There will come soft rains (War Time) by Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling...

Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen The second half of my life will be black to the white rind of the old and fading moon. The second half of my...

Lately               by Patricia Fargnoli Sometimes, at night I venture out 
 into the roiling universe, just stand 
on the front lawn,...

Before Breasts by Carla Carlson (published in Mom Egg Review, July 2012 ) I was happy, and slept all night long. Everyone loved me. I...

The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go...

Not Forgotten by Toi Derricotte I love the way the black ants use their dead. They carry them off like warriors on their steel backs....

To My Valentine by Ogden Nash More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, That's...

Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through...

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)...