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2/2/26 This Wind by Odysseus Elytis

01/30/26 The Name by Ana Enriqueta Terán

01/27/26 The Gentle Forces Will Surely Win by Henriette Roland Holst

01/24/26 Not Yielding To The Rain by Kenji Miyazawa

01/21/26 The Fireflies by Rolf Jacobsen

01/17/26 Happiness by Umberto Saba

01/16/26 Serenata di grilli by Clemente Rebora

01/12/26 Poisson by Paul Éluard

01/10/26 Cântico VI by Cecília Meireles

01/07/26 Sonnet 20 by Rainer Maria Rilke

01/06/26 Een zwemmer is een ruiter by Paul Snoek

01/03/26 L'infinito by Giacomo Leopardi

01/02/26 Caminante, no hay camino by Antonio Machado

12/29/25 Selected Poems by Gustaf Munch-Petersen

12/25/25 If You Listen: Poems & Photographs of the San Juan Mountains by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

12/22/25 Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

12/19/25 Selected Poems of Janet Lewis

12/16/25 Bestiary Dark by Marianne Boruch

12/13/25 Oasis of Now by Sohrab Sepehri

12/9/25 Flickering by Pattiann Rogers

12/6/25 The Eye of the Earth by Niyi Osundare

12/2/25 The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish

11/29/25 Poems of Katherine Mansfield

11/26/25 The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux

11/23/25 Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi

11/20/25 Selected Poems 1968–2014 by Paul Muldoon

11/17/25 The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller

11/14/25 Poems of Fernando Pessoa

11/11/25 Ugh Ugh Ocean by Joanna Fuhrman

11/8/25 Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2017 by Eleanor Wilner

11/6/25 By Lingual Wholes by Victor Hernández Cruz

11/3/25 Like This by Diana Pooley

10/31/25 The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

10/30/25 Infragreen by Kate Bingham

10/27/25 Ground Water by Matthew Hollis

10/24/25 The Blue Lonnen by Katrina Porteous

10/21/25 Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse ed. by Andrew McRae, Paul Farley

10/18/25 Jules Deelder

10/15/25 The Milk of Dreams by Leonora Carrington

10/12/25 The Cows by Lydia Davis

10/10/25 Decreation by Anne Carson

10/7/25 Imagist Poetry ed. by Peter Jones

10/5/25 Surge by Etel Adnan

10/3/25 The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten & Roger McGough

10/1/25 Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

9/28/25 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

9/27/25 To the Left of Time by Thomas Lux

9/24/25 Alphabet by Inger Christensen

9/21/25 The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems by Olav H. Hauge

9/20/25 Not You, Not the Rain by Sirkka Turkka

9/17/25 New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer

9/16/25 Complete Poems by Karin Boye

9/13/25 Everyone At This Party Has Two Names by Brad Aaron Modlin

9/11/25 Blowout by Denise Duhamel

9/8/25 The Complete Poetical Works by George Crabbe

9/5/25 The Heart of It by Seni Seneviratne

9/2/25 The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

8/31/25 Selected Poems by Witter Bynner

8/29/25 Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011 by Mimi Khalvati

8/26/25 A Book Of Sounds by Billy Mills

8/25/25 The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan

8/23/25 Collected Works by John Masefield

8/22/25 The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

8/21/25 Archaic Smile by A.E. Stallings

8/20/25 What Work Is by Philip Levine

8/19/25 Poems by John Clare

8/15/25 Poems Before & After by Miroslav Holub

8/14/25 Collected Poems, 1948-84 by Derek Walcott

8/11/25 Poems by Christopher Morley

8/9/25 Cane by Jean Toomer

8/7/25 Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg

8/6/25 Selected poems of Laurence Binyon

8/5/25 The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

8/2/25 North & South (1955) by Elizabeth Bishop

8/1/25 A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

7/30/25 Poems of Nazim Hikmet

7/28/25 Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie

7/27/25 Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski

7/25/25 Collected poems, 1921-1958 by Edwin Muir

7/24/25 The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952–2009 by Shuntaro Tanikawa

7/23/25 Interrogations at Noon : poems by Dana Gioia

7/20/25 New and Selected Poems 1962–2012 by Charles Simic

7/18/25 The Crab Scenario (poem) by Kiran Bonner

7/17/25 Return Path (poem) by Lesley Wheeler

7/16/25 Running Out of Time (poem) by Penelope Shuttle

7/14/25 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

7/11/25 White Peaks and Green by Ethel Romig Fuller

7/10/25 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

7/8/25 Collected Poems of Robert P. Tristram Coffin

7/7/25 The Makings of You by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

