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Poems

• Lower Manhattan Pantoum
• September, North Fullerton Avenue
• Sleep
• The Man With Large Hands
• "Acony Bell"
• "Excuse Me, Where is Varick Street?"
• "Scatology Series,”
• "The man who approached me in the theatre lobby and asked,
• 'like a girl saying yes'
• (The day spools up its turbines of light)
• (The first sturdy bee)
• (To crave what the light does crave)
• - shall become as - (live)
• 1. Coming In
• 10th Street Anthem
• 11.december.2002 (live)
• 12.april.2002 (live)
• 13.march.2002 (live)
• 15. White: Echo
• 16 Iraqi Policemen (live)
• 16. After Abraham Mourns, He Requests Another Son
• 1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly
• 1978 (live)
• 1979
• 1980
• 1989
• 20.february.2001 (live)
• 2000 lbs. (live)
• 24-Hour Breakfast (live)
• 24.december.2001 (live)
• 28 MPH
• 28.november.2002 (live)
• 4.february.2001 (live)
• 44 Standish Avenue
• 50 Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug
• 6. The Past Described, As a Figure
• 8. What Isaac Knew of Forgiveness
• 8.september.2001 (live)
• :Ayahuasca
• :Fact
• Ars Poetica
• Danza Macabre
• Is That All There Is?
• Jameel (live)
• Narcissus Incomparabilis
• Octopus vulgaris
• a series of 31-word prose poems (live)
• cladonia rangifera Nineteen Years Beyond Chernobyl
• from Rock the Body Body
• from the desk of The President of the United States of America
• from 16.may.2000 (live)
• from A Monologue for Voices
• from Closen
• from Natalia
• from Natalia (live)
• from President Letters
• from St. Apples
• from St. Apples (live)
• from The Northern Sun (live, PPL)
• from Urban Renewal: xvii.
• from Urban Renewal: xxi.
• from Widening Aubade (live)
• from proxy
• intro to aubades (live)
• A
• A Beautiful Day (live, Colby)
• A Boy
• A Brief Attachment
• A Brief Attachment (live)
• A Brief History of Patriotism
• A Canticle With Reference to the Future
• A Compendium of Angels (live, City Lights)
• A Fact Which Occurred in America
• A Fence Line Running Through It
• A Full Life (live)
• A Gardener’s Prayer
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection (in the original Chinese)
• A Hampshire Field at Sunset
• A House Like a Ship
• A House is Not a Home (live)
• A Hunger So Honed
• A Hunger So Honed (live)
• A Late Summer Day in New Haven
• A Love Supreme
• A Mother's Love
• A Murmuration of Starlings
• A Natural History of Mississippi
• A Natural Selection
• A Natural Selection (live)
• A Noddity
• A Note Left to the Next Group of Vacationers Staying Here In this Rental Cabin (live)
• A Pair of Small Ears
• A Pantry Full of Canned Enchiladas
• A Pirate Fit to Opine on Feet
• A Plantsman's Confession (live, 9-07)
• A Plantsman’s Confession (live)
• A Poem in Which My Father is Not the Villain
• A Prayer for My Daughter, Who Does Not Exist (live, UNCG)
• A Prayer for My People
• A Promising
• A Reason for Concern
• A Rendering of the Site
• A Room With A View (live, Bates)
• A Room with a View (live, Bowdoin)
• A Scarecrow, a Feline, and a Hare
• A Shame
• A Short History of Textiles
• A Signal (live)
• A Small Pantheon
• A Soldier’s Arabic
• A Splinter Becoming a Burning Plank
• A Square of Blue Infinity (live)
• A Square of Blue Infinity¹
• A String of Days
• A Theory of Everything
• A Thousand Saxophones
• A Week of Rain in My Republic (live)
• A Windmill Makes A Statement
• A Windmill Makes a Statement (live)
• A companion to the body
• A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear
• A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear (live, City Lights)
• A. Vespucci
• AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem) (live)
• ANWR
• ANWR (live, Colby)
• Abel, After (live)
• Abortion
• Abosorption (Other)
• About Women (live, Colby)
• About the White Boys who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me (live, Bates)
• Absence
• Absorption (Self)
• Abstraction
• Accident
• Aching Knees in Palm Springs
• Adagio Ma Non Troppo (live, Bowdoin)
• Adam (or Likeness in the Waters) (live, Stanford)
• Addressing a Country as the Name We Like
• After Birth
• After Birth
• After Charon: A Late Aubade
• After Hours
• After I Said It
• After Reading Tu Fu, I Emerge from a Cloud of Falseness
• After Revolution
• After Sex
• After So Many Years
• After Words
• After a Line by Goethe: A Thank You from Tracy K. Smith
• After a Move (live)
• After our Brooklyn apartment building is broken into, 2x
• After the Hurricane
• After the Last Days of the Circus
• After the Last Days of the Circus (live)
• After the Vision of Her Face
• Afterlife
• Afternoons
• Again
• Against Patience
• Against Prognostication
• Against Prognostication (live, Bates)
• Against Solitude
• Agents
• Aigle
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Bowdoin College, October 18, 2005
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• Ain't Misbehavin' (live, Bates)
• Air Chaos
• Airstream
• Aisa (live, Bates)
• Al Dente Perfecto
• Al-A'imma Bridge (live, Denver)
• Alameda Street
• Alexander Leaves Babylon
• Alhazen of Basra (live)
• All About It
• All Day I Dream About Sex
• All Effect
• All the Ashtrays in Rome
• All the World's Wars Commence in the Head: Ostinato—Part 2
• Alone Enough (live)
• Alphabet for Tamar
• Altoona to Anywhere
• Amber Is a Tree's Blood
• America the Hallelujah (live)
• America, the Hallelujah
• American Beech
• American Chestnut Blight (live)
• American Dream
• American Tourist
• American Tourist (live)
• Amigos
• Among the Things He Does Not Deserve (live, UNCG)
• An Early Snow and Winter Comes into Kilter
• An Individual History
• Analogy
• Ancestor
• Ancestor (live)
• And Day Brought Back My Night
• And Then, of Course, There's Hope
• And When
• Angel’s Trumpet (live)
• Angie, Leaving
• Angling, A Catalogue (live)
• Angry with You at Bower's Beach
• Animal Crackers
• Annuls the Space/Time Experience
• Annuls the Space/Time Experience (live)
• Annunciation
• Anonymous Brothel Photo, 1885
• Another Attempt At Rescue
• Another Elegy
• Anterior of a Razed Room
• Anthropology
• Anti-Ekfrankcis
• Antropología (In the original Spanish)
• Anxiety
• Anyways
• Apart, Away
• Apologia pro Vita Sua (live)
• Apologies to my OB-GYN
• Apology for Creation
• Apology for Music
• Apparition
• Apparition (live, City Lights)
• Apparition (live, Colby)
• Approaching Baltimore
• April Ossmann at Messalonskee High School, December 5, 2006
• April Peepers, Flaubert, and Springsteen
• April in Germany
• Arc
• Archival Footage
• Are You There, God? It's Me, DJ Spinoza (live)
• Arethusa
• Argos
• Ark (live, PPL)
• Around the Corner
• Around the Corner (live)
• Arrested Saturday Night (live)
• Arroz Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica After a Dog (live, Bates)
• Ars Poetica Blues (live)
• Ars Poetica with Pain
• Ars Poetica with Pain (live, Bates)
• Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another (live, City Lights)
• As Glass (live)
• As Glass (live, Bates)
• As It Will
• As When Drought Imagines Fire
• Ash and Dust (live)
• Ash and Silt
• Ashberries: Letters
• Asking
• Asking for More
• Association Copy (live, PPL)
• Asterisk (live, PPL)
• Astral (live)
• Astrolabe
• At Last
• At Last the New Arriving
• At My Funeral
• At Night
• At Night (2)
• At Popham Beach (live, Bowdoin)
• At Ravenscroft
• At The Zoo
• At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball (live, PPL)
• At the Hammers (live)
• At the Poetry Reading
• Atlas
• Atlas (live, Colby)
• Atlas (live, PPL)
• Atomic Buckdance
• Attachment: Atlantic City Pimp (live, 9-07)
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade with Doves a Television and Fire
• Aubade with Memory Crystallized into a Figure of a Dancer (live)
• Aubade with a Book and the Rattle from a String of Pearls
• Aubade with a Heel of Bread, A Heart, and the Devil (live)
• Aubade with a Thistle Bush Holding Six Songs
• Aubade with the Moon, Some Bones, and a Word
• August (live)
• Aunt Rose
• Aunt Rose (live)
• Author's Prayer
• Author's Prayer (live)
• Autobiography
• Awake
• Axe
• Azaleas
• Bach's Unaccompanied (live, Bates)
• Back in 1901
• Backwards Days (live)
• Bad Language
• Bad Language (live, UNCG)
• Baguio (live)
• Ballad of the Mountain Turtle
• Band Camp
• Band Camp (live, Bowdoin)
• Barbara Jane Reyes Full Reading at City Lights
• Bardo
• Barometers
• Bartram among the Seminoles
• Bartram's Trail
• Bass Line
• Basura (In the original Spanish)
• Battle Rhyme for the Rhetorical Disenfranchisers
• Bearing
• Beast (live, Bates)
• Beat Him Again (live, Bowdoin)
• Because the white narcissus
• Beer Bottle
• Before Takeoff, Fidelito Prays
• Begin Anywhere
• Beginning to Peel
• Beginning to Peel (live, Bowdoin)
• Begonia
• Bent Trees, Straight Shadow (live, Bates)
• Between Brightness and Weight
• Big Daddy
• Big Pussy
• Billy Strayhorn, Ohio Was Just a Terrible Dream
• Bird Figurines
• Bird of Paradise
• Birds Appearing in a Dream
• Birthplace of Memorial Day
• Black Blossoms (live)
• Black Lamb
• Black Walnuts
• Black and White
• Blackberry War
• Blankets of Bark
• Blankets of Bark (live, Colby)
• Bless the Kindling World
• Blessing Blue Crabs
• Blizzard
• Blood (live)
• Blue
• Blue (live, Colby)
• Blue Colonial
• Blue Sapphires and Land Mines
• Body Bags
• Bolero (live, Colby)
• Bonobo
• Book One
• Book Smart (live, PPL)
