Poem Poet
Knock Knock Daniel Beaty (1980s)
For my Mother Ellen Voigt (1943-)Lesson EllenVoigt Love Love is not All Edna St. Vincent Millay (1890s)
Elegy before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay
To Women Richard Hugo (1923-1982)
What's that Smell in the Kitchen Marge Piercy (1936-)
Barbie Doll Marge Piercy Shame Mahmud Kianush
It's a Man's World to the End of the End of the End Sholeh Wolpe (1980s)
Losses Randall Jarrell (1914)
She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
O' My Luve's Like A Red Red Rose Robert Burns (1784)
Crossing the Bar Lord Tennyson (1810s)
To the Ladies Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Bowl of Goldfishes
My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
First Ice Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010)
Tree in a Street Louis Dudek (1918-2001)
Earth John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978)
Death by Streetcar Raymond Souster (1921-)
The Red Cockatoo Po Chu-I (772-846)
Rush Hour Tokyo Joe Kogawa (1936-)
Portrait of a Girl with a Comic Book Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
The Execution Alden Nowlan (1933-1983)
The Bull Moose Alden Nowlan
Winnipeg Seen as a Body of Space & Time James Reaney (1926-2008)
Picketing Supermarkets Tom Waymen (1945-)
The Onondaga Madonna Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
On the Way to the Mission Duncan Campbell Scott
Ars Poetica Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)
Lens Anne Wilkinson (1910s-1961)
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Bull Calf Irving Layton (1912)
Traveling through the Dark William Stafford (1914-1993)
A Far Cry from Africa Derek Walcott (1930-)
Wings of a Dove (Brother man the Rasta) Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-)
The Art of Response Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Hanging Fire Audre Lorde
The Swing (Based on Renoir's painting) George Bowering (1935-)
The Child Dancing Gwendolyn Macewen (1941-1987)
Letter to a Future Generation Gwendolyn Macewen
Coffee Wanda Coleman (1946-)
The Third Sex Patricia Young (1970s)
The Chimney Sweeper William Blake (1757-1827)
Incident Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
City Life D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Doctor, Doctor, a Little of Your Love Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
Reading Scheme Wendy Cope (1945-)
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Tiara Mark Doty (1953-) (click on name to watch him read his poem)
Child Burial Paula Meehan (1955-)
Australia 1970 Judith Wright (1915-)
Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo (1951-)
Move Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
The Colonel Carolyn Forche (1950-)
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Channel Firing
Unfaced Place in a Census count Gary Snyder
School Patterns, a Sextet Norum, K.E.
Putting my father down Stewart
Walking my mother Lynn Butler-Kisber
Despicable Bill Lynn Butler-Kisber
Bus Ride Lynn Butler-Kisber
So Many Plates Spinning Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Driving Through North Philly Melisa Cahnm
Killing her Softly (on pg 17) Mary Weems
Knots Carl Leggo
Untitled Carl Leggo
My Son is a Straight A Student Kimberly Dark
Fifth Grade Autobiography Rita Dove (1952-)
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin (1925-)
Marks Linda Pastan (1932-)
The Victims Sharon Olds (1942-)
The Word Plum Helen Chasin
What the Motorcycle Said Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham John Dryden (1631-1700)
Diving into the Wreck Adrienne Rich (1929-)
You Are the Brave Raymond R. Patterson
Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal Sandra Gilbert
Welcome to Hiroshima Mary Jo Salter
You Too? Me Too--Why Not? Soda Pop Robert Hollander
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden
beware: do not read this poem Ishmael Reed
My Mind Tongmyong Kim
Race Cang Dao
Nobody Shiela Tidd
Sticks and Stones Annonymous
Knock Knock Daniel Beaty (1980s)
For my Mother Ellen Voigt (1943-)Lesson EllenVoigt Love Love is not All Edna St. Vincent Millay (1890s)
Elegy before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay
To Women Richard Hugo (1923-1982)
What's that Smell in the Kitchen Marge Piercy (1936-)
Barbie Doll Marge Piercy Shame Mahmud Kianush
It's a Man's World to the End of the End of the End Sholeh Wolpe (1980s)
Losses Randall Jarrell (1914)
She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
O' My Luve's Like A Red Red Rose Robert Burns (1784)
Crossing the Bar Lord Tennyson (1810s)
To the Ladies Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Bowl of Goldfishes
My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
First Ice Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010)
Tree in a Street Louis Dudek (1918-2001)
Earth John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978)
Death by Streetcar Raymond Souster (1921-)
The Red Cockatoo Po Chu-I (772-846)
Rush Hour Tokyo Joe Kogawa (1936-)
Portrait of a Girl with a Comic Book Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
The Execution Alden Nowlan (1933-1983)
The Bull Moose Alden Nowlan
Winnipeg Seen as a Body of Space & Time James Reaney (1926-2008)
Picketing Supermarkets Tom Waymen (1945-)
The Onondaga Madonna Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
On the Way to the Mission Duncan Campbell Scott
Ars Poetica Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)
Lens Anne Wilkinson (1910s-1961)
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Bull Calf Irving Layton (1912)
Traveling through the Dark William Stafford (1914-1993)
A Far Cry from Africa Derek Walcott (1930-)
Wings of a Dove (Brother man the Rasta) Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-)
The Art of Response Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Hanging Fire Audre Lorde
The Swing (Based on Renoir's painting) George Bowering (1935-)
The Child Dancing Gwendolyn Macewen (1941-1987)
Letter to a Future Generation Gwendolyn Macewen
Coffee Wanda Coleman (1946-)
The Third Sex Patricia Young (1970s)
The Chimney Sweeper William Blake (1757-1827)
Incident Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
City Life D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Doctor, Doctor, a Little of Your Love Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
Reading Scheme Wendy Cope (1945-)
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Tiara Mark Doty (1953-) (click on name to watch him read his poem)
Child Burial Paula Meehan (1955-)
Australia 1970 Judith Wright (1915-)
Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo (1951-)
Move Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
The Colonel Carolyn Forche (1950-)
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Channel Firing
Unfaced Place in a Census count Gary Snyder
School Patterns, a Sextet Norum, K.E.
Putting my father down Stewart
Walking my mother Lynn Butler-Kisber
Despicable Bill Lynn Butler-Kisber
Bus Ride Lynn Butler-Kisber
So Many Plates Spinning Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Driving Through North Philly Melisa Cahnm
Killing her Softly (on pg 17) Mary Weems
Knots Carl Leggo
Untitled Carl Leggo
My Son is a Straight A Student Kimberly Dark
Fifth Grade Autobiography Rita Dove (1952-)
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin (1925-)
Marks Linda Pastan (1932-)
The Victims Sharon Olds (1942-)
The Word Plum Helen Chasin
What the Motorcycle Said Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham John Dryden (1631-1700)
Diving into the Wreck Adrienne Rich (1929-)
You Are the Brave Raymond R. Patterson
Sonnet: The Ladies' Home Journal Sandra Gilbert
Welcome to Hiroshima Mary Jo Salter
You Too? Me Too--Why Not? Soda Pop Robert Hollander
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden
beware: do not read this poem Ishmael Reed
My Mind Tongmyong Kim
Race Cang Dao
Nobody Shiela Tidd
Sticks and Stones Annonymous