7/6/25 If There Is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova

7/5/25 The Alligator Bride by Donald Hall

7/4/25 Online series Animal Poems by Sarah Shahzad

7/3/25 Many Gods by Cale Young Rice

7/1/25 A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Amy Lowell

6/29/25 The Delphi Complete Works of John Clare

6/27/25 Things as They Are, Ballads by Berton Braley

6/26/25 The Rain in the Trees by W. S. Merwin

6/25/25 Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore

6/24/25 Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams by Rainer Maria Rilke

6/23/25 A World Without Stone by Terry McDonagh

6/21/25 Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich

6/19/25 The Odes by Horace

6/18/25 Tortoises by D.H. Lawrence

6/16/25 Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop

6/12/25 New Selected Poems by Eavan Boland

6/11/25 The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

6/10/25 Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley

6/9/25 Spindrift by Vona Groarke

6/8/25 The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols

6/7/25 Life Is a Dream: 40 Years of Reading Poems by Paul Durcan

6/6/25 A Maze Me by Naomi Shihab Nye

6/5/25 Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley

6/4/25 Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves

6/3/25 Collected Poems by Sujata Bhatt

6/2/25 Winter Stars by Larry Levis

6/1/25 The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers by Alice Walker

5/31/25 Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai

5/30/25 Bending the Notes by Paul Hostovsky

5/29/25 Bending the Notes by Paul Hostovsky

5/28/25 [redacted] by Trista Mateer

5/24/25 Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds

5/21/25 What We Carry by Dorianne Laux

5/20/25 The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

5/18/25 Call Me By My True Names by Thích Nhất Hạnh

5/17/25 Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao

5/15/25 The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider

5/14/25 Homecoming: New and Collected Poems by Julia Alvarez

5/13/25 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller

5/10/25 Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

5/6/25 Miguel Hernández (2013) by Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share

5/5/25 In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish

5/3/25 The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

5/2/25 The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz & Translated by Eliot Weinberger

5/1/25 Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems by Victor Hernández Cruz

4/30/25 Selected and New Poems by Eamon Grennan

4/27/25 Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs by Margaret Randall

4/26/25 The Origin of Species and Other Poems by Ernesto Cardenal

4/25/25 A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) by Bernadette Mayer

4/24/25 Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski

4/23/25 Nones by W. H. Auden

4/22/25 Poems (1847) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4/21/25 The Human Line by Ellen Bass

4/20/25 The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin

4/19/25 Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

4/18/25 David Whyte Essentials by David Whyte

4/17/25 Fuel by Naomi Shihab Nye

4/16/25 Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni

4/15/25 Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems by Linda Pastan

4/14/25 The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems by Robert Bly

4/13/25 Il Canzoniere ( The Songbook) by Umberto Saba

4/12/25 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (2024), edited by Ada Limón

4/11/25 The Earth Avails by Mark Wunderlich

4/10/25 Falling Awake (2016) by Alice Oswald

4/9/25 Waymaking (Edited by Helen Mort, Claire Carter, Heather Dawe, & Camilla Barnard)

4/8/25 The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

4/7/25 The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine

4/6/25 The Moon Before Morning by W.S. Merwin

4/5/25 A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997 by Wendell Berry

3/31/25 Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford by William Stafford

3/29/25 The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall

3/28/25 The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon by Jane Kenyon

3/27/25 Osip Mandelstam's Stone by Osip Mandelstam

3/26/25 Selected poems of Anna Akhmatova

3/25/25 The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

3/24/25 Il Galateo in Bosco (Etiquette in the Woods) by Andrea Zanzotto

3/23/25 Terre à bonheur by Guillevic

3/21/25 Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz

3/20/25 Selected Poems 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges

3/19/25 La Semaison: Carnets 1954-1979 by Philippe Jaccottet

3/18/25 Odas Elementales by Pablo Neruda

3/17/25 Le Parti Pris des Choses (The Voice of Things) by Francis Ponge

3/16/25 Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker

3/15/25 New and Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson

3/14/25 The Poetry Home Repair Manual, by Ted Kooser

3/13/25 The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin

3/12/25 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

3/11/25 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3/10/25 Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane

3/9/25 Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder

3/8/25 Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3/7/25 The Seasons by James Thomson

3/6/25 La Divina Commedia di Dante by Dante Alighieri

3/5/25 The Owl and The Nightingale by Simon Armitage

3/4/25 Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné

2/23/25 History by Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Impatiens Flower

