NUMBER |
POET |
POEM TITLE |
Column 266 |
Rachel Contreni Flynn |
The Yellow Bowl |
Column 265 |
Jeff Daniel Marion |
78 RPM |
Column 264 |
Wendy Videlock |
The Owl |
Column 263 |
Jill Bialosky |
Music is Time |
Column 262 |
Michael Chitwood |
The Coffins |
Column 261 |
Andrea Hollander Budy |
Betrayal |
Column 260 |
n/a |
Bankruptcy Hearing |
Column 259 |
Freya Manfred |
Green Pear Tree in September |
Column 258 |
David Baker |
Old Man Throwing a Bell |
Column 257 |
Gary Metras |
Lint |
Column 256 |
Jeff Worley |
On Finding a Turtle Shell in Daniel Boone National
Forest |
Column 255 |
Wesley McNair |
For My Wife |
Column 254 |
Lucille Lang Day |
Tooth Painter |
Column 253 |
n/a |
Not Knowing Why |
Column 252 |
Nancyrose Houston |
The Letter From Home |
Column 251 |
Lyn Lifshin |
The Other Fathers |
Column 250 |
Joette Giorgis |
(Unititlede) |
Column 249 |
Christine Stewart-Nunez |
Convergence |
Column 248 |
Tim Nolan |
At the Choral Concert |
Column 247 |
Ben Vogt |
Grandpa Vogt's-1959 |
Column 246 |
Trish Carpo |
Back Then |
Column 245 |
Susie Patlove |
Poor Patriarch |
Column 244 |
George Bilgere |
Night Flight |
Column 243 |
Marie Sheppard Williams |
Everybody |
Column 242 |
Kathy Mangan |
The Whistle |
Column 241 |
Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck |
Like Coins, November |
Column 240 |
Phillip Memmer |
The Paleontologist's Blind Date |
Column 239 |
David Lee Garrison |
Back in the DC Subway |
Column 238 |
Bruce Guernsey |
Yam |
Column 237 |
Dore Klesselbach |
Aubade |
Column 236 |
Cecilia Woloch |
The Pick |
Column 235 |
David Bottoms |
My Father's Left Hand |
Column 234 |
Michelle Bennett |
Western |
Column 233 |
Diane Glancy |
Indian Summer |
Column 232 |
Thomas R Smith |
Baby Wrens' Voices |
Column 231 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment |
Column 230 |
Ron Koertge |
First Grade |
Column 229 |
Mark Vinz |
Cautionary Tales |
Column 228 |
Cecilla Woloch |
My Mother's Pillow |
Column 227 |
Jane Hirshfield |
Green-Striped Melons |
Column 226 |
Ronald Wallace |
Sustenance |
Column 225 |
Margaret Kaufman |
Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949 |
Column 224 |
Jean Norhaus |
I Was Always Leaving |
Column 223 |
Alexandra Teague |
Language Lessons |
Column 222 |
Coleman Barks |
Glad |
Column 221 |
Todd Boss |
This Morning in a Morning Voice |
Column 220 |
Joseph Stroud |
Night in Day |
Column 219 |
Deborah Warren |
Marginalia |
Column 218 |
Marie Howe |
Hurry |
Column 217 |
Kevin Griffith |
Spinning |
Column 216 |
Judy Loest |
Faith |
Column 215 |
David Wojahn |
Walking to School, 1964 |
Column 214 |
Susan Browne |
On Our Eleventh Anniversary |
Column 213 |
Bill Holm |
Earbud |
Column 212 |
Regan Huff |
Occurence on Washburn Avenue |
Column 211 |
Anne Marie Macari |
From the Plane |
Column 210 |
Joseph O. Legaspi |
At the Bridal Shop |
Column 209 |
Miller Williams |
Going Deaf |
Column 208 |
Gerald Fleming |
Long Marriage |
Column 207 |
Sebastian Matthews |
Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille |
Column 206 |
Matthew Vetter |
Wild Flowers |
Column 205 |
George Bilgere |
Corned Beef and Cabbage |
Column 204 |
Cecilia Woloch |
Anniversary |
Column 203 |
Charles Harper Webb |
The Animals are Leaving |
Column 202 |
David Wagoner |
The Cherry Tree |
Column 201 |
Don Welch |
At 14 |
Column 200 |
Chris Forhan |
