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User added comments and analysis of the poems included in the American Poems website is a great store of information. This is a list of the latest comments that have been added. Click a link to see the comment!

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2012-05-15 15:05:03 Anecdote Of The Jar Dave
2012-05-15 08:46:50 Sow M. x
2012-05-15 06:24:48 On Being Brought from Africa to America Clara Pervis
2012-05-14 21:31:01 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. Best curling iron
2012-05-14 11:24:39 Man Listening To Disc Rusty Shackelford
2012-05-14 08:53:34 Iron Travis Smith
2012-05-14 03:52:04 Expect Nothing janine gumangol
2012-05-13 22:11:29 The Sky is low -- the Clouds are mean. mmmmmm
2012-05-13 16:47:44 When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. Homemade dogs shampoo
2012-05-13 00:19:09 Dream Deferred aza


Most Commented Poems

The poems listed below are the ones that have received the most comments. There is a wealth of information here!

CommentsPoemPoet
1940 Poem (Hate Is Only One Of Many Responses) Frank O\'Hara
693 The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
632 i carry your heart with me e.e. cummings
473 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
360 Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost
331 Still I Rise Maya Angelou
269 Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou
234 Messy Room Shel Silverstein
225 I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson
222 There is another sky Emily Dickinson
197 anyone lived in a pretty how town e.e. cummings
189 I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou
182 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
179 The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
170 Child Moon Carl Sandburg
169 Fire and Ice Robert Frost
159 O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
153 somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond e.e. cummings
152 A Dream Within A Dream Edgar Allan Poe
141 maggie and milly and molly and may e.e. cummings


Most Commented Poets

These are the poets that have received the most comments on their poems.

