Poems of Today

Charles Wright East of me, west of me, full summer. How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard. Birds fly back and forth across ...

Rita Dove If I could just touch your ankle, he whispers, there on the inside, above the bone—leans closer, breath of lime and pepper—I know...

Jack Gilbert (2009) While he was in kindergarten, everybody wanted to play the tomtoms when it came time for that. You had to run in order t...

Marc Jaffee (2004) I am none but king of repetition. I am none but a soldier with naught but a mission. I am the hand with its fingers alway...

W. Bukisa (2009) Many people are not quite sure how to go about writing Valentine's Day poems.

Brian Kim Stefans (2004) Brian's new shoes. She asked me of his whereabouts. They're putting a new door in. CCI. They're putting...

Carl Rakosi (2004) Liberate me, Muse, from this encirclement of categories Your themes are plein-air, endless sad. Put some wit and compassi...