poems gathered

from 2017-present, in the order that they originally appeared in my log.

In February of 2019, after noticing I had only posted 31 poems in over 500 entries, I decided to try posting one at the end of each log entry. Mostly I found these poems through my morning ritual of reading the poem of the day on poets.org, poetryfoundation.org, poems.com, and slowdownshow.org. Sometimes I found them on twitter. And sometimes I found them by looking up key words related to my mood, the date, or something I was paying attention to beside the gorge. Log entries with poems in them are tagged poem.

Wish You Were Here/ Rachel Zucker
O Autumn! Autumn!/ Effie Lee Newsome
Can You Imagine?/ Mary Oliver
What is it?/ Mary Oliver
Crows/ Marilyn Nelson
BIRD SONG —REBECCA TAKSEL
The Change/ Alicia Ostriker
The Green Eye/James Merrill
Answer in Green/Florence Dickinson Stern
Green/ DH Lawrence
Cottonwood/Kathy Fagan from Sycamore
Surrender/Geraldine Connolly
Long Live the Weeds/Theodore Roethke
Summer Rain/John Waters
Swimming in the Rain/ Chana Bloch
Heavy Summer Rain/ Jane Kenyon
Triad/ Adelaide Crapsey
Who Has Seen the Wind/ Christina Rossetti
The Ceiling/ Theodore Roethke
The Chair/ Theodore Roethke
Monologue for an Onion/ Suji Kwock Kim
Tree at My Window/ Robert Frost
Hymn to Life/ James Schuyler
Spell to Practice Patience/ Ann V. DeVilbiss
Speculations about “I”/ Toi Derricotte
Kinds of Snow/ Su Smallen
Snow-flakes/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Windows/ Randall Jarrell
Keeping Quiet/ Pablo Neruda
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow/ Robert Duncan and PF podcast about it
Instructions on Not Giving Up/ Ada Limón
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude/ Ross Gay
To the New Journal/ Susan Rich
Winter Branches/ Margaret Widdemer
February/ Jack Collom
February/ Bill Christophersen
Dear March — Come in — (1320)/ Emily Dickinson
from The Black Maria/ Aracelis Girmay
From a Window/ Christian Wiman
Salt/ Huang Fan
from Eucalyptus/ Linda Hogan
The Way In/ Linda Hogan
Seasons/ John Haag
Footnotes/ John Haag
Layers/ J. Laughlin
Cell/ Naomi Cohn
Listen/ Didi Jackson
The Rainwalkers/ Denise Levertov
Fog/ Carl Sandburg
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation/ Natalie Diaz
Sight/ W.S. Merwin
Confessions of a Nature Lover/ Bob Hicok
Body and Soul/ Sharon Bryan
Before I got my eye put out — (336)/ Emily Dickinson
Hearing Loss/ Noah Baldino
Shedding Skin/ Harryette Mullen
Out, Out–/ Robert Frost
Are you sewing, Mom?/ Angeline Schellenberg
Neighbor Sweeping His Porch/ Keith Leonard
Dust of Snow/ Robert Frost
Why Bother?/ Sean Thomas Dougherty
Words are Birds/ Fransico X. Alarcón
Holdfast/ Robun Beth Schaer
Snow in April/ Lenora Speyer
Bel Canto/ Jane Yeh
Ballad in A/ Cathy Park Hong
Inside Out/ Bill Take
The Poet to the Reader/ James Laughlin
In the Snow/ James Laughlin
Little Bits of Paper: An Ars Poetic/James Laughlin
Thinking of Frost/ Major Jackson
The Longest Year/ James Laughlin
homage to my hips/ Lucille Clifton
Same Sun, Same Moon, Same River/ Neil Carpathios
Weight/ Carolina Ebeid
Drifting/ Aya Satoh
The End and the Beginning/ Wis£awa Szymborska
Wondrous/ Sarah Freligh
Don’t You Wonder Sometimes/ Tracy K. Smith
Anti-Elegy/ Cameron Akward-Rich
Two Sewing/ Hazel Hall
Another Poem About a Mountain/ Joseph Rios
Life is Beautiful/ Dorianne Laux
Summer Haibun/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Forsythe Avenue/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Manhattan/ Howard Horowitz
Leg of Lamb/ Bernadette Mayer
And the Old Man Speaks of Paradise: a Ghazal/ Wang Ping
Winter Trees/ William Carlos Williams
Haiku Journey/ Kimberly Blaeser
Blue Octavo Haiku/ Rachel Wetzshteon
Joy/ Miller Oberman
Birds Punctuate the Days/ Joyce Clement
I Don’t Know What You’re Called, I’ll Call You by Your Sounds/ Susan Landers
Field Guide to the Chaparral/ Leah Naomi Green
Emily and Walt/ Campbell McGrath
Things to Do In The Kitchen/ Miriam Solan
How to Get There/ Philip Levine
Dewpoint Hygrometer Using a System of Primary Measurement/ Franklin W. Kirk and Nicholas R. Romboi
this beginning may have always meant this end/ Camille T. Dungy
So Many/ John Pluecker
The Trees Delete Themselves/ Francis Ponge
Beehive/ Jean Toomer
Mending Wall/ Robert Frost
The Prose Poem/ Campbell McGrath
Swimming/ Sarah Arvio
The Fish/ Elizabeth Bishop
Breathe. As in. (shadow)/ Rosamond S. King
Morningside Heights, July/ William Matthews
Lakes Rivers Streams/ Michael Dickman
A poem from Bao Phi
At the Lake House/ Jon Loomis
Summer/ Ronald Johnson
Ah, Ah/ Joy Harjo
Dart/ Alice Oswald
Mosquito/ Myronn Hardy