• Book of Baby Names, Missing Titles
• Book of the Father (live, UNCG)
• Both Sides Against the Middle
• Boy Bites Dog (live)
• Brewing Tea
• Brian Turner "Phantom Noise" Launch, Denver, Colo., April 10, 2010
• Brian Turner Full Reading Denver, Colo., April 10, 2010
• Brian Turner at Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005
• Brief Elegy on the Tip of a Match
• Brief History of My Mother
• Bright Day
• Bringing the Shovel Down (alternate ending, live, Bowdoin)
• Bringing the Shovel Down (live, Bowdoin)
• Bringing the Shovel Down (live, Colby)
• Broken Earth (live)
• Broken Mania (live, Colby)
• Bronzefield
• Brothers, in Succession
• Brutally, the Robin
• Buildings Without Paint
• Bullet Head (live)
• Burlesque
• But a Passage in Wilderness
• But to say
• Butterfly
• Butterfly Lullaby
• Buying Wine
• Buzzards (live)
• Call  It  In  the  Air
• Called Back (live)
• Called Back, Called Back
• Cambodian Frog-Gigging
• Camden (live, Colby)
• Camille T. Dungy Full Messalonskee High School Reading
• Camille T. Dungy Full Reading at City Lights
• Camille T. Dungy at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, September 30, 2005
• Camille T. Dungy at Portland Public Library, April 7, 2006
• Can You
• Can You (live, Bowdoin)
• Canada
• Canción Del Empleado (en Español)
• Cannery Manned by Patients (live)
• Caravan
• Caravan (live)
• Cardinal Virtue
• Carey McHugh & Lytton Smith at Bowdoin College, February 26, 2009
• Carey McHugh Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Caribbean Mix
• Caribe Mix (In the original Spanish)
• Carrie Jerrell Q&A on the form of her poem "The Country-Western Singer's Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California"
• Carving Your Future
• Casals (live, Colby)
• Cascades (live, 11/15/09)
• Casque Bleu
• Cate Marvin at UMaine Farmington, September 18, 2008
• Cate Marvin full reading at UMaine Farmington
• Catnip
• Caution, Freight
• Celestial Mechanics
• Cephalic
• Certain Children in Central Park
• Certification
• Charcot’s Pet
• Chattooga
• Checklist
• Cheerful Defense of the Realm
• Cheese Penguin
• Chelsea Episode
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Child, counting
• Childhood
• Children Born after the War
• Children Playing around the Monument to Lost Fisherman (live)
• Children's Story
• Chimayo, New Mexico
• Chocolate Covered Apricots
• Chomp
• Christian Barter Full Bowdoin Reading
• Christian Barter Full Reading at Bates College
• Christian Barter at Bates College, November 1, 2007
• Christian Barter at Bowdoin College, May 4, 2006
• Christmas Soccer Game, 1915
• Chun Jiang (Spring River)
• Chun Jiang (Spring River) (in the original Chinese)
• Circle Shape
• Citrus City (live, Bates)
• Clean out the house
• Cleopatra’s Bra
• Climate control
• Closer to Texas
• Cloudburst (live)
• Clown Fish (live)
• Clutter
• Coastal Bop
• Cock Robin
• Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Cold Harbor: June 3, 1864
• Cold War
• Colder, Bitterer (live)
• Cole's Guitar (live)
• Colonization
• Colony
• Coma
• Come Hither
• Come Sunday Its Derby
• Come You White Mare, Come Striding
• Coming Soon (live, UNCG)
• Coming into Lexington, Virginia
• Commandments
• Communication by the Remnants of Fire
• Conception
• Condor Man
• Confession
• Confession
• Conjugating Opposites
• Conjurement
• Conquistador (live, PPL)
• Consider This Procession (live, City Lights)
• Consolation
• Consummatum Est (live)
• Contemplating Quiet
• Contemporary American Hunger
• Contraction
• Contraction (live, 11/15/09)
• Coos Bay
• Coping with Terminal Illness
• Corinthians (live, UNCG)
• Corpse Messaging
• Corpus
• Correspondence
• Correspondences
• Cottonlandia
• Coup-de-Soleil
• Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait
• Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait (live, Bowdoin)
• Couéism
• Cowrie Apostrophe
• Cradle-Song (live)
• Crazy Jane Meets a Bear
• Crickets at Lakemont Park
• Crossing to Chebeague: December in Casco Bay
• Crum Road, Lyons, MS
• Cuba Poem
• Cultural Scope
• Cultural Scope (live)
• Cultural Sellout
• Cultural Sitcom Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons (live)
• Cultural Sitcom; Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons
• Cultural Slut
• Cultural Slut (live)
• Cultural Soliloquy (live)
• Cultural Strumpet
• Cultural Strumpet (live)
• Cultural Stud
• Cumpleaños (In the original Spanish)
• Cupboard
• Cursed Death
• Curtains
• Cybele
• DJ Spinoza Does Not Fight the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Che Bourashka (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Joseph Bédier (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper (live)
• Daisy Cutter
• Daisy Cutter (II)
• Dan Albergotti at UNC-Greensboro, March 8, 2008
• Dan Albergotti full reading at UNCG
• Dancing In Odessa
• Dancing In Odessa (live)
• Dancing Near a Body of Water
• Dark Card
• Dark Chocolate
• Darkly
• Darkness was a foil for the problem
• Date Unknown
• David Cappella Q&A on his poem "After the Vision of Her Face"
• Day Eight (live, UNCG)
• Daylight Savings Time
• Days of Me
• Dead Farms (live, Bates)
• Dead Music, Open Music
• Dear Craftsman,
• Dear Rumi (live)
• Dear Sirs (live, City Lights)
• Dear Suburb
• Dear Suburb (2)
• Dear,
• Dearborn North Apartments
• Death and Taxus
• Death and Taxus (live, 9-07)
• Death as a Woman Comes for the Draftsman (live)
• Death by My Son
• Deborah Sampson
• December
• December 7, 1941
• December, Fever
• Deconstructing Dorothy
• Defenestrations
• Dejar la Poesía (In the original Spanish)
• Delores Epps
• Delusion of Sand
• Demeter, after
• Denaturation
• Departure
• Depends
• Descending to Level
• Descent
• Design
• Design in America
• Desire Lines
• Destination
• Detour Ahead (live)
• Devotion I
• Devotion: Al Green
• Devotion: New York, 1970
• Devotion: Red Roof Inn
• Dewey Decimaling
• Diagnosis
• Diamond
• Dias Irae
• Died in the Mills (live, Colby)
• Dinah
• Dinah in the Box
• Dinah in the Box (live, MHS)
• Dinah in the Box (live, PPL)
• Diogenes
• Directions for Flight (live)
• Dirge in Canonical in Memoriam (live, 11/15/09)
• Dis
• Discouraged by Illness, Unsure How It Would Turn Out (live)
• Dispel the Angel
• Dissidence
• Distance
• Distance Between Desires
• Diva
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Four
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Nine
• Division
• Django in Hang-Zhou
• Djelloul
• Djelloul Marbrook Q&A on his current projects
• Djelloul Marbrook Q&A on reading poems aloud
• Dogs (live, Bowdoin)
• Doing Time
• Doll House (live)
• Dolores' Blues
• Dolphin Charter, Cape May, New Jersey (live, 9-07)
• Domingo. Resaca. El libre albedrío (en Español)
• Don't Start
• Doorstep Ecologist
• Doppelgänger (for Omaira Sánchez)
• Dostoyevsky's People (live, Bates)
• Double Dutch
• Down South, all it takes to be a church
• Down by the Old Mill Stream
• Drag King Manifesto
• Dream of my Father (live, Bowdoin)
• Dressings
• Driftwood Fire
• Duende
• Duende (live)
• Dónde Puede Ser Visto. Qué Lugares Frecuenta (en Español)
• Eagle
• Early Memories of Singing in Shul
• Eastside Alphabetics
• Eating
• Eating Against a Wall
• Echo
• Echocardiogram
• Echolocation
• Ecology
• Edison in Love
• Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
• Eight Short Poems (live, Bates)
• Either Swallow Fire or Iron Jaw
• El Box De Las Mujeres Rotas (In the original Spanish)
• El Cuerpo Cambia (In the original Spanish)
• El Hatillo (In the original Spanish)
• El Subsuelo, Al Aire Libre, O El Mendigo (In the original Spanish)
• El Ángel Vengador (In the original Spanish)
• Elba
• Elegy
• Elegy
• Elegy For My Father
• Elegy With Red Flower
• Elegy for Daniel
• Elegy for a Long-Dead Friend
• Elegy for an Older Brother 1922
• Elegy for the End of the World
• Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments
• Elimination
• Ellingtonia
• Emaciation
• Embassy
• Emergency
• Empire
• Empire #1: Mirror
• Encanto's Ferry
• Encased in Gé¹
• End of Summer
• English B
• Enter the Dragon
• Entrance (live, Stanford)
• Enumeration
• Envoi
• Envoi (live)
• Ephemerata
• Epitaph (live, 9-07)
• Equilibrium
• Erato
• Eric Visits His Father
• Escape Artist
• Eskimo whizzamajig
• Est, Est, Est
• Estuary (live, City Lights)
• Ethnogropher John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation (live, Sept. 2006)
• Eugene Ostashevsky at Bowdoin College, November 30, 2006
• Eulogy
• Eulogy (live)
• Euridice (live)
• Euterpe (live)
• Eve's Sestina for Adam
• Evening at Chithurst
• Evenings at the Bob Cool (live)
• Every Other Day Aubade
• Everyone in the Story is Dead But Me (live)
• Everything Must Go
• Everywhere the Desert Met the Wind (live)
• Evie Shockley Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Evie asked about being in a poem (live)
• Ex-Ventriloquist on the Moor
• Exile
• Exile
• Exile (live)
• Eye
• Fable
• Face Sheet
• Faggot: A Definition
• Fainting at my Grandfather’s Funeral
• Faith
• Faithful See Virgin Mary in Office Window
• Fallen Through the Atmosphere
• Falling Asleep While Reading (live)
• Falling From the Tree of Heaven
• Family Gathering
• Family Plot
• Far from Algiers
• Far-Out
• Farm Wife
• Farmstead: Back Mountain Road
• Father
• Fathomless (live, Bates)
• Faulkner
• Fear of Wonder
• Female Scarecrow
• Fernando Pessoa, I Salute You All!
