Poets and Poems Included
Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
Jonathan Aaron | "Mr. Moto's Confession" | The New Republic |
Agha Shahid Ali | "The Floating Post Office" | The Kenyon Review |
Dick Allen | "The Cove" | The Hudson Review |
A. R. Ammons | "Now Then" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Daniel Anderson | "A Possum's Tale" | Raritan |
James Applewhite | "Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains" | The Southern Review |
Craig Arnold | "Hot" | Poetry |
Sarah Arvio | from "Visits from the Seventh" | The Paris Review |
John Ashbery | "Wakefulness"] | The New Yorker |
Frank Bidart | "The Second Hour of the Night" | The Threepenny Review |
Robert Bly | "A Week of Poems at Bennington" | AGNI |
George Bradley | "In an Old Garden" | The New Yorker |
John Bricuth | from "Just Let me Say This About That" | Southwest Review |
Anne Carson | "TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)" | The Paris Review |
Turner Cassity | "Symbol of the Faith" | Southwest Review |
Henri Cole | "Self-Portrait as Four Styles of Pompeian Wall Painting" |
The New Republic |
Billy Collins | "Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey" |
Poetry |
Alfred Corn | "Jaffa" | New England Review |
James Cummins | "Echo" | The Antioch Review |
Tom Disch | "What Else Is There" | Poetry |
Denise Duhamel | "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope" | Salt Hill |
Lynn Emanuel | "Like God" | Boston Review |
Irving Feldman | "Movietime" | The Kenyon Review |
Emily Fragos | "Apollo's Kiss" | Chelsea (magazine) |
Debora Greger | "Mass in B Minor" | New England Review |
Allen Grossman | "Weird River" | Partisan Review |
Thom Gunn | "To Cupid" | The New Yorker |
Marilyn Hacker | "Again, The River" | Ploughshares |
Rachel Hadas | "Pomegranate Variations" | The Kenyon Review |
Donald Hall | "Letter with No Address" | Ploughshares |
Joseph Harrison | "The Cretonnes of Penelope" | The Paris Review |
Anthony Hecht | "Rara Avis in Terris" | The New Republic |
Daryl Hine | "The World Is Everything That Is the Case" |
Poetry |
Edward Hirsch | "The Lectures on Love" | The Paris Review |
Richard Howard | "The Job Interview" | The New Republic |
Andrew Hudgins | "The Hanging Gardens" | River Styx |
Mark Jarman | "The Word "Answer" | Connecticut Review |
Donald Justice | "Stanzas on a Hidden Theme" | The New Yorker |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly | "The Orchard" | New England Review |
Karl Kirchwey | "Roman Hours" | The Yale Review |
Carolyn Kizer | "Second Time Around" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Kenneth Koch | "Ballade" | The Yale Review |
John Koethe | "The Secret Amplitude" | Southwest Review |
Rika Lesser | "About Her" | Poetry |
Phillis Levin | "Ontological" | The New Criterion |
Philip Levine | "Drum" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
Rebecca McClanahan | "Making Love" | The Gettysburg Review |
J. D. McClatchy | "Descartes's Dream" | Southwest Review |
Heather McHugh | "Past All Understanding" | Denver Quarterly |
Sandra McPherson | "Chalk-Circle Compass" | Poetry |
W. S. Merwin | "The Chinese Mountain Fox" | The Yale Review |
Robert Mezey | "Joe Simpson " | The New Yorker |
A. F. Moritz | "Artisan and Clerk" | The Yale Review |
Thylias Moss | "The Right Empowerment of Light" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
William Mullen | "Enchanted Rock" | The Yale Review |
Eric Ormsby | "Flamingos" | The Gettysburg Review |
Jacqueline Osherow | "Views of La Leggenda della Vera Croce" | Western Humanities Review |
Robert Pinsky | "Ode to Meaning" | The Threepenny Review |
Reynolds Price | "The Closing, the Ecstasy" | Poetry |
Wyatt Prunty | "March" | Connecticut Review |
Stephen Sandy | "Four Corners, Vermont" | The New Republic |
Alan Shapiro | "The Coat" | Ploughshares |
Robert B. Shaw | "A Geode" | The Hudson Review |
Charles Simic | "Ambiguity's Wedding" | FIELD |
Mark Strand | "The View" | The London Review of Books |
James Tate | "Dream On" | American Poetry Review |
Sidney Wade | "A Calm November. Sunday in the Fields." | Denver Quarterly |
Derek Walcott | "Signs" | Conjunctions |
Rosanna Warren | "'Departure'" | The New Republic |
Rachel Wetzsteon | "from "Home and Away"" | The Paris Review |
Susan Wheeler | "Shanked on the Red Bed" | The New Yorker |
Richard Wilbur | "For C." | The New Yorker |
C. K. Williams | "The Bed" | Ontario Review |
Greg Williamson | "The Dark Days" | The Yale Review |
Charles Wright | "Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song" |
Poetry |
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