The poets' corner : the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family

Dover beach / Musée des Beaux Arts / Dream song 76: Henry's confession / Filling station / The tyger / We real cool / How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / To a mouse / I would I were a careless child / Jabberwocky / from The general prologue / Kubla Khan / To Brooklyn Bridge / if everything happens that can't be done / There is no frigate like a book (1263) / Song (Go and catch a falling star) / Rhapsody on a windy night / Birches / Love unrequited, or the nightmare song / A supermarket in California / The beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen / Pied beauty / When I was one-and-twenty / The weary blues / The death of the ball turret gunner / Inviting a friend to supper / To autumn / Days / The owl and the pussy-cat / A psalm of life / The public garden / To his coy mistress / Love is not all / Poetry / No doctors today, thank you / Afternoon / Annabel Lee / The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Up-hill / Chicago / Fear no more the heat o' the sun / To a skylark / Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) / If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / The emperor of ice-cream / Do not go gentle into that good night / There was a child went forth / The red wheelbarrow / I wandered lonely as a cloud / The lake isle of Innisfree

Hist whist

Chicken Lily

The mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma

Mysterious Benedict Society

Mysterious Benedict Society.

How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry

How a poem works (Blog).

Together in a sudden strangeness : America's poets respond to the pandemic

Where you end : a novel

Helen of Troy : beauty, myth, devastation

Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Parable of the sower: Stardust ; Dawn ; Daughter of dust ; Zeitgeist ; Spirit of the times ; Baby boom ; Dust ; Daughter of dust II ; Earthseed ; Star child ; Moon child ; Moon child II ; School child ; Daydreamer ; Red ink ; Pasadena ; Memory ; Fire ; Memory II ; Empathy ; Empathy II ; First word ; First story ; The Good Book ; Peter Pan room ; First book ; A universe of words ; A universe of books ; Imagination ; The pink notebook ; Imagination II ; Rogue planet. -- Parable of the talents: Space ; Race ; Space II ; Race II ; Red Scare (haikus) ; Red Planet (haikus) ; Fear of communism ; Devil girl from Mars ; Brown girl from earth ; The Red Planet ; Amazing stories ; Pulp fiction ; Hero (boy's books) ; Prize (girl's books) ; The writer ; Octavia's books ; Remington ; The writer II ; The future. Adulthood rites: Stories ; Science fiction ; Genius ; Stargazing ; Black future ; Kindred. --

The Best American poetry, 2000

Virgin spring / Semiotics / Shot glass / Choose your garden / Mango, number 61 / The year / Crow is walking / Signs / Man listening to disc / Between periods / The most beautiful word / Immigrant picnic / Incest taboo / Birthday / Alpha images / Walt, I salute you! / Mrs. Hill / We did not fear the father / Seven roses / And in the afternoons I botanized / For the other world / The last living castrato / The dump / Before / Ode to the lost luggage warehouse at the Rome airport / Goldsboro narratives / Air for Mercury / Considering the demise of everything / Epistle / Ghosts / Plea for forgiveness / Ralph : a love story / Six apologies, Lord / At the grave of Harold Goldstein / The oration / The muse of the actual / The goddess of quotas laments / Henry Clay's mouth / We take our children to Ireland / The hours of darkness / Lost parrot / Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great / Work / I do not / Paris / All art ... / Samurai song / History & bikinis / Kunitz tending roses / Permanence / The beach at Falmouth Heights, summer, 1952 / Au pair / Welcome to Ithaca / Postfeminism / from Black series / Semantics at four p.m. / The dislocated room / Mother of us all / Chit-chat with the Junior League women / In a field outside the town / Asphodel / Wings / The English canon / There is a lake of ice on the moon / No palms / Limen / Song / Rahim Multani / As I was telling David and Alexandra Kelley / Pissarro at dusk / Fabrications / Analysis of the rose as sentimental despair / Borrowed love poems / The infirmament

How we became human : new and selected poems

The last song Watching crow, looking south toward the Manzano Mountains ;-- "for a hopi silversmith" -- San Juan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map -- "he told me his name was sitting bull" -- 3 a.m. -- "the last song" -- Are you still there?-- Conversations between here and home. --

What moon drove me to this? Four horse songs -- I am a dangerous woman -- There was a dance, sweetheart -- Crossing the border -- Someone talking -- Fire. --

She had some horses Call it fear -- Anchorage -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak -- The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window -- White bear -- Skeleton of winter -- Remember -- New Orleans -- She had some horses -- I give you back. --

Secrets from the center of the world My house is the red earth -- If you look with the mind of the swirling earth -- If all events are related -- This land is a poem -- Anything that matters -- Invisible fish -- Don't bother the earth spirit -- It is an honor. --

In mad love and war Grace -- Deer dancer -- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars -- Trickster -- Bird -- The real revolution is love -- Song for the deer and myself to return on -- Rainy dawn -- Santa Fe -- Desire -- The book of myths -- Transformations -- Eagle poem. --

The woman who fell from the sky Reconciliation, a prayer -- The creation story -- The woman who fell from the sky -- The flood -- A postcolonial tale -- The myth of blackbirds -- The song of the house in the house -- Letter from the end of the twentieth century -- Promise of blue horses -- The place the musician became a bear -- Fishing -- Promise -- The dawn appears with butterflies -- Perhaps the world ends here. --

A map to the next world : poems and tales Songline of dawn -- A map to the next world -- The end -- Emergence -- Songs from the house of death, or, How to make it through to the end of a relationship -- The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles -- The power of never -- Hold up -- Returning from the enemy -- The ceremony -- This is my heart -- Protocol -- Morning song. --

In praise of earth -- Letter (with songline) to the Breathmaker -- I am not ready to die yet -- Naming -- Faith -- Equinox -- Ah, ah -- Morning prayers -- The everlasting -- And if I awaken in Los Angeles -- It's raining in Honolulu -- Rushing the Pali -- When the world as we knew it ended.