• Fever
• Fiction
• Fidelidad (In the original Spanish)
• Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder
• Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder (live)
• Fidelity
• Field Notes
• Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
• Final Autumn
• Findings from the Spirit Rover
• Fire Ghazal (live)
• Fire Proof
• Firecracker
• Fireflies (live)
• Fireflies (live, 11/15/09)
• Fireflies at Midnight
• Fires on Highway 192
• First Birthday
• First Kiss
• First Love
• First Peepeesaurus (live)
• First Winter Storm
• Fish Crow
• Fish Head (live)
• Fishouse Live at City Lights
• Fixing the Life Watch
• Flagelliform #14
• Flash Forward with The Amistad Before Us in the Distance
• Flat American Waltz (live)
• Flies
• Flight (live)
• Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego (live)
• Flores Woman (live)
• Flowers, Always (live)
• Flush (live, Bowdoin)
• Flying Lessons
• Fog (live)
• Following Sea
• Football
• Footling
• For Charles Mingus & That Ever-Living “Love Chant”
• For Llamas
• For Luck: A Seven Day Guide (live)
• For Maurice Sendak (live)
• For My Childhood Friend Derek who First Told Me I could Call Him Nigger (live, Bates)
• For Some Slight I Can't Recall (live, Colby)
• For the Bodiless
• For the Boy Who Stepped From the Curb into the Sun
• For the Eighth Annual Celebration of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music, Purcellville, Virginia, November 1999
• For the Fifty Who Formed PEACE With Their Bodies
• For the Last American Buffalo
• For the Last American Buffalo (live)
• For the Puppets
• Foraging
• Foraging and Dodging (live)
• Forget Your Life
• Forgive me, Pumpkin, Gaither's true
• Fotografi (In the original Danish)
• Fountain
• Fountain of Blood (live)
• Fourteener 279
• Fragments with Dusk in Them
• Frank Giampietro, Poet
• Freddie
• Free Samples
• Fresas Sin Nata (In the original Spanish)
• Friday Carnival
• Friends, I am Sick of the World (live, Bates)
• Frogs (live, Colby)
• From Aviaries and Asylums (live)
• From Sokolniki
• From a Long Way Off (live)
• From the River's Edge
• From the Street Corner's Beat Up Boom Box (live, City Lights)
• From the Unconceived
• Frost on the Octopus
• Fruit Flies
• Fugu Soup Blues
• Fugu Soup Blues (live)
• Full Moon, January Thaw (live, 9-07)
• Further Adventures of The Little Box
• Further Affiant Sayeth Naught
• Gabriel Fried Full Reading at Bates College, September 27, 2007
• Gabriel Fried at Bates College, September 27, 2007
• Gabriel Welsch Full Reading at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2007
• Gabriel’s Waltz
• Gaither Memory #42
• Gaither Memory, Every Working Day
• Gallery
• Game One of the World Series with Your Father
• Garbage
• Garden
• Gardener’s Song
• Garnett and Leon in December (live, Bates)
• Gas Lamp, 1893
• Gaslight (live)
• Gayatri Mantra (Ode to Strength) (live, 11/15/09)
• Gaydar
• Genealogy
• Generation X
• Gerald Stern Full Reading at Colby College, September 22, 2009
• Gerald Stern at Colby College
• Get Up, John
• Gift Horse
• Gilgamesh, In Fossil Relief
• Glory
• Gloss Upwards
• Goats (live, Colby)
• God Machine (live, Stanford)
• God Machine On Judgement (live, Stanford)
• Gods Like Naked Everythings
• Going Off the Deep End into Confectionery
• Going Outside to Find the Sky
• Gone Before
• Good Friday
• Grace Under Pressure
• Gradation
• Graffiti (live)
• Grass Isn't Mowed on Weekends
• Green Man Walking (live)
• Green Zone
• Gregory Pardlo & Gabriel Welsch at Bowdoin College, September 6, 2007
• Gregory Pardlo Full Reading at Bowdoin College, September 6, 2007
• Grendel's Brother
• Gretel Reconsiders
• Gretel in the Tunnel
• Grief Street
• Groom
• Grown (live, Bowdoin)
• Guard Dog
• Guinea Pig
• Gun of Wishes
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• HIll Meadow
• Haberdashery
• Habit
• Half Time
• Halved
• Handsomely Legacied Hereafter (live)
• Hanging Around (live, City Lights)
• Happy Hour
• Harbor
• Hard Gardens
• Harlem Summer
• Harm Reduction
• Hasan ibn al-Sabah
• He Has a Name (live, 9-07)
• He Pays the Bill at the Sidewalk Cafe
• Hearing
• Hearing Child from a Deaf Household (live)
• Hearing Ilya Read for the First Time (live)
• Hearsay
• Heart
• Heaven
• Heaven Was Elsewhere (live)
• Heimweh
• Hello,
• Hemingway's House
• Hemingway's House (live, Colby)
• Her Eye
• Her Lover, Gone to Buy a Drink, Perhaps
• Her Sister
• Herald
• Here
• Here Bullet (live)
• Here I Am
• Here, Bullet
• Hereafter (live)
• Heron (live)
• Hidden Spring
• Highway 61 Blues
• Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
• Hippocampus
• Hiroshima: A Panorama (August 1945)
• His Voice Had Grown Softer Each Day
• History Lesson, Part 3
• Hologram
• Home Brew
• Homecoming
• Homeland (live)
• Homeroom
• Homochitto
• Hora Feliz (In the original Spanish)
• Horn (live)
• Horse (live, Colby)
• Horse in the Dark
• Horseshoes Only Lucky When They Miss
• Hot Chocolate
• Hotel Recamier
• Hour of Dawn
• Hours
• Housefire
• How It Ends
• How It Is to Go On as One of the Not Chosen
• How Quickly He Went (live, PPL)
• How She Didn't Say It (live, PPL)
• How To Fall in Love With Your Father
• How To Forgive
• How do you stop the hurt of needing to breathe?
• How the Search Ended
• How to Fall in Love with Your Father (live, Bowdoin)
• Human Field
• Human Geography
• Hurricane
• Hustle
• Hymn
• Hypnosis
• I Am the Real Jesse James (live)
• I Canonize Dick Curran
• I Could Be Driving (live)
• I Could No Longer Play, I Could No Longer Play By Instinct (live, 11/15/09)
• I Dedicate This Ride
• I Demand That You Know My Flying (live)
• I Do Not Sleep For Sleep Is Like The Wind And Trees Amazed
• I Don’t Know How Many Souls You Have, My Feathered Fernando
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed
• I Missed the Parades This Week (live, City Lights)
• I Thought Slavery Was A Song
• I Was Very Prolific
• I Will Gabble
• I Will Love the Twenty-First Century
• I am not with June (live)
• I am the Real Jesse James
• I may not yet write (live)
• I want the clouds to shatter the light that plates our lives
• I was reading an article
• I will put it into words (live)
• Ian at the Waiters' Party, Out Behind the Barn, Bread Loaf
• Icarus⁴, In Moonlight
• Ideal City, Dream Sequence
• Ideas Go Only So Far
• If Ever a There There Were
• If Only this Baroque Music Could Go On (live, Bowdoin)
• If This is What it Takes
• If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (II) (live)
• If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (III) (live)
• If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (live)
• If You Could See the Motorists' Gloves and Leathers!
