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Poem of the Day Archive

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.


Previous Daily Poems

May 2008
May 15th 2008Charles BukowskiThe Icecream People
May 14th 2008Phillis WheatleyGoliath Of Gath
May 13th 2008Delmore SchwartzSonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Vakzy, James Joyce, Et Al.
May 12th 2008Carl SandburgGraves
May 11th 2008Wallace StevensTattoo
May 10th 2008Delmore SchwartzConcerning The Synthetic Unity Of Apperception
May 9th 2008Emily DickinsonWith thee, in the Desert
May 8th 2008Denise LevertovThe Great Black Heron
May 7th 2008Charles BukowskiLayover
May 6th 2008H. D.Song
May 5th 2008Walt WhitmanA Hand-Mirror.
May 4th 2008Louise GluckOdysseus' Decision
May 3rd 2008Charles BukowskiA Radio With Guts
May 2nd 2008Walt WhitmanGods.
May 1st 2008Anne SextonRaccoon
April 2008
April 30th 2008John BerrymanDream Song 64: Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need
April 29th 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayMenses
April 28th 2008Carl SandburgI Am The People, The Mob
April 27th 2008Anne BradstreetA Letter to Her Husband
April 26th 2008Bill KnottTempestrousseau
April 25th 2008Marge PiercyVisiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day
April 24th 2008Emily DickinsonLove -- thou art high
April 23rd 2008Russell EdsonYou
April 22nd 2008Edgar Lee MastersThe Unknown
April 21st 2008Dorothy ParkerGodspeed
April 20th 2008Linda PastanA New Poet
April 19th 2008Carl SandburgLoam
April 18th 2008Emily DickinsonDrama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
April 17th 2008Edgar Lee MastersJoseph Dixon
April 16th 2008Emily DickinsonTaken from men -- this morning
April 15th 2008Li-Young LeeBraiding
April 14th 2008Edwin Arlington RobinsonLingard and the Stars
April 13th 2008Vachel LindsayCaught in a Net
April 12th 2008Ralph Waldo EmersonCelestial Love
April 11th 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Little Hill
April 10th 2008Stanley KunitzThe Snakes of September
April 9th 2008Sara TeasdaleWhat Do I Care?
April 8th 2008e.e. cummingsPicasso... (XXIII)
April 7th 2008Emily DickinsonA single Screw of Flesh
April 6th 2008T.S. EliotMacavity: The Mystery Cat
April 5th 2008Vachel LindsayTo Buddha
April 4th 2008Emily DickinsonA Visitor in Marl
April 3rd 2008Mark DotyVisitation
April 2nd 2008Shoshauna ShyBringing My Son To The Police Station To Be Fingerprinted
April 1st 2008Herman MelvilleHealed of My Hurt
March 2008
March 31st 2008Vachel LindsayA Prayer to All the Dead among Mine Own People
March 30th 2008Ella Wheeler WilcoxRefuted
March 29th 2008Vachel LindsayOur Mother Pocahontas
March 28th 2008Emily DickinsonThe Infinite a sudden Guest
March 27th 2008Raymond CarverLate Fragment
March 26th 2008Frank BidartLove Incarnate
March 25th 2008Forrest HamerCharlene-n-Booker 4ever
March 24th 2008Walt WhitmanThis Dust was Once the Man.
March 23rd 2008Paul Laurence DunbarWhen Malindy Sings
March 22nd 2008Anne SextonThe Big Heart
March 21st 2008Emily DickinsonIf I may have it, when it's dead,
March 20th 2008Oliver Wendell HolmesA Farewell to Agassiz
March 19th 2008Linda PastanVermilion
March 18th 2008William Carlos WilliamsThe Crowd At The Ball Game
March 17th 2008Carl SandburgCrucible
March 16th 2008Stanley KunitzHornworm: Autumn Lamentation
March 15th 2008Anne SextonLive
March 14th 2008Denise LevertovThe Quest
March 13th 2008David LehmanDecember 25
March 12th 2008e.e. cummingsi thank you God for most this amazing
March 11th 2008Charles BukowskiThe Poetry Reading
March 10th 2008Emily DickinsonThe Day undressed -- Herself --
March 9th 2008Anne BradstreetThe Flesh and the Spirit
March 8th 2008Ogden NashOh To Be Odd!
