Charles Rafferty

Quarry

From The Smoke of Horses

Dorianne Laux

On the Back Porch

From Only As the Day Is Long

Dorianne Laux

My Mother's Colander

From Only As the Day Is Long

Dennis Lee

The Secret Place

From The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Nikki Grimes

At the Library

From The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Tony Johnston

White Cat Winter

From The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Billy Collins

Shoveling Snow with Buddha

From Sailing Alone Around the Room

Wendell Berry

The Snake

From Terrapin

Dorianne Laux

The Tooth Fairy

From Only As the Day is Long

Karin L. Frank

Eyes in the Sky

From Ekphrasis

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Dragonfly

From The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Tony Hoagland

Nature is Strong

From The Sun, February 2019

Rumi

The Guest House

From Poetry Pharmacy

José Olivarez

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters

From Citizen Illegal

Ellery Akers

My Sister Blazed Through Her Life

From The Sun, May 2018

A.R. Ammons

Mirrorment

From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

Wendell Berry

The Terrapin

From Terrapin

Paulann Petersen

Appetite

From Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food

A.R. Ammons

Trigger

From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

Izumi Shikibu

'Although the wind'

From Poetry Pharmacy

José Olivarez

Mexican Heaven

From Citizen Illegal

J. Estanislao Lopez

Meditation on Beauty

From The New Yorker, March 26, 2018

Joanne Dominique Dwyer

So, You Think I'm Afraid of You?

From The American Poetry Review, May-June, 2018

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Immigration

From Ink Knows No Borders

Catherine Barnett

Son in August

From The New Yorker, June 25, 2018

Nancy Miller Gomez

Growing Apples

From Punishment

Maril Crabtree

Souvenir

From Fireflies Gathering in the Dark

Charles Rafferty

Grackles

From The Smoke of Horses

Julia Alvarez

Grace

From The Other Side

Charles Rafferty

The Pond

From The New Yorker, July 30, 2018

Julia Alvarez

Gladys Singing

From The Other Side

Charles Rafferty

Unnoticed

From The Smoke of Horses

Robin Becker

Elegy for the Science Teacher

From The Black Bear Inside Me

Charles Rafferty

Drift

From The Smoke of Horses

Neil Carpathios

The Snow Globe on God's Mantel

From At the Axis of Imponderables

Galway Kinnell

Daybreak

From A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Hafiz

This Sane Idea

From The Gift

Terri Kirby Erickson

County Fair

From Telling Tales of Dusk

José Olivarez

(Citizen) (Illegal) 

From Citizen Illegal

Elizabeth Onusko

The World's Oldest Person

From The Sun, August 2018

Charles Rafferty

Carp

From The Smoke of Horses

Toi Derricotte

Watch a roach give birth on YouTube, I think of Lucille Clifton meeting God

From The American Poetry Review, March-April, 2018

Julia Alvarez

Audition

From The Other Side

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

What to Look for in a Horse

From The Sun, January 2019

Ashley M. Jones

Broken Sonnet for the Decorative Cotton for Sale at Whole Foods

From The Sun, June 2018

Hafiz

Where is the Door to the Tavern?

From The Gift

Lin-Manuel Miranda

From Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You