Embedded Files
So many poems, so little time. Hey, that would make a great T-shirt slogan! Here are a few favourite poems written by other poets. I have printouts of most of these poems in my poetry reading binder, and enjoy reciting them at my poetry readings, or when I’m emcee (such as with SoulFood Poetry Night, which I run). I believe it’s often good to read poems by other poets whenever I give or run a reading, and these are among the poems I like to share the most, sometimes for seasonal or topical relevance. See also Poems About Haiku, also mostly by other poets. You can also read selections of my own haiku and senryu as well as longer poems, collaborations, sequences, tanka, and rengay. Enjoy!
Poet Friends
Poet Friends
Anagrammer — Peter Pereira
Ars Poetica [excerpt] — George Amabile
Bloodying August Polito’s Nose — James Bertolino
Cradle — Roberto Ascalon
Credo — Judith Roche
Czeslaw Milosz — Leszek Chudzinski
Daffodils — Rena Priest
The Establishment Poet — Rena Priest
If the moon came out only once a month — Cathy Ross
I Long to Hold the Poetry Editor’s Penis in My Hand — Francesca Bell
The Longest Word — Peggy Barnett
Losing Private Sutherland — Jerry Kilbride (haibun)
Maybe Love Is More Like an Onion — Lana Hechtman Ayers
One Does Not Write — Naomi Beth Wakan
On the Fishing Fly — Thomas Lynch (haibun)
Purple — Alexis Rotella
A Story About the Body — Robert Hass
To Doris Thurston on Her Eightieth Birthday — Sam Hamill
The Use of Trees — Naomi Beth Wakan
Other Poets
Other Poets
Advice to Young Writers — Ron Padgett
An Argument with Wordsworth — Wendy Cope
Blandeur — Kay Ryan
The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered — Clive James
Cherry Blossoms — Toi Derricotte
Choices — Tess Gallagher
First Drift — Ron Padgett
How to Be a Poet — Wendell Berry
How to Be Perfect — Ron Padgett
In the Workshop After I Read My Poem Aloud — Don Colburn
Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins
The Japanese Garden — Ron Padgett
Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America — Matthew Olzmann
New Season — Wendy Cope
The Peace of Wild Things — Wendell Berry
Pure Joy — Joe Zaratonello
The Real Work — Wendell Berry
Relax — Ellen Bass
Thank You for Saying Thank You — Charles Bernstein
This Kind of Unknowing — Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean
The Times-Herald that day had good news — Susan Oakes
For Fun and Edification
For Fun and Edification
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise — Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
The English Lesson — Anonymous
English Pronunciation — G. Nolst Trenité
Miss Snooks, Poetess — Stevie Smith
My Daddy — Ogden Nash
Smart — Shel Silverstein
Thirty-Two Statements About Writing Poetry — Marvin Bell
Deceased Poets
Deceased Poets
A Blessing — James Wright
Adam’s Curse — W. B. Yeats
Agon — Branko Miljković
Archaic Torso of Apollo — Rainer Maria Rilke
Ars Poetica — Archibald Macleish
Ars Poetica — Linda Pastan
Ars Poetica (for Billy Collins) — Linda Pastan
Blackberry Eating — Galway Kinnell
The Book of Questions III — Pablo Neruda
Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto — C. P. Cavafy
Content — David Ignatow
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randall Jarrell
Digging — Seamus Heaney
Dust of Snow — Robert Frost
Eating Poetry — Mark Strand
Even Such Is Time — Sir Walter Raleigh
Exercise in Timing — William Carlos Williams
The Fish — Elizabeth Bishop
Friends — Robert Sund
Go to the Limits of Your Longing — Rainer Maria Rilke
The Guest House — Rumi
Happiness — Raymond Carver
How I Go to the Woods — Mary Oliver
I Could Take — Hayden Carruth
if everything happens that can’t be done — E. E. Cummings +
if you like my poems — E. E. Cummings
Ink Bottle Poems — Robert Sund (numerous poems)
I Taught Myself to Live Simply — Anna Akhmatova
The Joys of Fishes — Chuang Tzu
l(a — E. E. Cummings
The Lake Isle of Innisfree — W. B. Yeats
The Laughing Heart — Charles Bukowski
Leah bribed Jacob — Samuel Menashe
Let Evening Come — Jane Kenyon
let's start a magazine — E. E. Cummings (see the origin of this website’s name)
Let These Poems — Robert Sund
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota — James Wright
maggie and milly and molly and may — E. E. Cummings
Monsieur Joliat — Wilson MacDonald
Nantucket — William Carlos Williams
The New Poetry Handbook — Mark Strand
On Nothing — Antonio Porchia
Ox Cart Man — Donald Hall
Poetics — A. R. Ammons
Poetry — Marianne Moore
Poetry Reading — Anna Swir
Poet’s Work — Lorine Niedecker
The Reading — Wendy Cope +
The Red Wheelbarrow — William Carlos Williams
Ring Out, Wild Bells (In Memoriam) — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sharp Lines — Robert Sund
Silence — William Carlos Williams
Sound and Sense — Alexander Pope
The Summer Day — Mary Oliver
That Brat — Anna Swir
That Little Beast — Mary Oliver
There Are Poems — Linda Pastan
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — Wallace Stevens
The Three Oddest Words — Wisława Szymborska
This Is Just to Say — William Carlos Williams
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth — David Rosenthal
[untitled] — Saadi
Wayfarer’s Night Song — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Welcome Morning — Anne Sexton
When I Am Among the Trees — Mary Oliver
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? — Linda Pastan
Why I Am Happy — William Stafford
Wild Geese — Mary Oliver
Young Poets — Nicanor Parra
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain — Li Po
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse