Poems of Today

Charles Wright (2005) Unlike Lao-Tzu, conceived of a shooting star, it is said, And carried inside his mother's womb For 62 years, and b...

Lawrence Raab (2000) Watching a couple of crows playing around in the woods, swooping in low after each other, I wonder if they ever slam in...

Rita Dove (1986) One spring the circus gave free passes and there was music, the screens unlatched to let in starlight. At the well, a monke...

Charles Bukowski (2005) some keep trying to connect me with the beats but I was vastly unpublished in the 50's and I very much disliked ...

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Talking in bed ought to be easiest, Lying together there goes back so far, An emblem of two people being honest. Y...

Karl Kirchwey (1995) Something of desk work and pornography, through succulences of conducting gel. Vector: creation (in a partial view), he...

Richard Garcia (2005) Not many people know it but Adam and Eve had a dog. Its name was Kelev Reeshon, which means, first dog. Some scholars ...