Poems of Today

Lawrence Raab (1987) for Judy I don't want to say anything about how dark it is right now, how quiet. Those yellow lanterns among the tr...

Louise Glück (2001) There was too much, always, then too little. Childhood: sickness. By the side of the bed I had a little bell— at the oth...

Philip Schultz (2007) is this man sitting here weeping in this swanky restaurant on his sixty-first birthday, because his fear grows stronge...

Elizabeth Bishop (1973) My love, my saving grace, your eyes are awfully blue. I kiss your funny face, your coffee-flavored mouth. Last night...

Robert Lowell (1977) Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalle...

John Ashbery (1993) It will do. It's not perfect, but it will do until something better comes along. It's not perfect. It stinks. Ho...

Lawrence Raab (2000) First you worry that you'll never get what you want, later that you'll lose what you have. In between for a tim...