[mosquito at my ear]/ Kobayashi Issa
13 Lines about Walls/ Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
Lounging on the Couch on my 39th Birthday in Pink Flannel Donut Pajamas/ Julie Danho
Song/ Lloyd Schwartz
The Rules/ Leila Chatti
Theory of Writing/ Souvankham Thammavongsa
[For a few days: frost]/ Jehanne Dubrow
No Apology: A Poemifesto/ Carmen Smith Giménez
The Month of June: 13 1/2/ Sharon Olds
Woman Waving to Trees/ Dorothea Tanning
Preface from ‘swims’/ Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Breathing/ Mark O’Brien
Our Valley/ Philip Levine
Summer/ Carlo Betochhi
Out of Water/ Marie Ponsot
Songs of the Open Road, 3/ Walt Whitman
Springing/ Marie Ponsot
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Under at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy/ Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Poem Beginning with a Retweet/ Maggie Smith
Sixteen Theses on Walking and Poetry/ Mátyás Dunajcsik
Postscript/ Seamus Heaney
A Kind of Meadow/ Carl Phillips
The Runners/ Irving Feldman
What Lights Up…?/ Keki Daruwalla
“Babel”/ Kimberly Johnson
Morning Swim/ Maxine Kumin
Let us for a moment call this pain by other words/ Dominik Parisien
The August Preoccupations/ Catherine Barnett
Writing a Poem/ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Boy Crazy/ Carmen Giménez Smith
Property/ Emily Hunt
To a Poor Old Woman/ William Carlos Williams
When I Am Asked/ Lisel Mueller
Lake Water/ David Ferry
The Voice of God/ Crystal Williams
Water Picture/ May Swenson
From Blossoms/ Li-Young Lee
O, She Says/ Hailey Leithauser
Halos/ Ed Bok Lee
Seek/ Sophia Holtz
Three Songs and the End of Summer/ Jane Kenyon
Let’s Not Begin/ Maggie Smith
Duplex (I Being with Love)/ Jericho Brown
Be Water My Friend/ Bruce Lee
Poplar Street/ Chen Chen
And Swept All Visible Signs Away/ Carl Phillips
When We Look Up/ Denise Levertov
excerpt from The Gold Cell/ Sharon Olds
Still Burning/ Gerald Stern
Profit/Loss Statement/ Harlan Bjornstad
Sorrow is Not My Name/ Ross Gay
Saltern/ Emma Aylor
Wild Geese/ Mary Oliver
Lake Superior/ Lorine Niedecker
Doppler Effect/ Arthur Sze
Learning the Trees/ Howard Nemerov
The Heat of Autumn/ Jane Hirshfield
Beginning/ Claire Wahmanholm
Almanac/ Claire Wahmanholm
A Blank White Page/ Francisco Alarcón
Nature Aria/ Yi Lei
To the Light of September/ W.S. Merwin
October/ May Swenson
Rabbits and Fire/ Alberto Ríos
Spring and Fall/ Gerard Manley Hopkins
One Heart/ yi-young lee
Nominal/ Ann Lauterbach
Vow/ Diana Khoi Nguyen
The Walrus and the Carpenter/ Lewis Carroll
Map Poetry Presentation/ Lisa Charlotte Rost
Daughter/ Jon Pineda
Practice/ Ellen Bryant Voigt
When the Light Betrays Us Twice/ Marisa Crane
My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency/ Matthew Olzmann
Prayer to be Still and Know/ Nickole Brown
A Rhyme for Halloween/ Maurice Kilwein Guevara
How Wonderful/ Irving Feldman
The Cave/ Paul Tran
Fall/ Edward Hirsch
Eagle Poem/ Joy Harjo
Mindful/ Mary Oliver
I Looked for Life and Did a Shadow See/ James Galvin
Elms/ Lousie Glück
Knocks on the door/ Maram al-Massri
Doors/ Carl Sandburg
Self-Portrait as a Series of Bluffs/ Chris Hayes
Usage/ Hayan Charara
The Hum/ Maggie Smith
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee/ N. Scott Momaday
November/ Maggie Dietz
The Crazy Woman/ Gwendolyn Brooks
Happiness/ Jane Kenyon
[Lately when sorrows come]/ Susan Laughter Meyers
View to the North/ May Swenson
Like Coins, November/ Elizabeth Klise Zerneck
November/ Lucy Larcom
Four-Word Lines/ May Swenson
The Letter A/ Darren Sardelli
Let it Be Forgotten/ Sarah Teasdale
December/ David Baker
Heartbeat/ Melvin Dixon
Cherry Blossoms/ Toi Derricotte
Hotel Lullaby/ Srikanth Reddy
Epistemology/ Catherine Barnett
What Would Root/ Katie Farris
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314)/ Emily Dickinson
It’s all I have to bring today (26)/ Emily Dickinson
Outside the Window the Whole World is Humming/ Devin Kelly
October/ Louise Glück
The Body/ Marianne Boruch
Rapture/ Linda Hogan
Summer’s Bounty/ May Swenson
We Are Monica/ Victoria Chang
What Big Eyes You Have/ Heather Christle
White Eyes/ Mary Oliver
Sojourns in the Parallel World/ Denise Levertov
Erstwhile Harbinger Auspices/ Matthew Zapruder
Stranger by Night/ Edward Hirsch
Abstract/ Todd Dillard
Disclosure/ Camisha L. Jones
2 Mississippi/ Steve Healey
The Spider/ Heather Christle
Living in the Body/ Joyce Sutphen
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Did Rise/ Jessica Rae Bergamino
TEN YEARS LATER MY HUSBAND WALKS OUT OF THE WOODS/ Emily Pérez
Pine/ Susan Steward
Singularity/ Marie Howe
Love/ Alex Dimitrov
Occasional Poem/ JACQUELINE WOODSON
Blue/ ROBERT L. JONES
Some Waynes/ WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH
excerpt from Ode to a Blizzard/ TOM DISCH
Lines for Winter/ DAVE LUCA
Natural Forces/ Vicente Huidobro
MAKING LISTS/Imtiaz Dharker
Thrown away/ Imtiaz Dharker
Lost/ David Wagoner
Because my grief was a tree/ Nicky Beer
Brian Age Seven/ Mark Doty
I Heart Your Dog’s Head/ Erin Belieu
A Study in Eventuality/ Cristina Correa
Threshold/ Maggie Smith
Five Flights Up/ Elizabeth Bishop
What Kindergarten and Partial Hospitalization Have in Common/ IZZY CASEY
Notes on Un-Apology/ Erin Slaughter
The Blink Reflex/ Rick Barot
The Work of Happiness/ May Sarton
Ash/ Tracy K. Smith
My Weather/ Jane Hirshfield
Diana Khoi Nguyen/ Tripthych
A Skull/ Dana Levin
Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again/ Craig Morgan Teicher
Eye Contact/ Craig Morgan Teicher
OBIT [Memory]/ Victoria Chang
Unwished For/ Shira Erlichman
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)/ Emily Dickinson
Just As The Calendar Began to Say Summer/ Mary Oliver (Long Life)
Breakage/ Mary Oliver
The Real Prayers are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First/ Mary Oliver
Auto-lullaby/ Franz Wright
TO CAST/ Yesenia Montilla
Tell all the truth but tell it slant/ Emily Dickinson
“Faith” is fine invention (202)/ Emily Dickinson
Slam, Dunk, & Hook/ Yusef Komunyakaa
Goodbye to Tolerance/ Denise Levertov
LOVESONG OF THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE/ Richard Siken
Small Kindnesses/ Danusha Laméris
Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese/ Benjamin Garcia
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)/ Dante Di Stefano
Wind/ Florida Watts Smyth
POEM WHITE PAGE WHITE PAGE POEM/ from Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Gates”
Fool’s Gold/ Ted Mathys
Rain, New Year’s Eve/ Maggie Smith (from Good Bones)
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry/ Howard Nemerov – 1920-1991
BREATH/ Lee Potts
Poem/ Charles Bernstein – 1950-
from “The Victorious Ones”/ Chris Nealon
Social Distancing/ Juan Phillipe Herrera
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved/ Nazim Hikmet – 1902-1963
Pandemania/ BY DANIEL HALPERN
Song of a Second April/ Edna St. Vincent Millay – 1892-1950
Dust/ Dorianne Laux
Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale/ Dan Albergotti
To make a prairie (1755)/ Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886
In the name of the Bee –/ Emily Dickinson
ABC/ Robert Pinsky
Disorderly Abecedarian 2: Return/ Devon Miller-Duggan
from Maud (Part I)/ ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense/ Danez Smith
Dear One Absent This Long While/ Lisa Olstein
ANTHEM/ Aaliya Zaveri
Ode to My Right Knee/ Rita Dove
The Gate/ Marie Howe
WATER/ Li Young-Lee
Magdalene—The Seven Devils/ Marie Howe
May/ Jonathan Galassi
I Am Learning To Abandon the World/ Linda Pastan
[the snow is melting]/ BY KOBAYASHI ISSA, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HASS
ADVICE FROM A BAT/ Michael T. Young
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]/ Walt Whitman
Push the button, hear the sound/ HELEN MORT
I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses/ Diane Seuss
Eyesight/ A.R. Ammons
What Kind of Times Are These/ ADRIENNE RICH
Resistance/ TRACI BRIMHALL
Mirror/ Rita Dove
Voiceover/ Rita Dove
I dwell in Possibility – (466)/ EMILY DICKINSON
Perhaps you tire of birds/ Donika Kelly
Self-Portrait as a Door/ Donika Kelly
truth/ GWENDOLYN BROOKS
O/ Chaire Wahmanholm
HUMMINGBIRD ABECEDARIAN/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Stuff Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth/ Patricia Smith
won’t you celebrate with me/ Lucille Clifton
A Lecture on Aphids/ Charles Goodrich
eyeye/ Aram Saroyan
Poem Recognizing Someone in the Street/ Aram Saroyan
The World Has Need of You/ Ellen Bass
I Go Down To The Shore/ Mary Oliver
Ars Poetica/ Aracelis Girmay
Nothing/ Krysten Hill
Proverbs and Canticles/ Antonio Machado
Abecedarian For the Future/ Ada Limón
What Issa Heard/ David Budbill
Goshen/ Ruth Stone
Eyes/ Laura Riding Jackson
Grasshopper/ Ted Kooser
The Early Bird/ Ted Kooser
The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)/ EMILY DICKINSON
Wintergreen Ridge /Lorine Niedecker
TIME FOR SERENITY, ANYONE?/ William Stafford
from Song of the Open Road/ Walt Whitman
When You Walk Over the Earth/ Katie Farris
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun (764)/ EMILY DICKINSON
Listening/ Elizabeth Hoover
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout/ GARY SNYDER
Vertigo/ LES MURRAY