• If you would or could not do/for yourself
• Ilya Kaminsky at Bowdoin College, February 2, 2006
• Imaginary Numbers
• Imaginary Numbers (live, Bates)
• Imagined Love Poem to My Mother from My Father
• Imago
• Implications for Modern Life
• Improbable Ease in the Interior of Things
• Improvisation
• In Arabic
• In Beauty Bright (live, Colby)
• In High Demand
• In His Library (live, PPL)
• In His Studio, Late
• In Idaho, North Carolina, and Maine
• In Madrid
• In Medias Res
• In Our Life Watch
• In Our Time (formerly, Of Deafness)
• In Place of All the Poems about Departure, Lessons, and Ends
• In Praise of Laughter
• In Praise of Laughter (live)
• In Shakespeare (live, Bates)
• In Springfield, Oregon, I hung the state
• In This Economy Even Businessmen Go Down
• In Toni Morrison's Head
• In Utero (live)
• In the Binary Alleys of the Lion’s Virus
• In the Era of the Sentence Fragment
• In the Fishouse: A Thank you from Brian Turner
• In the Guggenheim Museum (live, Denver)
• In the Lining of My Father’s Mouth
• In the Manner of SD
• In the Manner of SD (live)
• In the Meridian Courtyard (live)
• In the Name of the People (live)
• In the Rain
• In the Romantic Longhand of the Night
• In the Tower District, Fresno
• In the Women’s Locker Room
• In vigil (2)
• Incunabula I
• Incunabula II
• Incunabula III
• Indian Song
• Infidelity
• Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza (live)
• Inhabitants of the Cusp
• Inoculation Time (live)
• Inside
• Insignia (live, Denver)
• Insomnia
• Insomnia as Transfiguration (live)
• Inspiration
• Instructions for When You Feel That Your Head Is About to Explode
• Instructions for the End
• Instrument for Oversight
• Instrumentality (live)
• Insurance Man 1946
• Integration
• Intercontinental (To JFK)
• Interior Horticulture Affair (live)
• Interior With Artificial Leaves
• Interview with the Pear Tree
• Intimacy deserves a closer look
• Into the Empty Woods
• Invention
• Invocation (live)
• Iowa
• Iron
• Iron, Wax
• Irregulars
• Isatine Blues
• It Comes Down to This
• It Could Have Been the T, But I Think It Was the El
• It Starts at Birth (live, Bowdoin)
• Itaewon
• I’ll Say It This Way
• James Hoch Q&A on becoming interested in poetry
• James Hoch Q&A on his poem The Court of Forgetting
• James Richardson at Bates College, January 23, 2012
• James Richardson full reading at Bates College
• Jeffrey Thomson at Bates College, March 5, 2009
• Jeffrey Thomson full reading at Bates College
• Jesus Saves
• Jigsaw
• Jimi Hendrix Postcard
• Joe Smith's Diary 1.
• John 3:16
• John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July 1933 (live, Sept. 2006)
• Jokes (live, Bates)
• Jorie Graham
• Journey (live, Colby)
• Journey Through the Past
• Jules Gibbs Q&A on becoming interested in poetry
• Julieta Valero Q&A on Women in Spanish Poetry (en Español)
• July
• July (live)
• Junior Goes Home
• Juniper (live, Colby)
• Just Before an April Full Moon: Life Not So Still
• Just One Insight
• Just a Second Ago
• K the Cyclist
• Kaddish for my Unborn Son
• Karma from Scratch (live)
• Karsilama
• Kazim Ali at Bowdoin College, October 19, 2006
• Keeper
• Keepers (live, Stanford)
• Ken Burns poem
• Ken Norton as 'Mandingo'
• Ken Rumble Full Reading at UNC Greensboro
• Ken Rumble at UNC Greensboro, October 9, 2007
• Kevin A. González at Bowdoin College, November 16, 2006
• Killdeer
• Killing Bees (live, 9-07)
• Kingdom Animalia
• Kinky
• Kiss My Villanelle
• Knee-Deep in the Pacific
• Kristan clogged to Rocky Top
• Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock (live, Bates)
• La Nuit Blanche
• La Quietud Del Holandés (In the original Spanish)
• La República Independiente Y Su Letra Pequeña (In the original Spanish)
• La carencia vista desde Europa (en Español)
• La nuit dans la forêt Duo
• Lamed: Ox Herding Lesson
• Lament for Esbjörn Svensson
• Landscape with Swallows
• Landscape with Swelling and Hives (live, Bates)
• Landscape with Urban Elephants (live, Bates)
• Language Mixology
• Language as an Unhomely Dwelling Place (live)
• Lapses
• Last Bison Gone
• Last Day with Mayflower
• Last Night's Dream (live)
• Last Night’s Dream
• Last Watch
• Late Autumn Wasp
• Late Shift
• Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
• Late Winter
• Learning to Wait
• Leave Poetry
• Leaving Saturn
• Left Eye Losing Sight
• Legendary (live, Bates)
• Lents District
• Lessons Unlearned
• Let Me Count the Waves
• Letter to Cain
• Letter to Cain (live, Stanford)
• Letter to a Stranger
• Libretto
• Life and Art (live)
• Life on the Prairie
• Lifejackets
• Lifejackets (live, Bowdoin)
• Lighthead's Guide to Addiction (live)
• Like Father
• Like Lizards
• Lilac Thieves
• Lilacs for Ginsberg (live, Colby)
• Lilies (live, Colby)
• Lillith
• Linda Trying on Clothes (live, Bowdoin)
• Lines Written Before the Day Shift
• Lines for Robinson Jeffers at Carmel Point
• Lines from the Chalkbox (live, Bowdoin)
• Lion
• Listening
• Litany
• Little Church
• Little Elegy
• Little Harm
• Live Readings from the Fishouse Launch, Bowdoin College, April 30, 2005
• Live Readings, Bowdoin College, June 17, 2005
• Live at the Village Vanguard
• Live/Evil
• Lively in the Twilight with Abandoning Fleas (live)
• Living Fossil
• Living On Nothing But Honey And Smoke
• Living Room Altar
• Living Without (live)
• Living Without Memory
• Lobster
• Local Talk, Wiscasset
• Logger, 43, Divorced
• Loggers
• Long Division
• Long-Distance Sonnet
• Look
• Look Again
• Looking at Satan (live)
• Looking for Maine (live, Bowdoin)
• Loon Cove
• Looted
• Los Edificios Sin Pintar (In the original Spanish)
• Los Seis Puntos (In the original Spanish)
• Losing A Memory
• Losing Solomon
• Love
• Love
• Love Is Made of Images
• Love Poem
• Love Poem for Lamoni, Iowa
• Love is Scripted (live)
• Love is a Sidewinder
• Love like a stone
• Love the Contagion (live)
• Lovesong of Bethalize
• Low Door (live)
• Lower Case i and j
• Luccia (live, 11/15/09)
• Lucky I draw my breath
• Lucy
• Lucy, Upon Hearing of Charles Schultz's Retirement and Upon Seeing the Giant Leopard Moth, Drafts a Letter to Charlie Brown
• Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is
• Lullaby
• Lullaby After Midnight
• Lullaby in SoMa for Paloma
• Luna Park
• Lying My Head Off
• Lying My Head Off (live)
• Lyric Poet Disease (live)
• Lytton Smith Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• L’Annunziazione
• Mackerel Sky Elegy
• Mackerel Sky Elegy (live)
• Macro-Altaic
• Made in India, Immigrant Song #3
• Maestro
• Maestro (live)
• Magpie
• Mahayana in Vermont (live, Bates)
• Maine
• Making Love to You the Night They Take Your Father to Prison (live, Bates)
• Making the New Lamb Take (live)
• Maldita Muerte (In the original Spanish)
• Mama's Work
• Man O'War
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow (live, Colby)
• Manatee (live)
• Mandate
• Mangoes
• Mangos in Florida
• Many Are Called
• Marcelle (live, Bates)
• March 27 (live, Colby)
• Marginalia on Our Bodies
• Maria Hummel Full Reading at City Lights
• Maria Hummel Full Reading at Stanford University
• Maria Hummel at Stanford University, November 2, 2005
• Marie Harris & Sebastian Matthews at Bowdoin College, September 14, 2007
• Marie Harris Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo
• Marina Tsvetaeva (live)
• Marriage
• Mars (live, Colby)
• Martini with Borges’ Eyes
• Mary's Blood
• Masqualéro
• Matanzas
• Match Girls
• Matriarch
• Matter
• Matthew Shenoda Full Reading at City Lights
• May Frick Be Damned (live, Colby)
• McDonald's, Scottsboro, April, 1997
• Me Spy With My Little Eye
• Meditation Over Prairie
• Meditation on a Seam
• Meditations on a Moth
• Medussa to the Stones
• Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
• Melting
• Memorial Day
• Memory Awake
• Memory From A Bone Sample
• Men with Breasts
• Mephista Among the Surrealist
• Mephista Recounts Her Past Lives, or Nanotechnology
• Mephista Summering
• Mephista as Material Witness
• Mephista as Roaring Girl
• Mephista as the Desert Rose
• Mephista at the Blackboard Constructs a Genealogy
• Mephista to Miss Black
• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (live, Bates)
• Messengers
• Metallurgy for Dummies (live, Bates)
• Metaphor
• Michael Broek Q&A on the difficulties of writing
• Michael Broek Q&A on the form of The Logic of Yoo
• Mid-Fall (live)
• Middle Fall
• Migration
• Migration
• Milk Inside
• Milledgeville Haibun
• Minister of Saudade (live)
• Minotaur
• Minus
• Miracle Song (live, City Lights)
• Mirror 1: Mac and I Reflect on Distances
• Misbegotten
• Mise-en-scène (live)
• Miserableism
• Miss B Misses the Train
• Miss B with Cotton Candy
• Missing You, Metropolis
• Missive (2)
• Misty Blue (live, 11/15/09)
• Mohammed Trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008 (live, Denver)
• Mohegan Sun (live, 11/15/09)
• Mohn des Gedächtnis
• Molt
• Mom Thinks You're
• Monarch
• Monday means Moon Day, Sunday means
• Monster Theory
• Moonlit Night in Dunquin
• More Matter, Less Art (live)
• Morning Poem of Sincerity, With Two Lines by a Four-Year-Old
• Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales
• Motionless forgetful music of women and men
• Movements (live)
• Movements (live, 11/15/09)
• Moving
• Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night (live)
• Mr. Thomas Asawa, the Man with Two Left Feet
• Much Laughter
• Mulatto Ego Remix
• Murphy’s Secret
• Museum
• Musica Humana
• Musica Humana (live)
• Mussels (live, Bowdoin)
• My Answer on Dissociation
• My Autopsy
• My Crucifixion
• My Daughter’s Habit
• My Dearest Regret,
• My Easter
• My Father in the Coast Guard, 1946
• My Father in the Night
• My Father's Comb
• My Father's Leaving
• My First Lover Returns from Iraq
• My Godzilla (live, Bates)
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, MHS)
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, PPL)
• My Grandmother, In Increments
• My Letter of Introduction to God
• My Life as Orson Welles
• My Lovely Assistant
• My Lover Never
• My Magnifying Glass
• My Mother Ceridwen
• My Mother Tries to Quit (live)
• My Mother's Tango
• My Mother's Tango (live)
• My Mother’s Love
• My Only Golem
• My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task
• Myopia is Youropia (live)
• Mystery
• Myths of the Disappearance
• Música Muerta, Música Abierta (In the original Spanish)
• NASA
• Nag's Head
• Naming A Child
• Narrativity
• Natasha in a Mellow Mood
• Nathaniel
• Natural Selection
• Nature’s Acre POSTED
• Nazbas
• Near Death Experience
• Near the Heart of Happening
• Negative Gravity
• Nesting
• New British
• New British (live)
• New Moon
• New Orleans
• New Orleans Has Collapsed!
