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Countee Cullen’s “For a Lady I Know”

Countee Cullen’s “For a Lady I Know”

Etheridge Knight’s “The Sun Came”

Etheridge Knight’s “The Sun Came”

Tom Hansen’s “Revenant”

Tom Hansen’s “Revenant”

Shakespeare’s “When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy”

Shakespeare’s “When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy”

Joy Harjo’s “Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit”

Joy Harjo’s “Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit”

Claude McKay’s “The Lynching”

Claude McKay’s “The Lynching”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “An Ancient Gesture”

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “An Ancient Gesture”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Marina”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Marina”

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Truth”

Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Truth”

Allen Ginsberg’s “A Further Proposal”

Allen Ginsberg’s “A Further Proposal”

Wendy Cope’s “[Not only marble, but the plastic toys]”

Wendy Cope’s “[Not only marble, but the plastic toys]”

James Baldwin’s “[Lord, When You Send the Rain]”

James Baldwin’s “[Lord, When You Send the Rain]”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Marina”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Marina”

Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”

Sir Walter Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”

Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song”

Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song”

Michalle Gould’s “How Not to Need Resurrection”

Michalle Gould’s “How Not to Need Resurrection”

Anthony Hecht’s “The Dover Bitch”

Anthony Hecht’s “The Dover Bitch”

Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem”

Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem”

Ezra Pound’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

Ezra Pound’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

Emily Dickinson’s “Those Dying Then”

Emily Dickinson’s “Those Dying Then”

Alberto Rios’s “Refugio’s Hair”

Alberto Rios’s “Refugio’s Hair”

Patricia Smith’s “Emmett Till: Choose Your Own Adventure (p. 48)”

Patricia Smith’s “Emmett Till: Choose Your Own Adventure (p. 48)”

Ray A. Young Bear’s “The Personification of the Name”

Ray A. Young Bear’s “The Personification of the Name”

Roberta Hill Whiteman’s “For Heather, Entering Kindergarten”

Roberta Hill Whiteman’s “For Heather, Entering Kindergarten”

Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy”

Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy”

Louise Glück’s “Odysseus’ Decision”

Louise Glück’s “Odysseus’ Decision”

Alberto Rios’s “Refugio’s Hair”

Alberto Rios’s “Refugio’s Hair”

Emerson’s “Brahma”

Emerson’s “Brahma”

Simon Armitage’s “The Patriarchs: An Elegy”

Simon Armitage’s “The Patriarchs: An Elegy”

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 138: ‘When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth’”

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 138: ‘When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth’”

Brooks Haxton’s “If I May”

Brooks Haxton’s “If I May”

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Part I

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Part I

Kay Ryan’s “Blandeur”

Kay Ryan’s “Blandeur”

Yehuda Amichai’s “The Place Where We Are Right”

Yehuda Amichai’s “The Place Where We Are Right”

A.E. Stallings’ “Hades Welcomes His Bride”

A.E. Stallings’ “Hades Welcomes His Bride”

e.e. cummings’ “Plato told...”

e.e. cummings’ “Plato told...”

Geffrey Davis’s “Teaching Twelve-Year-Olds the Trail of Tears”

Geffrey Davis’s “Teaching Twelve-Year-Olds the Trail of Tears”

W.H. Auden’s “Ode to the Medieval Poets”

W.H. Auden’s “Ode to the Medieval Poets”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Don’t Let That Horse...”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Don’t Let That Horse...”

Robert Bly’s “Wanting Sumptuous Heavens”

Robert Bly’s “Wanting Sumptuous Heavens”

W. S. Merwin’s “When the War Is Over”

W. S. Merwin’s “When the War Is Over”

Ada Limón’s “Love Poem With Apologies for My Appearance “

Ada Limón’s “Love Poem With Apologies for My Appearance “

Keats’ “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

Keats’ “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

Wordsworth’s “Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room”

Wordsworth’s “Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room”

Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica”

Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica”

Ada Limón’s “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance”

Ada Limón’s “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance”

Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom”

Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom”

Ben Jonson’s “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare”

Ben Jonson’s “To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare”

“What the Thunder Said,” Part V of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

“What the Thunder Said,” Part V of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Dryden’s “Portrait of Zimri” from “Absalom and Achitophel”

Dryden’s “Portrait of Zimri” from “Absalom and Achitophel”

Robert Lowell’s “Robert Frost”

Robert Lowell’s “Robert Frost”

Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things”

Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things”

William Carlos Williams’ “The Dance”

William Carlos Williams’ “The Dance”

Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

David Lehman’s “February 10”

David Lehman’s “February 10”

William Butler Yeats’s “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”

William Butler Yeats’s “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”

Wisława Szymborska’s “Photograph from September 11” (Translated by Clare Cavanagh)

Wisława Szymborska’s “Photograph from September 11” (Translated by Clare Cavanagh)

From Matt Rasmussen’s “Elegy in X Parts”

From Matt Rasmussen’s “Elegy in X Parts”

