Poets and Poems Included
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| Poet | Poem | Where poem previously appeared |
| A. R. Ammons | "Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything" |
The Hudson Review |
| Ralph Angel | "Shadow Play" | Poetry |
| Rae Armantrout | "Bases" | o•blék |
| John Ash | "Memories of Italy" | Disbelief |
| John Ashbery | "One Coat of Paint" | Shenandoah |
| Ted Berrigan | "My Autobiography" | New American Writing |
| Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | "Chinese Space" | Conjunctions |
| George Bradley | "Noch Einmal, an Orpheus" | Grand Street |
| Stefan Brecht | "Momentariness" | Tyuonyi |
| Joseph Brodsky | "To Urania" | The Paris Review |
| Nicholas Christopher | "Miranda inReno" | The New Republic |
| Marc Cohen | "Mecox Road" | Verse |
| Wanda Coleman | "Essay on Language" | Heavy Daughter Blues |
| Clark Coolidge | "A Monologue" | o•blék |
| Alfred Corn | "New Year" | Partisan Review |
| Douglas Crase | "Dog Star Sale" | The Paris Review |
| Robert Creeley | "The Dream" | Exquisite Corpse |
| Tom Disch | "In Memoriam" | Boulevard |
| Kenward Elmslie | "Top O' Silo" | Conjunctions |
| Alice Fulton | "Losing It" | Epoch |
| Amy Gerstler | "marriage" | New American Writing |
| Jorie Graham | "On Difficulty" | The End of Beauty |
| Deborah Greger | "Snow White and Rose Red" | The New Yorker |
| Allen Grossman | "The Piano Player Explains Himself" | Grand Street |
| Barbara Guest | "Words" | Tyuonyi |
| Rachel Hadas | "Nourishment" | Boulevard |
| Donald Hall | "Prophecy" | The Paris Review |
| Robert Hass | "Thin Air" | Antaeus |
| Seamus Heaney | "A Shooting Script" | American Poetry Review |
| Anthony Hecht | "Envoi" | The Yale Review |
| Gerrit Henry | "The Confessions of Gerrit" | Mudfish |
| John Hollander | "An Old Story is Retold" | Partisan Review |
| Richard Howard | "The Foreigner Remembered by a Local Man" | For Nelson Mandela |
| Donald Justice | "Nostalgia of the Lakefronts" | Antaeus |
| Robert Kelly | "Hercules Musarum" | Tyuonyi |
| Kevin Killiam | "Pasolini" | Shiny International |
| August Kleinzahler | "Soda Water with a Boyhood Friend" | New American Writing |
| Carolina Knox | "Movement Along the Frieze" | New American Writing |
| Kenneth Koch | "What People Say About Paris" | Poetry |
| John Koethe | "Mistral" | The Paris Review |
| Philip Lamantia | "Unachieved" | Sulfur |
| Ann Lauterbach | "Psyche's Dream" | Before Recollection |
| David Lehman | "Operation Memory" | Shenandoah |
| Philip Levine | "A Walk with Tom Jefferson" | The Paris Review |
| Nathaniel Mackey | "Degree Four" | Conjunctions |
| Michael Malinowitz | "Funeral March for a Papagallo" | Aerial |
| Tom Mandel | "Hungry and Waiting" | Sulfur |
| Harry Matthews | "Histoire" | Armenian Papers |
| Bernadette Mayer | "Holding the Thought of Love" | Exquisite Corpse |
| James Merrill | "Farewell Performance" | Grand Street |
| Eileen Myles | "Public Television" | Shiny International |
| A. L. Nielson | "Route E" | Aerial |
| Ron Padgett | "Light As Air" | Boulevard |
| Michael Palmer | "From C" | o•blék |
| Bob Perelman | "Politics" | o•blék |
| Robert Pinsky | "The Hearts" | The New Republic |
| Donald Revell | "St. Lucy's Day" | Poetry |
| Joe Ross | "From Act I, Scene II of Guards of the Heart" | 'Aerial |
| Leslie Scalapino | "Jumping-jack flash" | Conjunctions |
| James Schuyler | "Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey!" | Poetry |
| David Shapiro | "Empathy for David Winfield" | Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball |
| Charles Simic | "St Thomas Aquinas" | Antaeus |
| Gary Snyder | "Walking the New York Bedrock Alive in the Sea of Information" |
Sulfer |
| Ruth Stone | "The Latest Hotel Guest Walks Over Particles That Revolve in Seven Other Dimensions Controlling Latticed Space" |
American Poetry Review |
| May Swenson | "Dummy, 51, to Go to Museum. Ventriloquist Dead at 75" |
In Other Words |
| James Tate | "Neighbors" | Sonora Review |
| Lydia Tomkiw | "Six of Ox Is" | New American Writing |
| Derek Walcott | "Elsewhere" | The Arkansas Testament |
| Rosanne Wasserman | "Inuit and Seal" | Sulfur |
| Majorie Welish | "Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved" | o•blék |
| Susan Wheeler | "What Memory Reveals" | Sulfur |
| Richard Wilbur | "Trolling for Blues" | Poetry |
| Alan Williamson | "Recitation for Dismantling the Hydrogen Bomb" | American Poetry Review |
| John Yau | "Genghis Chan: Private Eye" | Sulfur |
| Geoffrey Young | "Drive, It Said" | New American Writing |
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Famous quotes containing the words poets, poems and/or included:
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they’re money.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)