“You May Leave a Memory or You May Be Feted by Crows”

Dick Allen

Allen

“Words”

Eugene de Andrade

de Andrade

“Diamond” | “Lullaby”

Nancy Arbuthnot

Arbuthnot

“Nightingale”

Rose Auslander

Auslander

“The Things We Find”

Virginia Bell

Bell

“Said the Toad” – Hilaire Belloc

“The Frog” – J. Patrick Lewis

Belloc and Lewis

“Pastime/Pasatiempo”

Mario Benedetti

Benedetti

“Sandpiper”

Elizabeth Bishop

Bishop

“Ancestral Voices”

Kwesi Brew

Brew

“Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” – William Butler Yeats

“The Crazy Woman” – Gwendolyn Brooks

Brooks

“Zacuanpapalotls”

Brenda Cárdenas

Cárdenas

“Heart, My Lovely Hobo”

Sandra Cisneros

Cisneros

“Fame is a Fickle Food” – Emily Dickinson

“Cherry Ripe” – Robert Herrick

Dickinson and Herrick

“Spiders” – Zinaida Gippius

“Spider” – E.B. White

Gippius and White

“On the Way to Dumbarton Oaks”

Barbara Guest

Guest

“The Cauliflower” – John Haines

“Nocturn Cabbage” – Carl Sandburg

Haines and Sandburg

“Frederick Douglass”

Robert Hayden

Hayden

“Want”

Joan Larkin

Larkin

“Long Before and Shortly After”

Farid Matuk

Matuk

“Two Egg Florida”

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Nezhukumatathil

“Making a Fist”

Naomi Shihab Nye

Nye

“Fish Feast” – Thomas Love Peacock

“The Eel” – Ogden Nash

Peacock and Nash

“All Souls”

May Sarton

Sarton

“The Fig” – May Sarton

“Watermelons” – Charles Simic

“The Word Plum” – Helen Chasin

Sarton, Simic and Chasin

“The Heavenly City”

Stevie Smith

Smith

“Cow”

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Voigt

“Lost” – David Wagoner

“Pied Beauty” – Gerard Manly Hopkins

Wagoner and Hopkins

“Sky Guy” | “Well, the Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird” | “In the Beginning Was the Word, In the End Was the Word”

Charles Wright

Wright

“Memento”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevtushenko

“Aunt”

Al Young

Young