Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
Ideas for Writing
Poems Read Aloud
- The Shirt: Robert Pinksy
- My Friends: W.S. Merwin
- My Father's Love Letters: Yusef Komunyakaa
- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps: Galway Kinnell
- Science: Robert Kelly
- Prefix: Finding the Measure: Robert Kelly
- The Transparent Man: Anthony Hecht
- The Wild Iris: Louise Gluck
- The Red Poppy: Louise Gluck
- A Supermarket in California: Allen Ginsberg
- Howl Parts I & II: Allen Ginsberg
- The Stranger: Carolyn Forche
- La Flgla Che Piange: T.S. Eliot
- My Philosophy of Life: John Ashberry
- What do women want? : Kim Addonizio
- Homage to my hips: Lucille Clifton
- Dream Song 1: John Berryman
- My Last Duchess: Robert Browning
- We Real Cool: Gwendolyn Brooks
- A Love Song: William Carlos Williams
- The Question answer'd: William Blake
- Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein
- The Soul selects her own society: Emily Dickinson
- Dover Beach: Matthew Arnold
- Kubla Khan: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry to Read
- Jane Hirshfield: A Hand
- Matthew Schwartz: Bodyweight
- Walt Whitman: I Sing the Body Electric
- William Carlos Williams: Danse Russe
- Robert Frost: The Gift Outright
- About Robert Frost's reading at JFK's inauguration
- Elizabeth Alexander: Praise Song for the Day
- Czeslaw Milosz: A Song On the End of the World
- Yusef Komunyakaa: Facing It
- Charles Baudelaire: Be Drunk
- Cesar Vallejo: XIII
- Andrew Marvel: To His Coy Mistress
- Ranier Marie Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo
- Langston Hughes: Dreams
- William Shakespeare: All the world's a stage
- Elizabeth Alexander: Haircut
- Claude McKay: The Barrier
- W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming
- W.B. Yeats: Never Give All the Heart