 Selected Favourite PoemsA Blessing — James Wright Anagrammer — Peter Pereira
Ars Poetica [excerpt] — George Amabile Ars Poetica — Archibald Macleish
Blandeur — Kay Ryan
Bloodying August Polito’s Nose — James Bertolino The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered — Clive James
The Book of Questions III — Pablo Neruda
Choices — Tess Gallagher
Content — David Ignatow Cradle — Roberto Ascalon Digging — Seamus Heaney
Dust of Snow — Robert Frost
Eating Poetry — Mark Strand How to Be a Poet — Wendell Berry
I Could Take — Hayden Carruth
if everything happens that can’t be done — E. E. Cummings +
If the moon came out only once a month — Cathy Ross
Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins
l(a — E. E. Cummings
let's start a magazine — E. E. Cummings (see the origin of this website’s name)
The Longest Word — Peggy Barnett Losing Private Sutherland — Jerry Kilbride (haibun)
Love Poem — Curtis Dunlap
Maybe Love Is More Like an Onion — Lana Hechtman Ayers
Mindful — Mary Oliver
Nantucket — William Carlos Williams The New Poetry Handbook — Mark Strand
New Season — Wendy Cope One Does Not Write — Naomi Beth Wakan On Nothing — Antonio Porchia On the Fishing Fly — Thomas Lynch (haibun)
Poetics — A. R. Ammons Poetry — Marianne Moore Poetry Reading — Anna Swir
Purple — Alexis Rotella Silence — William Carlos Williams
A Story About the Body — Robert Hass The Summer Day — Mary Oliver Thank You for Saying Thank You — Charles BernsteinThat Brat — Anna Swir
The Peace of Wild Things — Wendell Berry
The Real Work — Wendell Berry The Times-Herald that day had good news — Susan Oakes
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — Wallace Stevens To Doris Thurston on Her Eightieth Birthday — Sam Hamill Wayfarer’s Night Song — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Welcome Morning — Anne Sexton Why I Am Happy — William Stafford
For FunCandidate for a Pullet Surprise — Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar The English Lesson — Anonymous English Pronunciation — G. Nolst Trenité
maggie and milly and molly and may — E. E. Cummings
Miss Snooks, Poetess — Stevie Smith
Monsieur Joliat — Wilson MacDonald
My Daddy — Ogden Nash
Smart — Shel Silverstein
The Reading — Wendy Cope +
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