Every day a new poem is chosen to be featured as the Poem of the Day. This has been done on a daily basis since June 20, 2000, when the site first went live. Be sure to bookmark the Poem of the Day page for a quick recommended read.

On this page we list all the previous poems of the day.

May 2008
May 15th 2008	Charles Bukowski	The Icecream People
May 14th 2008	Phillis Wheatley	Goliath Of Gath
May 13th 2008	Delmore Schwartz	Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Vakzy, James Joyce, Et Al.
May 12th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Graves
May 11th 2008	Wallace Stevens	Tattoo
May 10th 2008	Delmore Schwartz	Concerning The Synthetic Unity Of Apperception
May 9th 2008	Emily Dickinson	With thee, in the Desert
May 8th 2008	Denise Levertov	The Great Black Heron
May 7th 2008	Charles Bukowski	Layover
May 6th 2008	H. D.	Song
May 5th 2008	Walt Whitman	A Hand-Mirror.
May 4th 2008	Louise Gluck	Odysseus' Decision
May 3rd 2008	Charles Bukowski	A Radio With Guts
May 2nd 2008	Walt Whitman	Gods.
May 1st 2008	Anne Sexton	Raccoon
April 2008
April 30th 2008	John Berryman	Dream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need
April 29th 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Menses
April 28th 2008	Carl Sandburg	I Am The People, The Mob
April 27th 2008	Anne Bradstreet	A Letter to Her Husband
April 26th 2008	Bill Knott	Tempestrousseau
April 25th 2008	Marge Piercy	Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day
April 24th 2008	Emily Dickinson	Love -- thou art high
April 23rd 2008	Russell Edson	You
April 22nd 2008	Edgar Lee Masters	The Unknown
April 21st 2008	Dorothy Parker	Godspeed
April 20th 2008	Linda Pastan	A New Poet
April 19th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Loam
April 18th 2008	Emily Dickinson	Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
April 17th 2008	Edgar Lee Masters	Joseph Dixon
April 16th 2008	Emily Dickinson	Taken from men -- this morning
April 15th 2008	Li-Young Lee	Braiding
April 14th 2008	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Lingard and the Stars
April 13th 2008	Vachel Lindsay	Caught in a Net
April 12th 2008	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Celestial Love
April 11th 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	The Little Hill
April 10th 2008	Stanley Kunitz	The Snakes of September
April 9th 2008	Sara Teasdale	What Do I Care?
April 8th 2008	e.e. cummings	Picasso... (XXIII)
April 7th 2008	Emily Dickinson	A single Screw of Flesh
April 6th 2008	T.S. Eliot	Macavity: The Mystery Cat
April 5th 2008	Vachel Lindsay	To Buddha
April 4th 2008	Emily Dickinson	A Visitor in Marl
April 3rd 2008	Mark Doty	Visitation
April 2nd 2008	Shoshauna Shy	Bringing My Son To The Police Station To Be Fingerprinted
April 1st 2008	Herman Melville	Healed of My Hurt
March 2008
March 31st 2008	Vachel Lindsay	A Prayer to All the Dead among Mine Own People
March 30th 2008	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Refuted
March 29th 2008	Vachel Lindsay	Our Mother Pocahontas
March 28th 2008	Emily Dickinson	The Infinite a sudden Guest
March 27th 2008	Raymond Carver	Late Fragment
March 26th 2008	Frank Bidart	Love Incarnate
March 25th 2008	Forrest Hamer	Charlene-n-Booker 4ever
March 24th 2008	Walt Whitman	This Dust was Once the Man.
March 23rd 2008	Paul Laurence Dunbar	When Malindy Sings
March 22nd 2008	Anne Sexton	The Big Heart
March 21st 2008	Emily Dickinson	If I may have it, when it's dead,
March 20th 2008	Oliver Wendell Holmes	A Farewell to Agassiz
March 19th 2008	Linda Pastan	Vermilion
March 18th 2008	William Carlos Williams	The Crowd At The Ball Game
March 17th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Crucible
March 16th 2008	Stanley Kunitz	Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation
March 15th 2008	Anne Sexton	Live
March 14th 2008	Denise Levertov	The Quest
March 13th 2008	David Lehman	December 25
March 12th 2008	e.e. cummings	i thank you God for most this amazing
March 11th 2008	Charles Bukowski	The Poetry Reading
March 10th 2008	Emily Dickinson	The Day undressed -- Herself --
March 9th 2008	Anne Bradstreet	The Flesh and the Spirit
March 8th 2008	Ogden Nash	Oh To Be Odd!
