Poems of Today

John Ashbery (2004) Music, food, sex, and their accompanying tropes like a wall of light at a door once spattered by laughter come round to ...

Stephen Dunn (2000) Once in a small rented room, awaiting a night call from a distant time zone, I understood you could feel so futureless y...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sor...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any co...

Elizabeth Bishop (b. 1911) We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship Although it meant the end of travel. Although it stood stock still...

Susan Elizabeth Howe (1997) At the Seaview Retirement Home, the elderly Came to believe life would come Through the screen. Like light on w...

Dan Chiasson (2007) When the man took his son down the ravine to view, along the opposite bank, the pileup of a passenger train, backhoes an...