the Reader,” What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? (HarperCollins, 1992).
• ——, “Wanting Sumptuous Heavens,” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey.
• ——, “What Is Sorrow For?” Talking into the Ear of a Donkey.
• Robert Creeley, “I Know a Man,” For Love (Scribner, 1962).
• ——, “Like They Say,” For Love.
• ——, “Sad Walk,” On Earth (University of California Press, 2006).
• ——, “The Rain,” For Love.
• ——, “The Tunnel,” A Form of Women (Jargon Books, 1959).
• Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night,” West-Running Brook (Henry Holt, 1928).
• ——, “Fragmentary Blue,” New Hampshire (Henry Holt, 1923).
• ——, “Fire and Ice,” New Hampshire.
• ——, “Neither out Far nor in Deep,” A Further Range (Henry Holt, 1936).
• ——, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” New Hampshire.
• Robert Hass, “After Trakl,” Time and Materials (Ecco Press, 2007).
• ——, “Cymbeline,” Summer Snow (Ecco, 2020).
• ——, “Envy of Other People’s Poems,” Time and Materials.
• ——, “Faint Music,” Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996).
• ——, “First Poem,” Summer Snow.
• ——, “Forty Something,” Sun Under Wood.
• ——, “Happiness,” Sun Under Wood.
• ——, “Meditation at Lagunitas,” Praise (Ecco, 1979).
• ——, “Museum,” Human Wishes (Ecco, 1989).
• ——, “Privilege of Being,” Human Wishes.
• ——, “The Problem of Describing Trees,” Time and Materials.
• ——, “The Yellow Bicycle,” Praise.
• ——, “Then Time,” Time and Materials.
• ——, “To a Reader,” Praise.
• ——, “Smoking in Heaven,” Summer Snow.
• ——, “Sonnet,” Sun Under Wood.
• Robert Hayden, “Ice Storm,” Collected Poems (Liveright, 1966).
• ——, “Those Winter Sundays,” Collected Poems.
• Robert Lowell, “Epilogue,” Day by Day (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977).
• ——, “Eye and Tooth,” For the Union Dead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964).
• ——, “Notice,” Day by Day.
• ——, “Our Dead Poets,” History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973).
• Robert Mazzocco, “World’s End,” The New Yorker (March 19, 1990 Issue).
• Robert Morgan, “Living Tree,” Dark Energy (Penguin Books, 2015).
• ——, “Window,” Southern Poetry Review (Fall 2016 Issue).
• Robert Penn Warren, “Tell Me a Story,” Audubon: A Vision (Random House, 1969).
• Robert Pinsky, “At Mt. Auburn Cemetery,” The New Yorker (March 29, 2021 Issue).
• ——, “Chorus,” At the Foundling Hospital (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
• ——, “Names,” At the Foundling Hospital.
• ——, “Poem With Lines in any Order,” Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).
• ——, “Samurai Song,” Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).
• ——, “Sonnet,” The Want Bone (Ecco Press, 1990).
• ——, “The Robots,” At the Foundling Hospital.
• Robert Wrigley, “Being a Lake,” Box: Poems (Penguin, 2017).
• ——, “Religion,” Earthly Meditations (Penguin, 2006).
• Roberto Bolaño, “Dentro de mil años no quedará nada,” La Universidad Desconocida (Editorial Anagrama, 2007).
• ——, “[El recuerdo de Lisa se descuelga otra vez],” La Universidad Desconocida.
• ——, “Entre las moscas,” Los perros románticos (Fundación Social y Cultural Kutxa, 1994).
• ——, “Lisa,” La Universidad Desconocida.
• ——, “Lluvia,” Los perros románticos.
• ——, “Resurrección,” Los perros románticos.
• ——, “[Te regalaré un abismo],” Los perros románticos.
• Roberto Juarroz, “9,” Primera Poesía Vertical (1958).
• Robin Coste Lewis, “Summer,” Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf, 2015).
• Robin Robertson, “A Childhood,” Hill of Doors (Pan Macmillan, 2013).