The Grackle/ Ogden Nash
September First Again/Phillis Levin
THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO/Walt Whitman
preface to Leaves of Grass
Wind in the Grass/ Mark Van Doren
further & further/ Lauren Holden
ODE TO THE LETTER B / Aracelis Girmay
An Old-Fashioned Song/ John Hollander – 1929-2013
LEAF HUTS AND SNOW HOUSES/ Olav Hauge
Optometrist/ Sun Yu Pai
Les Étiquettes Jaunes/ Frank O’Hara
Holmes Lake/ Jessica Poli
October/ ROBERT FROST
First Leaf/ Lia Purpura
Leaves/ Lloyd Schwartz
Corsons Inlet/ A. R. Ammons
Ode to the Head Nod/ Elizabeth Acevedo
Logic/Richard Siken
Wrong Side of the River/ Stanley Plumly
The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy/ Yehuda Amichai
Snow flakes. (45)/ Emily Dickinson
Beginning/ JAMES WRIGHT
My Doubt/ Jane Hirshfield – 1953-
Black Cat/ Rainer Maria Rilke
A Rogue Dream/ Melanie Figg
The Copper Beech/ MARIE HOWE
Wind/ Emily Dickinson
In the Event of My Death/ Katie Farris
In the Evening/ William Reichard
Praise Song for the Day/ ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
A Divine Image/ William Blake
The Fly/ William Blake
Cold Morning/ Eamon Grennan
What Things Want/ Robert Bly – 1926-
In drear nighted December/ John Keats – 1795-1821
A woodpecker’s/ PHILIP GROSS
Real Estate/ Richard Siken
In Wiry Winter/ James Schuyler
The Guest House/ Rumi
How It Happens/ W.S. Merwin
ABECEDARIAN FOR THE DANGEROUS ANIMALS/ Catherine Peirce
Winter Poem/ Donika Kelly
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther/ A.E. STALLINGS
notes on winter holidays/ daniel biegelson
I Refuse to Report Bugs to Their Creator/ BRAYAN SALINAS
The Hill We Climb/ Amanda Gorman
THINGS TO DO/ James Schuyler
Story/ Tiana Clark
The Snow/ James Schuyler
Status Update/ Rebecca Lindenbery
Perfect Song/ Heather Christle
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade/ Brad Aaron Modlin
I am afraid to own a body/ Emily Dickinson
Instructions for Opening a Door/ Adriana Cloud
Skin Tight/ Ishmael Reed
If recollecting were forgetting/ Emily Dickinson
I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl — / Emily Dickinson
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) / Emily Dickinson
I measure every Grief I meet (561) / Emily Dickinson
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)* / Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372) / Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death – (479) / Emily Dickinson
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (1010) / Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee. (1788) / Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314) / Emily Dickinson
Have you got a Brook in your little heart / Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340) / Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591) / Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun (764) / Emily Dickinson
We grow accustomed to the Dark — / Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book (1286) / Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236) / Emily Dickinson
Goldenrod/ Maggie Smith
‘Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy! / Emily Dickinson
A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) / Emily Dickinson
I dreaded that first Robin, so, (1862) / Emily Dickinson
To interrupt His Yellow Plan(1863) / Emily Dickinson
The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson
Meditations in an Emergency/ Cameron Awkward-Rich
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—* / Emily Dickinson
I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched — (1863) / Emily Dickinson
Without this — there is nought — (1862) / Emily Dickinson
Privacy/ Ada Limón
Work from The Leaf and the Cloud
Hum / Mary Oliver
April / Mary Oliver
What We Want / Mary Oliver
I Worried / Mary Oliver
Don’t Hesitate / Mary Oliver
Softest of Mornings from Long Life / Mary Oliver
Two Kinds of Deliverance / Mary Oliver
To a Snail/ Marianne Moore
Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer / Mary Oliver
Wind in the Pines / Mary Oliver
Bird in the Pepper Tree/ Mary Oliver
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO ENTER THE LONG BLACK BRANCHES / Mary Oliver
4 Sonnets from Swan /Mary Oliver
Evidence / Mary Oliver
Stars from West Wind/ Mary Oliver
Yellow from Evidence / Mary Oliver
Then the Bluebird Sang from Evidence / Mary Oliver
The Poet Always Carries a Notebook from Evidence / Mary Oliver
Pastoral/ Forest Gander
Deep Summer/ Mary Oliver
I Want to Write Something So Simple/ Mary Oliver
Dogfish (from Dreams) / Mary Oliver
Trilliums (from Dreams) / Mary Oliver
Luke /Mary Oliver
The Summer Day/ Mary Oliver
