Elizabeth Alexander, from My Grandmother's New York Apartment
Gwendolyn Brooks, Speech to the Young
Nina Cassian, Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person
Ana Castillo, El Chicle
Marilyn Chin, Autumn Leaves
Sandra Cisneros, You Called Me Corazon
Lucille Clifton, whose side are you on?
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Con el dolor de la moral herida/Love opened a mortal wound
Emily Dickinson, I Stepped from Plank to Plank
Rita Dove, from Adolescence—I
Carol Muske-Dukes, Little L. A. Villanelle (excerpt)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, from Sympathy
Louise Erdrich, Birth
B.H. Fairchild, from Keats
Gloria Fuertes, Ventanas Pintadas/Painted Windows
Forrest Gander, Scaffolding and Wind
Amy Gerstler, A Fan Letter (excerpt)
Gloria Gervitz, Migrations (excerpt)
Dana Gioia, Cleared Away
Louise Gluck, First Memory
Lorna Goodison, from A Bed of Mint
Dana Goodyear, Oasis
Jorgé Guillen, Visto y evocado/Seen and Remembered
Eloise Klein Healy, Roofs
Seamus Heaney, Scaffolding
Juan Felipe Herrera, Auburn (excerpt)
Jaime Luis Huenún, from Port Trakl
Langston Hughes, Luck
Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating
Stanley Kunitz, The Round (excerpt)
Philip Larkin, Days
Li-Young Lee, I Ask My Mother to Sing
Carol Lem, Office Hour (excerpt)
Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion (excerpt)
Audre Lorde, Coal (excerpt)
Suzanne Lummis, Ideas of Heaven (excerpt)
Elva Macías, Nostalgia
Jeffrey McDaniel, Grace
James Merrill, A Renewal
Gabriela Mistral, Wall
Carol Muske-Dukes, Little La Villanelle (excerpt)
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
Marisela Norte, Dance in the Shadows (excerpt)
Frank O'Hara, My Heart
Octavio Paz, Brotherhood
Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical (excerpt)
Adrienne Rich, Delta
Aleida Rodríguez, The Rosario Beach House (excerpt)
Martha Ronk, from a dream itself is but a shadow
Pedro Salinas, No Te Veo, Bien Se/I Don't See You, Yet I Know
Lady Otomo No Sakanoe, Komu to yu mo/You say, "I will come"
Sappho, Thank You, Dear Mister
Francisco Segovia, No es la suavidad/It isn't gentleness
Michele Serros, Life Behind the White Line
Izumi Shikibu, Watching the Moon
Gary Snyder, Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen
David St. John, I Know
Quincy Troupe, Avalanche (excerpt)
Antonieta Villamil, Zapatos Verdes/Green Shoes
Margaret Walker, Lineage
Sherley Anne Williams, The Green Eyed Monsters of the Valley Dusk (excerpt)
Stephen Yenser, Harmonie du Soir
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