What My Father Left Behind |
Column 199 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
Inscrutable Twist |
Column 198 |
Zozan Hawez |
Self-Portrait |
Column 197 |
Cornelius Eady |
S Small Moment |
Column 196 |
Jose Angel Araguz |
Gloves |
Column 195 |
Conrad Hilberry |
Christmas Night |
Column 194 |
Russell Libby |
Applied Geometry |
Column 193 |
Robert Haight |
How Is It That the Snow |
Column 192 |
Pat Mora |
Fences |
Column 191 |
Robert Wrigley |
Finding a Bible in an Abandoned Cabin |
Column 190 |
Minnie Bruce Pratt |
Cutting Hair |
Column 189 |
Gary Dop |
On Swearing |
Column 188 |
Dan Lechay |
Ghost Villanelle |
Column 187 |
Dick Allen |
The Accompanist |
Column 186 |
James Lenfestey |
Daughter |
Column 185 |
Robert Hedin |
The Old Liberators |
Column 184 |
John Maloney |
After Work |
Column 183 |
Judith Harris |
Gathering Leaves in Grade School |
Column 182 |
Kaelum Poulson |
The Crow |
Column 181 |
Stuart Kestenbaum |
Prayer for the Dead |
Column 180 |
Emmett Tenorio Melendez |
My name came from. . . |
Column 179 |
D. Nurkse |
Bushwick: Latex Flat |
Column 178 |
Gary Dop |
Father, Child, Water |
Column 177 |
Kristen Tracy |
Rain at the Zoo |
Column 176 |
Frank Steele |
Sunflower |
Column 175 |
Berwyn Moore |
Driving to Camp Lend-A-Hand |
Column 174 |
Joelle Biele |
To Katharine: At Fourteen Months |
Column 173 |
Patrick Phillips |
Piano |
Column 172 |
Veronica Patterson |
Marry Me |
Column 171 |
Ann Struthers |
Planting the Sand Cherry |
Column 170 |
Sam Green |
Night Dive |
Column 169 |
Rick Campbell |
Heart |
Column 168 |
Mary-Sherman Willis |
The Laughter of Women |
Column 167 |
Sharmila Voorakkara |
For the Tattooed Man |
Column 166 |
R. S. Gwynn |
Fried Beauty |
Column 165 |
Robert Bly |
Seeing the Eclipse in Maine |
Column 164 |
Ellen Bass |
Dead Butterfly |
Column 163 |
Max Mendelsohn |
Ode to Marbles |
Column 162 |
Richard Hoffman |
Summer Job |
Column 161 |
Jonathan Holden |
Car Showroom |
Column 160 |
Steve Orlen |
Three Teenage Girls: 1956 |
Column 159 |
Allan Peterson |
The Inevitable |
Column 158 |
Frank Steele |
Part of a Legacy |
Column 157 |
Judith Harris |
In Your Absence |
Column 156 |
David Tucker |
Today's News |
Column 155 |
Marianne Boruch |
Hospital |
Column 154 |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
Yellowjackets |
Column 153 |
Trish Dugger |
Spare Parts |
Column 152 |
Carrie Shipers |
Medical History |
Column 151 |
Steven Huff |
Safe |
Column 150 |
Ed Ochester |
What the Frost Casts Up |
Column 149 |
Linda Pastan |
The Quarrel |
Column 148 |
Lee McCarthy |
Santa Paula |
Column 147 |
William Kloefkorn |
"I stand alone at the foot " |
Column 146 |
Marvin Bell |
Veterans of the Seventies |
Column 145 |
Rynn Williams |
Insomnia |
Column 144 |
Jackson Wheeler |
How Good Fortune Surprises Us |
Column 143 |
Steve Orlen |
In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas |
Column 142 |
Linda Gregg |
Elegance |
Column 141 |
Thomas R. Smith |
Trust |
Column 140 |
Steven Schneider |
Chanukah Lights Tonight |
Column 139 |
Bruce Guernsey |
The Lady and the Tramp |
Column 138 |
Deborah Cummins |
At a Certain Age |
Column 137 |
Jessy Randall |
Superhero Pregnant Woman |
Column 136 |
Todd Davis |
Sleep |
Column 135 |
Ruth Moose |
The Crossing |
Column 134 |
Kathleen Flenniken |
Old Woman With Protea Flowers, Kahalui Airport |
Column 133 |
David Baker |
Afterwards |
Column 132 |
Peter Pereira |
The Garden Buddha |
Column 131 |
Jean Nordhaus |
A Dandelion for My Mother |
Column 130 |
Anne Pierson Wiese |
Columbus Park |
Column 129 |
Betty Adcock |
Louisiana Line |
Column 128 |
Devon Regina DeSalva |
Snip Your Hair |
Column 127 |
Marianne Boruch |
Nest |
Column 126 |
Karin Gottshall |
The Raspberry Room |
Column 125 |
Barry Goldensohn |
Subway |
Column 124 |
Patrick Phillips |
Matinee |
Column 123 |
Joshua Weiner |
Found Letter |
Column 122 |
Wesley McNair |
Hymn to the Comb-Over |
Column 121 |
Mike White |
Wind |
Column 120 |
Kim Noriega |
Heaven, 1963 |
Column 119 |
Joseph Stanton |
Banana Trees |
Column 118 |
Warren Woessner |
Alberto |
Column 117 |
Nancy Botkin |
Geometry |
Column 116 |
Roy Jacobstein |
Safari, Rift Valley |
Column 115 |
Jeffrey Harrison |
Visitation |
Column 114 |
Robert West |
Echo |
Column 113 |
Freya Manfred |
Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle |
Column 112 |
Elizabeth Hobbs |
Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North |
Column 111 |
Felecia Caton Garcia |
Drought |
Column 110 |
Juliana Gray |
Summer Downpour on Campus |
Column 109 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
Wallpapering |
Column 108 |
Kay Ryan |
Houdini |
Column 107 |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Supple Cord |
Column 106 |
Judith Kitchen |
Catching the Moles |
Column 105 |
Ruth Moose |
Laundry |
Column 104 |
Marge Saiser |
Where They Lived |
Column 103 |
Rick Snyder |
How Are You Doing? |
Column 102 |
Jane Whitledge |
Morel Mushrooms |
Column 101 |
Cynthia Rylant |
Wax Lips |
Column 100 |
Wesley McNair |
The One I Think of Now |
Column 099 |
Sharon Chmielarz |
New Water |
Column 098 |
Robert Wrigley |
Kissing a Horse |
Column 097 |
Mary Jo Salter |
Somebody Else's Baby |
Column 096 |
Andrea Hollander Budy |
For Weeks After the Funeral |
Column 095 |
John Haines |
Young Man |
Column 094 |
Floyd Skloot |
Silent Music |
Column 093 |
Tatiana Ziglar |
Common Janthina |
Column 092 |
Linda Parsons Marion |
Home Fire |
Column 091 |
Mark Vinz |
Driving Through |
Column 090 |
Bill Holm |
Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe |
Column 089 |
Sue Ellen Thompson |
No Children, No Pets |
Column 088 |
Christopher Chambers |
My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono |
Column 087 |
Tania Rochelle |
Raking |
Column 086 |
Linda Pastan |
The Birds |
Column 085 |
Lisel Mueller |
In November |
Column 084 |
Connie Wanek |
Amaryllis |
Column 083 |
Dale Ritterbusch |
Green Tea |
Column 082 |
Jeff Vande Zande |
Clean |
Column 081 |
Tess Gallagher |
Under Stars |
Column 080 |
James McKean |
Elegy for an Old Boxer |
Column 079 |
Alex Phillips |
Work Shy |
Column 078 |
Bruce Guernsey |
Moss |
Column 077 |
Li-Young Lee |
Early in the Morning |
Column 076 |
Jeff Daniel Marion |
Reunion |
Column 075 |
Lita Hooper |
Love Worn |
Column 074 |
David Mason |
In the Mushroom Summer |
Column 073 |
Roy Scheele |
Planting a Dogwood |
Column 072 |
Jan Beatty |
My Father Teaches Me to Dream |
Column 071 |
Albert Garcia |
August Morning |
Column 070 |
Sharon Olds |
My Son the Man |
Column 069 |
Marsha Truman Cooper |
Ironing After Midnight |
Column 068 |
Wendell Berry |
They Sit Together on the Porch |
Column 067 |
Catherine Barnett |
Family Reunion |
