(All these poems are worth reading or I wouldn’t have included them. My own favorites? Wolf’s “Rothko and Cassandra”, Creedon’s “litany”, Schnackenberg’s “Supernatural Love”, Montague/Ni Dhomhnaill’s “Blodewedd”, Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin'”, Glauber’s “Never A Time”….)
The poems are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name. Last updated, 5 Dec 2021.
[Go to A Poetry-Lover’s Guide… main page]
Alexie, Sherman photo ————————>
“Ode To Jolene” (new, Feb. 2010)
“Inside Dachau”
“Defending Walt Whitman” ….. {more Alexie (Wikipedia)}
Cornwall, John
“Diary Poem”
“Father”
Creedon, Carolyn photo ———–>
“litany”
“Pub Poem” ….. {more Creedon (Wikipedia)}
Crowell, Lori
“What You Think”
Dylan, Bob photo —————————->
“Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
“The Times They Are A-Changin'”
“Mr. Tambourine Man”
“Like A Rolling Stone” ….. (more Dylan)
Gioia, Dana
“Planting a Sequoia” (from his collection The Gods of Winter)
“Places To Return” ….. (more Gioia) photo ——->
Glauber, Veronica
“Never a Time”
Graff, Joshua Amos
“These Burning Things”
Gralla, Cynthia
“Beauty” photo —————>
Harris, Alan
“Analogies for Love”
“A Younger Friend” ….. (more Harris)
“Ivoryesque”
“Were I To Send This Letter”
“Jamadhi Verse”
“In the Road”
“Plucked from the Vine”
Larkin, Philip
“Aubade” ….. (more Larkin)
Leland, Kurt photo ————————>
“Remedies”
M., Kathy
“i’ve decide to become an alcoholic”
“Monk Days”
Malinofsky, Leon
See the “Other Poetry Collections” section
McCotter, Kathryn C.
“I Once Knew a Woman”
McFadyen, Warwick "The Weight" (on the death of his son)
Menon, Deepak photo —————–>
“The City”
Mitchell, Joni
“Both Sides Now”….. {more Mitchell (Wikipedia)}
photo —- –>
Montague, John / Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala
“Blodewedd”
Plath, Sylvia
“Daddy” ….. (more Plath) photo ——–>
Plummer, Lou
“Love Letter to the Editor”
Rich, Adrienne
“Prospective Immigrants Please Note”
“From an Atlas of the Difficult World” XIII (Dedications)
Robinson, Rebecca
“Selah”
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
“Supernatural Love” …. (more Schnackenberg)
photo —–>
Simon, Paul
“Homeward Bound”
“I Am a Rock” ….. {more Simon (Wikipedia)} photo->
Sorensen, Laura
“All Stuck Through”
“Starward ___”
“Mayerling”
“Void”
“Truth”
“Babylon, A Prophecy” ….. (more “Void”)
Weigl, Bruce
“Song of Napalm” ….. (more Weigl) photo —>
Wheelock, John Hall
“Aphrodite, 1906”
“Night Thoughts in Age” ….. { more Wheelock (Wikipedia) }
Williams, C. K. photo —————————->
“Fifteen”
“The Mirror”
“Helen” ….. {more Williams (Wikipedia)}
Wolf, Bill
“Rothko and Cassandra”
Zitt, Joseph
“Psalm 183”….. (more Zitt) photo –>
–Anonymous
“Butterfly”
–Another Anonymous
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Poem #2
Update record
The entry for Creedon's "Pub Poem" is new as of 9/8/98;
that for Savage is new as of 4/2/99;
that for Wheelock, as of 4/16/1999;
that for Menon, as of 7/10/1999;
that for Wolf, as of 11/6/1999;
Kathy M. added; "more Void" link corrected; 09/30/2001;
Larkin added, 03/03/2002;
Alexie and Simon links changed, 11/02/2002;
Links corrected, 08/08/2005;
Links corrected, 12/26/2005;
Links corrected, 04/21/2006;
Links corrected, 04/21/2006; links corrected, 12/23/2006;
Rich "Atlas" and Robert Smith links changed;
"more Simon" link changed, 9/27/2009;
Alexie "Ode to Jolene" added; Smith not working, 2/6/2010;
Scrivener added, 06/19/2010 ;
Schnackenberg "more" added, 7/28/2010;
Gioia "Plant a Sequoia" link fixed, 12/22/2011;
Dead links removed: McGuirk, McPherson, Savage, Scrivener, Shoffstall, 12/22/2011;
Link to "Supernatural Love" reinstated, 8/15/2015;
Link to Gioia's "Planting a Sequoia" changed, 4/2/2016
Page reformatted, 6/10/2017
Graff's "These Burning Things" and two "Jamadhi Verse" poems added, 9/15/2017
Links to Alexie's poems and "more" changed; Larkin "Aubade" link changed; 4/1/2018
Hasina Aykahs ("That One Night") added, 10/1/2018
Corrected "more Schnackenberg" link, 10/21/2018
Corrected links to poems and poets linked to from the Poetry Foundation page, 8/22/2020
Collins' "Voice of People in Sadness" added, 9/6/2020
Kathy M's "Monk Days" added, 2/27/2023
Changed Furius poems, 2/29/2023
Added McFadden, 12/15/2023
