<div sercontent=""> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Speaker, Listener, and Context </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Star-Spangled Banner</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Language of Poetry </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Figurative Language </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Allegory and Symbol </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Tone of Voice </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Repetition: Sounds and Schemes </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Meter and Rhythm </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Free Verse, Open Form and Closed Forms</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Stanza Forms </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fixed Forms </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Literary History, Poetic Conventions, and Theory</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Writing about Poetry</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Poetry</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Anonymous </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Western Wind</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Bonny Barbara Allan </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sir Patrick Spens </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> They Flee from Me </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Whoso List to Hunt </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Amoretti: Sonnet 75</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Burning Babe </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michael Drayton (1563-1631)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Idea: Sonnet 61 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Shakespeare (1564-1616)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 18 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 20</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 29 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 73 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 116 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 129 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet 130 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Thomas Campion (1567-1620)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> There Is a Garden in Her Face </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Donne (1572-1631)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Flea </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Holy Sonnet 10</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Holy Sonnet 14</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Sun Rising </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ben Jonson (1573-1637)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> On My First Son </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Herrick (1591-1674)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">George Herbert (1593-1633)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Easter Wings </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Pulley </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Redemption </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Edmund Waller (1606-1687) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Milton (1608-1674)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> How Soon Hath Time </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> On the Late Massacre in Piedmont</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> When I Consider How My Light Is Spent</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Author to Her Book </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> To Lucasta, Going to the Wars </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> To His Coy Mistress </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Dryden (1631-1700)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> To the Memory of Mr. Oldham </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Description of a City Shower </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Alexander Pope (1688-1744)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> from An Essay on Criticism </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ode on Solitude</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Thomas Gray (1716-1771) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Blake (1757-1827)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Chimney Sweeper </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Little Black Boy </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Poison Tree</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Tyger </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Burns (1759-1796)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Red, Red Rose </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> John Barleycorn</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Wordsworth (1770-1850)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> It Is a Beauteous Evening </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ode: Intimations of Immortality </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Frost at Midnight </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Kubla Khan </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Work Without Hope</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> She Walks in Beauty</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Stanzas </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> When We Two Parted </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ode to the West Wind </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ozymandias</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Keats (1795-1821)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> * Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> La Belle Dame sans Merci </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ode to a Nightingale </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> On First Looking into Chapman's Homer </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Arsenal at Springfield </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Cross of Snow </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Haunted Palace</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Raven</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnet: To Science </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Eagle </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Lady of Shalott</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Tears, Idle Tears </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ulysses </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Browning (1812-1889)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> My Last Duchess </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Porphyria's Lover</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Walt Whitman (1819-1892)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Noiseless Patient Spider </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> O Captain, My Captain</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Grey and Dim</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 1</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 5</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 6 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 11 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 21</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 32 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Song of Myself, 52 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dover Beach </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Because I Could Not Stop for Death </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Brain Is Wider than the Sky</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Much Madness is Divinest Sense </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Narrow Fellow in the Grass </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Soul Selects Her Own Society</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> There’s a Certain Slant of Light</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Wild Nights--Wild Nights </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Up-Hill </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Channel Firing</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Neutral Tones </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Ruined Maid </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> God's Grandeur </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Pied Beauty</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Spring and Fall: To a Young Child </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The New Colossus </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">A. E. Housman (1859-1936)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Eight O'Clock </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Lake Isle of Innisfree</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Leda and the Swan </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sailing to Byzantium </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Second Coming </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Song of Wandering Aengus </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Firelight </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Mill </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Richard Cory</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Stephen Crane (1871-1900)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Wayfarer </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> We Wear the Mask </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Frost (1874-1963)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Acquainted with the Night </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> After Apple-Picking </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Design </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Home Burial </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Need of Being Versed in Country Things </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Road Not Taken</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1034)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Amaze</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Languor after Pain</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Trapped </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Anecdote of the Jar </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Emperor of Ice-Cream</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Snow Man </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sunday Morning</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Worms at Heavens Gate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Last Words of My English Grandmother </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Red Wheelbarrow</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Spring and All </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ezra Pound (1885-1972)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> In a Station of the Metro </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Portrait d'une Femme</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Let No Charitable Hope</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ophelia </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Pear Tree </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sea Rose</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dreamers </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Purse-Seine </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marianne Moore (1887-1972)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Fish</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Silence </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Journey of the Magi </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Preludes </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dulce et Decorum Est </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">e. e. cummings (1894-1962)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> pity this busy monster,manunkind</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> plato told </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> * somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jean Toomer (1894-1967)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Georgia Dusk </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Louise Bogan (1897-1970)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Women </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Langston Hughes (1902-1967)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dream Boogie</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> * Harlem Sweeties</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Weary Blues</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Stevie Smith (1902-1971)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Our Bog Is Dood</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Countee Cullen (1903-1946)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Incident </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Yet Do I Marvel </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">W. H. Auden (1907-1973)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> As I Walked Out One Evening</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Musée des Beaux Arts </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Unknown Citizen </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dolor </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> My Papa's Waltz</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Root Cellar </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Fish </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> One Art</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> * The Shampoo</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Hayden (1913-1980)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Those Winter Sundays </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dudley Randall (1914-2000)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ballad of Birmingham </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">William Stafford (1914-1993) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Traveling through the Dark </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Poem in October </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Weldon Kees (1914-1955)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> For My Daughter </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Margaret Walker (1915-1998)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> For Malcolm X </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> the ballad of chocolate Mabbie</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> the mother </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> We Real Cool </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Coney Island of the Mind, #15 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">May Swenson (1919-1989)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> How Everything Happens </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Primer of the Daily Round </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Junk </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> * For C</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Writer </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Year's End </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Philip Larkin (1922-1985)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Next, Please </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> This Be the Verse</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Whitsun Weddings </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">James Dickey (1923-1997)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Heaven of Animals </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Alan Dugan (1923-2003)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Love Song: I and Thou </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Dover Bitch</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Third Avenue in Sunlight </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Daniel Hoffman (b. 1923)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> As I Was Going to Saint-Ives</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Louis Simpson (b. 1923)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> American Classic </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> My Father in the Night Commanding No </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Vassar Miller (1924-1997)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Subterfuge </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Donald Justice (b. 1925)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Counting the Mad</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Ungrateful Garden </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Pro Femina: Part Three </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Noted in the New York Times </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Supermarket in California </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">James Merrill (1926-1995)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Casual Wear</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Day Lady Died </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Mementos, I </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Ashbery (b. 1927)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Paradoxes and Oxymorons </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> For the Anniversary of My Death </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Last One </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">James Wright (1927-1980)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Saint Judas </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Philip Levine (b. 1928)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> You Can Have It </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Anne Sexton (1928-1974)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Cinderella </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Thom Gunn (b. 1929)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> From the Wave </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Terminal </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Little Elegy </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Aunt Jennifer's Tigers</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Diving into the Wreck </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Rape </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ted Hughes (b. 1930-1998)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Pike </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gary Snyder (b. 1930)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Walk </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Miller Williams (b. 1930)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Book </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Linda Pastan (b. 1932)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ethics</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Daddy</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Edge </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Metaphors </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gerald Barrax (b. 1933)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mark Strand (b. 1934) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Tunnel </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Lewis Turco (b. 1934)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Premonition</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Russel Edson (b. 1935)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ape </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Oliver (b. 1935)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Black Walnut Tree</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Honey at the Table </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fred Chappell (b. 1936)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Narcissus and Echo </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> homage to my hips</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> wishes for sons </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marge Piercy (b. 1936)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> What’s That Smell in the Kitchen! </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Betty Adcock (b. 1938)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Voyages </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Phillips (b. 1938)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Stone Crab: A Love Poem</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dabney Stuart (b. 1938)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Discovering My Daughter </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Siren Song </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Sacred </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Digging </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Punishment</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ted Kooser (b. 19390</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Abandoned Farmhouse</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Tom Disch (b. 1940)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Ballade of the New God </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Florence Cassen Mayers (b. 1940)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> All American Sestina</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Pattiann Rogers (b. 1940)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Foreplay </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Billy Collins (b. 1941)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Litany</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Paradelle for Susan </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Hass (b. 1941)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Meditation at Lagunitas </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Serenity in Stones </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gibbons Ruark (b. 1941)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Visitor </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Gladys Cardiff (b. 1942)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Combing</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">B.H. Fairchild (b. 1942)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Body and Soul</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Charles Martin (b. 1942)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> E.S.L.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sharon Olds (b. 1942)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The One Girl at the Boys Party </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Henry Taylor (b. 1942)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> From Brief Candles</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Diane Lockward (b. 1943)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> My Husband Discovers Poetry</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ellen Bryant Voight (b. 1943)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Daughter </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Morgan (b. 1944)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Mountain Bride </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Craig Raine (b. 1944)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Martian Sends a Postcard Home </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Enid Shomer (b. 1944)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Women Bathing at Bergen Belsen </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Wendy Cope (b. 1944)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Rondeau Redoublé</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dick Davis (b. 1945)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> A Monorhyme for the Shower</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kay Ryan (b. 1945)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Bestiary</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Leon Stokesbury (b. 1945)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Day Kennedy Died</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Whitworth (b. 1945)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Examiners</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Ballad of Aunt Geneva </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ai (1947-2010)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Child Beater</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Jim Hall (b. 1947)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Facing It</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">R.S. Gwynn (b. 1948)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses an Anthology of Poetry </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Timothy Steele (b. 1948)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sapphics Against Anger </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">James Fenton (b. 1949)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> God, a Poem </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sarah Cortez (b. 1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Tu Negrito</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Colonel </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Dana Gioia (b. 1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Planting a Sequoia </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Rodney Jones (b. 1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Timothy Murphy (b. 1950)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Case Notes</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Joy Harjo (b. 1951)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> She Had Some Horses </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Andrew Hudgins (b. 1951)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Air View of an Industrial Scene </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Robert Wrigley (b. 1951)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Thatcher Bitchboy</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Rita Dove (b. 1952)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> American Smooth </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mark Jarman (b. 1952)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> After Disappointment</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Julie Kane (b. 19520</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Alan Doll Rap</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Traveling Onion </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Alberto Ríos (b. 1952)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Purpose of Altar Boys </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Julia Alvarez (b. 1953)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Bilingual Sestina </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Dim Lady</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kim Addonizio (b. 1954)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Sonnenizio on a Line by Millay</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">David Mason (b. 1954)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Fog Horns </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Welcome to Hiroshima </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Cathy Song (b. 1955)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Stamp Collecting</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ginger Andrews (b. 1956)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Primping in the Rearview Mirror</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Annie Finch (b. 1956)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Coy Mistress</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">* Amy Gerstler (B. 1956) </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Advice from a Caterpillar</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">* Rebecca Faust (B. 1957)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Family Story</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">April Lindner (b. 1962)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> First Kiss</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Catherine Tufariello (b. 1963)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Useful Advice</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Exaggeration of Despair</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Domestic Work, 1937</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">* Craig Arnold (1967-2009)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Singers</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Allison Joseph (b. 1967)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Athlete</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Brian Turner (b. 1967)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Here. Bullet</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Occupation</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">A. E. Stallings (b. 1968)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> First Love: A Quiz</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Joshua Mehigan (b. 1969)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Riddle</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">* Ernest Hilbert (B. 1970)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Domestic Situation</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sophie Hannah (b. 1971)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> The Guest Speaker</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Emily Moore (b. 1977)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Auld Lang Syne</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">* Erica Dawson (B. 1979)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Somewhere Between Columbus and Cincinnati</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Appendix: Stanza, Fixed, and Nonce Forms</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Acknowledgments</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Index of Critical Terms</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Additional Titles of Interest</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> </div>