Poems of Today

Troy Jollimore (2009) 1. Where what I see comes to rest, at the edge of the lake, against what I think I see and, up on the bank, who I am ...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools c...

E.B. White The spider, dropping down from twig, Unwinds a thread of her devising: A thin, premeditated rig To use in rising. And all the jou...

Stanley Kunitz It darted across the pond toward our sunset perch, weaving in, up, and around a spindle of air, this delicate engine fired by...

Lucille Clifton (b.1936) at last we killed the roaches. mama and me. she sprayed, i swept the ceiling and they fell dying onto our shoulders...

Carol Muske-Dukes (2009) It was the river that made them two— The mills on one side, The cathedral on the other. We watched its swift curre...

D. Nurkse They were driving into the mountains, suddenly married, sometimes touching each other’s cheek with a fingernail gingerly: the radio...