Column 066 |
Marie Howe |
The Copper Beech |
Column 065 |
Keith Althaus |
Homecoming |
Column 064 |
Lola Haskins |
Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country |
Column 063 |
David Tucker |
The Dancer |
Column 062 |
James McKean |
Bindweed |
Column 061 |
Leslie Monsour |
The Education of a Poet |
Column 060 |
Julia Kasdorf |
What I Learned From My Mother |
Column 059 |
Amy Fleury |
At Twenty-Eight |
Column 058 |
Pat Schneider |
There Is Another Way |
Column 057 |
Richard Newman |
Coins |
Column 056 |
Don Welch |
At the Edge of Town |
Column 055 |
Jo McDougall |
What We Need |
Column 054 |
Ruth L. Schwartz |
Tangerine |
Column 053 |
Peter Pereira |
A Pot of Red Lentils |
Column 052 |
Connie Wanek |
Radiator |
Column 051 |
Jim Harrison |
Marching |
Column 050 |
Grace Bauer |
Against Lawn |
Column 049 |
Rodney Torreson |
On A Moonstruck Gravel Road |
Column 048 |
Walt McDonald |
Some Boys are Born to Wander |
Column 047 |
Robert Morgan |
Holy Cussing |
Column 046 |
Bob King |
Geology |
Column 045 |
Anne Caston |
Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet |
Column 044 |
David Baker |
Mongrel Heart |
Column 043 |
Lola Haskins |
To Play Pianissimo |
Column 042 |
David Bengtson |
What Calls Us |
Column 041 |
Diane Thiel |
Family Album |
Column 040 |
Alberto Rios |
A Yellow Leaf |
Column 039 |
Nancy McCleery |
December Notes |
Column 038 |
Leslie Monsour |
Fifteen |
Column 037 |
Shirley Buettner |
The Wind Chimes |
Column 036 |
Judith Slater |
In The Black Rock Tavern |
Column 035 |
J. Lorraine Brown |
Tintype on the Pond, 1925 |
Column 034 |
Jim Daniels |
Dim |
Column 033 |
Katy Giebenhain |
Glucose Self-Monitoring |
Column 032 |
Kurt Brown |
Road Report |
Column 031 |
Gloria g. Murray |
In My Mother's House |
Column 030 |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Boy and Egg |
Column 029 |
Debra Nystrom |
Cliff Swallows |
Column 028 |
Ron Rash |
Speckled Trout |
Column 027 |
Angela Shaw |
Children in a Field |
Column 026 |
Claudia Emerson |
Stable |
Column 025 |
Rodney Torreson |
The Bethlehem Nursing Home |
Column 024 |
Martin Walls |
Cicadas at the End of Summer |
Column 023 |
E. G. Burrows |
Camping Out |
Column 022 |
Jean L. Connor |
Of Some Renown |
Column 021 |
Karin Gottshall |
The Ashes |
Column 020 |
Jane Hirshfield |
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning |
Column 019 |
Shirley Buettner |
Discovered |
Column 018 |
Dan Gerber |
The Rain Poured Down |
Column 017 |
Wendell Berry |
The Peace of Wild Things |
Column 016 |
Lisel Mueller |
Love Like Salt |
Column 015 |
Janet McCann |
The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks |
Column 014 |
Georgiana Cohen |
Old Woman in a Housecoat |
Column 013 |
Kevin Griffith |
Turning Forty |
Column 012 |
Andrei Guruianu |
Grandfather |
Column 011 |
David Wagoner |
Peacock Display |
Column 010 |
Marge Piercy |
More Than Enough |
Column 009 |
James Doyle |
The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War |
Column 008 |
Karma Larsen |
Moonflowers |
Column 007 |
Leonard Nathan |
The Potato Eaters |
Column 006 |
Barton Sutter |
Sober Song |
Column 005 |
David Baker |
Neighbors in October |
Column 004 |
Ruth Stone |
Another Feeling |
Column 003 |
Marnie Walsh |
Bessie Dreaming Bear |
Column 002 |
Jonathan Greene |
At the Grave |
Column 001 |
David Allan Evans |
Neighbors |