Paul Muldoon’s “Meeting the British”

Paul Muldoon’s “Meeting the British”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Meditation”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Meditation”

John Keats’ “Ode on Melancholy”

John Keats’ “Ode on Melancholy”

W.S.Merwin’s “Plea for a Captive”

W.S.Merwin’s “Plea for a Captive”

Howard Nemerov’s “The Historical Judas”

Howard Nemerov’s “The Historical Judas”

E.E. Cummings’ “Buffalo Bill’s”

E.E. Cummings’ “Buffalo Bill’s”

Richard Eberhart’s “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”

Richard Eberhart’s “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment”

William Wordsworth’s “My Heart Leaps Up”

William Wordsworth’s “My Heart Leaps Up”

George Herbert’s “Love III”

George Herbert’s “Love III”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” part IV

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” part IV

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land, part 4: Death by Water”

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land, part 4: Death by Water”

John Donne’s “The Relic”

John Donne’s “The Relic”

Clint Smith’s “When people say, ‘we have made it through worse before’”

Clint Smith’s “When people say, ‘we have made it through worse before’”

Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”

Seamus Heaney’s “Digging”

Dylan Thomas’s “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”

Dylan Thomas’s “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”

Laura Kasischke’s “The Call of One Duck Flying South”

Laura Kasischke’s “The Call of One Duck Flying South”

Philip Larkin’s “Church Going”

Philip Larkin’s “Church Going”

Lucille Clifton’s “Blessing the Boats”

Lucille Clifton’s “Blessing the Boats”

Ada Limón’s “Instructions on Not Giving Up”

Ada Limón’s “Instructions on Not Giving Up”

Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying”

Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying”

Beth Ann Fennelly’s “Asked for a Happy Memory of her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field”

Beth Ann Fennelly’s “Asked for a Happy Memory of her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field”

Traci Brimhall’s “Love Poem without a Drop of Hyperbole”

Traci Brimhall’s “Love Poem without a Drop of Hyperbole”

John Milton’s “On Shakespeare”

John Milton’s “On Shakespeare”

Matthew Arnold’s “Shakespeare”

Matthew Arnold’s “Shakespeare”

Tyehimba Jess’s “Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914)

Tyehimba Jess’s “Jubilee: Greene Evans (1848-1914)

Campbell McGrath’s “Capitalist Poem #5”

Campbell McGrath’s “Capitalist Poem #5”

Sharon Olds’ “I Cannot Say I Did Not”

Sharon Olds’ “I Cannot Say I Did Not”

William Butler Yeats’ “Lake Isle of Innisfree”

William Butler Yeats’ “Lake Isle of Innisfree”

William Shakespeare’s “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun”

William Shakespeare’s “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun”

Robert Frost’s “Provide, Provide”

Robert Frost’s “Provide, Provide”

T.S. Eliot’s “The Fire Sermon: Part 3 of The Waste Land”

T.S. Eliot’s “The Fire Sermon: Part 3 of The Waste Land”

Emily Dickinson’s “Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant”

Emily Dickinson’s “Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant”

Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter”

Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Complaint to his Purse”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Complaint to his Purse”

Ron Wallace’s “Fielding”

Ron Wallace’s “Fielding”

Miller Williams’ “Love Poem with Toast”

Miller Williams’ “Love Poem with Toast”

Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West”

Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West”

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (Excerpt)

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (Excerpt)

Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”

Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”

Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”

Margaret Atwood’s “Habitation”

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.A.H.” (Section 27)

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam, A.A.H.” (Section 27)

Billy Collins’ “Lanyard”

Billy Collins’ “Lanyard”

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Adho Mukha Svanasana”

Stacey Margaret Jones’s “Adho Mukha Svanasana”

From Shelley’s “Adonais”

From Shelley’s “Adonais”

Carrie Fountain’s “Prayer (Close)” & “Prayer (Stranger)”

Carrie Fountain’s “Prayer (Close)” & “Prayer (Stranger)”

Jericho Brown’s “As A Human Being”

Jericho Brown’s “As A Human Being”

José Olivarez’s “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven”

José Olivarez’s “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven”

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

From Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

From Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Truth,” or “Ballade de bon conseyl”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Truth,” or “Ballade de bon conseyl”

Sharon Olds’ “Secondary Boycott Ode”

Sharon Olds’ “Secondary Boycott Ode”

Lord Byron’s “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”

Lord Byron’s “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”

Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care”

Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care”

Rita Dove’s “Fifth Grade Autobiography”

Rita Dove’s “Fifth Grade Autobiography”

Lucille Clifton’s “Cruelty.”

Lucille Clifton’s “Cruelty.”

Louise Glück’s “Daisies”

Louise Glück’s “Daisies”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Milton”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Milton”

Terrance Hayes’ “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” (43)

Terrance Hayes’ “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” (43)

William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802”

William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802”

Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”

Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”

John Dryden’s “Epigram on Milton”

John Dryden’s “Epigram on Milton”

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s “Lines written in a Blank Leaf of Milton’s Paradise Lost”

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s “Lines written in a Blank Leaf of Milton’s Paradise Lost”

Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes”

Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes”

Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sunday’s”

Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sunday’s”

Robinson Jeffers’ “Hurt Hawks”

Robinson Jeffers’ “Hurt Hawks”

Tiana Clark’s “Conversation With Phillis Wheatley #1”

Tiana Clark’s “Conversation With Phillis Wheatley #1”

Tiana Clark’s “Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #1”

Tiana Clark’s “Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #1”

Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

T.S. Eliot’s “A Game of Chess,” Part II of THE WASTE LAND

T.S. Eliot’s “A Game of Chess,” Part II of THE WASTE LAND

Billy Collins’ “Species”

Billy Collins’ “Species”

Chaucer’s “Squire’s Portrait” from the General Prologue

Chaucer’s “Squire’s Portrait” from the General Prologue

Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”

Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”

Robert Frost's Mending Wall

Robert Frost's Mending Wall

William Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 18, "Shall I Compare Thee

William Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 18, "Shall I Compare Thee

Sharon Olds' "The Death of Marilyn Monroe"

Sharon Olds' "The Death of Marilyn Monroe"

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."

George Herbert's "Redemption"

George Herbert's "Redemption"

John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

William Butler Yeats' "Easter 1916"

William Butler Yeats' "Easter 1916"

J.R.R. Tolkien's "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter"

J.R.R. Tolkien's "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter"

William Carlos Williams' "The Young Housewife"

William Carlos Williams' "The Young Housewife"

John Milton's "Lycidas" (Excerpt)

John Milton's "Lycidas" (Excerpt)

Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"

Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"

Robert Bly's "Counting Small-Boned Bodies"

Robert Bly's "Counting Small-Boned Bodies"

Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"

W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

William Blake's "Infant Sorrow"

William Blake's "Infant Sorrow"

Arthur Guiterman's "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness"

Arthur Guiterman's "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness"

T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Gary Snyder's "Hay for the Horses"

Gary Snyder's "Hay for the Horses"

Vachel Lindsay's "The Leaden-Eyed"

Vachel Lindsay's "The Leaden-Eyed"

Chaucer's "To Rosemounde"

Chaucer's "To Rosemounde"

George Herbert's "Sin's Round"

George Herbert's "Sin's Round"

Thomas Hardy's "Channel Firing"

Thomas Hardy's "Channel Firing"

John Donne's "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star"

John Donne's "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star"

Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"

Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"

Ishmael Reed's ".05"

Ishmael Reed's ".05"

Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti," Sonnet No. 75

Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti," Sonnet No. 75

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Stacey Margaret Jones's "Hard-Wired"

Stacey Margaret Jones's "Hard-Wired"

John Donne's "The Sun Rising"

John Donne's "The Sun Rising"

Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer"

Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer"

Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"

Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" CORRECTED Vers

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" CORRECTED Vers

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

Sir Philip Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet Number 47"

Sir Philip Sidney's "Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet Number 47"

e.e. cummings' [anyone lived in a pretty how town]

e.e. cummings' [anyone lived in a pretty how town]

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur"

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Shakespeare's Sonnet 55: "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monumen

Shakespeare's Sonnet 55: "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monumen

Ben Jonson's "On His First Son"

Ben Jonson's "On His First Son"

Robert Penn Warren's "True Love"

Robert Penn Warren's "True Love"

Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

Richard Crashaw's "To The Infant Martyrs"

Richard Crashaw's "To The Infant Martyrs"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar"

William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us"

William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us"

Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Richard Crashaw's "To the Infant Martyrs"

Richard Crashaw's "To the Infant Martyrs"

Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"

Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"

George Herbert's "The Collar"

George Herbert's "The Collar"

Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights, Wild Nights"

Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights, Wild Nights"

Stacey Margaret Jones "Ghosts"

Stacey Margaret Jones "Ghosts"

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julia's Clothes"

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julia's Clothes"

Geoffrey Chaucer's "General Prologue to the Canterbury Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer's "General Prologue to the Canterbury Tale

A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young"

A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young"

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

"Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

"Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

John Donne's "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward"

John Donne's "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward"

Fatal Feast Book Trailer

Fatal Feast Book Trailer

William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" : Jay R

William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" : Jay R

John Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"

John Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"

William Blake's "The Sick Rose"

William Blake's "The Sick Rose"

Dylan Thomas's "Refusal to Mourn"

Dylan Thomas's "Refusal to Mourn"

Billy Collins' "The Effort"

Billy Collins' "The Effort"

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Sharon Olds' "I Go Back to May 1937"

Sharon Olds' "I Go Back to May 1937"

W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

William Blake's "The Tyger"

William Blake's "The Tyger"

Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"

Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"

Jay Ruud - Poetry with Dogs: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jay Ruud - Poetry with Dogs: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley