Welcome to Poetry 365 (or Just the Poetry Ma'am)


  1. Goodbye to the Twentieth Century or Adios, Busy Signal from Erosion's Pull by Maureen Owen
  2. Finding the Tattooed Lady in the Garden from Firekeeper: Selected Poems by Pattiann Rogers
  3. When I Looked Next from big back yard by Michael Teig
  4. Reading a Trashy Novel from I Can Only Go as Fast as the Guy in Front of Me by Frank Matagrano
  5. The Color of Grief from The Blessing: New and Selected Poems by Richard Jones
  6. Baby Shamanics for the New Millennium from because why by Sarah Fox
  7. Jackalope from Stumble, Gorgeous by Paula McLain
  8. Aunt Rose from Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
  9. Midlife from Overtime by Joseph Millar
  10. Eyeless Baby from In the Surgical Theater by Dana Levin
  11. The Conversation from This One Tree by Katie Peterson
  12. Liminal Hymn from Cleave by Moira Egan
  13. Blood Harmony from Lightning at Dinner by Jim Moore
  14. Pisces Child from The Spaces Between Birds by Sandra McPherson
  15. The Lost Sea from Red Summer by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
  16. Mishipasinghan, Lumchipamudana, etc. by Albert Goldbarth, from Spud Songs: an Anthology of Potato Poems.
  17. A Woman Strangles from Calls from the Outside World by Robert Hershon
  18. Open Strings from Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky
  19. Axis Mundi from Reliquaries by Eric Pankey
  20. Open Letter to Eros from The Air Lost in Breathing by Simone Muench
  21. The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball from The Street of Clocks by Thomas Lux
  22. Joy from The Ardors by Kathleen Pierce
  23. Abschied Symphony from Smoke by Dorianne Laux
  24. Thorns from Teaching Bones to Fly by Christine Boyka Kluge
  25. Nutcracker from Flesh by Susan Gubernat
  26. Sleep from Ice, Mouth, Song by Rachel Contreni Flynn
  27. The Signage That was There from Word Group by Marjorie Welish
  28. The Moon from Any Window from Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee
  29. Cigarettes from The Art of the Lathe by BH Fairchild
  30. Sign from Famous Persons We Have Known by Richard Robbins
  31. Onomastics & the Falling Snow from This Particular Eternity by Steve Orlen
  32. The Role of a lifetime from Approximately Paradise by Floyd Skloot
  33. Sign. Signifier. Signify. Signified: an American African ghazal from South of Here by Lydia Melvin
  34. The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity from The Eye Like a Strange Balloon by Mary Jo Bang
  35. Kissing the Bees from In the Summer of Cancer by John Sokol
  36. The Neighbors Are on TV Again from The Low End of Higher Things by David Clewell
  37. A Widow in Wintertime from Cool, Calm & Collected by Carolyn Kizer
  38. A Bird Flies Into the Room and Then Flies Out Again from Temporary Help by John Engman
  39. My Antonia from Rumor of Cortez by Jeffrey Levine
  40. Posterity, this me is Now— from Mulberry by Dan Beachy-Quick
  41. Black Dress from Gardening in the Dark by Laura Kasischke
  42. Feeling Human from Tasting the Dark by George Amabile
  43. Love Song: I and Thou from New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan
  44. Thistles from Playing the Black Piano by Bill Holm
  45. The Cows Nearly Make It from Broken Lines by David Bengtson
  46. I am peeling four pink grapefruit from Bend by Natasha Saje
  47. Listener of Bats from Small Gods of Grief by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
  48. Homage to Francesca Woodman from Truant Lover by Juliet Patterson
  49. The Red Dogs of Wicklow from The Drowning of the Saints by Paul Perry
  50. My Gospel Is from The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars by Chris Forhan
  51. Fetch from Gender Studies by Jeffrey Skinner
  52. Dreams Hardly Ever Seem to Change Things for the Better from Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross by Mark Yakich
  53. Contrast Girls from Down Spooky by Shanna Compton
  54. Natural from Ladder Music by Ellen Dore Watson
  55. Pinocchio from The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World by Paul Guest
  56. A Kind of Camera from Whirligig by Christopher Salerno
  57. On a Dog Dying in Separate Frames from A Grammar to Waking by Nancy Eimers
  58. The Quiet World from The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel
  59. First Crash Cesarean from Saying the World by Peter Pereira
  60. The Mercy of Lazarus from Mystery, So Long by Stephen Dobyns
  61. If Bees Could Vote from Hartley Field by Connie Wanek
  62. Swimming Lessons from Rafting on the Water Table by Susan Steger Welsh
  63. Pause, Pause from The Finger Bone by Kevin Prufer
  64. After Shame from The History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
  65. The Rapist from Beneficence by Ron Mohring
  66. Lunch With Creeley from Lost Songs and Last Chances by Chris Ransick
  67. Trapeze from Isolato by Larissa Szporluk
  68. Listening at the Door from Teahouse of the Almighty by Patricia Smith
  69. The Mistress from Love About Love by C.K. Williams
  70. Naming the Stars from Naming the Stars by Joyce Sutphen
  71. Phone Call From the Operator from Garin Street by Piotr Gwiazda
  72. dusting for prints from Case Sensitive by Kate Greenstreet
  73. Narcissus Lullaby from What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland
  74. When the Babies Find a Cat from You Can Tell the Horse Anything by Mary A. Koncel
  75. White Point, Nova Scotia from From Where the Rivers Come by Richard Solly
  76. I never think about my abortion except when I visit a new gynecologist from Baiting the Void by Penelope Scambly Schott
  77. Psalm for Moving Day from This Charge by Patrick Donelly
  78. St. John's Extract from Vigil by Alexander Long
  79. Mangoes from The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith
  80. Jim & John from Subject to Change by Matthew Thorburn
  81. The Encyclopedia of the Stones: a Pastoral from Interglacial by James Richardson
  82. Radiotherapy from Murder Ballads by Jake Adam York
  83. My Little Brother, in Parts from Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey
  84. The Longest Continuing Running Policeman from The Lama's English Lessons by Tony Trigilio
  85. My Broken Heart from One Crossed Out by Fanny Howe
  86. Shaggy's Soul Food Open Soon, Said the Sign Outside of Tallulah from Squeezers by Alison Pelegrin
  87. Make It New from Next Life by Rae Armantrout
  88. Rushing to the Cemetery from Other Fugitives and Other Strangers by Rigoberto Gonzalez
  89. The Outernationale from The Outernationale by Peter Gizzi
  90. The Gokstadt Ship from The Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal
  91. Iron from Best New Poets 2006 by Michael McGriff, Jeb Livingood, ed.
  92. Greenland from In No One's Land by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
  93. Prayer, Broken Off from Broken World by Joseph Lease
  94. Theoretical Love from This Clumsy Living by Bob Hicok
  95. Waking Up from The Brass Girl Brouhaha by Adrian Blevins
  96. Wood-Carved Horse in Autumn from Close to the Shore by Jacqueline Marcus
  97. You Should Come as Near as Possible from un-coded woman by anne-marie oomen
  98. But Bird from Crossing to Sunlight Revisited by Paul Zimmer
  99. Forgetting in Multiple from music for landing planes by by éireann lorsung
  100. On the Sophoclean Moment in English Poetry from Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
  101. Sock Hop with the New Critics from American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology by Dorothy Barresi
  102. Easy as Pie from Love is a Weed (chapbook) by Lana Hechtman Ayers
  103. The Cockfighter's Daughter Falls in Love from At The Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  104. When My Father Had La Viruela from Friday and the Year That Followed by Juan J. Morales
  105. Black Ice from Journey to the Lost City by Jonathan Aaron
  106. Now We Must from Each Place the Body's by Aaron Anstett
  107. A Dozen Reasons to Give Up Haggling Over the Price of Weavings from Because of the Light by Roseann Lloyd
  108. When You Ask Whether I Ever Played With Dolls from The Body is No Machine by Jennifer Perrine
  109. Elijah's Cave from Sign by David Mutschlecner
  110. Mother of a Son from The Rented Violin by Karen Whalley
  111. The Question from A Little Salvation by Judson Mitcham
  112. Once I was girls and boys from Little Boat by Jean Valentine
  113. Catalogos from Psalm by Carol Ann Davis
  114. Fugue from Nervous Systems by William Stobb
  115. For Years I've Been Prohibited from Mentioning the Moon from Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