March 7th 2008Anne SextonAnd One For My Dame
March 6th 2008Carl SandburgAt a Window
March 5th 2008Carl SandburgMascots
March 4th 2008Joyce SutphenCrossroads
March 3rd 2008Ellis Parker ButlerThe Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough
March 2nd 2008Edgar Lee MastersEmily Sparks
March 1st 2008Charles BukowskiA Man
February 2008
February 29th 2008Ella Wheeler WilcoxA Song Of Life
February 28th 2008Marge PiercyThe Seven Of Pentacles
February 27th 2008Delmore SchwartzThe Choir And Music Of Solitude And Silence
February 26th 2008Charles SimicClouds Gathering
February 25th 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayKin To Sorrow
February 24th 2008Billy CollinsStudy In Orange And White
February 23rd 2008Walt WhitmanAs I Ponder’d in Silence.
February 22nd 2008Emily DickinsonThe Butterfly's Numidian Gown
February 21st 2008Dorothy ParkerThe Sea
February 20th 2008Alan SeegerAll That's Not Love . . .
February 19th 2008Walt WhitmanIn Paths Untrodden.
February 18th 2008Emily DickinsonThe Red -- Blaze -- is the Morning
February 17th 2008Robert FrostThe Bonfire
February 16th 2008Ella Wheeler WilcoxFriendship After Love
February 15th 2008Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnets 10: Oh, My Beloved, Have You Thought Of This
February 14th 2008Frank O\'HaraAt Joan's
February 13th 2008Edgar Lee MastersMrs. Purkapile
February 12th 2008Emily DickinsonIt is an honorable Thought
February 11th 2008Deborah AgerThe Lake
February 10th 2008Anne SextonKilling The Love
February 9th 2008Walt WhitmanMe Imperturbe.
February 8th 2008Alan SeegerThe Aisne
February 7th 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Shroud
February 6th 2008Robert FrostLooking For a Sunset Bird in Winter
February 5th 2008William StaffordFor My Young Friends Who Are Afraid
February 4th 2008Maya AngelouPassing Time
February 3rd 2008Emily DickinsonBy my Window have I for Scenery
February 2nd 2008Edgar Lee MastersMrs. Williams
February 1st 2008W.S. MerwinThe Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
January 2008
January 31st 2008Emily DickinsonOh give it Motion -- deck it sweet
January 30th 2008Amy ClampittExmoor
January 29th 2008Dorothy ParkerThe Apple Tree
January 28th 2008Dorothy ParkerThe False Friends
January 27th 2008Stanley KunitzFather and Son
January 26th 2008Carl SandburgBuffalo Bill
January 25th 2008Frank O\'HaraWhy I Am Not A Painter
January 24th 2008Russell EdsonA Stone Is Nobody's
January 23rd 2008Anne SextonElegy In The Classroom
January 22nd 2008Carl SandburgOld-fashioned Requited Love
January 21st 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Bean-Stalk
January 20th 2008Amy LowellTo an Early Daffodil
January 19th 2008Heather McHughGhoti
January 18th 2008Emily DickinsonMyself can read the Telegrams
January 17th 2008Anne SextonSylvia's Death
January 16th 2008Sara TeasdaleHouses Of Dreams
January 15th 2008Charles SimicHotel Insomnia
January 14th 2008Carl SandburgLong Guns
January 13th 2008Charles BukowskiMy First Affair With That Older Woman
January 12th 2008Stephen DunnLandscape At The End Of The Century
January 11th 2008Maya AngelouA Conceit
January 10th 2008William Carlos WilliamsThe Cold Night
January 9th 2008Amy LowellThe Hammers
January 8th 2008Carl SandburgFrom The Shore
January 7th 2008Emily DickinsonHe ate and drank the precious Words --
January 6th 2008Emily DickinsonHer little Parasol to lift
January 5th 2008Ogden NashThe Chipmunk
January 4th 2008Carl SandburgSmoke Rose Gold
January 3rd 2008Walt WhitmanUnnamed Lands.
January 2nd 2008Edna St. Vincent MillayI Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue
January 1st 2008Walt WhitmanBy Broad Potomac’s Shore.
December 2007
December 31st 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxMother's Loss
December 30th 2007Sharon OldsCrab
December 29th 2007Randall JarrellNext Day
December 28th 2007Langston HughesNight Funeral In Harlem
December 27th 2007Emily DickinsonIt stole along so stealthy
December 26th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Riddle we can guess
December 25th 2007Ogden NashThe Cantaloupe
December 24th 2007Emily DickinsonSoto!  Explore thyself!
December 23rd 2007Walt WhitmanShut Not Your Doors, &c.
December 22nd 2007Thomas Lux"I Love You Sweatheart"
December 21st 2007Emily DickinsonA Field of Stubble, lying sere
December 20th 2007Sylvia PlathPerseus
December 19th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 42: O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane
December 18th 2007Gary SotoSaturday At The Canal
December 17th 2007Emily DickinsonOf Yellow was the outer Sky
December 16th 2007Vachel LindsayRhymes for Gloriana
December 15th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxLove's Supremacy
December 14th 2007Emily DickinsonBirthday of but a single pang
December 13th 2007Vachel LindsayOn Reading Omar Khayyam
December 12th 2007Emily DickinsonNo Notice gave She, but a Change --
December 11th 2007Susan Kelly-DeWittSummer Of The Grandmothers
December 10th 2007James Whitcomb RileyThe Rapture of the Year
December 9th 2007Nick CarboGrammarotics
December 8th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Wind didn't come from the Orchard -- today
December 7th 2007Edward FieldThe Return of Frankenstein
December 6th 2007Emily DickinsonTwo Travellers perishing in Snow
December 5th 2007Emily DickinsonThe event was directly behind Him
December 4th 2007Sylvia PlathLetter In November
December 3rd 2007Weldon KeesThe Smiles Of The Bathers
December 2nd 2007Wendell BerryA Meeting
December 1st 2007Edna St. Vincent MillayMy Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend
November 2007
November 30th 2007Joyce KilmerThe Annunciation
November 29th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxSettle The Question Right
November 28th 2007Cornelius EadyI'm A Fool To Love You
November 27th 2007Joyce KilmerThe White Ships and the Red
November 26th 2007Stephen CraneI met a seer
November 25th 2007Alan SeegerRendezvous
November 24th 2007Amy LowellAfternoon Rain in State Street
November 23rd 2007William MatthewsA Poetry Reading At West Point
November 22nd 2007Emily DickinsonThey talk as slow as Legends grow
November 21st 2007Billy CollinsFor Bartleby The Scrivener
November 20th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring
November 19th 2007Carl SandburgAlix
November 18th 2007Amy LowellThe Last Quarter of the Moon
November 17th 2007Howard NemerovCasting
November 16th 2007Emily DickinsonCould that sweet Darkness where they dwell
November 15th 2007Paul Laurence DunbarAccountability
November 14th 2007Emily DickinsonTouch lightly Nature's sweet Guitar
November 13th 2007Edgar Lee MastersHamilton Greene
November 12th 2007Carl SandburgThe Great Hunt
November 11th 2007Vachel LindsayBy the Spring, at Sunset
November 10th 2007Edgar Allan PoeSonnet- Silence
November 9th 2007Ron RashLast Service
November 8th 2007Alan SeegerSonnet XIII
November 7th 2007Frank O\'HaraPoem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)
November 6th 2007Anne SextonSuicide Note
November 5th 2007Major Henry Livingston, Jr.The IX Ode to Horace
November 4th 2007Carl SandburgSummer Shirt Sale
November 3rd 2007John BerrymanDream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy
November 2nd 2007Lizette Woodworth ReeseA Rhyme of Death's Inn
November 1st 2007Russell EdsonThe Position
October 2007
October 31st 2007Amy LowellMarch Evening
October 30th 2007Ellis Parker ButlerSong For Heroes
October 29th 2007Wallace StevensA High-Toned Old Christian Woman
October 28th 2007Carl SandburgHits and Runs
October 27th 2007Major Henry Livingston, Jr.Account of a Visit From ST. Nicholas
October 26th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxAmbition's Trail
October 25th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxOver the Banisters
October 24th 2007Alan SeegerEudaemon
October 23rd 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxCuster
October 22nd 2007Delmore SchwartzApollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses
October 21st 2007Carl SandburgSixteen Months
October 20th 2007Alan SeegerMaktoob
October 19th 2007Walt WhitmanAmerican Feuillage.