• Rodney Jones, “Plea for Forgiveness,” Elegy for the Southern Drawl (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).
• Rolf Jacobsen, “Noen,” Headlines (Gyldendal, 1969).
• Ron Padgett, “Advice to Young Writers,” You Never Know (Coffee House Press, 2001).
• ——, “Nothing in That Drawer,” Great Balls of Fire (Coffee House Press, 1990).
• Roo Borson, “After a Death,” in The 20th Century in Poetry (Ebury Press, 2011).
• Rosalía de Castro, “Yo no sé lo que busco eternamente,” En las orillas del Sar (1884).
• Rosemary Griggs, “Script Poem,” from The Best American Poetry 2014 (Scribner, 2014).
• Ross Gay, “ode to the flute,” Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015).
• Rowan Ricardo Phillips, “Golden,” The Ground (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).
• ——, “Halo,” Living Weapon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
• ——, “History,” Living Weapon.
• ——, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” Living Weapon.
• Russell Edson, “The Fall,” What a Man Can See: Fables (Jargon Society, 1969).
• Ruth Padel, “Bonn,” Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life (Chatto & Windus, 2020).
• Ruth Stone, “A Moment,” Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999).
• ——, “The Fig Tree,” What Love Comes To (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).
• ——, “Train Ride,” In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
• Ryan Fox, “And Both Hands Wash the Face,” The New Yorker (May 8, 2017 Issue).
• Ryszard Kapuściński, “A Choice,” I Wrote Stone (Biblioasis, 2007).
• ——, “Ecce Homo,” I Wrote Stone.
• Salvatore Quasimodo, “Ed è subito sera,” Ed è subito sera (Mondadori, 1942).
• Samuel Beckett, “Alba,” Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates (Europa Press, 1935).
• ——, “je voudrais que mon amour meure,” Collected Poems in English and French (John Calder, 1977).
• Samuel Menashe, “Autumn,” New and Selected Poems (The Library of America, 2005).
• Sandra Lim, “Boston,” The New York Review of Books (November 19, 2020 Issue).
• Sharon Olds, “Anyone Who Has Left Love,” The Nation (March 2, 2017).
• ——, “Everything,” One Secret Thing (Knopf, 2008).
• ——, “For You,” Arias (Knopf, 2019).
• ——, “I Cannot Say I Did Not,” Arias.
• ——, “I Go Back to May 1937,” The Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987).
• ——, “Ode to the Glans,” Odes (Knopf, 2016).
• ——, “Once,” Blood, Tin, Straw (Knopf, 1999).
• ——, “The Pope’s Penis,” The Gold Cell.
• Sean O’Brien, “Rose,” The Drowned Book (Picador, 2007).
• Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Why Bother?“ The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, 2018).
• Sherman Alexie, “Eulogy,” You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (Little, Brown and Company, 2017).
• ——, “Sonnet, with Pride,” What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned (Hanging Loose Press, 2014).
• ——, “Storm,” You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.
• ——, “Survivorman,” The New Yorker (June 8, 2009 Issue).
• Sherod Santos, ”I Went for a Walk in Winter,” The Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• Shuntarō Tanikawa, “After That,” New Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2015).
• ——, “Listening to Mozart,” New Selected Poems.
• ——, “Nero,” New Selected Poems.
• Simon Armitage, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,” Poetry (May 2013).
• ——, “Last Day on Planet Earth,” Seeing Stars (Faber & Faber, 2010).
• Sonia Sanchez, “Sonku [what i want],” Like The Singing Coming Off the Drums (Beacon Press, 1998).
• Sparrow, “My Father Was a Snowman,” The New Yorker (March 13, 1995 Issue).
• Stanley Moss, “Anonymous Poet,” Almost Complete Poems (Carcanet, 2017).
• Stanley Kunitz, “The Portrait,“ The Testing Tree (Little, Brown and Company, 1971).
• ——, “Touch Me,” Passing Through (W. W. Norton, 1995).
• Stephen Burt, “Advice from the Lights,” Advice from the Lights (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• ——, “After Callimachus,” The Paris Review (Issue 230, Fall 2019).
• ——, “Hermit Crab,” Advice from the Lights.
• ——, “Ice for the Ice Trade,” Advice from the Lights.
• ——, “We Are Mermaids,” We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022).
• Stephen Dunn, “After Making Love,” Loosestrife (W. W. Norton, 1998).
• ——, “Don’t Do That,” Here and Now (W. W. Norton, 2011).
• ——, “Each from Different Heights,” Between Angels (W. W. Norton, 1989).
• ——, “Emergings,” Whereas (W. W. Norton, 2017).
• ——, “Five Roses in the Morning,” What Goes On (W. W. Norton, 2009).
• ——, “History,” What Goes On.
• ——, “If a Clown,” Here and Now.
• ——, “Love Poem Near the End of the World,” The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2022).
• ——, “Impediment,” Whereas.
• ——, “In Other Words,” Whereas.
• ——, “Optimism,” Different Hours (W. W. Norton, 2000).
• ——, “Testimony,” Lines of Defense (W. W. Norton, 2014).
• ——, “The Imagined,” Here and Now.
• ——, “The Inheritance,” Pagan Virtues (W. W. Norton, 2020).
• ——, “The Melancholy of the Nude,” Whereas.
• ——, “The Party to Which You Are Not Invited,” Lines of Defense.
• ——, “The Room,” What Goes On.
• ——, “The Routine Things Around the House,” New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1994).
• ——, “The Year Before the Election,” Pagan Virtues.
• Stephen Sandy, “Alchemy,” The New Yorker (October 29 & November 5, 2012 Issue).
• Stephen Spender, “The Truly Great,” Poems (Faber and Faber, 1933).
• Stevie Smith, “Pad, Pad,” Harold’s Leap (Chapman & Hall, 1950).
• Susan Dickman, “Skin,” in Robert Pinsky and David Lehman (eds), Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (Simon and Schuster, 2013).
• Susan Stewart, “First Idyll,” Cinder (Graywolf Press, 2017).
• ——, “What Piranesi Knew,” The Paris Review (Issue 212, Spring 2015).
• ——, “Wings,” Columbarium (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• Sylvia Plath, “Amnesiac,” Winter Trees (Faber and Faber, 1971).
• ——, “Apprehensions,” Winter Trees.
• ——, “Ariel,” Ariel (Faber and Faber, 1965).
• ——, “Barren Woman,” The Collected Poems (Harper & Row, 1981).
• ——, “Blackberrying,” Crossing the Water (Harper & Row, 1971).
• ——, “Child,” Winter Trees.
• ——, “Crossing the Water,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “Death & Co.,” Ariel.
• ——, “Edge,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “For a Fatherless Son,” Winter Trees.
• ——, “Gulliver,” Ariel.
• ——, “I Am Vertical,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “Insomniac,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “Lady Lazarus,” Ariel.
• ——, “Last Words,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “Letter in November,” Ariel.
• ——, “Mad Girl’s Love Song,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “Medusa,” Winter Trees.
• ——, “Mirror,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “Poppies in July,” Ariel.
• ——, “Poppies in October,” Ariel.
• ——, “Sheep in Fog,” Ariel.
• ——, “Stillborn,” Crossing the Water.
• ——, “The Arrival of the Bee Box,” Ariel.
• ——, “The Bee Meeting,” Ariel.
• ——, “The Beekeeper’s Daughter,” The Colossus and Other Poems (Heinemann, 1960).
• ——, “The Couriers,” Ariel.
• ——, “The Jailer,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Ariel.
• ——, “The Rabbit Catcher,” Winter Trees.
• ——, “The Rival,” Ariel.
• ——, “Tulips,” Ariel.
• ——, “Waking in Winter,” The Collected Poems.
• ——, “Water Color of Grantchester Meadows,” The Colossus.
• ——, “Words,” Ariel.
• T. R. Hummer, “As for the Housefly,” The New Yorker (October 10, 2016, Issue).
