“The Ladies of Sherman Avenue”

Beth Baker

baker

“Ka’ Ba” and “Monday in B-Flat”

Amiri Baraka

baraka

“It is Enough”

Anne Alexander Bingham

bingham

“The Tyger”

William Blake

blake

“My Dog Has no Nose”

Todd Boss

boss

“Man is a Carnivorous Production”

George Gordon, Lord Byron

“To Eat of Meat Joyously”

Bertolt Brecht

Gordon, Brecht

“My mama moved among the days” and “oh antic god”

Lucille Clifton

Clifton

“i carry your heart with me”

e.e. cummings

cummings

“Reservation Grass”

Natalie Diaz

diaz

“Design” and “Never Again Will the Birds Song Be the Same”

Robert Frost

frost

“In Perpetual Spring”

Amy Gerstler

gerstler

“Horses at Midnight without a Moon”

Jack Gilbert

gilbert

“Oysters”

Seamus Heaney

Heaney

“Woman”

Juana de Ibarbourou

ibarbourou

“To Dinah Washington”

Etheridge Knight

knight

“The Card Players”

Philip Larkin

larkin

“The Igloo”

Lou Lipsitz

lipsitz

“Sardines”

Bernadette Mayer

mayer

“The Night Plums”

W.S. Merwin

“Wild Plums in Blossom”

Ted Kooser

merwin

“A Jelly-Fish” and “O To Be a Dragon” and “Poetry”

Marianne Moore

moore

“Things”

Lisel Mueller

mueller

“The Business of Poetry”

Harold Norse

“Let us remember”

Christian Wiman

Norse

“The Panther”

Rainer Maria Rilke

rilke

“In a Dark Time”

Theodore Roethke

roethke

“Three by Rumi”

Jalaluddin Rumi

rum

“In the Library”

Charles Simic

simic

“Rocks”

Valarie Worth

worth

“In a Subway”

Choi Young-Mi

young-mi