contemporary poems

from A Century of EpigramsJ. V. Cunningham
A Sort of a SongWilliam Carlos Williams
The Ache of MarriageDenise Levertov
After great pain, a formal feeling comesEmily Dickinson
The Anecdote of the JarWallace Stevens
ArielSylvia Plath
The AssassinationDonald Justice
Beggars and KingsW. S. Merwin
BeginningJames Wright
The Blindman's SongRanier Maria Rilke
Choosing to Think of ItStephen Dunn
Concerning the StoneGregory Orr
Cool TombsCarl Sandburg
DaddySylvia Plath
DeathW. B. Yeats
DesignRobert Frost
DesireMary Mackey
Disillusionment of Ten O'ClockWallace Stevens
from The Dream SongJohn Berryman
Eating PoetryMark Strand
EdgeSylvia Plath
ElmSylvia Plath
The Emperor of Ice-CreamWallace Stevens
The End of the WorldArchibald MacLeish
An Everlasting OnceTheodore Weiss
Everywoman Her Own TheologyAlicia Ostriker
from The Female ManJoanna Russ
Fever 103 degSylvia Plath
Fire and IceRobert Frost
For the Anniversary of My DeathW. S. Merwin
For the DeadAdrienne Rich
From An Atlas of a Difficult WorldAdrienne Rich
From a SurvivorAdrienne Rich
Giving Myself UpMark Strand
HabitationMargaret Atwood
The Having to Love Something ElseRussell Edson
He Held Radical LightA. R. Ammons
Her KindAnne Sexton
The Hollow MenT. S. Eliot
How Many Devils Can Dance on the PointD. J. Enright
The Human AnimalJane Mayhall
The Idea of Order at Key WestWallace Stevens
The IlliterateWilliam Meredith
In a ClassroomAdrienne Rich
In a Dark TimeTheodore Roethke
In a Station of the MetroEzra Pound
In those yearsAdrienne Rich
IntrusionDenise Levertov
Lady LazarusSylvia Plath
The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockT. S. Eliot
LullabyW. H. Auden
Meditations in an EmergencyFrank O'Hara
the mirror poemsToi Derricotte
Morning SongSylvia Plath
My Friend, My FriendAnne Sexton
My life closed twice before its closeEmily Dickinson
The Negro Speaks of RiversLangston Hughes
Next DayRandall Jarrell
Not Waving But DrowningStevie Smith
Objets D'ArtC. Macdonald
PianoD. H. Lawrence
PoetryMarianne Moore
Poppies in OctoberSylvia Plath
Prospective Immigrants Please NoteAdrienne Rich
The Rat's Tight ScheduleRussell Edson
The Real InspectorJohn Allman
Recipe for an Ocean in the Absence of the SeaRichard Howard
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire,Dylan Thomas
The RemainsMark Strand
The RoomMark Strand
The Second ComingW. B. Yeats
The Snow ManWallace Stevens
Some Last QuestionsW. S. Merwin
Song of MyselfWalt Whitman
Success is counted sweetestEmily Dickinson
A Supermarket in CaliforniaAllen Ginsberg
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdWallace Stevens
To My WifeJ. V. Cunningham
TractWilliam Carlos Williams
The Truth the Dead KnowAnne Sexton
from Two SongsAdrienne Rich
WaitGalway Kinnell
The WakingTheodore Roethke
We Real CoolGwendolyn Brooks
The Whale in the Blue Washing MachineJohn Haines
Why I Am Not a PainterFrank O'Hara
winter solsticeUnknown
UntitledASB
Variation on a Theme by RilkeDenise Levertov
Zeroing InDenise Levertov

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