In 1969 (Larry Levis Poems)
Some called it the Summer of Love, & although the clustered,Motionless leaves that overhung the streets looked the sameAs ever, ...
Television Poems (31 Poems)
Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time (Nick Flynn Poems)
He reads my latest attempt at a poemand is silent for a long time, until it feelslike that night we ...
The Colonel (Carolyn Forch Poems)
What you have heard is true. I was in his house.His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. Hisdaughter ...
The Handicapped on Camera (Kaimare Mein Apahij) (Raghuvir Sahay Poems)
We shall appear on television,we the fit and able.We shall usher this poor wreckinto a sealed room.We'll ask him:So, you're ...
The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra (Aaron Fogel Poems)
The man who had never heard of Frank Sinatra: he livedA perfectly ordinary life in America. Born in 1915,He followed ...
First Things to Hand (Robert Pinsky Poems)
In the skull kept on the desk.In the spider-pod in the dust.Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves,Or nowhere. And if ...
Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions (D A Levy Poems)
"1.WARMING UP THE BOXdelivered on time to persons with city & state line bearing only the words DEATH CITY - ...
Ballad of the Breadman (Charles Causley Poems)
Mary stood in the kitchenBaking a loaf of bread.An angel flew in the window'We've a job for you,' he said.'God ...
On (Bob Kaufman Poem)
On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear. On yardbird corners of parkerflights to sound filled pockets ...
For an Earth-Landing (Erica Jong Poem)
the sky sinks its blue teeth into the mountains. Rising on pure will (the lurch & lift-off, the sudden swing ...
Salmon (Jorie Graham Poem)
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
America (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
Researching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Above the noise in the room below the sound of the television, the game, the laughter of our five-year old ...
In the Dark of Night (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A small solitary island without television, phone without running water But it had the call of the loon the splash ...
The Colonel (Carolyn Forche Poem)
What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. ...
Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time (Nick Flynn Poem)
He reads my latest attempt at a poem and is silent for a long time, until it feels like that ...
Drug Trial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
Middlesex (John Betjeman Poem)
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
Dream Song 133: As he grew famousâ?”ah, but what is fame? (John Berryman Poem)
As he grew famousâ?"ah, but what is fame?â?" he lost his old obsession with his name, things seemed to matter ...
You Are The Mountain (Lisa Zaran Poems)
At one end of the couch you sit, mute as a pillow tossed onto the upholstery. I watch you sometimes ...
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home (Craig Raine Poems)
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings -- they cause the eyes to ...
From an Atlas of the Difficult World (Adrienne Rich Poems)
I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the ...
Toad Dreams (Marge Piercy Poems)
That afternoon the dream of the toads rang through the elms by Little River and affected the thoughts of men, ...
Poem With Refrains (Robert Pinsky Poems)
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
The Chipmunk (Ogden Nash Poems)
My friends all know that I am shy, But the chipmunk is twice and shy and I. He moves with ...
Gentleness Stirred (Nimah Nawwab Poems)
Striding through the gates of learning, Wrapped warmly in her black abaya, Modestly cloaked head to toe, Not a hair ...
The unquiet city (Chris Mansell Poems)
we are succulents our cool jade arms open over clean tables our fine bone china minds pull the strings of ...
Animals Are Passing From Our Lives (Philip Levine Poems)
It's wonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping like oiled parts with each light ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...