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
• 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 Blok, “Девушка пела в церковном хоре” (1905).
• ——, “Ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека” (1912).
• ——, “О, я хочу безумно жить” (1914).
• ——, “Осенний день” (1909).
• ——, “Поздней осенью из гавани” (1909).
• ——, “Фабрика” (1903).
• ——, “Я — Гамлет. Холодеет кровь” (1914).
• 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
• 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).
• ——, “Eres tú, Guadarrama, viejo amigo,” Campos de Castilla.
• ——, “La muerte del niño herido” (1938).
• ——, “Noche de verano,” Campos de Castilla.
• ——, “Señor, ya me arrancaste,” 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, “Иванова ива” (1958).
• ——, “Немецкий автоматчик подстрелит на дороге” (1942).
• ——, “Первые свидания” (1962).
• ——, “Здесь дом стоял. Жил в нем какой-то дед” (1942).
• 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
• 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
• Cesare Pavese
• 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
• 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).
• ——, “During December’s Death,” Summer Knowledge.
• 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 are you,little i,” Complete Poems, 1904–1962 (Liveright, 1991).
• ——, “[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
• 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
• 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.
• ——, “Freedom,” 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 don’t know how anyone can think a sunset is sad,” 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
• 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).
• ——, “Everything As It Was,” Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (Yale University Press, 2012).
• Giacomo Leopardi, “Alla luna,” Canti (Presso Saverio Starita, 1835).
• Giovanni Pascoli, “Feast Day in the Distance” (1891).
• ——, “From Above” (1891).
• ——, “Hens” (1891).
• ——, “In a Huddle” (1891).
• ——, “O Princess,” (1891).
• ——, “Ploughing” (1891).
• ——, “That Day” (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 Eich, “Brüder Grimm,” Zu den Akten (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1964).
• ——, “D-Zug München-Frankfurt,” Botschaften des Regens (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1955).
• ——, “Einsicht,” Botschaften des Regens.
• ——, “Ende August,” Botschaften des Regens.
• ——, “Ende eines Sommers,” Botschaften des Regens.
• ——, “Inventur,” Abgelegene Gehöfte (Georg Kurt Schauer, 1948).
• ——, “Reise,” Botschaften des Regens.
• ——, “Stadtrand,” Nach Seumes Papieren (J. G. Bläschke Verlag, 1972).
• ——, “Zu spät für Bescheidenheit,” Zu den Akten.
• Günter Grass, “Familiär,” Die Vorzüge der Windhühner (Luchterhand, 1956).
• ——, “Glück,” Gleisdreieck (Luchterhand, 1960).
• ——, “Im Ei,” Gleisdreieck.
• ——, “Kinderlied,” Gleisdreieck.
• ——, “Klappstühle,” 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).
• Han Kang, “A Very Small Snowflake,” Light and Thread (Hogarth, 2026).
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger, “Die Dreiunddreißigjährige,” Die Furie des Verschwindens (Suhrkamp, 1980).
• ——, “Die Visite,” Kiosk (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995).
• ——, “Historischer Prozeß,” Blindenschrift (Suhrkamp, 1964).
• ——, “Middle Class Blues,” Blindenschrift.
• ——, “Nicht Zutreffendes streichen,” Die Furie des Verschwindens.
• 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).
• Heberto Padilla, “Postcard to USA,” Provocaciones (Ediciones La Gota de Agua, 1973).
• 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
• 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).
• Ivan Bunin, “Настанет день — исчезну я” (1916).
• ——, “У ворот Сиона, над Кедроном” (1917).
• ——, “В Альпах” (1901).
• ——, “Я к ней вошел в полночный час” (1898).
• 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).
• ——, “Late November in a Field,” Shall We Gather at the River (Wesleyan University Press, 1968).
• ——, “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
• 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).
• Jaroslav Seifert, “And Now Goodbye,” The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert (Catbird Press, 1998).
• 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
• 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, “Blancor,” Canción (Seix Barral, 1993).
• ——, “Estampa de invierno,” Poemas mágicos y dolientes (1909).
• ——, “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).
• ——, “Vino, primero, pura,” Eternidades (Ángel Alcoy, 1918).
• 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
• 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
• 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, “A Cloud from Sodom,” The Butterfly’s Burden (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).
• ——, “A Lesson from Kama Sutra,” The Butterfly’s Burden.
• ——, “A Music Sentence,” If I Were Another (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
• ——, “Here the Birds’ Journey Ends,” The New Yorker (August 25, 2008 Issue).
• ——, “I Didn’t Apologize to the Well,” The Butterfly’s Burden.
• ——, “Low Sky,” The Butterfly’s Burden.
• ——, “No More and No Less,” The Butterfly’s Burden.
• ——, “Remainder of a Life,” The New Yorker (May 14, 2007 Issue).
• ——, “The Damascene Collar of the Dove,” The Butterfly’s Burden.
• ——, “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
• 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 Lizard,” Snow Water (Jonathan Cape, 2004).
• ——, “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).
• Nikolai Gumilev, “У меня не живут цветы” (1910).
• ——, “Я и Вы” (1917).
• ——, “Я, что мог быть лучшей из поэм” (1918).
• 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.
• Odysseas Elytis, “Adolescence of Day,” Selected Poems, trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (Penguin, 1981).
• ——, “Body of Summer,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “Drinking the Sun of Corinth,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “I Lived the Beloved Name,” Selected Poems.
• ——, “The Autopsy,” Selected Poems.
• 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
• 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 Klee, “Wasser” (c. 1906).
• 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).
• Péter Kántor, “Inventory,” Unknown Places (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2010).
• Peter Huchel
• 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, “Casa Galvani.”
• ——, “For Adolf Eichmann.”
• ——, “Shemà.”
• ——, “Song of Those Who Died in Vain.”
• ——, “Sunset at Fòssoli.”
• ——, “The Decathlete.”
• ——, “The Dromedary.”
• ——, “The Opus.”
• ——, “The Survivor.”
• 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).
• ——, “Rain,” Where Water Comes Together with Other Water.
• ——, “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).
• ——, “The Terminal,” The New Yorker (June 16, 2025 Issue).
• 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).
• ——, “Dieppe,” Collected Poems in English and French (John Calder, 1977).
• ——, “je voudrais que mon amour meure,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “my way is in the sand flowing,” Collected Poems.
• ——, “The Vulture,” Echo’s Bones.
• ——, “they come,” Collected Poems.
• Samuel Beckett, “they come,” 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).
• ——, “The Great-Grandmothers,” The New Yorker (April 6, 2026 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).
• Sergey Yesenin, “До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья” (1925).
• 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.
• ——, “Unnatural,” Whereas.
• 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
• T. R. Hummer, “As for the Housefly,” The New Yorker (October 10, 2016, Issue).
• T. S. Eliot, “Aunt Helen,” Prufrock, and Other Observations (The Egoist Ltd, 1917).
• ——, “Burnt Norton,” Collected Poems 1909-1935 (Faber and Faber, 1936).
• ——, “Hysteria,” Prufrock.
• ——, “Journey of the Magi,” Collected Poems, 1909-1935.
• ——, “La Figlia che Piange,” Prufrock.
• ——, “Morning at the Window,” Prufrock.
• ——, “The Boston Evening Transcript,” Prufrock, and Other Observations (The Egoist Ltd, 1917).
• ——, 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
• 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).
• Tomas Venclova, “Caligula at the Gates,” The Grove of the Eumenides (Bloodaxe Books, 2026).
• 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).
• ——, “Демон” (1924).
• ——, “Дождь пролетел” (1917).
• ——, “К свободе” (1917).
• ——, “Каким бы полотном” (1943).
• ——, “Какое сделал я дурное дело” (1959).
• ——, “Кто меня повезет” (1920).
• ——, “Мать” (1925).
• ——, “Очки Иосифа” (1923).
• ——, “Расстрел” (1927).
• ——, “Rain,” Poems (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961).
• ——, “Тайная вечеря” (1918).
• ——, “The Poem,” Poems and Problems.
• Vladislav Khodasevich, “Обезьяна” (1919).
• 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
• W. S. Merwin
• Wallace Stevens, “An Exercise for Professor X,” Opus Posthumous (Knopf, 1957).
• ——, “Dance of the Macabre Mice,” Ideas of Order (Knofp, 1936).
• ——, “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 Loved Ones,” The New Yorker (November 24, 2025 Issue).
• ——, “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).
• ——, “My Luv,” Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909–1939 (New Directions, 1986).
• ——, “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 Graceful Bastion,” The Collected Earlier Poems.
• ——, “The Great Figure,” Sour Grapes.
• ——, “The Petunia,” The Collected Earlier Poems.
• ——, “The Ritualists,” The Collected Earlier Poems.
• ——, “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
• Wyn Cooper, “I Trust the Wind and Don’t Know Why,” The New Yorker (February 10, 2020 Issue).
• Yannis Ritsos
• Yehuda Amichai
• 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).