Library of Congress Listed Poems

List of Poems and Authors

1	Introduction to Poetry	Billy Collins
2	Sidekicks	Ron Koertge
3	The Summer I Was Sixteen	Geraldine Connolly
4	The Blue Bowl	Jane Kenyon
5	Fight	Laurel Blossom
6	The Distances	Henry W. Rago
7	"Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"	Ron Koertge
8	Numbers	Mary Cornish
9	The Cord	Leanne O’Sullivan
10	At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border	William Stafford
11	Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein	Jason Bredle
12	The Bat	Theodore Roethke
13	Did I Miss Anything	Tom Wayman
14	Neglect	R. T. Smith
15	The Poet	Tom Wayman
16	Radio	Laurel Blossom
17	Bad Day	Kay Ryan
18	The Farewell	Edward Field
19	The Partial Explanation	Charles Simic
20	Dorie Off To Atlanta	Mark Halliday
21	Wheels	Jim Daniels
22	Remora, Remora	Thomas Lux
23	Tour	Carol Snow
24	After Us	Connie Wanek
25	Domestic Work, 1937	Natasha Trethewey
26	Before She Died	Karen Chase
27	Poetry	Don Paterson
28	American Cheese	Jim Daniels
29	Advice from the Experts	Bill Knott
30	One Morning	Eamon Grennan
31	Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon	Dave Etter
32	Publication Date	Franz Wright
33	The Meadow	Kate Knapp Johnson
34	Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer	Chris Forhan
35	Hand Shadows	Mary Cornish
36	The Printer's Error	Aaron Fogel
37	She Didn't Mean to Do It	Daisy Fried
38	Cartoon Physics, part 1	Nick Flynn
39	Snow	David Berman
40	Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter	Robert Bly
41	In the Well	Andrew Hudgins
42	The Poetry of Bad Weather	Debora Greger
43	The Green One Over There	Katia Kapovich
44	A Man I Knew	Margaret Levine
45	Nights	Kevin Hart
46	Grammar	Tony Hoagland
47	Fault	Ron Koertge
48	Thanks For Remembering Us	Dana Gioia
49	Because You Left Me a Handful of Daffodils	Max Garland
50	Otherwise	Jane Kenyon
51	A Primer of the Daily Round	Howard Nemerov
52	Love Poem With Toast	Miller Williams
53	Selecting a Reader	Ted Kooser
54	Song	Eamon Grennan
55	Biscuit	Jane Kenyon
56	Red Wing	Joseph Millar
57	White-Eyes	Mary Oliver
58	To Help the Monkey Cross the River,	Thomas Lux
59	Lesson	Forrest Hamer
60	Football	Louis Jenkins
61	Sister Cat	Frances Mayes
62	The Bagel	David Ignatow
63	What I Would Do	Marc Petersen
64	For My Daughter	David Ignatow
65	I've Been Known	Denise Duhamel
66	The Moon	Robert Bly
67	Watching the Mayan Women	Luisa Villani
68	Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted	Shoshauna Shy
69	The Space Heater	Sharon Olds
70	Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?	Robert Hershon
71	Smoking	Elton Glaser
72	Gratitude to Old Teachers	Robert Bly
73	Love Song	Carol Muske-Dukes
74	Near the Wall of a House	Yehuda Amichai
75	To a Daughter Leaving Home	Linda Pastan
76	June 11	David Lehman
77	A Birthday Candle	Donald Justice
78	Doing Without	David Ray
79	Birthday	Stanley Plumly
80	Reckless Poem	Mary Oliver
81	After Years	Ted Kooser
82	Small Comfort	Katha Pollitt
83	Turtle	Kay Ryan
84	Knowledge	Philip Memmer
85	Rotary	Christina Pugh
86	Sure	Arlene Tribbia
87	Alley Cat Love Song	Dana Gioia
88	How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future	Ira Sukrungruang
89	Dutch	Kay Ryan
90	A New Poet	Linda Pastan
91	Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka	Oliver Rice
92	Birth Day	Elise Paschen
93	Do You Love Me?	Robert Wrigley
94	My Daughters in New York	James Reiss
95	On Being Fired Again	Erin Belieu
96	Keats	Christopher Howell
97	The Hymn of a Fat Woman	Joyce Huff
98	My Father's Hats	Mark Irwin
99	Of Politics & Art	Norman Dubie
100	Loud Music	Stephen Dobyns
101	Some Clouds	Steve Kowit
102	A Wreath to the Fish	Nancy Willard
103	A Shadow of a Nest	Gary Margolis
104	To Stammering	Kenneth Koch
105	A Birthday Poem	Ted Kooser
106	The Grammar Lesson	Steve Kowit
107	Blind	Charles Webb
108	Halloween	Mac Hammond
109	Fast Break	Edward Hirsch
110	On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window	Eamon Grennan
111	The Kitchen Shears Speak	Christianne Balk
112	Slow Children at Play	Cecilia Woloch
113	Lift Your Right Arm	Peter Cherches
114	Machines	Michael Donaghy
115	The Death of Santa Claus	Charles Harper Webb
116	Cat Scat	Eamon Grennan
117	Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space	Ron Padgett
118	Notice	Steve Kowit
119	Thanksgiving	Mac Hammond
120	The Swan at Edgewater Park	Ruth L. Schwartz
121	The Hand	Mary Ruefle
122	Soccer Moms	Paul Muldoon
123	Coffee in the Afternoon	Alberto Ríos
124	Morning	Mary Oliver
125	Animals	Miller Williams
126	God Says Yes To Me	Kaylin Haught
127	Hate Poem	Julie Sheehan
128	The Student Theme	Ronald Wallace
129	The Birthday	Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
130	A Toast to the Baltimore Oriole	Don McKay
131	Not Swans	Susan Ludvigson
132	Leaving the Island	Linda Pastan
133	The Summer Day	Mary Oliver
134	One Day A Woman	Miller Williams
135	Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks	Mary Oliver
136	Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper	Martín Espada
137	Morning Swim	Maxine Kumin
138	This Moment	Eavan Boland
139	How Many Times	Marie Howe
140	The Dead	Susan Mitchell
141	The End and the Beginning	Wislawa Szymborska
142	Locals	James Lasdun
143	Social Security	Terence Winch
144	Smell and Envy	Douglas Goetsch
145	The Yawn	Paul Blackburn
146	Blue Willow	Jody Gladding
147	Tuesday 9:00 AM	Denver Butson
148	Happiness	Jane Kenyon
149	Her Head	Joan Murray
150	96 Vandam	Gerald Stern
151	My Moral Life	Mark Halliday
152	It Took All My Energy	Tony Wallace
153	Once upon a Time There Was a Man	Mac Hammond
154	Forgiving Buckner	John Hodgen
155	Legs	Mark Halliday
156	Dandelion	Julie Lechevsky
157	Heat	Michael Chitwood
158	Forgotten Planet	Doug Dorph
159	Loyal	William Matthews
160	Dutch Boy	Doug Dorph
161	Key To The Highway	Mark Halliday
162	Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice	William Matthews
163	Mentor	Timothy Murphy
164	Unconditional Day	Julie Lechevsky
165	The Rider	Naomi Shihab Nye
166	Kyrie	Tomas Transtromer
167	The Last Wolf	Mary TallMountain
168	Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain	Richard Brautigan
169	Schoolboys with Dog, Winter	William Matthews
170	Summer in a Small Town	Linda Gregg
171	Entrance	Dana Gioia
172	How to Listen	Major Jackson
173	Immortality	Lisel Mueller
174	Our Other Sister	Jeffrey Harrison
175	Gretel	Andrea Hollander
176	How to Change a Frog Into a Prince	Anna Denise
177	Eagle Plain	Robert Francis
178	End of April	Phillis Levin
179	Bike Ride with Older Boys	Laura Kasischke
180	Break	Dorianne Laux

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