March 7th 2008	Anne Sexton	And One For My Dame
March 6th 2008	Carl Sandburg	At a Window
March 5th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Mascots
March 4th 2008	Joyce Sutphen	Crossroads
March 3rd 2008	Ellis Parker Butler	The Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough
March 2nd 2008	Edgar Lee Masters	Emily Sparks
March 1st 2008	Charles Bukowski	A Man
February 2008
February 29th 2008	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	A Song Of Life
February 28th 2008	Marge Piercy	The Seven Of Pentacles
February 27th 2008	Delmore Schwartz	The Choir And Music Of Solitude And Silence
February 26th 2008	Charles Simic	Clouds Gathering
February 25th 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Kin To Sorrow
February 24th 2008	Billy Collins	Study In Orange And White
February 23rd 2008	Walt Whitman	As I Ponder’d in Silence.
February 22nd 2008	Emily Dickinson	The Butterfly's Numidian Gown
February 21st 2008	Dorothy Parker	The Sea
February 20th 2008	Alan Seeger	All That's Not Love . . .
February 19th 2008	Walt Whitman	In Paths Untrodden.
February 18th 2008	Emily Dickinson	The Red -- Blaze -- is the Morning
February 17th 2008	Robert Frost	The Bonfire
February 16th 2008	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Friendship After Love
February 15th 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Sonnets 10: Oh, My Beloved, Have You Thought Of This
February 14th 2008	Frank O\'Hara	At Joan's
February 13th 2008	Edgar Lee Masters	Mrs. Purkapile
February 12th 2008	Emily Dickinson	It is an honorable Thought
February 11th 2008	Deborah Ager	The Lake
February 10th 2008	Anne Sexton	Killing The Love
February 9th 2008	Walt Whitman	Me Imperturbe.
February 8th 2008	Alan Seeger	The Aisne
February 7th 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	The Shroud
February 6th 2008	Robert Frost	Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter
February 5th 2008	William Stafford	For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid
February 4th 2008	Maya Angelou	Passing Time
February 3rd 2008	Emily Dickinson	By my Window have I for Scenery
February 2nd 2008	Edgar Lee Masters	Mrs. Williams
February 1st 2008	W.S. Merwin	The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
January 2008
January 31st 2008	Emily Dickinson	Oh give it Motion -- deck it sweet
January 30th 2008	Amy Clampitt	Exmoor
January 29th 2008	Dorothy Parker	The Apple Tree
January 28th 2008	Dorothy Parker	The False Friends
January 27th 2008	Stanley Kunitz	Father and Son
January 26th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Buffalo Bill
January 25th 2008	Frank O\'Hara	Why I Am Not A Painter
January 24th 2008	Russell Edson	A Stone Is Nobody's
January 23rd 2008	Anne Sexton	Elegy In The Classroom
January 22nd 2008	Carl Sandburg	Old-fashioned Requited Love
January 21st 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	The Bean-Stalk
January 20th 2008	Amy Lowell	To an Early Daffodil
January 19th 2008	Heather McHugh	Ghoti
January 18th 2008	Emily Dickinson	Myself can read the Telegrams
January 17th 2008	Anne Sexton	Sylvia's Death
January 16th 2008	Sara Teasdale	Houses Of Dreams
January 15th 2008	Charles Simic	Hotel Insomnia
January 14th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Long Guns
January 13th 2008	Charles Bukowski	My First Affair With That Older Woman
January 12th 2008	Stephen Dunn	Landscape At The End Of The Century
January 11th 2008	Maya Angelou	A Conceit
January 10th 2008	William Carlos Williams	The Cold Night
January 9th 2008	Amy Lowell	The Hammers
January 8th 2008	Carl Sandburg	From The Shore
January 7th 2008	Emily Dickinson	He ate and drank the precious Words --
January 6th 2008	Emily Dickinson	Her little Parasol to lift
January 5th 2008	Ogden Nash	The Chipmunk
January 4th 2008	Carl Sandburg	Smoke Rose Gold
January 3rd 2008	Walt Whitman	Unnamed Lands.
January 2nd 2008	Edna St. Vincent Millay	I Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue
January 1st 2008	Walt Whitman	By Broad Potomac’s Shore.
December 2007
December 31st 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Mother's Loss
December 30th 2007	Sharon Olds	Crab
December 29th 2007	Randall Jarrell	Next Day
December 28th 2007	Langston Hughes	Night Funeral In Harlem
December 27th 2007	Emily Dickinson	It stole along so stealthy
December 26th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Riddle we can guess
December 25th 2007	Ogden Nash	The Cantaloupe
December 24th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Soto!  Explore thyself!
December 23rd 2007	Walt Whitman	Shut Not Your Doors, &c.
December 22nd 2007	Thomas Lux	"I Love You Sweatheart"
December 21st 2007	Emily Dickinson	A Field of Stubble, lying sere
December 20th 2007	Sylvia Plath	Perseus
December 19th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 42: O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane
December 18th 2007	Gary Soto	Saturday At The Canal
December 17th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Of Yellow was the outer Sky
December 16th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	Rhymes for Gloriana
December 15th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Love's Supremacy
December 14th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Birthday of but a single pang
December 13th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	On Reading Omar Khayyam
December 12th 2007	Emily Dickinson	No Notice gave She, but a Change --
December 11th 2007	Susan Kelly-DeWitt	Summer Of The Grandmothers
December 10th 2007	James Whitcomb Riley	The Rapture of the Year
December 9th 2007	Nick Carbo	Grammarotics
December 8th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Wind didn't come from the Orchard -- today
December 7th 2007	Edward Field	The Return of Frankenstein
December 6th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Two Travellers perishing in Snow
December 5th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The event was directly behind Him
December 4th 2007	Sylvia Plath	Letter In November
December 3rd 2007	Weldon Kees	The Smiles Of The Bathers
December 2nd 2007	Wendell Berry	A Meeting
December 1st 2007	Edna St. Vincent Millay	My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend
November 2007
November 30th 2007	Joyce Kilmer	The Annunciation
November 29th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Settle The Question Right
November 28th 2007	Cornelius Eady	I'm A Fool To Love You
November 27th 2007	Joyce Kilmer	The White Ships and the Red
November 26th 2007	Stephen Crane	I met a seer
November 25th 2007	Alan Seeger	Rendezvous
November 24th 2007	Amy Lowell	Afternoon Rain in State Street
November 23rd 2007	William Matthews	A Poetry Reading At West Point
November 22nd 2007	Emily Dickinson	They talk as slow as Legends grow
November 21st 2007	Billy Collins	For Bartleby The Scrivener
November 20th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring
November 19th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Alix
November 18th 2007	Amy Lowell	The Last Quarter of the Moon
November 17th 2007	Howard Nemerov	Casting
November 16th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Could that sweet Darkness where they dwell
November 15th 2007	Paul Laurence Dunbar	Accountability
November 14th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Touch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar
November 13th 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Hamilton Greene
November 12th 2007	Carl Sandburg	The Great Hunt
November 11th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	By the Spring, at Sunset
November 10th 2007	Edgar Allan Poe	Sonnet- Silence
November 9th 2007	Ron Rash	Last Service
November 8th 2007	Alan Seeger	Sonnet XIII
November 7th 2007	Frank O\'Hara	Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
November 6th 2007	Anne Sexton	Suicide Note
November 5th 2007	Major Henry Livingston, Jr.	The IX Ode to Horace
November 4th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Summer Shirt Sale
November 3rd 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy
November 2nd 2007	Lizette Woodworth Reese	A Rhyme of Death's Inn
November 1st 2007	Russell Edson	The Position
October 2007
October 31st 2007	Amy Lowell	March Evening
October 30th 2007	Ellis Parker Butler	Song For Heroes
October 29th 2007	Wallace Stevens	A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
October 28th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Hits and Runs
October 27th 2007	Major Henry Livingston, Jr.	Account of a Visit From ST. Nicholas
October 26th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Ambition's Trail
October 25th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Over the Banisters
October 24th 2007	Alan Seeger	Eudaemon
October 23rd 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Custer
October 22nd 2007	Delmore Schwartz	Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses
October 21st 2007	Carl Sandburg	Sixteen Months
October 20th 2007	Alan Seeger	Maktoob
October 19th 2007	Walt Whitman	American Feuillage.
October 18th 2007	James A. Emanuel	The Treehouse
October 17th 2007	Marvin Bell	To Dorothy
October 16th 2007	Emily Dickinson	'Twould ease -- a Butterfly --
October 15th 2007	Richard Brautigan	Please
October 14th 2007	Amy Lowell	A Coloured Print by Shokei
October 13th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Nocturne In A Deserted Brickyard
October 12th 2007	Stephen Crane	In heaven
October 11th 2007	Randall Jarrell	A Country Life
October 10th 2007	Emily Dickinson	I make His Crescent fill or lack --
October 9th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Dandelion's pallid tube
October 8th 2007	Allen Ginsberg	Father Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V)
October 7th 2007	T.S. Eliot	The Naming Of Cats
October 6th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Paradise is of the option.
October 5th 2007	Walt Whitman	Despairing Cries.
October 4th 2007	Richard Brautigan	Kafka's Hat
October 3rd 2007	Emily Dickinson	Not that We did, shall be the test
October 2nd 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Sorry
October 1st 2007	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Keats
September 2007
September 30th 2007	Walt Whitman	Italian Music in Dakota.
September 29th 2007	Edwin Arlington Robinson	The Tavern
September 28th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 13: God bless Henry
September 27th 2007	Anthony Hecht	Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love
September 26th 2007	T.S. Eliot	Preludes
September 25th 2007	Billy Collins	I Go Back To The House For A Book
September 24th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Revolution is the Pod
September 23rd 2007	Howard Nemerov	The Blue Swallows
September 22nd 2007	Emily Dickinson	Knock with tremor --
September 21st 2007	Li-Young Lee	Out Of Hiding
September 20th 2007	Joyce Kilmer	Gates and Doors
September 19th 2007	Emily Dickinson	One Anguish -- in a Crowd --
September 18th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	I Love You
September 17th 2007	Emily Dickinson	These are the Signs to Nature's Inns --
September 16th 2007	Emily Dickinson	One of the ones that Midas touched
September 15th 2007	Emily Dickinson	'Tis my first night beneath the Sun
September 14th 2007	Joyce Kilmer	St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars
September 13th 2007	Christianne Balk	Shorthorns
September 12th 2007	Randall Jarrell	Gunner
September 11th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Landscape
September 10th 2007	Louise Gluck	Poem
September 9th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Too cold is this
September 8th 2007	Howard Nemerov	Learning the Trees
September 7th 2007	Robert Frost	Asking For Roses
September 6th 2007	Charles Bukowski	How Is Your Heart?
September 5th 2007	Ellis Parker Butler	Jabed Meeker, Humorist
September 4th 2007	Ezra Pound	In Tempore Senectutis
September 3rd 2007	William Carlos Williams	Portrait Of A Lady
September 2nd 2007	Emily Dickinson	A Wind that rose
September 1st 2007	e.e. cummings	2 little whos
August 2007
August 31st 2007	Anthony Hecht	Prospects
August 30th 2007	Russell Edson	Paying The Captain
August 29th 2007	Bill Knott	Goodbye
August 28th 2007	Anne Bradstreet	The Author to her Book
August 27th 2007	James Whitcomb Riley	The Harper
August 26th 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Justice Arnett
August 25th 2007	Sharon Olds	The Sash
August 24th 2007	Ogden Nash	First Child ... Second Child
August 23rd 2007	Vachel Lindsay	A Sense of Humor
August 22nd 2007	Emily Dickinson	Trusty as the stars
August 21st 2007	Billy Collins	Consolation
August 20th 2007	Russell Edson	Hands
August 19th 2007	Robert Frost	The Generations of Men
August 18th 2007	Anne Bradstreet	Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 18th
August 17th 2007	Anne Sexton	Wanting To Die
August 16th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Grass
August 15th 2007	Emily Dickinson	I started Early -- Took my Dog --
August 14th 2007	Emily Dickinson	'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,
August 13th 2007	Anne Bradstreet	Epitaphs
August 12th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
August 11th 2007	James Tate	More Later, Less The Same
August 10th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird
August 9th 2007	Phillis Wheatley	To The King's Most Excellent Majesty
August 8th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 132: A Small Dream
August 7th 2007	Ogden Nash	Peekabo, I Almost See You
August 6th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Proud and Beautiful
August 5th 2007	Sylvia Plath	Lesbos
August 4th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Carlos
August 3rd 2007	James Schuyler	Salute
August 2nd 2007	Hayden Carruth	On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam
August 1st 2007	Sara Teasdale	Water Lilies
July 2007
July 31st 2007	Walt Whitman	Darest Thou Now, O Soul.
July 30th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Love's Coming
July 29th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Prayer is the little implement
July 28th 2007	Amy Lowell	Clear, with Light, Variable Winds
July 27th 2007	Donald Hall	Villanelle
July 26th 2007	Stephen Crane	On the desert
July 25th 2007	Walt Whitman	O Star of France.
July 24th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Oh, honey of an hour,
July 23rd 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man
July 22nd 2007	Sylvia Plath	Pheasant
July 21st 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Hollows round His eager Eyes
July 20th 2007	Frank O\'Hara	Autobiographia Literaria
July 19th 2007	Anne Bradstreet	Another
July 18th 2007	Philip Levine	Holy Day
July 17th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Autumn Movement
July 16th 2007	D.C. Berry	Hamlet Off-Stage: Snail Peels Off
July 15th 2007	Anne Sexton	Buying The Whore
July 14th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Inspiration
July 13th 2007	Hart Crane	At Melville's Tomb
July 12th 2007	Ellis Parker Butler	New England Magazine
July 11th 2007	Walt Whitman	Aboard at a Ship’s Helm.
July 10th 2007	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Sonnets 02: Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song
July 9th 2007	Anne Sexton	An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love
July 8th 2007	Richard Brautigan	The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem
July 7th 2007	Edgar Allan Poe	Eulalie
July 6th 2007	Laura Riding Jackson	With The Face
July 5th 2007	Emily Dickinson	There is a morn by men unseen
July 4th 2007	Robinson Jeffers	The Purse-Seine
July 3rd 2007	Joyce Kilmer	The Thorn
July 2nd 2007	Robinson Jeffers	Love The Wild Swan
July 1st 2007	Ellis Parker Butler	Western
June 2007
June 30th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	The Tale of the Tiger-Tree
June 29th 2007	William Stafford	Waking at 3 a.m.
June 28th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Chicago Poet
June 27th 2007	Joseph Mayo Wristen	Child of Jesus
June 26th 2007	Carolyn Forché	The Garden Shukkei-en
June 25th 2007	Sylvia Plath	Contusion
June 24th 2007	Nick Carbo	Little Brown Brother
June 23rd 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	The Circuit Judge
June 22nd 2007	Robinson Jeffers	Divinely Superfluous Beauty
June 21st 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Batterson Dobyns
June 20th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Aztec Mask
June 19th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Life we have is very great.
June 18th 2007	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Sound of the Sea
June 17th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Pigeon
June 16th 2007	Richard Brautigan	-2
June 15th 2007	Judy Grahn	If You Lose Your Lover
June 14th 2007	Carl Sandburg	The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring
June 13th 2007	Emily Dickinson	If I could tell how glad I was
June 12th 2007	Emily Dickinson	To die -- takes just a little while
June 11th 2007	e.e. cummings	what if a much of a which of a wind... (XX)
June 10th 2007	Amy Lowell	Absence
June 9th 2007	Anne Sexton	Despair
June 8th 2007	Anne Sexton	A Curse Against Elegies
June 7th 2007	Ogden Nash	The Wasp
June 6th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Sun is gay or stark
June 5th 2007	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Fire of Drift-wood
June 4th 2007	Emily Dickinson	We like March.
June 3rd 2007	Henry David Thoreau	They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below
June 2nd 2007	Marge Piercy	Toad Dreams
June 1st 2007	Ezra Pound	The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
May 2007
May 31st 2007	Emily Dickinson	Wonder -- is not precisely Knowing
May 30th 2007	Joseph Mayo Wristen	From the Rooms of the Prom Queen
May 29th 2007	Robert Hershon	Sentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross The Road?
