Poems of Today

Katha Pollitt (b. 1949) The smoothness of onions infuriates him so like the skin of women or their expensive clothes and the striptease of o...

Wallace Stevens (1947) On her side, reclining on her elbow. This mechanism, this apparition, Suppose we call it Projection A. She floats in ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged ...

Vern Rutsala (b. 1934) Logs drowse in the pond Dreaming of their heroes Alligator and crocodile 2008 : The Fist by Derek Walcott

Gary Synder (b. 1930) Beating asphalt into highway potholes      pickup truck we'd loaded road repair stock shed & yard a day so hot...

Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) So this is excellence: movement toward the barely possible— the puma's dream of running down a hummingbird on a g...

Louise Glück (1991) I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally talks       to ...