contemporary poems
from A Century of Epigrams.....................J. V. Cunningham
A Sort of a Song...............................William Carlos Williams
The Ache of Marriage...........................Denise Levertov
After great pain, a formal feeling comes.......Emily Dickinson
Ariel..........................................Sylvia Plath
The Assassination..............................Donald Justice
Beggars and Kings..............................W. S. Merwin
Beginning......................................James Wright
Choosing to Think of It........................Stephen Dunn
Concerning the Stone...........................Gregory Orr
Cool Tombs.....................................Carl Sandburg
Daddy..........................................Sylvia Plath
Death..........................................W. B. Yeats
Design.........................................Robert Frost
Desire.........................................Mary Mackey
from The Dream Song............................John Berryman
Eating Poetry..................................Mark Strand
Edge...........................................Sylvia Plath
Elm............................................Sylvia Plath
The Emperor of Ice-Cream.......................Wallace Stevens
The End of the World...........................Archibald MacLeish
An Everlasting Once............................Theodore Weiss
Everywoman Her Own Theology....................Alicia Ostriker
from The Female Man............................Joanna Russ
Fever 103 deg..................................Sylvia Plath
Fire and Ice...................................Robert Frost
For the Anniversary of My Death................W. S. Merwin
For the Dead...................................Adrienne Rich
From An Atlas of a Difficult World.............Adrienne Rich
From a Survivor................................Adrienne Rich
Giving Myself Up...............................Mark Strand
He Held Radical Light..........................A. R. Ammons
The Having to Love Something Else..............Russell Edson
Her Kind.......................................Anne Sexton
How Many Devils Can Dance on the Point.........D. J. Enright
The Human Animal...............................Jane Mayhall
The Idea of Order at Key West..................Wallace Stevens
The Illiterate.................................William Meredith
In a Classroom.................................Adrienne Rich
In a Dark Time.................................Theodore Roethke
In a Station of the Metro......................Ezra Pound
In those years.................................Adrienne Rich
Intrusion......................................Denise Levertov
Lady Lazarus...................................Sylvia Plath
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock............T. S. Eliot
Lullaby........................................W. H. Auden
Meditations in an Emergency....................Frank O'Hara
the mirror poems...............................Toi Derricotte
Morning Song...................................Sylvia Plath
My Friend, My Friend...........................Anne Sexton
My life closed twice before its close..........Emily Dickinson
Next Day.......................................Randall Jarrell
Not Waving But Drowning........................Stevie Smith
Objets D'Art...................................C. Macdonald
Piano..........................................D. H. Lawrence
Poetry.........................................Marianne Moore
Poppies in October.............................Sylvia Plath
Prospective Immigrants Please Note.............Adrienne Rich
The Rat's Tight Schedule.......................Russell Edson
The Real Inspector.............................John Allman
Recipe for an Ocean in the Absence of the Sea..Richard Howard
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire,.........Dylan Thomas
The Remains....................................Mark Strand
The Room.......................................Mark Strand
Slouching Towards Bethlehem....................W. B. Yeats
Some Last Questions............................W. S. Merwin
Song of Myself.................................Walt Whitman
Success is counted sweetest....................Emily Dickinson
A Supermarket in California....................Allen Ginsberg
To My Wife.....................................J. V. Cunningham
Tract..........................................William Carlos Williams
from Two Songs.................................Adrienne Rich
Wait...........................................Galway Kinnell
The Waking.....................................Theodore Roethke
We Real Cool...................................Gwendolyn Brooks
The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine..........John Haines
Why I Am Not a Painter.........................Frank O'Hara
winter solstice................................Unknown
Untitled.......................................ASB
Variation on a Theme by Rilke..................Denise Levertov
Zeroing In.....................................Denise Levertov