Poems of Today

Jane Flanders (1988) One could spend years in this parking lot waiting for a daughter to find just the right pair of jeans. From time to tim...

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) Say not the struggle naught availeth,      The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faile...

Muriel Rukeyser (1973) After you finish your work after you do your day after you've read your reading after you've written your say...

Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Dark hills at evening in the west, Where sunset hovers like a sound Of golden horns that sang to rest ...

Katharyn Machan Aal (b. 1952) last night im cleanin out my howard johnsons ladies room when all of a sudden up pops this frog musta come fro...

Philip Larkin (1962) About twenty years ago Two girls came in where I worked— A bosomy English rose And her friend in specs I could talk to....

Dale A. Schreiber (b. 1924) There was a man who drove his mule A little faster to get cool. As breezes played across his face, He whipped he...