Poems of Today

Len Roberts Walking the three tiers in first light, out here so my two-year-old son won’t wake the house, I watch him pull and strip ragweed...

John Hall Wheelock (1961) "A planet doesn't explode of itself," said drily The Martian astronomer, gazing off into the air— ...

Allen Ginsberg (1972) * mp3 * In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai Shek's army ran away They were wa...

Garret Keizer (2009) 1. When the snake became a man, he couldn’t stop swallowing one rat after another until he became so large he couldn’t ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Rita Dove (1993) don't lower your eyes or stare straight ahead to where you think you ought to be going don't mutter oh no not anoth...

Hayden Carruth Scrambled eggs and whiskey in the false-dawn light. Chicago, a sweet town, bleak, God knows, but sweet. Sometimes. And weren’...