• New Year, New Hampshire, On the Occasion of the Inauguration of Craig Benson as the 79th Governor of New Hampshire, January 9th, 2003 (live)
• Next Door
• Nice World
• Nicky Beer Q&A on her poem "Frost on the Octopus"
• Nigger Street 1937
• Night Blooms (live)
• Night Song (live, City Lights)
• Night Thoughts in Central Pennsylvania
• Night Traffic
• Night Walk
• Night in Blue (live)
• Night, for Henry Dumas
• Nightcrawler Buys a Woman a Drink
• No Bra Required
• No Surrender
• No Weeds, No Work
• Noah's Dove (live)
• Nobody Spared
• Nocturne
• Northwest Passage
• Northwest Passage (live, Bates)
• Notariddle
• Note to Slip in Your Pocket, Never Slipped
• Note to the New Owner (live)
• November
• November Neurosis (live)
• November will come
• Novice
• Now Over the Empty Apartment
• Now the Lord said to DJ Spinoza (live)
• Numen
• NyQuil
• Nyquil (live)
• O, Lord, I Sit In My Own Ear, Humming (live, Bates)
• Oakland Work Crew
• Oakland Work Crew (live)
• Oblivio Gate
• Obsessed
• Obsessions
• Occupation: Dreamland
• Ode to Bombs
• Ode to My Hands
• Ode to Quickies (live, 11/15/09)
• Ode to Rosa Parks
• Ode to the Perineum
• Ode to the Watermelon
• Ode: To Trees
• Of My Fury
• Of Night
• Of the Song Bird
• Off Vermont
• Off on a Tangent
• Oh Weep No More Today
• Oklahoma City: The Aftermath
• Oliver de la Paz & Evie Shockley at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008
• Oliver de la Paz Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Omen
• On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems
• On Having a Tour of the Cathedral
• On Hearing that you Feel Bad After Having Sex with Me (live, Bowdoin)
• On Listening to the Brahms Violin Sonata #1
• On Making Love With You Again With Words Taken From an Article about Wilson's Quest to Form the League of Nations (live, Bowdoin)
• On This Side of Mercy
• On Two Scenes from The Deer Hunter
• On Winter Nights
• On the Bus
• On the Death of a Circus Elephant Electrocuted in the Initial Y
• On the Fenestra Ovalis
• On the Ground and Through the Clouds (live)
• On the Metaphor from the Yuima-kyo Which Says “This Body Is Like a Banana Tree” (live)
• On the Night of the Moths (live)
• On the Surprising Appearance of a Strange Priest in the Author's Dream during a Time of Arduous Practice (live)
• On the anniversary of the invasion
• On the ‘Island of the Old Women,’
• Once I Could Say
• One (live)
• One Kiss (live, City Lights)
• One Man at a Time (live)
• One Morning
• One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead
• One: A Translation from Spanish without Knowing Spanish
• Onion Field
• Onlookers with the Burned Body of Jesse Washington, Eighteen-Year-Old African American, Waco, Texas, 1916 (live)
• Only We Shed Tears
• Opera Singer (live, Bowdoin)
• Ophelia to the Court
• Origin & Ash
• Oriole
• Other Tongue
• Ourselves Woo Yourselves, Pretty Bird
• Outside the Wake of a Friend's Father (live, Bowdoin)
• Outwater (live, Bowdoin)
• Oxygen Catastrophe (live)
• Painting Vacation
• Paloma’s Church in America
• Parable of the Moth
• Parable of the South Pole Buddha
• Parable of the peach
• Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle
• Passing summer, Sama passing
• Passion
• Pastoral
• Patience (live, Bowdoin)
• Patrick Donnelly Full Reading at UMaine Farmington
• Patrick Donnelly at UMaine Farmington, November 15, 2007
• Patrick Donnelly audience Q&A at UMaine Farmington
• Patrick Donnelly introduces his Japanese translations
• Patrick Donnelly introduces the last sequence of poems
• Patrick Rosal Full Reading at Bates College
• Patrick Rosal Full Reading at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• Patrick Rosal at Bates College, February 27, 2008
• Patriot Acts
• Pause
• Pause (live, 9-07)
• Penance, West Virginia (live)
• Penelope at the Wheel
• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania (live)
• Pennsylvania (live, 9-07)
• Penumbra
• Peregrine Falcon, New York City
• Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls (live)
• Persephone
• Person, House, Tree
• Personal (live, Bates)
• Petersburg Dawn
• Pez (In the original Spanish)
• Phantom Noise (live, Denver)
• Pharmaceutical
• Phosphenes and Entopics
• Photography
• Physics
• Piccolo BLACK ART
• Picnic
• Pieta (live)
• Pig's Tail Tongue
• Pigment
• Pike Place (live)
• Pine Box
• Pip (live)
• Pit Stop
• Places You Wouldn't Believe
• Plainsong
• Plate 5
• Playing the Field
• Playing with Fire
• Plowing
• Poem
• Poem
• Poem (live)
• Poem (live, Bates)
• Poem (live, Bowdoin)
• Poem Beginning With a Line Overheard In the Gym (live, Colby)
• Poem In Thanks
• Poem for Amadou Diallo
• Poem for My Extra Nipple (live, Bowdoin)
• Poem for My Navel
• Poem with Frogs
• Poem with Groucho Marx Refrains
• Poetry Doesn't Need You
• Polar
• Polar Explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville—1840
• Polar Explorer Matthew Henson, Assistant to Admiral Peary (1909)
• Pool
• Poor Cervantes?
• Pore Tune
• Portion Given
• Portrait of Britney Spears, Kentwood, 1996
• Portrait of Houdini with Wife
• Portrait of Leadbelly in Pinstriped Suit
• Portrait of My Lover Singing in Traffic
• Portrait of My Lover as Man in a Polyester Suit (1980)
• Portrait of My Mother as the Republic of Texas
• Portrayal, X-Ray
• Possession: What the Devil Said
• Possession: What the Ear Said
• Post Mortem Georgic (live, Bates)
• Post Script (live, Bowdoin)
• Post-Mortem
• Post-Soviet Sestina (October 1996)
• Posthumous
• Postscript
• Practically an Orphan (live)
• Practicing Fade-Aways
• Praising the Snake (live, Colby)
• Prayer
• Prayer After Refusing to Pray (live)
• Prayer For My Unborn Niece or Nephew (live, Colby)
• Prayer at the Gym (live)
• Prayer at the Opera
• Prayer for my Unborn Niece or Nephew (live, Bowdoin)
• Prayer for the New Year
• Prayer in Hell's Kitchen
• Prayer of the Backhanded
• Preacher Was a Stern Woman's Son (live, PPL)
• Preface
• Prelude to a Saturday Night
• Preserves
• Preserves (live, 9-07)
• Pressing Business
• Pressing Business (live)
• Primer Amor (In the original Spanish)
• Primer for Non-Native Speakers
• Priscilla Alden's Sickness
• Processional
• Prodigal Dog
• Prodigal Song
• Projection
• Prologue, Of God and Strangers (live)
• Prosperity
• Prosthesis
• Psalm 146
• Public Transportation
• Pulse
• Pumpkin with a Thousand Faces (live, City Lights)
• Quagmire
• Queen Anne’s Lace in Contrast
• Quelquechose
• Questioning the White Cloud
• Questioning the White Cloud (in the original Chinese)
• Questions for Godzilla
• Quietus
• Quisiera Declarar
• Rabid Dog
• Rabid Dog (live)
• Radiator Heat
• Raisin (live, 9-07)
• Ramadan (live)
• Ravi Shankar Full Reading at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Read 'The World'
• Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude
• Received Wisdom (live)
• Recipe for Success
• Recreation Center
• Red
• Red Geranium on an Isolation Ward
• Red Light
• Red Poppy
• Redundant Feeling of Guilt
• Reform, Missouri
• Registry
• Regrets Only, Not Much
• Relentless Soliloquy
• Relentless Soliloquy (live)
• Remember Me (live, City Lights)
• Remember the Cogito (live)
• Remembering our last meal in New York
• Renunciation
• Renunciation (live)
• Repair
• Report on the Willows in a Time of Color
• Reprieve
• Reprieve (live)
• Reptilian
• Requiem
• Requiem (live, PPL)
• Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok (live)
• Restoring O'Keefe (live, 9-07)
• Restraint
• Results of the Polygraph : The Autobiography
• Resumé
• Retards
• Rethinking Regret
• Return to Mumbai
• Return to Nantucket
• Revision
• Revision (live, UNCG)
• Revival
• Rex’s Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year’s Burn
• Rhyme (live)
• Riddle, Riddle Marie
• Riding with My Brother to the Dump
• Rigoberto González at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005
• Risking Bread (live, Bowdoin)
• Ritual
• River
• River (live, Colby)
• River Cleanup (live)
• Road Music
• Roads Not Taken (live, Bates)
• Robotripping (live)
• Rodney Fallen (live, Bates)
• Roller Coaster
• Romantic Comedy: (Enchanted, 2007, Rated PG)
• Room of the Orphans
• Rope
• Ropethrows
• Ropethrows (live, Bowdoin)
• Roses (live, Colby)
• Ross Gay Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Ross Gay at Bowdoin College, February 8, 2007
• Ross Gay at Colby College, February 7, 2007
• Roughnecks and Rakes One and All, the Poet Speaks to Her Subjects, Polar Explorers
• Rubber
• Rural Spring Poem
• Safe Haven
• Safekeeping
• Safety
• Saint Patrick (live)
• Salvation
• Sam Kee, I imagine...
• Sam Witt Q&A on determining form
• Sam and Morris
• Samaritans (live, Colby)
• Sand
• Sandbagging
• Sappho
• Sarah Messer Audience Q&A at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Sarah Messer Full Bowdoin Reading
• Sarah Messer at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Saying Your Names
• Scarcity As Seen From Europe
• Scarecrow Fair (live)
• Scarecrow Work
• Scarecrow Work (live)
• Scene: a Loom
• Scenes From Andalucia
• Scent
• Scents of the Homelands
• Scheherazade
• School Years
• School Years (live)
• Scientific Inquiry
• Scold's Mask
• Scrabble
• Screen Test
• Screen Test, 1965
• Sea Watchers, Oil Paint on Canvas, 1952
• Seashell Poem
• Seasonal Poem
• Sebastian Matthews Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Second Ending of the Fairy-tale
• Second Mystery of My Sister
• Second Peepeesaurus (live)
• Section LIII of The Halo Brace (live, Bates)
• Sedentario (In the original Spanish)
• Sedentary
• Seduction
• Seed
• Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize
• Seeds of the Giant Sequoia
• Selection of German Weapons Captured by the Canadians in Their Advance to Cabrai, 1918 (live, Bowdoin)
• Self Portrait in the Glass of a Painting (live, Bowdoin)
• Self-Portrait as Brett in The Sun Also Rises
• Self-Portrait as the Letter Y
• Self-Portrait in 1970
• Self-Portrait with Cow
• Self-Portrait with Sadness, Wild Turkey, and Denis Johnson
• Self-Portrait with Taxidermy (live)
• Self-Portrait with a Balloon, Western Novel, and Duel
• Self-interrogation under a Full Moon above Il Campo Santa Maria Formosa
• Selling Out
• Sen Jak's Address to Storms
• Sent to Her Teacher Shôkû Shônin (live)
• Sent to Ise no Tayû on the Fifteenth of the Second Month in the Middle of the Night and An Answer (live)
• Sent with Her Father's Fan which the Empress Dowager Found when She Moved to the Palace at Higashi Sanjô (live)
• September 15, 1963
• Serial (parts 1 & 2)
• Serviam
• Service Station, Tennessee (live, MHS)
• Servitude
• Servitude (live)
• Sesshin in May
• Set
• Setting the Table
• Seven Chambers of a Wolf's Heart
• Seven Penitential Psalms
• Seven Poses: Drawn From the Model
• Seven Reasons for Divorce
• Sex Ed
• Shade Garden (live)
• Shadow Poem (live)
• Shaking Free of an Epiphany
• Shalom: Sixth blessing
• Shane Book Full Reading at City Lights
• Shanty (live)
• Shaping the Spoon
• She Liked the Moving Things Best
• She Put on Her Lipstick in the Dark (live)
• She, Named P___ At Birth, Speaks To Me, Says
• Sherman's march snaked through the South
• Sherwin Bitsui Full Reading at Colby College
• Sherwin Bitsui at Colby College, March 8, 2007
• Sherwin Bitsui at Portland Public Library, March 7, 2007
• Shh, Now
• Shooting Turtles
• Shouldering
• Shout Out
• Show It!!!
• Shrewd and Beautiful is My New York
• Siddharta en Google (en Español)
• Siddhartha In Google
• Signs there is a hole in Manhattan
• Sijo
• Silas Wright at Age Seven 1914
• Silence
• Silence Speaks (live, City Lights)
• Silver Stakes
• Since Everyone Can Never Be Safe (live, City Lights)
• Singing Heard Through a Closed Door
• Sister
• Sitcomposite, A Cento (live, 11/15/09)
• Site
• Site, IV
• Skaters of Corea Harbor
• Skin
• Skin (live)
• Sky Diving
• Skywalker (live)
• Slant, and Far Across the Sea
• Sleep Door (live)
• Sleeping Shark
• Sleeping in Dick Cheney's Bed (live, Denver)
• Slow Burn (live)
• Small Flock
• Small Murders
• Small Murders (live)
• Snapshot
• Snow and Bottles for Wallace Stevens (live)
• Snow so silent
• Snowblind: Threnody for Glenn Gould and Thelonious Monk
• Snowdonia
• Soft Shell Crab
• Solomon’s Palimpsest
• Solstice
• Solstice
• Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue (live, Colby)
• Some Moon
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something Vagabond Strokes the Furnance
• Song
• Song
• Song Of The Employee
• Song Song
• Song of a Mirror
• Song of the Daughter
• Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age Three, Worms (live, Colby)
• Songburst
• Sonogram
• Sooth Seers
• Sorority Meeting
• Sounds
• Sounds (live)
• Soundtrack
• Source
• Source (live)
• South Boston Morning, ’53:
• South of Hebron (live)
• Southern Crescent
• Southern Crescent (live, Bowdoin)
• Spangling the Sea
• Spangling the Sea (live, 11/15/09)
• Speak & Spell
• Special Victims Unit (live, Bates)
• Speech
• Spellbound
• Spirits at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
• Sports
• Squeal Like a Pig
• St. Patrick (live, Bates)
• Stalin on Stage (live, Bates)
• Stand By
• Stand By (In the original Spanish)
• Standard Plumbing (live)
• Stark Room
• Stark Room (live, City Lights)
• Starry Night
• Startled by Summer
• Startled by Summer (in the original Chinese)
• State of Emergency
• State of the Union (live)
• Stem of the Hybrid Perpetual
• Stern Country (live, Colby)
• Steve Scafidi at Bowdoin College, September 22, 2005
• Still Life
• Still Life with Suicide
• Still Life with a Halter in Its Hand
• Stone
• Story Told While Pruning
• Story of Girls (live)
• Strangler Fig Trees
• Strawberries Without Cream
• String Solo (live, 11/15/09)
• Strokes
• Structural for the Tent (live)
• Stuart Dischell Full Reading at UNC Greensboro
• Stuart Dischell at UNC Greensboro, September 27, 2007
• Studio (live)
• Stump's Hernia (live, Bates)
• Stumphumper
• Stupid
• Sublimation
• Subsoil, Outdoors, Or The Beggar
• Substantiation
• Suburban Passional
• Suburban Passional (live, 9-07)
• Sudden Poem for the Last Hour of Winter
• Sugaring Redux
• Suicide (As if Napping During Twilight)
• Suit & Tie, 6'1, Married, Financial District
• Sunday. Hangover. Free Will
• Sundowning
• Sunset City
• Sure (live)
• Surprising the Gods (live, UNCG)
• Suspended Animation
• Sutures
• Swear Words (live)
• Sweat
• Swimming in the Gulf
• Swish
• Sydney Lea at Bates College, November 17, 2011
• Sydney Lea full reading at Bates College
• Synaesthesia
• Synth Composite Basketball: No more Leather
• Table for One
• Tableau
• Taking a Punch
• Talbotton County, 1923
• Talking to Stones
• Tallahassee These Days
• Tamil (live)
• Tar the Roof
• Tara (In the original Spanish)
• Target
• Taste
• Teaching 8th Grade Math
• Teens Love Horse Dick (live)
• Tell it Slant
• Temper
• Ten steps to stay sane
• Ten-letter Word for Lucky Man (live)
• Tenderly
• Tenor
• Terra Anthropologica
• Terrance Hayes Full Reading at UMaine Farmington
• Terrance Hayes at UMaine Farmington, September 20, 2007
• Terry Moore
• Tet: How The Two Become One
• Texas Poem
• That Came to Be Split Into a Plurality
• That First Night
• The 167th Psalm of Elvis
• The 1950s (live, Bates)
• The 24th Motor Machine-Gun Battalion Being Inspected, 1917 (live, Bowdoin)
• The Abattoir (live, MHS)
• The Academic's Prayer (live)
• The Academic’s Prayer
• The Aerialist
• The Age of Adam (live, UNCG)
• The Amplified World
• The Amulet
• The Angel
• The Angel of Vengence
• The Animal Groom
• The Animal Groom (live)
• The Annoying Questions at Parties (live, 9-07)
• The Aspirin Papers
• The Astronomer, 1668
• The August of Our Lives
• The Author’s Breathing Stopped Suddenly (live)
• The Avacado (live)
• The Back Yard by Twilight
• The Barrel is Surely Coming Down the Hill
• The Basque Nose
• The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 (live)
• The Battlefield
• The Beautiful Animal
• The Bee of Was
• The Best Patton Performer (live)
• The Better Half of Man (live, Bowdoin)
• The Birdcage Maker
• The Birds
• The Black Shawled Widows of Castillay Leon
• The Blue Baraka (live)
• The Blue Etheridge
• The Blue Grotto
• The Blue Room (live, Bates)
• The Blue Seuss
• The Blue Seuss (live)
• The Blue Terrance (live)
• The Boatloads
• The Boatloads (live, UNCG)
• The Body Changes
• The Boulevard Trilogy (live, Bowdoin)
• The Box
• The Brest-Litovsk Treaty (live, Bowdoin)
• The Bridesmaid
• The Bridge (live, Bates)
• The Brücke Choir
• The Bullet and Its Hunger (live, Bowdoin)
• The Bundle
• The Burghers of Calais
• The Burning
• The Calendar We Live
• The Carnival
• The Carpenter Bee
• The Chair
• The Chiming of the Hour (live, UNCG)
• The Circumcision (live)
• The Circus
• The City Vs. John Henry
• The Clothespin
• The Coming Mirrors
• The Composer
• The Corner
• The Country-Western Singer's Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California
• The Court of Forgetting
• The Creator
• The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
• The Crucifix
• The Curiosities
• The Dancing (live, Colby)
• The Dark (live)
• The Day Before Fall on Palo Verde Drive
• The Dead Magician's Things
• The Disbelieving
• The Division
• The Dog
• The Dog (live, Colby)
• The Dreaming Golum
• The Early Days of Aviation
• The Egg Suckers
• The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues
• The Enemy
• The Evangalist at a Distinct Advantage
• The Expensive View
• The Exquisite Foreplay of the Tortoise
• The Fado House of Argentina Santos
• The Far End
• The Farrier
• The Feud
• The Fiddle and the Drum (live)
• The Field
• The Film
• The Fire of Despair
• The Fish
• The Flaw
• The Flight South of the Monarch Butterfly (live)
• The Flock's Reply (live)
• The Foothills
• The Fourth Madonna (live)
• The Future of Terror / 7
• The Garden
• The Gate to Everywhere (live)
• The Gem is on Page Sixty-Four
• The Girl With No Hands (live)
• The Green Man Walks Across America
• The Groom’s Cake
• The Guides (live)
• The Homosexual Book of Genesis
• The Hours
• The House Below the Dam
• The Hurt Locker
• The Hurt Locker (live)
• The Ice Sculpture Exhibition
• The Ice Sculpture Exhibition (in the original Chinese)
• The Illusionist
• The Independent Republic Of Your Small Handwriting
• The Influence of Anxiety
• The Inkspots (live, Colby)
• The Insomniac Ward
• The Kisser's Handbook (The Sensitive Male Chapter)
• The Lady of Mojácar
• The Lake Oswego Girls' Soccer Team at the Hilton Pool
• The Language of Guavas
• The Last DJ Spinoza (live)
• The Last Line
• The Latitudes of Desire (live)
• The Laugh of the Thief
• The Laugh of the Thief (live)
• The Lettuce Bag
• The Little Girls
• The Logic of Yoo 11
• The Logic of Yoo 13
• The Logic of Yoo 21
• The Logic of Yoo 22
• The Logic of Yoo 23
• The Logic of Yoo 6
• The Logic of Yoo 7
• The Logic of You (Notes)
• The Logic of You 8
• The Long-Horns
• The Lost Sea
• The Lost Son (Luke 15.11-32)
• The Loudspeaker of the Poeple's Army
• The Love Story
• The Lovers of Paz y Pelea Bridge (live, Bowdoin)
• The Magician's View on the Efficacy of Marriage
• The Malagasy Say
• The Male Mantis
• The Man I Was Supposed To Be
• The Man Who Gives You Nightmares (live)
• The Man With Small Hands
• The Manassa Mauler
• The Marionette (live, Colby)
• The Martyrdom of Saint Porcine
• The Mind (parts 12-16)
• The Mind (parts 60-68)
• The Miniaturist
• The Miniaturist (live, 9-07)
• The Moment
• The Monkey Bars
• The Mortician’s Mortician
• The Mother's Ashes Reply (live)
• The Mushroom Hunt (live)
• The Music We Travel By (live)
• The Mute of Hounds (live)
• The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron (live, UNCG)
• The Name
• The Name (live, Colby)
• The Necessary Bullet
• The Neighbor
• The New Garden
• The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles
• The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga
• The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (live)
• The Nobodies
• The Nobodies (live)
• The Novice Insomniac
• The Numbers Are Not In
• The Old Record
• The One
• The Opponent (live, Bates)
• The Opposite of Eden (live, City Lights)
• The Opposite of the Body
• The Origin of the Specious
• The Oyster
• The Oyster Gatherer
• The Paperclip Salesperson Tells All (live, 9-07)
• The Past is Another Country
• The Pedestal
• The Phoenix
• The Phoenix (live, Bates)
• The Piano Speaks
• The Place Above the River
• The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children
• The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children (live)
• The Poet Prays to Her Radio for a Country Song
• The Poetic Route
• The Poetic Route (in the original Chinese)
• The Point (live)
• The Poppies
• The Pose
• The Preachers Eat Out
• The Preachers Eat Out (live, MHS)
• The Preachers Eat Out (live, PPL)
• The Premises of Grass
• The Problem
• The Problem with Describing Men
• The Prodigy
• The Puppet Maker
• The Question of My Mother
• The Quicaillerie de mi Alma
• The Reality Testing Booth
• The Recessional
• The Renunciation of Mephista
• The Retrieval (live)
• The Return
• The Return of Music
• The Rift (live)
• The Ring
• The River Cloud
• The Rivers' Mouth
• The Saddest Gown in the World
• The Same City (live)
• The Sand Speaks
• The School Bus (live, Bowdoin)
• The Sea Is Farther Than Thought
• The Searchers (live)
• The Secret Act of Reading a Comic
• The Secret Diaries of Robot
• The Shadows at Boxford
• The Shoes of Buddy Katsuda
• The Short Happy Life (live, Bates)
• The Sign at Window One
• The Sign at Window One (live)
• The Silence Shrouding the Country (live, Bowdoin)
• The Silver Arrow
• The Singers I Prefer
• The Singers I Prefer (live, Bates)
• The Singers I Prefer (live, Bowdoin)
• The Six Points
• The Slaughterhouse (live)
• The Smell of Snake
• The Smell of Warm Grass, and Shakespeare’s Majestic Silence
• The Socks
• The Soldier of Mietlán (live)
• The Somnambulist
• The Starry Floor
• The State of Virginia after Southampton: 1831
• The Statue
• The Stillness Of The Dutch
• The Studio
• The Summer Carnival
• The Sun Also Rises (live, Bates)
• The Telemarketer Calls Basho about a Cure for the Winter Blues (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls a Poet She’s Actually Heard Once Before on NPR to Talk to Him about Relief from the Burden of High Interest Credit Cards (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls the Merwin Household (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls the Merwin Household (live, 9-07)
• The Telemarketer Means to Call Baker About Erectile Dysfunction but, in a Misdial, Winds Up With Simic (live)
• The Telemarketer Means to Call Baker About Erectile Dysfunction but, in a Misdial, Winds Up With Simic (live, 9-07)
• The Ten Commandments
• The Thatcher's Old Wisdom
• The Thaw (live)
• The Third Reich Claims Neu Schwabenland — 1939
• The Third of May, 1808 (live)
• The Third of May, 1808 (live, 11/15/09)
• The Tightrope Walker's Childhood
• The Tongue
• The Translator
• The Trent Lott, the MacNamara Blues (live, Colby)
• The Truth
• The Truth (live, Colby)
• The Truth about the Way and the Life (live)
• The Turkey Hunter
• The Two-Dimensional Philosopher
• The Unborn (live, Stanford)
• The Unexpected Shoulder
• The Unraveller
• The Unruly Beloved Emu
• The Unworshipped Woman
• The Visions at Lascaux
• The Wait (live, City Lights)
• The Walker (live, Bates)
• The Walnut
• The Ward For Broken Women
• The Water Makes Him
• The Wave
• The Way Tony Tsujimura Walked
• The Way We Were
• The Ways in Which We Leave
• The Well-Groomed Otter Is Extremely Buoyant
• The Whale (live)
• The Wheel of the Bus: A Fiction
• The Wicker Man
• The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready
• The Wild Pink
• The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer (live)
• The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for You (live, Bates)
• The Work of a Winter 10
• The Work of a Winter 8
• The Work of a Winter 9
• The blue butterfly
• The death of children
• The enemy within
• The flutes of the djinn
• The i is a Cricket
• The light behind her head, the bright honeycomb of the sky
• The price of crude
• The sun shines (live)
• The undeniable desire for physical contact among boys of a certain age
• Theft
• Theft (live)
• Their Names
• They Are Not Bits of Clockwork (live, City Lights)
• They Tell Me You Are Gone
• Thicket (live)
• Things Are Disappearing Here
• Things Burn Down
• Things I've Forgotten (live, Bates)
• Things constellate
• Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale
• Third Peepeesaurus (live)
• Third Shift
• Thirty Aphorisms (live, Bates)
• This Handwriting
• This Is A Recording
• This Is How You Can Tell
• This Is the World
• This Life (live, Bates)
• This Life (live, Bowdoin)
• This Little Game
• This Might Be Real
• This Page (live)
• This Poetry
• This Time in the Sky (live)
• This is a Test of the Emergency Broadcast System (live, Bates)
• Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud's First Mention of Transference
• Thorpe Moeckel at Bowdoin College, September 18, 2008
• Thorpe Moeckel full reading at Bowdoin
• Thought at Night
• Thoughts on Early Arctic Explorers and Your Time in Churchill
• Three Addresses (live)
• Three Answers In Spring
• Thunderstorm in Madrid
• Tina Chang & Ravi Shankar at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Tina Chang Full Reading at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Tito's Field (live, Bowdoin)
• Titration
• To Blackness
• To Certain Students
• To Ireland, To Bethlehem
• To Isabella (live)
• To Radius and Ulna
• To See Letters
• To The Men Who Mow the County Graveyards
• To The Unborn (live, Bates)
• To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire
• To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire (live)
• To Zita, Patron Saint of Lost Keys (live)
• To a Horseshoe Crab
• To a Young Father (live, Bates)
• To the (Heart) Horse
• To the Unborn (live, Bowdoin)
• Tommy Johnson
• Tomorrow I Begin
• Tonight I Doze
• Too Steep to Climb
• Totem
• Touch
• Tour
• Trabajadores En Un Autobús (In the original Spanish)
• Track 1: Lush Life
• Track 5: Summertime
• Tracy K. Smith at Bates College, December 7, 2006
• Train Whistle
• Train to Paris
• Transfiguration Begins At Home
• Travail d'orfèvre
• Traveling Fair (live)
• Trees & Stars
• Trees and Stars (live, Bowdoin)
• Trespass
• Trickster (live, Colby)
• Triolet for a Bad Obsession
• Tritanopía (In the original Spanish)
• Trouble Man
• Troubled boy
• Turning Forty: What I Say, What I Know
• Twelve Trees
• Twenty-Five Aphorisms
• Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street (live, Bowdoin)
• Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street (live, Colby)
• Two Moments with Strangers
• Two Mothers
• Two Poems on the Sad Effects of Adultery (live)
• Two Trees
• Two Video Installations
• Two-Hour Delay (live)
• Two-Pack Solitaire
• Tyehimba Jess Full Reading, Fishouse Launch, April 30, 2005
• Tyehimba Jess at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
• Ultrasound (live, City Lights)
• Umbilicus (live, PPL)
• Un Chaval (In the original Spanish)
• Uncle John
• Unclean. Make me.