Everything/ Mary Oliver
Bobolink/ Didi Jackson
Sunrise/ Mary Oliver
The Leaf and the Cloud/ Mary Oliver
The Trees / Mary Oliver
Answers/ Mary Oliver
Such Singing in the Wild Branches from Owls and Other Fantasies/ Mary Oliver
Sometimes/ Mary Oliver
No Murder Of Crows/ J. Drew Lanham
Beat! Beat! Drums!/ Walt Whitman – 1819-1892
Enough/ Jeffrey Harrison
Terns/ Mary Oliver
Praying/ Mary Oliver
Work/ Mary Oliver
Don’t put up my Thread and Needle — / Emily Dickinson
GROUP THINK: NEW NAMES FOR PLURAL BIRDS/ J. Drew Lanham
A Heron/ Ted Kooser
Syrinx/ Amy Clampitt – 1920-1993
The Most Triumphant Bird/ Emily Dickinson
Starlings/ Maggie Smith from Goldenrod
From Nowhere/ Marie Howe
Vanishing/ Brittney Corrigan
Octoroon Warbler/ J. Drew Lanham
For the Birds/ JOHN SHOPTAW
Birdcall/ Alicia Ostriker
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird/ WALLACE STEVENS
If I shouldn’t be alive/ Emily Dickinson
Dawn Chorus/ SASHA DUGDALE
The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
Bewilderment/ Rumi
Much Madness is divinest Sense – (620)/ EMILY DICKINSON
The Language of the Birds/ Richard Siken
Still/ Margaret Renkl
Of Being is a Bird/ Emily Dickinson
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle/ Henry Charles Beeching
The Original Lyric Ballads Version of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Wind, Water, Stone/ OCTAVIO PAZ
Evaporations/ Alice Oswald
The Museum of Stones/ Carolyn Forché
These Poems/ June Jordan – 1936-2002
Poet’s work/ LORINE NIEDECKER
Paean to Place/ LORINE NIEDECKER
The Song of Hiawatha/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from EXAQUA [Oh, that’s what I was]/ Jan-Henry Gray
The Humpbacks/ Mary Oliver
ROCK BOTTOM/ Eamon Grennan
Buoy/ Savannah V. Evans
The Blind Leading The Blind/ Lisel Mueller
Not the Thing but a Fossil of the Thing/ Rebecca Foust
A Short Story of Falling/ ALICE OSWALD
Conversation with a Pebble/Alyson Hallett
To chlorophyll, refineries, coal, furnaces beneath early skyscrapers, fossils/ Caroline Kenworthy
A Swim in Co. Wicklow/ DEREK MAHON
Erosion/ Linda Pastan
excerpt from The Half Finished Heaven/ Tomas Tranströmer
Under Pressure/ Tomas Tranströmer
Erosion/ Eamon Grennan
Rockpile/ Robert Morgan
SWIMMER (FEMALE)*/ Concha Méndez
The Unnamed River/ Arthur Sze
The Nude Swim/ Anne Sexton
Water in Love/ Ed Bok Lee
Open Water/ Ada Limón
a few delightful verses/ Lorine Niedecker
Smile/ Lorine Niedecker
Fog-thick morning/ Lorine Niedecker
Wife for Scale/ Maggie Smith
Balance/ Alice B. Fogel
The Thing Is/ Ellen Bass
The Pond at Dusk/ JANE KENYON
Exercise/ W.S. Merwin (may 1972)
To Swim, To Believe/ Maxine Kumin
BY THE SEA/ EMILY DICKINSON
After the Dragonflies/ W.S. Merwin
Wilderness/ Carl Sandburg
Fish/ MARY ANN HOBERMAN
7 Shard/ CAConrad
Sound Waves/ Amy Ludwig VanDerwate
After the Rain/ Jared Carter
WAVE AFTER WAVE/ M. Bartley Seigel
Sea Poem/ Alice Oswald
the lesson of the falling leaves/ lucille clifton
Love (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) / Bob Dorough
Down with Love/ Blossom Dearie
Good Bones/ Maggie Smith
Heart / Maggie Smith
Heart to Heart/ Rita Dove
The More Loving One/ W. H. Auden
I wanted to be surprised./ Jane Hirshfield
Bioluminescence/ Paul Tran
5 Poems/ Amorak Huey
The Swimmer/ Mary Oliver
Green Koan/ Rita Dove
Sky Coming Forward/ Carl Phillips
Cello/ Dorianne Laux
The Patience of Ordinary Things/ Pat Schneider
Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child/ Dorothy Wordsworth
The First Water Is the Body/ Natalie Diaz
Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World/ Katie Farris
Approximate Poem/ Paul Hall (1977)
There Is No Word/ TONY HOAGLAND
Late Summer/ JENNIFER GROTZ
MAN WITH METAL DETECTOR / Robert B. Shaw
The Fish/ Mary Oliver
May Day Midnight/ Michael Palmer
[I remember partially]/ Jane Huffman
The Cucumber/ Nazim Hikmet
Nothing Gold Can Stay/ Robert Frost
Short Story/ Ellen Bryant Voigt
When Night is almost done – / Emily Dickinson
Travelling Together/ W.S. Merwin
Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you./ GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
Neighbors in October/ DAVID BAKER
Unbidden/ Rae Armantrout
Haunt/ Maya Phillips
Seven Types of Shadow – an extract / U A Fanthorpe
Portrait of a Figure Near Water/ Jane Kenyon
Island/ Rita Dove
The Road Not Taken/ Robert Frost
Page/ Jane Hirshfield
The Bells/ Edgar Allen Poex
A Ring/ W.S. Merwin
A Rhyme for Halloween/ Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Fall, leaves, fall/ EMILY BRONTË
excerpt from November/ Lucy Larcom
Prints/ Joseph Bruchac
Perennials/ Maggie Smith
from The Leaf and the Cloud/ Mary Oliver
