1963 to Present
- I Saw the Musty Shingles, Robert Lowell, 1963
- Heatwave, Ted Hughes, c1963
- Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden, 1966
- Testimony 1968, Rita Dove, 2018
- If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda, 1971
- As the Sparks Fly Upward, John Hollander, 1971
- Measure, Robert Hass, 1973
- Dream Song 29, John Berryman, 1974
- On the Pier, Brenda Hillman, 1977
- The Garden, Mark Strand, 1979
- White, Mark Strand, c1970s
- A Birthday Card, Ted Kooser, 1983
- Trees, Howard Nemerov, 1981
- Walking the Dunes, Brenda Hillman, 1985
- Tell Me a Story, Robert Penn Warren, 1985
- Boy Breaking Glass, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1987
- Starlight, David Baker, 1987
- To My Favorite 17-year Old High School Girl, Billy Collins, c1990
- For the Sake of Strangers, Dorianne Laux, 1994
- Hush, David St. John, 1994
- A Display of Mackerel, Mark Doty, 1995
- What Kind of Times Are These, Adrienne Rich, 1995
- Villanelle for an Anniversary, Seamus Heaney, 1996
- Handwriting, Paulann Petersen, 1996
- Lines on My Face, J.D. McClatchy, 1997
- Arrows, Tony Hoagland, 1998
- Heart, Dorianne Laux, 2000
- To Go to Lvov, Adam Zagajewski, 2002
- Back from the Fields, Peter Everwine, 2004
- The Old Country, Paul Muldoon, 2006
- Extinction of Silence, A E. Stallings, 2006
- A Note, Wislawa Szymborska, 2007
- Sitting in the Afternoon, Malachi Black, 2009
- Going Back to Bed, J.D. McClatchy, 2009
- Hymn to Time, Ursula Le Guin, 2010
- Glass House, Heather McHugh, 2012
- Diluvian Dream, Wilmer Mills, 2013
- To Keep the Day, Stephen Kampa, 2015
- Good Bones, Maggie Smith, 2016
- Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limon, 2017
- Letter to Someone Fifty Years from Now, Matthew Olzmann, 2017
- The Spinning Place, Chelsea Wagenaar, 2017
- A Feeling Right Before the Feeling, Brenda Hillman, 2018
- Prayer from a Mouse, Sarah Messer, 2018
- While Waiting for the Bus, Eliot Khalil Wilson, 2019
- The Rats, Keetje Kuipers, 2019
- A Study in Eventuality, Christina Correa, 2019
- Green Flame, Pamela Uschuk, 2020
- Letter to My Great-Great-Grandchild, J.P. Grasser, 2020
“Favorite Poems from Others: 1800’s through 1960” return here