Poets and Poems Included
Listed in alphabetical order by author's name:
| Poet | Poem | Publication where poem previously appeared |
| Kazim Ali | "The Art of Breathing" | Barrow Street |
| Jeannette Allee | "Crimble of Staines" | Field |
| Rae Armantrout | "Scumble" | American Poet |
| Mary Jo Bang | "The Opening" | Verse |
| Nicky Beer | "Still Life with Half-Turned Woman and Questions" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Marvin Bell | "The Method" | Crazyhorse |
| Christian Bok | "Vowels" | New American Writing |
| Louis E. Bourgeois | "A Voice from the City" | Sentence |
| Geoffrey Brock | "Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859" | Subtropics |
| Matthew Byrne | "Let Me Count the Ways" | Poet Lore |
| Macgregor Card | "Duties of an English Foreign Secretary" | Fence |
| Julie Carr | "marriage" | POOL |
| Michael Collier | "Common Flicker" | TriQuarterly |
| Billy Collins | "The News Today" | Bookforum |
| Robert Creeley | "Valentine for You" | Crazyhorse |
| Linh Dinh | "Continuous Bullets over Flattened Earth and A Super-Clean Country" |
New American Writing |
| Mike Dockins | "Dead Critics Society" | The Atlanta Review |
| Sharon Dolin | "Tea Lay" | New American Writing |
| Denise Duhamel | "Language Police Report" | Sentence |
| Stephen Dunn | "Where He Found Himself" | Iowa Review |
| Russell Edson | "See Jack" | Sentence |
| Elaine Equi | "Etudes" | the tiny |
| Landis Everson | "Lemon Tree" | American Poetry Review |
| Thomas Fink | "Yinglish Strophes IX" | Barrow Street |
| Helen Ransom Forman | "Daily" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Louise Gluck | "Archaic Fragment" | Poetry |
| Albert Goldbarth | "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | New Letters |
| Donald Hall | "The Master" | American Poetry Review |
| Mark Halliday | "Best Am Po" | POOL |
| Forrest Hamer | "Initiation" | American Poetry Review |
| Matthea Harvey | "From The Future of Terror/Terror of the Future Series" | Bomb |
| Robert Hass | "Bush's War" | American Poetry Review |
| Jane Hirshfield | "Critique of Pure Reason" | Ploughshares |
| Daniel Johnson | "Do Unto Others" | Barrow Street |
| Richard Kenney | "Auguries" | Southwest Review |
| Milton Kessler | "Comma of God" | Sentence |
| Galway Kinnell | "Hide-and-Seek, 1933" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| David Kirby | "Ode to the Personals" | Five Points |
| Julie Larios | "What Bee Did" | The Cortland Review |
| Brad Leithauser | "A Good List" | The New Criterion |
| Ben Lerner | "From Angle of Yaw" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Joanie Mackowski | "When I was a dinosaur" | POOL |
| Amit Majmudar | "By Accident" | The Antioch Review |
| Sabrina Orah Mark | "The 10 Stages of Beatrice" | Conduit |
| Campbell McGrath | "Ode to the Plantar Fascia" | POOL |
| Leslie Adrienne Miller | "On Leonardo's Drawings" | The Kenyon Review |
| Marilyn Nelson | "Etymology" | Literary Imagination |
| Meghan O'Rourke | "Peep Show" | The Kenyon Review |
| Ed Ochester | "Voltaire at Cirey, 1736" | Barrow Street |
| Gregory Orr | "From Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved" |
RATTLE |
| Danielle Pafunda | "Dear Pearce & Pearce, Inc." | Denver Quarterly |
| Chad Parmenter | "A Tech's Ode to Genome Computer" | The Kenyon Review |
| Susan Parr | "Swooping Actuarial Fauna and Ecstatic Cling" | Alaska Quarterly Review |
| Peter Pereira | "Nursmaid's Elbow" | New England Review |
| Robert Pinsky | "Stupid Meditation on Peace" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Pinsky | "Louie Louie" | American Poetry Review |
| David Rivard | "The Rev. Larry Love is Dead" | TriQuarterly |
| Marya Rosenberg | "If I Tell You You're Beautiful, Will You Report Me?: A West Point Haiku Series" |
Hanging Loose |
| Natasha Saje | "F" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Frederick Seidel | "The Death of the Sha" | Raritan Quarterly Review |
| Alan Shapiro | "Country Western Singer" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| David Shumate | "Drawing Jesus" | Gulf Coast |
| Carmine Starnino | "Money" | New American Writing |
| Brian Turner | "What Every Soldier Should Know" | American Poet |
| Arthur Vogelsang | "The Family" | Colorado Review |
| Cody Walker | "Coulrophobia" | Tarpaulin Sky |
| Kary Wayson | "Flu Song in Spanish" | Alaska Quarterly Review |
| Charles Harper Webb | "Big" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Joe Wenderoth | "The Home of the Brave" | Sacramento News & Review |
| Richard Wilbur | "From Opposites and More Opposites" | American Poet |
| George Witte | "At Dusk, the Catbird" | The Vocabula Review |
| Theodor Worozbyt | "An Experiment" | Crazyhorse |
| Harriet Zinnes | "Remiss Rebut" | Colorado Review |
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Famous quotes containing the words poets, poems and/or included:
“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects, of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)