• T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Collected Poems 1909-1935 (Faber and Faber, 1936).
• ——, “Hysteria,” Prufrock, and Other Observations (The Egoist Ltd, 1917).
• ——, “Journey of the Magi,” Collected Poems, 1909-1935.
• ——, “La Figlia che Piange,” Prufrock.
• ——, “Morning at the Window,” Prufrock.
• ——, The Waste Land (Boni and Liveright, 1922).
• Tadeusz Borowski, “You know, I think more and more often,” Selected Poems (Hit & Run Press, 1990).
• Tadeusz Dąbrowski, “Bouquet,” The New Yorker (January 3 & 10, 2022 Issue).
• ——,, “Letter,” The New Yorker (October 26, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Redshift,” 3:AM Magazine (January 9, 2011 Issue).
• ——, “Sentence,” The New Yorker (July 22, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “The final night,” SAND (Issue 11, Spring 2015).
• Ted Berrigan, “I Used to Be but Now I Am,” Red Wagon (Yellow Press, 1976).
• ——, “My Autobiography,” A Certain Slant of Sunlight (O Books, 1988).
• Ted Hughes, “6 September 1997,” Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2003).
• ——, “Apple Tragedy,” Crow (Faber and Faber, 1970).
• ——, “Crow and the Sea,” Crow.
• ——, “Crowcolour,” Crow.
• ——, “Crowego,” Crow.
• ——, “Crow’s Fall,” Crow.
• ——, “Examination at the Womb-Door,” Crow.
• ——, “Fern,” Wodwo (Faber and Faber, 1967).
• ——, “Freedom of Speech,” Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber, 1998).
• ——, “Fulbright Scholars,” Birthday Letters.
• ——, “Heptonstall,” Wodwo.
• ——, “King of Carrion,” Crow.
• ——, “Lovesong,” Crow.
• ——, “Once I said lightly,” Gaudete (Faber and Faber, 1977).
• ——, “That Moment,” Crow.
• ——, “The Thought Fox,” The Hawk in the Rain (Faber and Faber, 1957).
• ——, “Theology,” Wodwo.
• Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday,” Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004).
• ——, “A Meeting After Many Years,” Splitting an Order (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).
• ——, “A Winter Morning,” Delights and Shadows.
• ——, “After Years,” Delights and Shadows.
• ——, “Death of a Dog,” Kindest Regards (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
• ——, “In January,” Delights and Shadows.
• ——, “Mourners,” Delights and Shadows.
• ——, “People We Will Never See Again,” Kindest Regards.
• ——, “Splitting an Order,” Splitting an Order.
• ——, “The Woman Whose Husband Was Dying,” Splitting an Order.
• Terrance Hayes, “Ars Poetica with Bacon,” The New Yorker (July 11 & 18, 2016 Issue).
• ——, “It was discovered the best way to combat,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Press, 2018).
• ——, “Pseudacris crucifer,” The New Yorker (August 17, 2020 Issue).
• ——, “Rilke ends his sonnet ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ saying,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
• ——, “Something in the metaphor of the bow,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
• ——, “The black poet would love to say his century began,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
• ——, “We suppose Ms. Dickinson is like the abandoned,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
• ——, “When I am close enough, I am reminded,” American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
• Tess Gallagher, “Cloud-Path,” Is, Is Not (Graywolf Press, 2019).
• ——, “I Stop Writing the Poem,” Moon Crossing Bridge (Graywolf Press, 1992).
• ——, “Opening,” Is, Is Not.
• ——, “The Tallest Men in Europe,” Midnight Lantern (Graywolf Press, 2011).
• Theodore Roethke, “Carnations,” The Lost Son, and Other Poems (Doubleday & Co, 1948).
• ——, “Dolor,” The Lost Son.
• ——, “Memory,” Words for the Wind (Secker & Warburg, 1957).
• ——, “My Papa’s Waltz,” The Lost Son.
• ——, “Night Crow,” The Lost Son.
• ——, “The Sloth,” Words for the Wind.
• Thom Gunn, “My Sad Captains,” My Sad Captains, and Other Poems (Faber and Faber, 1961).
• ——, “To Another Poet,” Boss Cupid (Faber & Faber, 2000).
• Thomas Bernhard, “In einen Teppich aus Wasser,” Auf der Erde und in der Hölle (Otto Müller Verlag, 1957).
• Thomas Hardy, “The Oxen” (1915).
• Thomas Lux, “Cow Chases Boys,” To the Left of Time (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).
• ——, “Outline for My Memoir,” Child Made of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012).
• Timothy Donnelly, “The Endless,” Poem-a-Day, September 11, 2017.
• Timothy Liu, “The Lovers,” Don’t Go Back to Sleep (Saturnalia Books, 2014).
• Tomaž Šalamun, “Folk Song,” The Selected Poems (Ecco, 1991).
• Tony Hoagland, “Among the Intellectuals,” The New Yorker (September 2, 2019 Issue).
• ——, “In a Quiet Town by the Sea,” Hard Rain (Hollyridge Press, 2005).
• ——, “Into the Mystery,” Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God (Graywolf Press, 2018).
• Traci Brimhall, “How to Write a Love Poem,” Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
• ——, “Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It,” Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod.
• Tracy K. Smith, “A Man’s World,” Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018).
• ——, “An Old Story,” Wade in the Water.
• ——, “Declaration,” Wade in the Water.
• ——, “The Good Life,” Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011).
• ——, “The Ordinary Life,” Ordinary Light: A Memoir (Knopf, 2015).
• ——, “The World Is Your Beautiful Younger Sister,” Wade in the Water.
• ——, “Song,” Life on Mars.
• Vasko Popa, “Dandelion,” Selected Poems (Penguin, 1969).
• ——, “Nail,” Selected Poems (NYRB Poets, 2019).
• Vera Pavlova, “‘A poem is a voice-mail,’” If There Is Something to Desire (Knopf, 2010).
• ——, “‘I broke your heart,’” If There Is Something to Desire.
• ——, “‘I think it will be winter when he comes,’” If There Is Something to Desire.
• ——, “‘If there is something to desire,’” If There Is Something to Desire.
• ——, “‘Let us touch each other,’” If There Is Something to Desire.
• Vicente Riva Palacio, “Al viento” (1884).
• Victoria Chang, “Dear P.,” Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon Press, 2017).
• ——, from The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022).
• ——, “Night Sea, 1963,” With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024).
• ——, “OBIT [Optimism—died a slow death into a pavement],” OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
• ——, “OBIT [Privacy],” OBIT.
• ——, “OBIT [The Ocean],” OBIT.
• Vijay Seshadri, “Enlightenment,” That Was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf Press, 2020).
• ——, “Imaginary Number,” 3 Sections (Graywolf Press, 2013).
• ——, “Memoir,” 3 Sections.
• ——, “Thought Problem,” 3 Sections.
• ——, “Visiting San Francisco,” That Was Now, This Is Then.
• Vladimir Nabokov, “A Discovery,” Poems and Problems (McGraw-Hill, 1969).
• ——, from “A Forgotten Poet,” Nine Stories (New Directions, 1947).
• ——, “A Poem,” Collected Poems (Penguin, 2012).
• ——, “Кто меня повезет” (1920).
• ——, “Rain,” Poems (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961).
• ——, “Тайная вечеря” (1918).
• ——, “The Poem,” Poems and Problems.
• Vona Groarke, “The Landscapes of Vilhelm Hammershøi,” X (The Gallery Press, 2014).
• ——, “This Poem,” Double Negative (The Gallery Press, 2019).
• W. B. Yeats, “A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid.”
• ——, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” The Wind Among the Reeds (Elkin Mathews, 1899).
• ——, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” The Wild Swans at Coole (Macmillan, 1919).
• ——, “Down by the Salley Gardens,” The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (Kegan Paul & Co., 1889).
• ——, “Memory,” The Wild Swans at Coole.
• ——, “On being asked for a War Poem,” The Wild Swans at Coole (Cuala Press, 1917).
• ——, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (T. F. Unwin, 1892).
• ——, “The Magi,” Responsibilities and a Play (Cuala Press, 1914).
• W. G. Sebald, “A Waltz Dream,” Across the Land and the Water (Hamish Hamilton, 2011).
• ——, “Abandoned,” Across the Land and the Water (Hamish Hamilton, 2011).
• ——, “Barometer Reading,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Day’s Residue,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Eerie Effects of the Hell Valley Wind on My Nerves,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “I remember,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Il ritorno d’Ulisse,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “In Bamberg,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “In the Summer of 1836,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Legacy,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Memo,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Mithraic,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Mölkerbastei,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Ninety years later,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Norfolk,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “October Heat Wave,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “On 9 June 1904,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “One Sunday in Autumn 94,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Panacea,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Poetry for an Album,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Something in My Ear,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Somewhere,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “The Sky at Night,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Through Holland in the Dark,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Trigonometry of the Spheres,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” Across the Land and the Water.
• ——, “Winter Poem,” Across the Land and the Water.
• Wallace Stevens, “An Exercise for Professor X,” Opus Posthumous (Knopf, 1957).
• ——, “Domination of Black,” Harmonium (Knopf, 1923).
• ——, “Gray Room,” Opus Posthumous.
• ——, “Gubbinal,” Harmonium.
• ——, “Of Mere Being,” The Collected Poems (Knopf, 1954).
• ——, “Of the Surface of Things,” Harmonium.
• ——, “The Snow Man,” Harmonium.
• Walt Whitman, “The Last Invocation,” Leaves of Grass (David McKay, 1891–1892).
• Wang Ping, “Of Flesh and Spirit,” Of Flesh and Spirit (Coffee House Press, 1998).
• Warson Shire, “Home.”
• Wendell Berry, “Planting Trees,” A Country of Marriage (Counterpoint, 2013).
• ——, “The Peace of Wild Things,” The Selected Poems (Counterpoint, 1999).
• ——, “They Sit Together on the Porch,” A Timbered Choir (Counterpoint, 1998).
• William Brewer, “Strays,” The New Yorker (July 9 & 16, 2018 Issue).
• William Carlos Williams, “Approach of Winter,” Sour Grapes (Four Seas Co., 1921).
• ——, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (New Directions, 1962).
• ——, “Love Song,” Al Que Quiere! (The Four Seas Company, 1917).
• ——, “Love Song,” Al Que Quiere!
• ——, “Porous,” The Collected Earlier Poems (New Directions, 1951).
• ——, “Prelude to Winter,” The Wedge (Cummington Press, 1944).
• ——, “Silence,” The Wedge.
• ——, “Sparrows Among Dry Leaves,” The Broken Span (New Directions, 1941).
• ——, “Summer Song,” Al Que Quiere!
• ——, “The Artist,” The Desert Music and Other Poems (Random House, 1954).
• ——, “The Great Figure,” Sour Grapes.
• ——, “The Petunia,” The Collected Earlier Poems.
• ——, “The Ritualists,” The New Yorker (May 18, 1940 Issue).
• ——, “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” Sour Grapes.
• ——, “The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image,” Pictures from Brueghel.
• ——, “To a Poor Old Woman,” Collected Poems: 1909-1939, Vol. I (New Directions, 1939).
• ——, “Winter Trees,” Sour Grapes.
• ——, “Young Sycamore,” Collected Poems, 1921-1931 (Objectivist Press, 1934).
• William Stafford, “Ask Me,” Stories That Could Be True (Harper & Row, 1977).
• ——, “At the Bomb Testing Site,” West of Your City (Talisman Press, 1960).
• ——, “Remembering,” A Glass Face in the Rain (Harper & Row, 1982).p
• ——, “Our Cave,” A Glass Face in the Rain.
• ——, “Traveling through the Dark,” Traveling through the Dark (Harper & Row, 1962).
• ——, “Yes,” The Way It Is (Graywolf Press, 1998).
• Wisława Szymborska, “A Contribution to Statistics,” Monologue of a Dog (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005).
• ——, “A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “A Note,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “ABC,” Map (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).
• ——, “Autotomy,” View with a Grain of Sand (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1995).
• ——, “Brueghel’s Two Monkeys,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Cat in an Empty Apartment,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Clouds,” Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997.
• ——, “End and Beginning” (1993).
• ——, “Everything,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “Example,” Map.
• ——, “First Love,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “Four A.M.,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Greek Statue,” Here (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
• ——, “I Am Too Close,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Lot’s Wife,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Love at First Sight,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Maybe All This,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Microcosmos,” Map.
• ——, “Moment,” Map.
• ——, “Monologue of a Dog Ensnared in History,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “Nothing Twice,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Perspective,” Map.
• ——, “Pietà,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Reality Demands,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Reciprocity,” Map.
• ——, “Return Baggage,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “Seen from Above,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Some People,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Some People Like Poetry,” Poems, New and Collected.
• ——, “Thank-You Note,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “The Century’s Decline,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “The Courtesy of the Blind,” Monologue of a Dog.
• ——, “The People on the Bridge,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “True Love,” View with a Grain of Sand.
• ——, “Vermeer,” Map.
• Wyn Cooper, “I Trust the Wind and Don’t Know Why,” The New Yorker (February 10, 2020 Issue).
• Yannis Ritsos, “Approximately,” Selected Poems (Penguin, 1974).
• ——, “Around the Well,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “Association,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “By the Window,” TLS (June 10, 2022 Issue).
• ——, “Evening,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Suspect,” Selected Poems.
• Yehuda Amichai, “9,” Time (Oxford University Press, 1979).
• ——, “63,” Time.
• ——, “A Man in His Life,” The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (University of California Press, 2013).
• ——, “A Poem That I Wrote in a High Fever,” The New Yorker (September 6, 2004 Issue).
• ——, “A Quiet Joy,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Almost a Love Poem,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “An Eternal Window,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “And Let Us Not Get Excited,” The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
• ——, “Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Dennis Was Very Sick,” Amen (Harper & Row, 1977).
• ——, “Forgetting Someone,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Half-Sized Violin,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “I Know a Man,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “I Lost My Identity Card,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “In a Leap Year,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “In a Man’s Life,” The New Yorker (December 26, 2005 Issue).
• ——, “In My Life, on My Life,” The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai.
• ——, “Inside the Apple,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Lost Objects,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Mayor,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Near the Wall of a House,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Now She’s Breathing,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Now, When the Waters Are Pressing Mightily,” The New Yorker (January 10, 2005 Issue).
• ——, “Of Three or Four in a Room,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “People Use Each Other,” Amen.
• ——, “Poem Without an End,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Return to Achziv,” The New Yorker (September 30, 2002 Issue).
• ——, “Some Lines Against the Light,” The New Yorker (March 19, 2006 Issue).
• ——, “Summer Evening by the Window with Psalms,” The New Yorker (July 28, 2008 Issue.)
• ——, “The Diameter of the Bomb,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “The Dove,” The New Yorker (March 11, 2013 Issue).
• ——, “The Resurrection of the Dead,” The New Yorker (November 29, 2004 Issue).
• ——, “The Sea and the Shore,” The Selected Poetry.
• ——, “Try to Remember Some Details,” The Selected Poetry.
• Yusef Komunyakaa, “A Voice on an Answering Machine,” The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).
• ——, “Facing It,” Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan University Press, 1988).
• ——, “Nighthawks,” Night Animals (Sarabande Books, 2020).
• ——, “Ode to the Maggot,” Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).
• ——, “Orpheus at the Second Gate of Hades,” The Chameleon Couch.
• ——, “We Never Know,” Dien Cai Dau.
• Yves Bonnefoy, “L’arbre de la rue Descartes,” La longue chaîne de l’ancre (Mercure de France, 2008).