May 28th 2007	Allen Ginsberg	Nagasaki Days
May 27th 2007	Joseph Mayo Wristen	magic to change the world
May 26th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Shells from the Coast mistaking --
May 25th 2007	Richard Brautigan	At the California Institute of Technology
May 24th 2007	Anne Sexton	For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach
May 23rd 2007	e.e. cummings	youful... (17)
May 22nd 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Conrad Siever
May 21st 2007	Joyce Kilmer	The Snowman in the Yard
May 20th 2007	Joyce Kilmer	Thanksgiving
May 19th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Prophetic Soul
May 18th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Love is Enough
May 17th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Inconceivably solemn!
May 16th 2007	Emily Dickinson	'Tis not the swaying frame we miss,
May 15th 2007	Paul Laurence Dunbar	Life's Tragedy
May 14th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 34: My mother has your shotgun. One man, wide
May 13th 2007	Robinson Jeffers	The Broken Balance
May 12th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Flanders
May 11th 2007	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Siege Perilous
May 10th 2007	Richard Brautigan	Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America
May 9th 2007	Jorie Graham	The Way Things Work
May 8th 2007	Maya Angelou	I know why the caged bird sings
May 7th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Conscious am I in my Chamber,
May 6th 2007	Charles Simic	Mummy's Curse
May 5th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Me from Myself -- to banish --
May 4th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Penelope
May 3rd 2007	Robinson Jeffers	The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939)
May 2nd 2007	Robert Frost	To Earthward
May 1st 2007	William Carlos Williams	Aux Imagistes
April 2007
April 30th 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Samuel Gardner
April 29th 2007	Eric Torgersen	The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
April 28th 2007	Philip Levine	Picture Postcard From The Other World
April 27th 2007	Conrad Aiken	The House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand
April 26th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Some such Butterfly be seen
April 25th 2007	David Lehman	July 10
April 24th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Glimmer
April 23rd 2007	Robert Frost	The Silken Tent
April 22nd 2007	Edna St. Vincent Millay	The Little Ghost
April 21st 2007	Emily Dickinson	I'm "wife" -- I've finished that
April 20th 2007	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Demos
April 19th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself
April 18th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Sweet Violets
April 17th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Time's wily Chargers will not wait
April 16th 2007	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
April 15th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Ballade at Thirty-Five
April 14th 2007	Jeffrey Harrison	Necessity
April 13th 2007	Emily Dickinson	To own a Susan of my own
April 12th 2007	Amy Lowell	At Night
April 11th 2007	Walt Whitman	Ox Tamer, The.
April 10th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The last of Summer is Delight --
April 9th 2007	Lee Upton	The Table
April 8th 2007	John Berryman	Sonnet 117 - All we were going strong
April 7th 2007	Edwin Arlington Robinson	L'envoy
April 6th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl
April 5th 2007	Charles Bukowski	Curtain
April 4th 2007	James Whitcomb Riley	A Noon Interval
April 3rd 2007	Randall Jarrell	Well Water
April 2nd 2007	T.S. Eliot	The Hippopotamus
April 1st 2007	Vachel Lindsay	Springfield Magical
March 2007
March 31st 2007	Walt Whitman	As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores.
March 30th 2007	Dorothy Parker	Epitaph for a Darling Lady
March 29th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox
March 28th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	A Maiden's Secret
March 27th 2007	Alan Seeger	Sonnet I
March 26th 2007	Ogden Nash	Tableau At Twilight
March 25th 2007	Vachel Lindsay	Niagara
March 24th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Sexton! My Master's sleeping here.
March 23rd 2007	Walt Whitman	States!
March 22nd 2007	Robert Frost	The Hill Wife
March 21st 2007	Richard Brautigan	Part 4 of Trout Fishing in America
March 20th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Desolation
March 19th 2007	Lee Upton	The Broom
March 18th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 97: Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig
March 17th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Did We abolish Frost
March 16th 2007	Bill Knott	Stress Therapy
March 15th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Fleeing Away
March 14th 2007	James Whitcomb Riley	The Ripest Peach
March 13th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 23: The Lay of Ike
March 12th 2007	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man
March 11th 2007	Major Henry Livingston, Jr.	On my Sister Joanna's Entrance into Her 33rd Year
March 10th 2007	Robert Creeley	I Know A Man
March 9th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Questionnaire
March 8th 2007	Billy Collins	Child Development
March 7th 2007	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Blight
March 6th 2007	Ron Rash	In Dismal Gorge
March 5th 2007	Bill Knott	2 Futilists
March 4th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Brain, within its Groove
March 3rd 2007	Raymond Carver	Stupid
March 2nd 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing
March 1st 2007	Emily Dickinson	A Sloop of Amber slips away
February 2007
February 28th 2007	Walt Whitman	Untold Want, The.
February 27th 2007	John Berryman	Dream Song 50: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post
February 26th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Contentment
February 25th 2007	Donald Hall	A Poet at Twenty
February 24th 2007	Carl Sandburg	An Electric Sign Goes Dark
February 23rd 2007	Herman Melville	The Mound by the Lake
February 22nd 2007	e.e. cummings	if you like my poems let them
February 21st 2007	Joyce Kilmer	The Proud Poet
February 20th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Band Concert
February 19th 2007	Walt Whitman	That Music Always Round Me.
February 18th 2007	Emily Dickinson	'Twas my one Glory --
February 17th 2007	Edith Wharton	Chartres
February 16th 2007	Richard Wilbur	Praise In Summer
February 15th 2007	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Moon And Sea
February 14th 2007	William Stafford	Traveling Through The Dark
February 13th 2007	Carl Sandburg	Subway
February 12th 2007	Edwin Arlington Robinson	On the Night of a Friend's Wedding
February 11th 2007	Archibald MacLeish	The End Of The World
February 10th 2007	Carl Sandburg	White Ash
February 9th 2007	Richard Brautigan	Nine Things
February 8th 2007	Li-Young Lee	The Father's House
February 7th 2007	Russell Edson	The Road
February 6th 2007	Emily Dickinson	There is no Frigate like a Book
February 5th 2007	Laurie Duesing	Precision
February 4th 2007	Sara Teasdale	Doubt
February 3rd 2007	Stephen Crane	The wayfarer,
February 2nd 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Walter Simmons
February 1st 2007	Robert Creeley	The Way
January 2007
January 31st 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Ami Green
January 30th 2007	Anne Sexton	Doors, Doors, Doors
January 29th 2007	Ogden Nash	The Ant
January 28th 2007	e.e. cummings	next to of course god america i... (III)
January 27th 2007	Charles Bukowski	Show Biz
January 26th 2007	Emily Dickinson	You cannot take itself
January 25th 2007	Emily Dickinson	I would not paint -- a picture --
January 24th 2007	T.S. Eliot	La Figlia che Piange
January 23rd 2007	Walt Whitman	Dirge for Two Veterans.
January 22nd 2007	Robinson Jeffers	Shine, Perishing Republic
January 21st 2007	Carl Sandburg	Caboose Thoughts
January 20th 2007	W.S. Merwin	Some Last Questions
January 19th 2007	Robert Frost	The Housekeeper
January 18th 2007	Paul Laurence Dunbar	Douglass
January 16th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
January 15th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Empty my Heart, of Thee --
January 13th 2007	Stanley Gemmell	Cirque
January 12th 2007	Hart Crane	Forgetfulness
January 11th 2007	Emily Dickinson	One thing of it we borrow
January 10th 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Willie Metcalf
January 9th 2007	Emily Dickinson	Conjecturing a Climate
January 8th 2007	Audre Lorde	Coal
January 7th 2007	Edgar Lee Masters	Thomas Ross, Jr.
January 6th 2007	Emily Dickinson	The Morning after Woe
January 5th 2007	Emily Dickinson	"Speech" -- is a prank of Parliament --
December 2006
December 26th 2006	Walt Whitman	Long, too Long, O Land!
December 23rd 2006	e.e. cummings	Marianne Moore (35)
December 17th 2006	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Autumn Daybreak
December 16th 2006	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Theophilus
December 15th 2006	Robinson Jeffers	Return
December 14th 2006	Anne Sexton	Frenzy
December 13th 2006	Robert Frost	Ghost House
December 12th 2006	Richard Brautigan	Surprise
December 11th 2006	Robert Creeley	The Carnival
December 10th 2006	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis
December 9th 2006	Conrad Aiken	Senlin: His Dark Origins
December 8th 2006	Ron Rash	Brown Lung
December 7th 2006	Robert Frost	I. The Witch of Coös
December 6th 2006	Carl Sandburg	Spanish
December 5th 2006	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Sonnets 11: As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantle