Melissa Anderson

Denise Levertov

About Marriage

Denise Levertov

Maxine Kumin

The Excrement Poem

by Maxine Kumin

William Matthews

A Happy Childhood

by William Matthews

Jack Spicer

“Any fool can get into an ocean . . .”

by Jack Spicer

Blue Morning Glory

by Anne Pitkin

Dorianne Laux

Blossom

by Dorianne Laux

Lucille Clifton

birth-day

by Lucille Clifton

For My Lover, Returning To His Wife

by Anne Sexton

Mary Oliver

When Death Comes

by Mary Oliver

Billy Collins

Today

by Billy Collins

I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land

by Rita Dove

Thomas Gunn

For a Birthday

by Thomas Gunn

Jane Hirshfield

Against Certainty

by Jane Hirshfield

Solstice

by Tess Taylor

Poem for my sons

by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Dorianne Laux

Balance

by Dorianne Laux

Mary Oliver

The Summer Day

by Mary Oliver

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Spring

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Linda Hogan

The fingers, writing

by Linda Hogan

Ada Limon

Instructions on Not Giving Up

by Ada Limon

Jericho Brown

Aerial View

by Jericho Brown

Anna Kamienska

A Prayer That Will Be Answered

by Anna Kamienska

Denise Levertov

Eye Mask

by Denise Levertov

Charles Simic

Evening

by Charles Simic

David Whyte

Start close in

by David Whyte

Linda Hogan

Lost in the Milky Way

by Linda Hogan

Ursula K. Le Guin

Soul Food

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ada Limon

Field Bling

by Ada Limon

Lucille Clifton

further note to clark

by Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

it was a dream

by Lucille Clifton

Casualty

by Seamus Heaney

Billy Collins

Forgetfulness

by Billy Collins

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

These Hot Days

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Maggie Smith

Sky

by Maggie Smith

Lucille Clifton

blessing the boats

by Lucille Clifton

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Oh, the longing

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Alice Walker

even so

by Alice Walker

Mary Oliver

Pink Moon – The Pond

by Mary Oliver

Alice Walker

"S M"

by Alice Walker

Dorianne Laux

The Job

by Dorianne Laux

Ursula K. Le Guin

11. The Uses of Not

by Ursula K. Le Guin

I Live My Life

by Rainer Maria Rilke

e.e. cummings

may my heart always be open to

by e.e. cummings

Wislawa Szymborska

Teenager

by Wislawa Symborska

Pablo Neruda

Keeping Quiet

by Pablo Neruda

The Waking

by Theodore Roethke

Alice Walker

Desire

by Alice Walker

Margaret Atwood

The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart

by Margaret Atwood

Jane Stembridge

Loving

by Jane Stembridge

Ellen Bass

If You Knew

by Ellen Bass