The poems we’ve read at our gatherings in alphabetical order by poet are:
Adamshick, Carl
Our Flag
Adamson, Brendan
Workout Plan
Addonizio, Kim
Eating Together
Amichai, Yehuda (1924-2000) – bio
End of Summer in the Judean Mountains
What Did I Learn in the Wars?
Angelou, Maya (1929 – ) – bio
A Brave and Startling Truth
On the Pulse of Morning
Still I Rise
The Health-Food Diner
Why The Caged Bird Sings
Woman Work
Atwood, Margaret (1939- ) – poets Web page
Is/Not
More and More
Anonymous
Clothes
Balan, Bruce (1959- ) poet’s Web page; other bio
The Dog
Wet Dog
Bishop, Elizabeth
Sestina
The Armadillo
Brown, Steven Ford
Angel of Loneliness
The Miscalculations of Love
Browning, Robert
My Last Duchess
Burki-Watson, Joy
I Pondered ‘Neath My Faceless Shroud
Bush, Narda
Noodling
Campbell, Roy
The Zebras
Carruth, Hayden (1921-2008) – poet’s Web page, obituary
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
Song of the Two Crows
Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth (1847-1931) – bio
An Ode to Pluviculture or The Rhyme of the Rain Machine
Collins, Billy (1941- ) – poet’s Web page; other bio
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of “Three Blind Mice”
The Future
The Revenant
Crane, Steven
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
cummings, e e
my father moved through dooms of love
what if much of a which of a wind
Davies, William Henry
Leisure
Dempsey, Donall
Divesting Oneself of One’s Clothing
Dickinson, Emily
Wild Nights
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Sympathy
Esser, Johan and Wolfgang Langhoff
Die Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers)
Ferry, David (1924- ) – bio
Lake Water
Freed, Ray
California
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) – bio
A Line-Storm Song
Going for Water
Once by the Pacific
Spring Pools
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Gift Outright
The Mountain
The Road Not Taken
Gibran, Khalil
Song of the Flower
Ginsberg, Allen
A Supermarket in California
Morning
Sunflower Sutra
Graves, Robert
Counting the Beats
Gumilyov, Nikolay (1886-1921) – bio
The Giraffe
Hall, Donald
Summer Kitchen
Hardy, Thomas
The Darkling Thrush
Under the Waterfall
Harrison, Jeffrey
God’s Penis
Hayden, Robert (1913-1980) – bio
El-Hadj Malik El-Shabazz
Monet’s Waterlilies
Words in Mourning Time
Henley, William Ernest
Madam, Life’s a Piece in Bloom
Herrick, Robert
Upon Julia’s Clothes
Hikmet, Nazim
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
Hill, Lauryn (1975- ) – poet’s Web page; other bio
Just Like Water
Hirshfield, Jane
The Stone of Heaven
Hollander, John (1929- ) – bio
Being Stung by a Bee on the Lexington Avenue Local
Hongo, Garrett Kaoru (1951- ) – bio
Yellow Light
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) – bio
Let America Be America Again
Hughes, Richard
The Singing Furies
Jacobs, Frank
If Walt Whitman Had Written Humpty Dumpty
Jonson, Ben
Inviting a Friend to Supper
Kane, Madeleine Begun- bio
McCain Limericks
Sarah Who??
Some Friendly Advice for Obama
Katz, Bobbi – poet’s Web page; other bio
Things to Do If You Are the Rain
Keats, John
Sonnet To Sleep
Sonnet (Why Did I Laugh Tonight?)
Kenyon, Jane
February: Thinking of Flowers
Happiness
Let Evening Come
Kilmer, Joyce
Trees
King James Bible
Song of Solomon, Chapter 2
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) – bio
If–
My Boy Jack
Kofman, Rena Lee
My Skin
To Be Like Moss
Kumin, Maxine (1925- ) – bio
Flying
Jack
Kunitz, Stanley
The Layers
Lawrence, D.H.
Figs
Lear, Edward (1812-1888) – bio
The Jumblies
The Owl and the Pussycat
Levine, Philip
The Two
Lightbourne, Geanti
Emotional Nudity
Little, Geraldine Clinton
Creek Rites
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Reaper and the Flowers
The Sicilian’s Tale; King Robert of Sicily
Macari, Anne Marie
Glory
MacLachlan, Patricia & Charest, Emily MacLachlan
Once I Ate a Pie
MacLeish, Archibald
Summer of the Year
Winter Is Another Country
Markham, Edwin
The Man with the Hoe
Marlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Martin, David
I Wandered with a Wrought-Up Mind
Masefield, John (1978-1967) – bio
Sea-Fever
McCarthy, Eugene (1916 – 2005) – bio
Whose foot is on the treadle
McGough, Roger (1937- ) – poet’s Web page; other bio
Survivor
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1872-1950) – Edna St. Vincent Millay Society
Feast
God’s World
The Blue-Flag in the Bog
Mistral, Gabriela (1889-1957) – bio
Anniversary
I Am Not Alone
The Stranger
Moore, Honor
New Shoes
Red Shoes
Morgan, Edwin
A View of Things
Loch Ness Monster’s Song
Siesta of a Hungarian Snake
Strawberries
Muldoon, Paul
A Hummingbird
Nash, Ogden
A Word to Husbands
I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
Song of the Open Road
The Clean Plater
The Cow
The Dog
The Eel
The Fly
The Hippopotamus
The Ostrich
The Panther
The Parent
The Turtle
The Termite
Neruda, Pablo
Ode to an Onion
Ode to a Watch in the Night
Ode to Clothing
Ode to Maize
Ode to My Socks
Ode to Tomatoes
Rain (Rapa Nui)
Nemerov, Howard
The Goose Fish
Oliver, Mary (1935- ) – bio
At Blackwater Pond
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) – poet’s Web page; other bio
Landscape
Resume
Piercy, Marge (1936- ) – poet’s Web site
My Mother’s Body
Ping, Wang (1957- ) – poet’s Web site
Crab and Catfish
On a Playground in Park Slope
Syntax
Pinsky, Robert (1940- ) – bio
Jersey Rain
Shirt
Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) – Poe Museum
Annabel Lee
Prelutsky, Jack (1940- ) – poet’s Web site
Deep in Our Refrigerator
I Am Riding on a Cloud
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) – bio
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Ramel, Gordon J.L. (1957- ) – poet’s Web site
Daffodils No More or Daffodils Revisited
Ravikovitch, Dalia (1936-2005) – bio; obituary
In the year to come, in the days to come
Pride
Rich, Adrienne (1929- ) – bio
Storm Warnings
Turning
Riding, Laura (1901-1999) – poet’s Web site
Another Apple
The World and I
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) – poet’s Web site
Miniver Cheevy
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) – bio
I Knew a Woman
The Waking
Ryan, Kay (1945- ) – bio
A Cat/A Future
Duck
Patience
The Niagara River
The Edges of Time
Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Tune
Turtle
Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) – poet’s homepage
Mist Marches Across the Valley
Crossing Ohio When Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula
Sarsar, Saliba – bio
When Peace Becomes the Holy Land
Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) – bio
Just Once
The Red Shoes
Woman with Girdle
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) – bio
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Fear No More the Heat O’ the Sun
Hamlet
Sonnet XVIII Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Shakur, Tupac (1971-1991) – poet’s homepage
Untitled Rap (Please Wake Me When I’m Free)
Silverstein, Shel (1930-1999) – poet’s homepage; other bio
Anteater
Messy Room
Point of View
Tryin on Clothes
Simic, Charles (1938- ) – bio
My Shoes
Watermelons
Smith, Arthur James Marshall (A.J.M.) 1918-1981) – bio
The Sorcerer/Not of the Dust
Southey, Robert (1774-1843) – bio
To a Goose
Stafford, William (1914-1993) – poet’s homepage; other bio
Ask Me
Being a Person
Listening to the Tide
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) – poet’s homepage; other bio
Somnambulisma
Six Significant Landscapes
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1984) – bio
The Land of Counterpane
Szymborska, Wislawa (1923- ) bio
The Railroad Station
Under One Small Star
Utopia
Taylor, Marilyn – poet’s homepage
The Blue Water Buffalo
Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894) – bio
The Sandpiper
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) – poet’s homepage; bio
I Have Longed to Move Away
The Hand That Signed the Paper
Poem in October
Was There a Time
Trethewey, Natasha (1966- ) – writer’s profile; other bio
Theories of Time and Space
V, Beatrice – poet’s homepage; bio
Landscapes
Van Den Heuval, Cor (1931- ) – profile; bio
Baseball Haiku
Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) – bio
There is weeping in my heart
Viorst, Judith (1931- ) – bio
Sad Underwear
Waldman, Anne (1945- ) – bio
Makeup on Empty Space
Ward, BJ (1967- ) – poet’s homepage; bio
Gravedigger’s Birthday
Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands
Sex with Emily Dickinson
Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989) – poet’s homepage; bio
Bearded Oaks
Caribou
If Snakes Were Blue
Wayman, Thomas (1945- ) – poet’s homepage; other bio
Did I Miss Anything?
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) – poet’s homepage; bio
The Last Invocation
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) – bio
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
This Is Just to Say
To a Poor Old Woman
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) – Wordsworth Trust; poet’s bio
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey
On Speaking Terms (2010 Copper Canyon Press), third book of poems by Connie Wanek (Duluth, MN).
Ted Kooser quote on the back of the volume:
“incomparably lovely, wholly original and moving poems — opens a door to all of us, onto a magical world we only vaguely sense lies there behind the familiar and ordinary world we see before us every day.”
Good to read aloud with morning coffee.
Thanks for your site.
PCO
Thanks for including Wislawa Szymborska, she’s the best! I actually composed an entire album of songs loosely based on her poetry. I think you would be a great audience for this work.
You can check it out here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supercollider/id387574155
or at the website:
http://www.closerocean.com/
Thanks for listening!!!
Kevin