In the Meantime/ Max Garland
Passive Voice/ LAURA DA’
How Dark the Beginning/ Maggie Smith
In Passing/ MATTHEW SHENODA
Observations on the Ground/ Mary Ruefle
Gratitude to Old Teachers / Robert Bly
The Orange / Wendy Cope
from Obit/ Victoria Chang
from Among the Trees/ Carl Phillips
First Snow/ Arthur Sze
Ghosting/ Andrea Cohen
The Wild Geese/ Victoria Chang
Big Clock/ Li-Young Lee – 1957-
Something Told the Wild Geese / Rachel Field
Prayer 48/ EVA SAULITIS
Sometimes, When the Light/ Lisel Mueller
Things/ Lisel Mueller
Holiday Wish/ David Baker/ David Baker
Obligations 2/ Layli Long Soldier
Eye Exam/ Arthur Sze
In the Grand Scheme of Things/ Maggie Smith
Love Letter/ Diane Seuss
Forsythia/ Ada Limón
Palimpsest/ Jared Carter
THE MOMENT I SAW A PELICAN DEVOUR/ PAIGE LEWIS
Left Open / Victoria Chang
Left Open / W.S. Merwin
Separation/ Victoria Chang
Separation/ W. S. Merwin
Daylight/ Victoria Chang
The Wings of Daylight/ W. S. Merwin
Ekphrasis as Eye Test/ Jane Zwart + slide show with paintings
Ekphrasis as Eye-Test/ Amit Majmudar
Fauve/ Arthur Sze in Dazzled
Study the Masters/ Lucille Clifton
Song/ Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Letter to a Friend, Unsent/ Rebecca Lindenberg
My Glasses/ Jane Hirshfield
Saccadic Masking/ Paige Lewis
Chapel of the Green Lord/ Paige Lewis
Inspiration Point/ Jennifer Jean
Missed Time/ Ha Jin
Wigs Everywhere/ Justin Jannise
from The Cataract of Lodore/ Robert Southey
A Nearly Perfect Morning/ Jessica Greenbaum
As Is/ Nicholas Friedman
To the Mannequins/ HOWARD NEMEROV
Praise the Rain/ JOY HARJO
All Praises / Lucille Clifton
Old Woman in a Housecoat/ GEORGIANA COHEN
Design/ Robert Frost
The Ships of Theseus/ STEVE GEHRKE
Epitalamion/ Rebecca Lehmann
excerpt of an excerpt IRL/ Tommy Pico
Hum/ Yvonne Zipter
The Husband’s Answers/ Rebecca Hazelton
A little Madness in the Spring (1356) / Emily Dickinson
Every day as a wide field, every page/ NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Want the Moon/ Patricia Smith
Statement of Teaching Philosophy/ Keith Leonard
Egrets/ Kevin Young
Unfolding Center/ Arthur Sze
Peripheral/ Hannah Emmerson
Drift/ Alicia Mountain
The River/ HUMBERTO AK’ABAL
FIG TREE AT BIG SUR/ Kelly Cressio-Moeller
Second Estrangement/ Aracelis Girmay
How to Begin/ Catherine Abbey Hodges
PLEA TO THE WIND/ Alice Oswald
Dart/ Alice Oswald
EXPERIENCE, A LOVE STORY/ Katie Peterson
These are the days when Birds come back— / Emily Dickinson
Sing a Darkness/Carl Phillips
The Rock that Is Not a Rabbit/ Corey Marks
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE / EMILY SERNAKER
A RUSHED ACCOUNT OF THE DEW / Alice Oswald
I started Early — Took my Dog / Emily Dickinson
I Wonder If I Need the Rapture or If I Could Just Swallow A Catastrophe and Call It Good / Kelli Russell Agodon
Feeding the Worms/ Danish Lameris
Ode to Dirt/ Sharon Olds
Loam/ Carl Sandburg
Unveiling/ Gail Mazur
The Theft Outright/ Heid E. Erdrich
Muddy/ Orlando White
Into the Mud/ Joyce Sidman
Entanglement/ Arthur Sze
Mushroom Hunting in the Jemez Mountains/ Arthur Sze
The Ants/ Matthew Rorher
An Ordinary Misfortune [“She is girl. She is gravel.”]/ EMILY JUNGMIN YOON
from Kingdom Animalia/ Aracelis Girmay
The Golden Shovel/ TERRANCE HAYES
We Real Cool/ Gwendolyn Brooks
Dust Poem/ Philip Jenks
Dusting/ Marilyn Nelson
A Walk as Bright and Green as Spring as Cold as Winter/ Shane McCrae
The Garden Song/ sung by John Denver
Digging/ Seamus Heaney
Digging in the Dirt/ Peter Gabriel
Pear Snow/ Todd Dillard
Full of yourself/ Rumi
ted talk/ JENNY ZHANG
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store/ Ted Kooser
Mushrooms/ Sylvia Plath
For the Lobar, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen/ Jane Hirshfield
I’d Rather Be / Mitchell Nobis
The Echoing Green/ WILLIAM BLAKE
All/ Jorie Graham
Still Life with Window and Fish / Jorie Graham (recording)
The Bees Have Been Cancelled/ Maya C. Popa
For the Bird Singing before Dawn/ Kim Stafford
Doors opening, closing on us/ Marge Piercy
Persephone the Wanderer/ Louise Glück
Where Every Bird is a Drone/ Tarik Dobbs
excerpt from Nature Poem/ Tommy Pico
In the Clearing/ Patricia Hopper
Naming the Heartbeats/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Hypothesis / Paul Tran
Paprika/ Michelle Zauner
I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t/ Traci Brimhall
Above, the Geese/ Gillian Sze
selected tankas from Urban Tumbleweed/ Harryette Mullen
First Grade/ RON KOERTGE
The Sound of Trees/ ROBERT FROST
Termites: An Assay/ Jane Hirshfield
Becoming Moss/ Ella Frears
Give Me This/ Ada Limón
As from a Quiver of Arrows/ CARL PHILLIPS
Oread/ H. D.
