Poems of Today

Nick Laird (2013) My daughter's two weeks old tonight and my wife wants me to talk to her more so I started to explain how the answe...

Hafiz (Persian, c. 1320-89) All I want to do is get drunk with my wife An endless glass of wine both of us on the floor So what if squ...

Dan Brown (2013) In the years I've been at this (Lots, not to be precise) You'd think that once or twice At least I would have ...

Jane Hirshfield (2012) Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious, restless, stunned, relieved. Does a tree also? A mountain? A cup holds sug...

Billy Collins (2012) One bright morning in a restaurant in Chicago as I waited for my eggs and toast, I opened the Tribune only to disc...

W.S. Merwin (2012) An airport is nowhere which is not something generally noticed yet some unnamed person in the past deliberately pl...

James Longenbach (2012) Today, no matter if it rains, It's time to follow the path into the forest. The same people will be walki...