Poems of Today

21 years ago yesterday when I was 21 I read a poem When I was 21 written in 1896.

Dave Smith (2009) You see them everywhere and hardly notice the one cranking past as you pass on the sidewalk, that mewling, watery eye, par...

Kay Ryan (2005) The chickens are circling and blotting out the day. The sun is bright, but the chickens are in the way. Yes, the sky is dark...

John Haines In the quiet house a lamp is burning where the book of autumn lies open on a table. There is tea with milk in heavy mugs, brown ...

Mary Jo Bang (2009) At a book of details Of all the moments when knowledge is acquired A sort of expanded balloon Sighs and says, "We a...

Jane Miller (1996) I love these hours alone I do                          not                                like them. Like them, I am slow...

Alison Deming Einstein didn't speak as a child waiting till a sentence formed and emerged full-blown from his head. I do the thing, he l...