  116. Planning a Career in Alternative Medicine from Pain Fantasy by Jason Bredle
  117. Phaeton Dashed Forward, He Knew Not Whither from Dog Girl by Heidi Lynn Staples
  118. Drowning from Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath by Benjamin S. Grossberg
  119. Fever from boy by Patrick Phillips
  120. The Three Sisters from Blue Lash by James Armstrong
  121. Women at Fifty from Century's Road by Patricia Kirkpatrick
  122. Pistachios from Duties of the Spirit by Patricia Fargnoli
  123. No Forgiveness Ode from embryoyo by Dean Young
  124. Because I have no accent from Permanent Address by Lorna Knowles Blake
  125. In Love with Easeful Death from Declension in the Village of Chung Luong by Bruce Weigl
  126. The Forest on Second Thought from The History of Anonymity by Jennifer Chang
  127. Rain from Ladder of Hours by Keith Althaus
  128. Corridor from Bone Pagoda by Susan Tichy
  129. The Late-Late Show with Galileo from Superfecta by Clay Matthews
  130. First Lesson: The Anatomist Explains the Primacy of Imagination from Atlas by Katrina Vandenberg
  131. Alphabet from The Happiness Experiment by Lisa Fishman
  132. Zero Degrees at First Light from Zero Degrees at First Light by Christine Potter
  133. What My Daughter Asked About the Angel in the Tree from Willow Room, Green Door by Deborah Keenan
  134. Sheep Camp from Anna, washing by Ted Genoways
  135. Suspect from What Sound Does It Make by Erin Malone
  136. Middle School Social Rules from Shimming the Glass House by Helen Pruitt Wallace
  137. Before or after but Not in between from To and From by G.E. Patterson
  138. A Cassette Tape of Halloween Sounds, Etc. from Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated by Carson Cistulli
  139. Notes From the Boat Docks from Cloisters by Kristin Bock
  140. Living With Animals from Northern Oracle by Kirsten Dierking
  141. What Belongs from All the Lavish in Common by Allan Peterson
  142. Quiver from Quiver by susan b.a. somers-willet
  143. What is an Antiphon? from Archicembalo by G.C. Waldrep
  144. Night with Eros in the Story of Leather (2) from If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting by Anna Journey
  145. Last Year's Model from A Million in Prizes by Justin Marks
  146. Empiricism in November from Free Union by John Casteen
  147. St. Louis Music Flashback from The Architecture of Language by Quincy Troupe
  148. Lieber Henry, I am considering our time from The Spoils by Ted Mathys
  149. Milhous as King of the Ghosts from Dick of the Dead by Rachel Loden
  150. Gingerbread House from Now & Then: New & Selected Poems by Robert Phillips
  151. The Pinup Girl, Later from The Logic of Clouds by Marc Pietrzykowski
  152. Clarté: Staël at Antibes from Eat Quite Everything You See by Leslie Adrienne Miller
  153. On Leaving: An Essay from Intervening Absence by Carrie Olivia Adams
  154. Because the Water from Only the Senses Sleep by Wayne Miller
  155. Not That Great of an Evening from Keep This Forever by Mark Halliday
  156. A Little Schadenfreude from Torched Verse Ends by Steven Schroeder
  157. Business as Usual from Some Church by David Romtvedt
  158. The Archeologist's Lover from Pioneers in the Study of Motion by Susan Briante
  159. Mistaken for a Gypsy Girl from The Hardship Post by Jehanne Dubrow
  160. Self-portrait as Kitty Pryde from Parallel Play by Stephen Burt
  161. Miscarriage from The Beginning of the Fields by Angela Shaw
  162. Mr. Punishment from Embryos and Idiots by Larissa Szporluk
  163. Android Clarinetist from The Mansion of Happiness by Robin Ekiss
  164. The Mulberry Trees from The Fear of Being Found by Erin Elizabeth Smith
  165. Adults from Left Wing of a Bird by Arthur Vogelsang
  166. Day Trip with Spires from The French Exit by Elisa Gabbert
  167. Rowan from Orpheus on the Red Line by Theodore Deppe
  168. Fish Head for Katrina from Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
  169. The Occupation from Noose and Hook by Lynn Emanuel
  170. Fastener from Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh
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Special thanks are also due to Nathan McClain for curating some of these poems.

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