CommentsPoet
5086 Emily Dickinson
4125 Robert Frost
3151 e.e. cummings
1983 Frank O\'Hara
1308 Walt Whitman
1232 Sylvia Plath
1201 Maya Angelou
947 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
945 Langston Hughes
855 Edgar Allan Poe
800 Carl Sandburg
720 Stephen Crane
693 Anne Sexton
639 Ezra Pound
611 Shel Silverstein
522 T.S. Eliot
497 William Carlos Williams
494 Dorothy Parker
468 Edna St. Vincent Millay
325 Charles Bukowski
277 Adrienne Rich
254 Edwin Arlington Robinson
218 Amy Lowell
212 Sara Teasdale
197 Raymond Carver
177 Billy Collins
173 Edgar Lee Masters
169 Ralph Waldo Emerson
168 Joyce Kilmer
168 Vachel Lindsay
156 Richard Brautigan
153 Ogden Nash
147 James Whitcomb Riley
124 Paul Laurence Dunbar
106 Wallace Stevens
98 Stephen Dunn
98 Anne Bradstreet
97 Henry David Thoreau
95 H. D.
90 Donald Justice
88 James Tate
83 Philip Freneau
78 Allen Ginsberg
71 Denise Levertov
71 Audre Lorde
68 William Stafford
68 Philip Levine
66 Randall Jarrell
65 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
62 Arna Bontemps
60 Richard Wilbur
58 Wendell Berry
56 Robinson Jeffers
55 Marge Piercy
49 Louise Bogan
48 Phillis Wheatley
47 Jean Toomer
46 Russell Edson
46 David Lehman
45 Deborah Ager
45 Gwendolyn Brooks
43 Joseph Mayo Wristen
43 John Berryman
43 Sharon Olds
43 Alan Seeger
40 Delmore Schwartz
39 Robert Lowell
37 Charles Simic
37 Oliver Wendell Holmes
36 Herman Melville
35 Archibald MacLeish
35 William Butler Yeats
34 Jack Gilbert
33 Louise Gluck
32 Pablo Neruda
31 Lucille Clifton
31 Galway Kinnell
30 Jane Kenyon
30 Ellis Parker Butler
28 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
27 Denise Duhamel
27 Maggie Estep
26 Li-Young Lee
26 Jorie Graham
25 Etheridge Knight
24 Linda Pastan
24 W.S. Merwin
24 Robert Francis
23 Robert Creeley
23 Hart Crane
22 Bill Knott
22 Stanley Kunitz
22 Gary Soto
22 Howard Nemerov
22 Kenneth Koch
21 Marvin Bell
20 Anthony Hecht
20 Nick Carbo
19 Conrad Aiken
19 A.R. Ammons
18 Donald Hall
16 James A. Emanuel
16 Carolyn Forché
16 Judy Grahn
16 Alfred Lord Tennyson
16 Philip Larkin
16 Edmund Spenser
13 Weldon Kees
13 Naomi Shihab Nye
13 Ted Kooser
12 Thomas Lux
12 David Berman
12 Robert Pinsky
12 Lola Haskins
12 Kenneth Patchen
12 Jack Prelutsky
12 Jonathan Swift
11 Ai
11 Jack Kerouac
11 Frank Bidart
11 Gregory Corso
11 Alice Walker
11 Edward Field
11 Margaret Atwood
10 Mark Doty
10 Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
10 Homer
9 Gary Snyder
9 Alice Duer Miller
9 Alan Dugan
9 Catherine Anderson
9 David Ignatow
9 Jack Spicer
8 Laura Riding Jackson
8 Stephen Dobyns
8 Gerald Stern
8 Lew Welch
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7 Amy Clampitt
7 Stanley Gemmell
7 Edward Hirsch
7 Phillis Levin
7 Nick Flynn
7 Gertrude Stein
7 William Blake
6 Tony Hoagland
6 James Reiss
6 Natasha Trethewey
6 Yusef Komunyakaa
6 Susan Kelly-DeWitt
6 Richard Hugo
6 D.C. Berry
6 John Milton
6 Dylan Thomas
6 A.E. Housman
5 Andre Breton
5 Reginald Shepherd
5 Connie Wanek
5 Steve Kowit
5 Kimiko Hahn
5 Geraldine Connolly
5 Shoshauna Shy
5 Mark Irwin
5 Ronald Koertge
5 James Wright
5 John Masefield
4 Federico Garcia Lorca
4 Christopher Morley
4 John Montague
4 William Bronk
4 Richard Jones
4 Rodney Jack
4 Edward Taylor
4 Joe Wenderoth
4 Jim Carroll
4 Robert Hershon
4 William Matthews
4 Aaron Fogel
4 Ralph Angel
4 D.H. Lawrence
4 Leonard Cohen
3 Ron Rash
3 Hayden Carruth
3 Heather Fuller
3 Philip Paradis
3 Daniel Nester
3 Jon Anderson
3 Ben Doyle
3 Peter Klappert
3 David Ray
3 Michael Lally
3 John Keats
3 Brooks Haxton
3 Christopher Smart
3 Alexander Pope
3 Frances Mayes
2 Grace Paley
2 G.E. Patterson
2 Lizette Woodworth Reese
2 Eric Torgersen
2 Terence Winch
2 Martha Collins
2 Seamus Heaney
2 May Swenson
2 Isaac Rosenberg
2 Erin Belieu
2 Samuel Coleridge
2 Charles Webb
2 Lewis Carroll
2 William Shakespeare
2 Andrew Hudgins
2 Heather McHugh
2 Peter Cherches
2 Edgar Bowers
2 Vasko Popa
2 Larry Levis
2 Thomas Gray
2 Anna Akhmatova
1 Jean Valentine
1 Cornelius Eady
1 Daisy Fried
1 John Wheelwright
1 Alison Luterman
1 Bernhard Elis Malmström
1 April Bernard
1 Robert Hedin
1 Elton Glaser
1 Joyce Sutphen
1 Ted Hughes
1 Elise Paschen
1 Yosa Buson
1 Matthew Arnold
1 Emily Bronte
1 Bertolt Brecht
1 Charles Baudelaire
1 Robert Herrick
1 Karen Chase
1 Elizabeth Bishop
1 Lee Upton
1 Jenny Factor
1 W. H. Auden
1 Geoffrey Chaucer
1 Ellen Bryant Voigt
1 George Herbert
1 Octavio Paz
1 Thom Gunn
1 Thomas Hardy

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