October 18th 2007James A. EmanuelThe Treehouse
October 17th 2007Marvin BellTo Dorothy
October 16th 2007Emily Dickinson'Twould ease -- a Butterfly --
October 15th 2007Richard BrautiganPlease
October 14th 2007Amy LowellA Coloured Print by Shokei
October 13th 2007Carl SandburgNocturne In A Deserted Brickyard
October 12th 2007Stephen CraneIn heaven
October 11th 2007Randall JarrellA Country Life
October 10th 2007Emily DickinsonI make His Crescent fill or lack --
October 9th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Dandelion's pallid tube
October 8th 2007Allen GinsbergFather Death Blues (Don't Grow Old, Part V)
October 7th 2007T.S. EliotThe Naming Of Cats
October 6th 2007Emily DickinsonParadise is of the option.
October 5th 2007Walt WhitmanDespairing Cries.
October 4th 2007Richard BrautiganKafka's Hat
October 3rd 2007Emily DickinsonNot that We did, shall be the test
October 2nd 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxSorry
October 1st 2007Henry Wadsworth LongfellowKeats
September 2007
September 30th 2007Walt WhitmanItalian Music in Dakota.
September 29th 2007Edwin Arlington RobinsonThe Tavern
September 28th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 13: God bless Henry
September 27th 2007Anthony HechtLate Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love
September 26th 2007T.S. EliotPreludes
September 25th 2007Billy CollinsI Go Back To The House For A Book
September 24th 2007Emily DickinsonRevolution is the Pod
September 23rd 2007Howard NemerovThe Blue Swallows
September 22nd 2007Emily DickinsonKnock with tremor --
September 21st 2007Li-Young LeeOut Of Hiding
September 20th 2007Joyce KilmerGates and Doors
September 19th 2007Emily DickinsonOne Anguish -- in a Crowd --
September 18th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxI Love You
September 17th 2007Emily DickinsonThese are the Signs to Nature's Inns --
September 16th 2007Emily DickinsonOne of the ones that Midas touched
September 15th 2007Emily Dickinson'Tis my first night beneath the Sun
September 14th 2007Joyce KilmerSt. Alexis, Patron of Beggars
September 13th 2007Christianne BalkShorthorns
September 12th 2007Randall JarrellGunner
September 11th 2007Dorothy ParkerLandscape
September 10th 2007Louise GluckPoem
September 9th 2007Emily DickinsonToo cold is this
September 8th 2007Howard NemerovLearning the Trees
September 7th 2007Robert FrostAsking For Roses
September 6th 2007Charles BukowskiHow Is Your Heart?
September 5th 2007Ellis Parker ButlerJabed Meeker, Humorist
September 4th 2007Ezra PoundIn Tempore Senectutis
September 3rd 2007William Carlos WilliamsPortrait Of A Lady
September 2nd 2007Emily DickinsonA Wind that rose
September 1st 2007e.e. cummings2 little whos
August 2007
August 31st 2007Anthony HechtProspects
August 30th 2007Russell EdsonPaying The Captain
August 29th 2007Bill KnottGoodbye
August 28th 2007Anne BradstreetThe Author to her Book
August 27th 2007James Whitcomb RileyThe Harper
August 26th 2007Edgar Lee MastersJustice Arnett
August 25th 2007Sharon OldsThe Sash
August 24th 2007Ogden NashFirst Child ... Second Child
August 23rd 2007Vachel LindsayA Sense of Humor
August 22nd 2007Emily DickinsonTrusty as the stars
August 21st 2007Billy CollinsConsolation
August 20th 2007Russell EdsonHands
August 19th 2007Robert FrostThe Generations of Men
August 18th 2007Anne BradstreetVerses upon the Burning of our House, July 18th
August 17th 2007Anne SextonWanting To Die
August 16th 2007Carl SandburgGrass
August 15th 2007Emily DickinsonI started Early -- Took my Dog --
August 14th 2007Emily Dickinson'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,
August 13th 2007Anne BradstreetEpitaphs
August 12th 2007Vachel LindsayAbraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
August 11th 2007James TateMore Later, Less The Same
August 10th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird
August 9th 2007Phillis WheatleyTo The King's Most Excellent Majesty
August 8th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 132: A Small Dream
August 7th 2007Ogden NashPeekabo, I Almost See You
August 6th 2007Carl SandburgProud and Beautiful
August 5th 2007Sylvia PlathLesbos
August 4th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxCarlos
August 3rd 2007James SchuylerSalute
August 2nd 2007Hayden CarruthOn Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam
August 1st 2007Sara TeasdaleWater Lilies
July 2007
July 31st 2007Walt WhitmanDarest Thou Now, O Soul.
July 30th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxLove's Coming
July 29th 2007Emily DickinsonPrayer is the little implement
July 28th 2007Amy LowellClear, with Light, Variable Winds
July 27th 2007Donald HallVillanelle
July 26th 2007Stephen CraneOn the desert
July 25th 2007Walt WhitmanO Star of France.
July 24th 2007Emily DickinsonOh, honey of an hour,
July 23rd 2007Emily DickinsonThe Ditch is dear to the Drunken man
July 22nd 2007Sylvia PlathPheasant
July 21st 2007Emily DickinsonThe Hollows round His eager Eyes
July 20th 2007Frank O\'HaraAutobiographia Literaria
July 19th 2007Anne BradstreetAnother
July 18th 2007Philip LevineHoly Day
July 17th 2007Carl SandburgAutumn Movement
July 16th 2007D.C. BerryHamlet Off-Stage: Snail Peels Off
July 15th 2007Anne SextonBuying The Whore
July 14th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxInspiration
July 13th 2007Hart CraneAt Melville's Tomb
July 12th 2007Ellis Parker ButlerNew England Magazine
July 11th 2007Walt WhitmanAboard at a Ship’s Helm.
July 10th 2007Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnets 02: Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song
July 9th 2007Anne SextonAn Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love
July 8th 2007Richard BrautiganThe Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem
July 7th 2007Edgar Allan PoeEulalie
July 6th 2007Laura Riding JacksonWith The Face
July 5th 2007Emily DickinsonThere is a morn by men unseen
July 4th 2007Robinson JeffersThe Purse-Seine
July 3rd 2007Joyce KilmerThe Thorn
July 2nd 2007Robinson JeffersLove The Wild Swan
July 1st 2007Ellis Parker ButlerWestern
June 2007
June 30th 2007Vachel LindsayThe Tale of the Tiger-Tree
June 29th 2007William StaffordWaking at 3 a.m.
June 28th 2007Carl SandburgChicago Poet
June 27th 2007Joseph Mayo WristenChild of Jesus
June 26th 2007Carolyn ForchéThe Garden Shukkei-en
June 25th 2007Sylvia PlathContusion
June 24th 2007Nick CarboLittle Brown Brother
June 23rd 2007Edgar Lee MastersThe Circuit Judge
June 22nd 2007Robinson JeffersDivinely Superfluous Beauty
June 21st 2007Edgar Lee MastersBatterson Dobyns
June 20th 2007Carl SandburgAztec Mask
June 19th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Life we have is very great.
June 18th 2007Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Sound of the Sea
June 17th 2007Carl SandburgPigeon
June 16th 2007Richard Brautigan-2
June 15th 2007Judy GrahnIf You Lose Your Lover
June 14th 2007Carl SandburgThe Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring
June 13th 2007Emily DickinsonIf I could tell how glad I was
June 12th 2007Emily DickinsonTo die -- takes just a little while
June 11th 2007e.e. cummingswhat if a much of a which of a wind... (XX)
June 10th 2007Amy LowellAbsence
June 9th 2007Anne SextonDespair
June 8th 2007Anne SextonA Curse Against Elegies
June 7th 2007Ogden NashThe Wasp
June 6th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Sun is gay or stark
June 5th 2007Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Fire of Drift-wood
June 4th 2007Emily DickinsonWe like March.
June 3rd 2007Henry David ThoreauThey Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below
June 2nd 2007Marge PiercyToad Dreams
June 1st 2007Ezra PoundThe Jewel Stairs' Grievance
May 2007
May 31st 2007Emily DickinsonWonder -- is not precisely Knowing
May 30th 2007Joseph Mayo WristenFrom the Rooms of the Prom Queen
May 29th 2007Robert HershonSentimental Moment Or Why Did The Baguette Cross The Road?
May 28th 2007Allen GinsbergNagasaki Days
May 27th 2007Joseph Mayo Wristenmagic to change the world
May 26th 2007Emily DickinsonShells from the Coast mistaking --
May 25th 2007Richard BrautiganAt the California Institute of Technology
May 24th 2007Anne SextonFor Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach
May 23rd 2007e.e. cummingsyouful... (17)
May 22nd 2007Edgar Lee MastersConrad Siever
May 21st 2007Joyce KilmerThe Snowman in the Yard
May 20th 2007Joyce KilmerThanksgiving
May 19th 2007Dorothy ParkerProphetic Soul
May 18th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxLove is Enough
May 17th 2007Emily DickinsonInconceivably solemn!
May 16th 2007Emily Dickinson'Tis not the swaying frame we miss,
May 15th 2007Paul Laurence DunbarLife's Tragedy
May 14th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 34: My mother has your shotgun. One man, wide
May 13th 2007Robinson JeffersThe Broken Balance
May 12th 2007Carl SandburgFlanders
May 11th 2007Edwin Arlington RobinsonSiege Perilous
May 10th 2007Richard BrautiganPart 10 of Trout Fishing in America
May 9th 2007Jorie GrahamThe Way Things Work
May 8th 2007Maya AngelouI know why the caged bird sings
May 7th 2007Emily DickinsonConscious am I in my Chamber,
May 6th 2007Charles SimicMummy's Curse
May 5th 2007Emily DickinsonMe from Myself -- to banish --
May 4th 2007Dorothy ParkerPenelope
May 3rd 2007Robinson JeffersThe Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939)
May 2nd 2007Robert FrostTo Earthward
May 1st 2007William Carlos WilliamsAux Imagistes
April 2007
April 30th 2007Edgar Lee MastersSamuel Gardner
April 29th 2007Eric TorgersenThe Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
April 28th 2007Philip LevinePicture Postcard From The Other World
April 27th 2007Conrad AikenThe House Of Dust: Part 01: 03: One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand
April 26th 2007Emily DickinsonSome such Butterfly be seen
April 25th 2007David LehmanJuly 10
April 24th 2007Carl SandburgGlimmer
April 23rd 2007Robert FrostThe Silken Tent
April 22nd 2007Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Little Ghost
April 21st 2007Emily DickinsonI'm "wife" -- I've finished that
April 20th 2007Edwin Arlington RobinsonDemos
April 19th 2007Emily DickinsonGo slow, my soul, to feed thyself
April 18th 2007Dorothy ParkerSweet Violets
April 17th 2007Emily DickinsonTime's wily Chargers will not wait
April 16th 2007Edna St. Vincent MillayPity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
April 15th 2007Dorothy ParkerBallade at Thirty-Five
April 14th 2007Jeffrey HarrisonNecessity
April 13th 2007Emily DickinsonTo own a Susan of my own
April 12th 2007Amy LowellAt Night
April 11th 2007Walt WhitmanOx Tamer, The.
April 10th 2007Emily DickinsonThe last of Summer is Delight --
April 9th 2007Lee UptonThe Table
April 8th 2007John BerrymanSonnet 117 - All we were going strong
April 7th 2007Edwin Arlington RobinsonL'envoy
April 6th 2007Vachel LindsayMy Lady in Her White Silk Shawl
April 5th 2007Charles BukowskiCurtain
April 4th 2007James Whitcomb RileyA Noon Interval
April 3rd 2007Randall JarrellWell Water
April 2nd 2007T.S. EliotThe Hippopotamus
April 1st 2007Vachel LindsaySpringfield Magical
March 2007
March 31st 2007Walt WhitmanAs I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores.
March 30th 2007Dorothy ParkerEpitaph for a Darling Lady
March 29th 2007Emily DickinsonDistance -- is not the Realm of Fox
March 28th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxA Maiden's Secret
March 27th 2007Alan SeegerSonnet I
March 26th 2007Ogden NashTableau At Twilight
March 25th 2007Vachel LindsayNiagara
March 24th 2007Emily DickinsonSexton! My Master's sleeping here.
March 23rd 2007Walt WhitmanStates!
March 22nd 2007Robert FrostThe Hill Wife
March 21st 2007Richard BrautiganPart 4 of Trout Fishing in America
March 20th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxDesolation
March 19th 2007Lee UptonThe Broom
March 18th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 97: Henry of Donnybrook bred like a pig
March 17th 2007Emily DickinsonDid We abolish Frost
March 16th 2007Bill KnottStress Therapy
March 15th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxFleeing Away
March 14th 2007James Whitcomb RileyThe Ripest Peach
March 13th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 23: The Lay of Ike
March 12th 2007Oliver Wendell HolmesDaily Trials by a Sensitive Man
March 11th 2007Major Henry Livingston, Jr.On my Sister Joanna's Entrance into Her 33rd Year
March 10th 2007Robert CreeleyI Know A Man
March 9th 2007Carl SandburgQuestionnaire
March 8th 2007Billy CollinsChild Development
March 7th 2007Ralph Waldo EmersonBlight
March 6th 2007Ron RashIn Dismal Gorge
March 5th 2007Bill Knott2 Futilists
March 4th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Brain, within its Groove
March 3rd 2007Raymond CarverStupid
March 2nd 2007John BerrymanDream Song 68: I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing
March 1st 2007Emily DickinsonA Sloop of Amber slips away
February 2007
February 28th 2007Walt WhitmanUntold Want, The.
February 27th 2007John BerrymanDream Song 50: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post
February 26th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxContentment
February 25th 2007Donald HallA Poet at Twenty
February 24th 2007Carl SandburgAn Electric Sign Goes Dark
February 23rd 2007Herman MelvilleThe Mound by the Lake
February 22nd 2007e.e. cummingsif you like my poems let them
February 21st 2007Joyce KilmerThe Proud Poet
February 20th 2007Carl SandburgBand Concert
February 19th 2007Walt WhitmanThat Music Always Round Me.
February 18th 2007Emily Dickinson'Twas my one Glory --
February 17th 2007Edith WhartonChartres
February 16th 2007Richard WilburPraise In Summer
February 15th 2007Ella Wheeler WilcoxMoon And Sea
February 14th 2007William StaffordTraveling Through The Dark
February 13th 2007Carl SandburgSubway
February 12th 2007Edwin Arlington RobinsonOn the Night of a Friend's Wedding
February 11th 2007Archibald MacLeishThe End Of The World
February 10th 2007Carl SandburgWhite Ash
February 9th 2007Richard BrautiganNine Things
February 8th 2007Li-Young LeeThe Father's House
February 7th 2007Russell EdsonThe Road
February 6th 2007Emily DickinsonThere is no Frigate like a Book
February 5th 2007Laurie DuesingPrecision
February 4th 2007Sara TeasdaleDoubt
February 3rd 2007Stephen CraneThe wayfarer,
February 2nd 2007Edgar Lee MastersWalter Simmons
February 1st 2007Robert CreeleyThe Way
January 2007
January 31st 2007Edgar Lee MastersAmi Green
January 30th 2007Anne SextonDoors, Doors, Doors
January 29th 2007Ogden NashThe Ant
January 28th 2007e.e. cummingsnext to of course god america i... (III)
January 27th 2007Charles BukowskiShow Biz
January 26th 2007Emily DickinsonYou cannot take itself
January 25th 2007Emily DickinsonI would not paint -- a picture --
January 24th 2007T.S. EliotLa Figlia che Piange
January 23rd 2007Walt WhitmanDirge for Two Veterans.
January 22nd 2007Robinson JeffersShine, Perishing Republic
January 21st 2007Carl SandburgCaboose Thoughts
January 20th 2007W.S. MerwinSome Last Questions
January 19th 2007Robert FrostThe Housekeeper
January 18th 2007Paul Laurence DunbarDouglass
January 16th 2007Emily DickinsonUpon the gallows hung a wretch,
January 15th 2007Emily DickinsonEmpty my Heart, of Thee --
January 13th 2007Stanley GemmellCirque
January 12th 2007Hart CraneForgetfulness
January 11th 2007Emily DickinsonOne thing of it we borrow
January 10th 2007Edgar Lee MastersWillie Metcalf
January 9th 2007Emily DickinsonConjecturing a Climate
January 8th 2007Audre LordeCoal
January 7th 2007Edgar Lee MastersThomas Ross, Jr.
January 6th 2007Emily DickinsonThe Morning after Woe
January 5th 2007Emily Dickinson"Speech" -- is a prank of Parliament --
December 2006
December 26th 2006Walt WhitmanLong, too Long, O Land!
December 23rd 2006e.e. cummingsMarianne Moore (35)
December 17th 2006Edna St. Vincent MillayAutumn Daybreak
December 16th 2006Edwin Arlington RobinsonTheophilus
December 15th 2006Robinson JeffersReturn
December 14th 2006Anne SextonFrenzy
December 13th 2006Robert FrostGhost House
December 12th 2006Richard BrautiganSurprise
December 11th 2006Robert CreeleyThe Carnival
December 10th 2006Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawatha And Mudjekeewis
December 9th 2006Conrad AikenSenlin: His Dark Origins
December 8th 2006Ron RashBrown Lung
December 7th 2006Robert FrostI. The Witch of Coös
December 6th 2006Carl SandburgSpanish
December 5th 2006Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnets 11: As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantle