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Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay —after Gwendolyn Brooks (published in his 2011 book, Bringing the Shovel Down, published by the...

Birds in Snow by H.D. (published in Poetry , December 1928 ) See how they trace, across the very-marble of this place, bright sevens...

God Says Yes to Me by Kaylin Haught (published in Poetry 180 , edited by Billy Collins, 2003, Random House) I asked God if it was okay...

Did I Miss Anything? by Tom Wayman (published in Poetry 180 , edited by Billy Collins, 2003, Random House) Nothing. When we realized...

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation by Natalie Diaz Angels don’t...

My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party by David Bottoms (from his 1999 book, Vagrant Grace , published by Copper Canyon Press) When I sat...

Five Thousand Blackbirds by Melissa Slayton (published in Tinge Magazine , Issue 1 ) After the death of blackbirds and drum fish in...

Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson My heart be brave, and do not falter so,    Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail.    Thy way is very...

It ain’t heavy, it’s my purse by Marge Piercy (published in her 1992 book, Mars and Her Children , Knopf) We have marsupial instincts,...

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass (published in her 2002 book, Mules of Love , BOA Editions) to love life, to love it even when you have no...

In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón (published in The Best American Poetry 2024 , edited by Mary Jo Salter and David...

Without Title    for my Father who lived without ceremony by Diane Glancy (published in her 1990 book, Iron Woman , New Rivers Press)...

Shots by Belle Waring (published in her book, Dark Blonde , 1997, Sarabande Books) Three nurses to hold him, this four-year-old who...

Bird Nests Used to Look More Like Fortresses by Martin Ott (published in Press 53 , Issue 139, OCT-DEC 2018 )   My daughter just...

A Life You Might Say You Might Live by Constance Urdang (published in 100 Great Poems by Women , edited by Carolyn Kizer, 1995, The...

Curtains by Ruth Stone (published in 100 Great Poems by Women, edited by Carolyn Kizer, 1995, Ecco Press) Putting up new curtains,...

Jump Cabling by Linda Pastan (published in Drive, They Said , an anthology edited by Kurt Brown, published in 1994 by Milkweed...

Despair by Anthony Hecht (published in Selected Poems , edited by J. D. McClatchy, 2012, Alfred Knopf) Sadness. The moist grey shawls...

The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider (published in her 2019 book, From The Weight of Love , Negative Capability Press) It...

Window by Carl Sandburg Night from a railroad car window Is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light. I love to...