Five Landscapes/ COLE SWENSEN
Bird/ DORIANNE LAUX
The Evidence is Everywhere/ Juan Delgado
Swimming Laps/ Arthur Sze
A Tree of Dignified Appearance/ Charles Simic
For Rent/ Charles Simic
Calling Things What They Are/ Ada Limón
Could I/ Anne Carson
excerpts from TL;DR/ CA Conrad
How lucky we are That you can’t sell A poem / Gregory Orr
To Know the Dark/ Wendell Berry
My Meadow, My Twilight/ Carl Phillips
from Google/ Leila Chatti
The Ponds/ Mary Oliver
Carrie / Ted Kooser
Moon/ AMY E. SKLANSKY
Thinking/ DANUSHA LAMÉRIS
The Moment/ Marie Howe
breaklight/ lucille clifton
Do Not Ask Your Children To Strive for Extraordinary Things/ William Martin
Moist/ Anna Myles
Things I Should’ve Outgrown By Now/ Megan Williams
Taking Your Olympic Measure/ Alberto Rios
from The Trees Witness Everything/ Victoria Chang
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild/ Kathy Fish
Ignition Chronicles / CAConrad
M. / Claire Wahmanholm
A Blessing/ James Wright
The Rain Stick/ Seamus Heaney
Birdsong for Two Voices/ Alice Oswald
from Nobody/ Alice Oswald
crazy jay blue/ ee cummings
Imaginary Conversation/ Linda Pastan
With Ant and Celan/ Eamon Grennan
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree/ Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
the ones who stay :: faith shearin
Living Here/ Cleopatra Mathis
poem about water/ sam sax
Girl in the Woods/ Alice White
The Grove/ Jay Hopler
A Drink of Water/ Jeffrey Harrison
Water and Stone/ Frances Boyle
to be of use :: marge piercy
The Chipmunk/ Ogden Nash
Vertical/ Linda Pastan
Tender/ Sophie Klahr
To the Person Who Marked Up This Book of Poetry/ Amy Miller
Shirley, Midlake/ Tanis Rideout
excerpt from Shirley As Drowned Ophelia/ Tanis Rideout
Energy/ Beyoncé
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died / Emily Dickinson
The River/ Cole Swenson
Glaucoma/ Charlene Fix
Autumn/ Linda Pastan
Fall/ Ed Ochester
Along the River/ Lorine Niedecker
I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again/ Vievee Francis
A page from Frank: Sonnets/ Diane Seuss
EDNA/ Todd Dillard
Living Tenderly/ May Swenson
The Secret in the Mirror/ Alberto Ríos
The Night Migrations/ Louise Glück
Forest of Beginnings/ Mai Der Vang
Circle/Dana Knott
The Beginning of the Beginning/ Phuong T. Vuong
Part of Eve’s Discussion/ Marie Howe
Threshold Gods/ Jenny George / Reading
Song of the Witches: “Double, double, toil and trouble“/ William Shakespeare
Transubstantiation/ Susan Firer
Lost in Plain Sight/ Peter Schneider
Let this darkness be a bell tower/ Rainer Maria Rilke
A Woman’s Glass Eye/ Richard Weaver (page 66 in journal)
One Art/ Elizabeth Bishop
Wild Turkey/ Heid E. Erdrich
First Fig/ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Echo/ Pura López-Colomé
Ode to Gray
Silver/ Walter de la Mare
from Grayed In/ Martha Collins
from My Private Property/ Mary Ruefle
from To Theo van Gogh (a letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his son)
[Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions.]/ Diane Seuss
Fog/Giovanni Pascoli
In the Fog/ Giovanni Pascoli
Mist/ Alice Oswald
Spirits of the Dead/ Edgar Allen Poe
Little Grey Dreams/ Angelina Weld Grimké
First Grade/ Ron Koertge
nunatak/ Jane Lovell
from “Gravel” in The Leaf and the Cloud/ Mary Oliver
That Bright Grey Eye/ Hilda Morley
The Small Hours/ Dorothy Parker
Psalm with Near Blindness/ Julia B. Levine
To a Wreath of Snow/ Emily Brontë
Psalm with Wren in Daylight Saving Time/ Julia B. Levin
Maybe Alone On My Bike/ William Stafford
sunrise through mount vernon, wa/ Jasmine Khaliq
With A Song/ Christina Pugh
Praise/ Michelle Poirier Brown
Dead Stars/ Ada Limón
A White City/ James Schuyler
Window/ Fiona Apple
Window 3/ Wendell Berry
Winter Journal: Disseminate Birds Over Water/ Emily Wilson
Owl/ Anne Haven McDonnell
DECEMBER FLIGHT/ Seymour Maynes
Here All Alone/ Michael Kleber-Diggs
Blizzard/ Linda Pastan
Blink/ Donna Vorreyer
I’m not Faking My Astonishment, Honest/ Paige Lewis
Lit/ Andrea Cohen
I Went Out to Hear/ Leila Chatti
Pot of Gold/ Ingrid Wendt
Soft Thunder/ Jake Skeets
The Puddle/ Wisława Szymborska
Mom Hires a Stunt Double/ Todd Dillard
A Stranger/ Saeed Jones
Alone and Not Alone/ Carl Sandburg
Let Evening Come/ Jane Kenyon
Fragment (Stone)/ Ann Lauterbach
A Walk in the Park/ Dana Levin
The Year We Fell in Love with Moss/ Sally Baker
At My Desk/ Linda Pastan
The Moths/ Mary Oliver
After the Snow/ Linda Pastan (from Insomnia)
The Birds/ Linda Pastan
Memory of a Bird/ Linda Pastan
Practicing/ Linda Pastan
The Clouds/ Linda Pastan
Almost An Elegy: For Tony Hoaglund/ Linda Pastan
Squint/ Linda Pastan
For Miriam, Who Hears Voices/ Linda Pastan
November Rain/ Linda Pastan
Elegy/ Linda Pastan (1986)
In the Orchard/ Linda Pastan
Emily Dickinson/ Linda Pastan
Wind Chill/ Linda Pastan
Ethics/ Linda Pastan
The Death of the Self/ Linda Pastan
At the Window/ Linda Pastan
Why Are Your Poems so Dark?/ Linda Pastan
Alone/ Jack Gilbert
Poem with No Speaker/ Franz Wright
Rain/Jack Gilbert
Opera Singer/Ross Gay
from March, 1979/ Tomas Tranströmer
Grace/ Kelli Russell Agodon
Don’t Tell Anyone/ Tony Hoaglund
The Moths/ Mary Oliver
Another Empty Window Dipped in Milk/ Kelli Agodon Russell
I Try to Plagiarize Moonlight/ Kelli Agodon Russell
Lake of the Isles/ Anni Liu
A Murmur in the Trees – to note – / Emily Dickinson (F433 — 1862)
[from this bench I like to call my bench]/ Diane Seuss
The End Of March/ Elizabeth Bishop (June 1974)
Poetics/ A. R. Ammons
Project/ A. R. Ammon
Weathering/ A. R. Ammons
Equilibrium/ A. R. Ammons
The Secret/ Denise Levertov
Equinox/ Diannely Antigua
Little Infinities/ Fay Dillof
Grassy Sound/ A. R. Ammons
Play/ A. R. Ammons
Expressions at Sea Level/ A. R. Ammons
garbage/ A. R. Ammons
This Nest, Swift Passerine / Dan Beachy-Quick
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, JESUS WAS A LEO/ Paula Turcotte
How Far Away We Are/ Anushka Shah
Lying While Birding/ Naomi Shihab Nye
Lark-Luster/ Eamon Grennan
What I Am Telling You, Jessica, Is That Those Chickens Are Fine/ K.T. Landon
A Tiny Little Equation/ Shuri Kido
Red/ Mary Ruefle
Red Red Red/ Fiona Apple
Against Pink / DARA YEN ELERATH
The Bench/ Mary Ruefle
Mother, Washing Dishes/ Susan Meyers
What the Living Do/ Marie Howe
Sidereal/ Debra Albery
I Inherit the Whims of my Mother As I Prepare to Trash This Draft/ Donna Vorreyer
Believing Anagrams/ Kelli Agodon Russell
IV / Laura Gilpin
Motion/ Jessica Goodfellow
In Praise of Mystery/ Ada Limón
Ode to Money, or Patient Appealing Health Insurance for Denial of Coverage/ Katie Farris
Knot Work / Not Work / Knot Hole / Not Whole: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben, trans. Lee Ann Roripaugh
The Social Life of Water/ Tony Hoaglund
Crossing Water/ Tony Hoaglund
maggie and millie and molly and may / e.e. cummings
Passage / Barbara Guest
Repulsive Theory / Kay Ryan
Left-handed Sugar/ Jane Hirshfield
A Primer of the Daily Round/ Howard Nemerov
Oak Skin/ Kris Ringman
Western Edge/ Carl Phillips
Trust/ Thomas R. Smith
lxxxi. / Major Jackson
Romance/ Susan Browne
Glacier/ Claire Wahmanholm
Swimming, One Day in August/ Mary Oliver
The World / Marie Howe
Doxorubicin: Infusion/ Lauren Paul Watson
Exodus/ Joseph Fasano
Come In/ Robert Frost
Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye
More Swans and More Women/ Heather Christle
Talisman/ Luisa A. Igloria
Hog Island/ Luisa A. Igloria
Psalm with No Cure/ Julia B. Levine
Above Pate Valley/ Gary Snyder
Autobiography/ Michael Dumanis
Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais/ Forrest Gander
Erosion/ David Hanlon
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants — (1350)/ Emily Dickinson
The Hum of the Living/ Kelli Russell Agodon
The Committee Weighs In/ Andrea Cohen
Dorothy,/ Garth Graeper
Ars Poetica/ José Oliverez
…shift at oars/ Stcy Szymaszek
For the Birds/ Zilka Joseph
It Must Be Leaves/ Jane Hirshfield
Childhood/ David Baker
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (1010)/ EMILY DICKINSON
Friendly?/ Luke Strathmann
Bat/ D.H. Lawrence
Ode to Halloween/ Joanne Durham
Injury Room / Katie Ford
I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house. / Donika Kelly
Nature startles in familiar spaces. / Dagne Forrest
Mistake/ Heather Christle
punctum/ Teja Sudhakar