Robert Hayden What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Sharon Olds

Ted Kooser

Franz Wright

Charles Bukowski there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

let's ALL celebrate #smallpoemsunday today with Kate Hall's FIRST PUBLICATION! https://www.havehashad.com/rjn3l

Reading this on a Saturday morning just today, not yet—

William Stafford

William Stafford

Anne Carson, On Hedonism

Anne Carson

Sci-fi, by Tracy K. Smith [...] Weightless, unhinged, Eons from even our own moon, we'll drift In the haze of space, which will be, once And for all, scrutable and safe.

Ash, by Tracy K. Smith

Blandeur, by Kay Ryan

Ursula Le Guin

Anne Carson

Kenneth Rexroth "The future is long gone by And the past will never happen We have only this Our one forever"

Maggie Nelson "tell me which green porch is home."

Linda Pastan

Franz Wright "It's unendurable, unendurable."

Maggie Nelson

William Stafford

Tracy K. Smith

For M, by Mikko Harvey

W.S. Merwin - Summer

something lighthearted for the weekend The Walk Out, by Alice Kinsella

Linda Gregg

Constance Carrier "we walk in too much light"

Tess Gallagher

another prose poem from Ada Limón

Ada Limón

Linda Pastan on insomnia

Linda Pastan

Alex Dimitrov

Tess Gallagher (the "Tess" in the previous poem)

Raymond Carver

Mark Twain, a different perspective

Isabelle Correa

Sharon Olds is one of those "good but not for me" poets but my God, this poem!

Happy birthday Gwendolyn Brooks

Langston Hughes

more Creeley

Jean Valentine

happy birthday Robert Creeley

Carl Sandburg

Frank Bidart "whether you love what you love or live in divided ceaseless revolt against it what you love is your fate"

here's some of that PNW rain, from Ursula Le Guin #poetry

Lucille Clifton #poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay #poetry

Gregory Orr #poetry