• Unclean. Make Me. (live, Colby)
• Uncommon Denominators
• Under a Stone
• Under the Veil of Wildness
• Underground Orchids
• Understanding Al Green
• Underwhelmed
• Underwhelmed (live, Bates)
• Undressing the Muse
• Unfinished Love Poem
• Unnamed Events
• Unraveling
• Unremembered
• Unsung (live)
• Until the Twenty-Second Century
• Untitled
• Untitled 1949
• Untitled (live, Colby)
• Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased from the Blackboard Except the Word 'Save'
• Upon Your “[Un]consolable Sadness”
• V. Penelope Pelizzon & Patrick Rosal at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• V. Penelope Pelizzon Full Reading at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• Vacation
• Vagrancy
• Vain
• Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto
• Vanishing Armenia
• Vanitas: Camden Ferry (live, 9-07)
• Vegas and Environs
• Vemod (In the original Danish)
• Veranda Views (live, City Lights)
• Vertigo
• Vestibule (live, UNCG)
• Viernes De Carnaval (In the original Spanish)
• Vigil
• Villa of the Mysteries (live, Bowdoin)
• Vinalhaven Island
• Virginia Reel (live)
• Vision
• Void and Compensation (No “I” in “Team”)
• Void and Compensation (My ear, my Alabama, my Monk)
• Void and Compensation (Pug-nosed Dream)
• Void and Compensation (Stephon Marbury)
• Void and Compensation (Tenochtitlán)
• Void and Compensation (The Little Flower I Call Kurtz)
• Void and Compensation (Upanishads)
• Volcano
• Voltage (live, Colby)
• Votech (live, PPL)
• WYSSA: Antarctica, 1961
• Waking Up (live)
• Waking from the dream she visited
• Waking to Timetables with Glaring Inconsistencies
• Walt Whitman in Alabama
• Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit
• War Lullaby
• War of the Foxes
• Watching the News Hour
• Watershed (live, 9-07)
• We Generous
• We Lived Happily During the War
• We Will Be Left at Galilee
• We both drink the water; neither can describe its taste
• We're Sitting on Buildings
• Weasel in the Turkey Pen
• Wedding Dress
• Weighing Light
• Welcome to My Cabaret
• West 16th Street
• Western Grebe
• What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood
• What Else Means Death (live, UNCG)
• What Every Soldier Should Know (live)
• What Happens
• What He Thought (live, Bowdoin)
• What Her Father Said
• What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk (live)
• What I Was Acquainted With Was Not Mine (live)
• What Is Sacred
• What Love Is
• What My Fathers Taught Me
• What Really Dies in Autumn
• What Then? (live, Colby)
• What Will You Feed Them?
• What You Want (live, City Lights)
• What for? (live, Colby)
• What the news won’t tell
• When All of My Cousins Are Married
• When Are You Not
• When I Was Beautiful
• When I missed the South the most
• When I think of time, I think of narrative,
• When I was four, we drove to Nashville
• When I've reached the Point of Suffocation (live, Colby)
• When You Feel Like Crying at a Faculty Meeting
• When You Haven't Made Love in a Long Time (live, Bowdoin)
• When You're Not Allowed to Daydream
• When dreams shower one part of the body, when reality claims the other
• When it came time, I would leave the South
• When she sang in the bazaar
• When she sang in the white alley
• When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Appears
• Where Wires Tangle
• Where Wires Tangle (live)
• Where one can be seen. What places one frequents
• While an Old Clock Rang the Hour (live)
• White Phosphorus (live, Denver)
• White Shirt
• White Slip on the Paris Metro
• White Wolf
• Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry
• Who Wants to Know What Love is Worth? (live)
• Whom Beggars Call
• Whose Fragile Lips (live)
• Why I Crave Ribs Tonight
• Why I Crave Ribs Tonight (live)
• Why I Go To Bed Earlier
• Why I Live West of the Rockies
• Why Would We Not? (live, Bowdoin)
• Why the Marriage Failed
• Wife and Child Leave Mr. Walton Spanish Teacher
• Wild Swan
• Willamette Meteorite
• Willard Pond (live)
• Wind In a Box (live)
• Winston, you were wrong (live)
• Winter Clock
• Winter Poem With Three-Year-Old
• Winter Residency (live)
• Winter Thirst (live, Colby)
• Winter Triplets
• Wisdom
• Wistfulness
• With Her at All Times Ethel Nakano Carried a Sledgehammer
• With Samson's Strength In Mind
• With Sophie, Age Twenty Months, At Woodall Shoals (live, Bowdoin)
• Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other (live, Bowdoin)
• Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other (live, Colby)
• Without Rulebook (live)
• Wolf
• Wolf Prays at the Galaxy (live, Bates)
• Woman Walking on the Road
• Woman with Her Throat Cut (live)
• Woodwork
• Workers On A Bus
• World without Birds
• World without end
• Worm Food (live, 9-07)
• Worn
• Writ
• Written on a Folded Piece of Paper during a Snowfall as the Author Was about to Enter the Priesthood (live)
• X-Factor
• X-Ray Pastoral
• Yankie My
• Yellow Jackets and the Sting Repeats (live)
• You (live)
• You Listen to Dexter Gordon (live, Bates)
• You Start with Lassoing the Ocean
• You say the world disappoints me
• You, Cut Open (live)
• Young of the Year (live, Bates)
• Your Childhood (live)
• Your Event Horizon
• Your Old Animal
• Your Own Finite Toes above a Small Tin Bath
• Your body'd gone
• Ysleta, Texas
• Yud: The Hand of God
• Zippo (live, Denver)
• [Bias 1]: Singular Orphic Selves
• apples and oranges:                 an allegory
• atlantis made easy (live)
• ballad of bertie county
• being in the perfection of a jersey city july (live)
• black spoon
• black spoon (live, City Lights)
• black spoon (live, PPL)
• blank cassette
• bodas de sangre
• bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920 (live, Sept. 2006)
• called: Eurydice
• casualties
• desert throat
• duck, duck, redux (live)
• emergencia I (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia II (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia III (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia IV (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia IX (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia V (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia VI (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia VII (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia VIII (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia X (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia XI (In the original Spanish)
• emergencia XII (In the original Spanish)
• emergency I
• emergency II
• emergency III
• emergency IV
• emergency IX
• emergency V
• emergency VI
• emergency VII
• emergency VIII
• emergency X
• emergency XI
• emergency XII
• excerpts from Allergy Girl
• fabulous ones
• fabulous ones (live, Bates)
• five year sentence (live, April 2005)
• five year sentence (live, Sept. 2006)
• freedom (live, April 2005)
• freedom (live, Sept. 2006)
• from Postcards from the White City
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (four) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (one) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (three) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (two) (live, Bowdoin)
• gamelan
• her table mountain (live)
• i-j
• immigrant hymns
• im•per•a•tives
• in a non-subjunctive mood (live)
• innumerable ones
• innumerable ones (live, Bates)
• it hurts/that what I mistook (live)
• it’s pouring
• laveau's sojourn
• leadbelly in angolo prison: down again (live, Sept. 2006)
• leadbelly sings to his #1 crew (live, Sept. 2006)
• leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934
• leadbelly's lessons (live, Sept. 2006)
• lifeline
• lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 (live, Sept. 2006)
• london bridge
• martha promise receives leadbelly (live, April 2005)
• martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935 (live, Sept. 2006)
• mistress stella speaks (live, Sept. 2006)
• mothafucka
• notes for the early journey
• owed to shirley chisholm (live)
• prelude to "Approaching Ice"
• sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, April 2005)
• sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, Sept. 2006)
• samuel johnson,
• seeing what awaited her, she took the ghost path home
• sing out (live, Sept. 2006)
• someone calls
• stella: diminuendo (live, Sept. 2006)
• sweet metal sweet
• the debt/I owe the breasts (live)
• the defense of marriage act, alternatives to (live)
• the gigans: iii.
• the gigans: ix.
• the gigans: v.
• the gigans: viii.
• the gigans: xi.
• the gigans: xii.
• the gigans: xvii.
• the gigans: xviii.
• the surreal life
• those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush (live, Bates)
• those that are trained (live, Bates)
• those that have just broken a flower vase
• those that have just broken a flower vase (live, Bates)
• those that tremble as if they were mad (live, Bates)
• tragedies
• urdu funk: the gentle art of subtitles
• what the water gave me
• winter
• write to the lights
• x,y
• you can say that again, billie
• you must walk this lonesome (live)
• ¿Pobre Cervantes? (In the original Spanish)
• Árbol Genealógico (In the original Spanish)
• á table
• ‘Where-o-where is the Blues’ Blues
• “Dying Is An Art”