2/2/26 This Wind by Odysseus Elytis

01/30/26 The Name by Ana Enriqueta Terán

01/27/26 The Gentle Forces Will Surely Win by Henriette Roland Holst

01/24/26 Not Yielding To The Rain by Kenji Miyazawa

01/21/26 The Fireflies by Rolf Jacobsen

01/17/26 Happiness by Umberto Saba

01/16/26 Serenata di grilli by Clemente Rebora

01/12/26 Poisson by Paul Éluard

01/10/26 Cântico VI by Cecília Meireles

01/07/26 Sonnet 20 by Rainer Maria Rilke

01/06/26 Een zwemmer is een ruiter by Paul Snoek

01/03/26 L'infinito by Giacomo Leopardi

01/02/26 Caminante, no hay camino by Antonio Machado

12/29/25 Selected Poems by Gustaf Munch-Petersen

12/25/25 If You Listen: Poems & Photographs of the San Juan Mountains by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

12/22/25 Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

12/19/25 Selected Poems of Janet Lewis

12/16/25 Bestiary Dark by Marianne Boruch

12/13/25 Oasis of Now by Sohrab Sepehri

12/9/25 Flickering by Pattiann Rogers

12/6/25 The Eye of the Earth by Niyi Osundare

12/2/25 The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish

11/29/25 Poems of Katherine Mansfield

11/26/25 The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux

11/23/25 Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi

11/20/25 Selected Poems 1968–2014 by Paul Muldoon

11/17/25 The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller

11/14/25 Poems of Fernando Pessoa

11/11/25 Ugh Ugh Ocean by Joanna Fuhrman

11/8/25 Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2017 by Eleanor Wilner

11/6/25 By Lingual Wholes by Victor Hernández Cruz

11/3/25 Like This by Diana Pooley

10/31/25 The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

10/30/25 Infragreen by Kate Bingham

10/27/25 Ground Water by Matthew Hollis

10/24/25 The Blue Lonnen by Katrina Porteous

10/21/25 Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse ed. by Andrew McRae, Paul Farley

10/18/25 Jules Deelder

10/15/25 The Milk of Dreams by Leonora Carrington

10/12/25 The Cows by Lydia Davis

10/10/25 Decreation by Anne Carson

10/7/25 Imagist Poetry ed. by Peter Jones

10/5/25 Surge by Etel Adnan

10/3/25 The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten & Roger McGough

10/1/25 Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

9/28/25 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

9/27/25 To the Left of Time by Thomas Lux

9/24/25 Alphabet by Inger Christensen

9/21/25 The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems by Olav H. Hauge

9/20/25 Not You, Not the Rain by Sirkka Turkka

9/17/25 New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer

9/16/25 Complete Poems by Karin Boye

9/13/25 Everyone At This Party Has Two Names by Brad Aaron Modlin

9/11/25 Blowout by Denise Duhamel

9/8/25 The Complete Poetical Works by George Crabbe

9/5/25 The Heart of It by Seni Seneviratne

9/2/25 The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

8/31/25 Selected Poems by Witter Bynner

8/29/25 Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011 by Mimi Khalvati

8/26/25 A Book Of Sounds by Billy Mills

8/25/25 The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan

8/23/25 Collected Works by John Masefield

8/22/25 The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

8/21/25 Archaic Smile by A.E. Stallings

8/20/25 What Work Is by Philip Levine

8/19/25 Poems by John Clare

8/15/25 Poems Before & After by Miroslav Holub

8/14/25 Collected Poems, 1948-84 by Derek Walcott

8/11/25 Poems by Christopher Morley

8/9/25 Cane by Jean Toomer

8/7/25 Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg

8/6/25 Selected poems of Laurence Binyon

8/5/25 The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

8/2/25 North & South (1955) by Elizabeth Bishop

8/1/25 A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

7/30/25 Poems of Nazim Hikmet

7/28/25 Waterlight: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie

7/27/25 Asymmetry: Poems by Adam Zagajewski

7/25/25 Collected poems, 1921-1958 by Edwin Muir

7/24/25 The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952–2009 by Shuntaro Tanikawa

7/23/25 Interrogations at Noon : poems by Dana Gioia

7/20/25 New and Selected Poems 1962–2012 by Charles Simic

7/18/25 The Crab Scenario (poem) by Kiran Bonner

7/17/25 Return Path (poem) by Lesley Wheeler

7/16/25 Running Out of Time (poem) by Penelope Shuttle

7/14/25 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

7/11/25 White Peaks and Green by Ethel Romig Fuller

7/10/25 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken

7/8/25 Collected Poems of Robert P. Tristram Coffin

7/7/25 The Makings of You by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

7/6/25 If There Is Something to Desire by Vera Pavlova

7/5/25 The Alligator Bride by Donald Hall

7/4/25 Online series Animal Poems by Sarah Shahzad

7/3/25 Many Gods by Cale Young Rice

7/1/25 A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Amy Lowell

6/29/25 The Delphi Complete Works of John Clare

6/27/25 Things as They Are, Ballads by Berton Braley

6/26/25 The Rain in the Trees by W. S. Merwin

6/25/25 Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore

6/24/25 Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams by Rainer Maria Rilke

6/23/25 A World Without Stone by Terry McDonagh

6/21/25 Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich

6/19/25 The Odes by Horace

6/18/25 Tortoises by D.H. Lawrence

6/16/25 Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop

6/12/25 New Selected Poems by Eavan Boland

6/11/25 The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

6/10/25 Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley

6/9/25 Spindrift by Vona Groarke

6/8/25 The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace Nichols

6/7/25 Life Is a Dream: 40 Years of Reading Poems by Paul Durcan

6/6/25 A Maze Me by Naomi Shihab Nye

6/5/25 Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley

6/4/25 Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves

6/3/25 Collected Poems by Sujata Bhatt

6/2/25 Winter Stars by Larry Levis

6/1/25 The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers by Alice Walker

5/31/25 Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai

5/30/25 Bending the Notes by Paul Hostovsky

5/29/25 Bending the Notes by Paul Hostovsky

5/28/25 [redacted] by Trista Mateer

5/24/25 Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds

5/21/25 What We Carry by Dorianne Laux

5/20/25 The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

5/18/25 Call Me By My True Names by Thích Nhất Hạnh

5/17/25 Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao

5/15/25 The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider

5/14/25 Homecoming: New and Collected Poems by Julia Alvarez

5/13/25 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller

5/10/25 Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

5/6/25 Miguel Hernández (2013) by Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share

5/5/25 In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish

5/3/25 The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

5/2/25 The Poems of Octavio Paz by Octavio Paz & Translated by Eliot Weinberger

5/1/25 Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems by Victor Hernández Cruz

4/30/25 Selected and New Poems by Eamon Grennan

4/27/25 Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs by Margaret Randall

4/26/25 The Origin of Species and Other Poems by Ernesto Cardenal

4/25/25 A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) by Bernadette Mayer

4/24/25 Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories by Charles Bukowski

4/23/25 Nones by W. H. Auden

4/22/25 Poems (1847) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4/21/25 The Human Line by Ellen Bass

4/20/25 The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin

4/19/25 Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

4/18/25 David Whyte Essentials by David Whyte

4/17/25 Fuel by Naomi Shihab Nye

4/16/25 Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni

4/15/25 Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems by Linda Pastan

4/14/25 The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems by Robert Bly

4/13/25 Il Canzoniere ( The Songbook) by Umberto Saba

4/12/25 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (2024), edited by Ada Limón

4/11/25 The Earth Avails by Mark Wunderlich

4/10/25 Falling Awake (2016) by Alice Oswald

4/9/25 Waymaking (Edited by Helen Mort, Claire Carter, Heather Dawe, & Camilla Barnard)

4/8/25 The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

4/7/25 The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine

4/6/25 The Moon Before Morning by W.S. Merwin

4/5/25 A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997 by Wendell Berry

3/31/25 Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford by William Stafford

3/29/25 The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall

3/28/25 The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon by Jane Kenyon

3/27/25 Osip Mandelstam's Stone by Osip Mandelstam

3/26/25 Selected poems of Anna Akhmatova

3/25/25 The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

3/24/25 Il Galateo in Bosco (Etiquette in the Woods) by Andrea Zanzotto

3/23/25 Terre à bonheur by Guillevic

3/21/25 Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz

3/20/25 Selected Poems 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges

3/19/25 La Semaison: Carnets 1954-1979 by Philippe Jaccottet

3/18/25 Odas Elementales by Pablo Neruda

3/17/25 Le Parti Pris des Choses (The Voice of Things) by Francis Ponge

3/16/25 Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker

3/15/25 New and Selected Things Taking Place by May Swenson

3/14/25 The Poetry Home Repair Manual, by Ted Kooser

3/13/25 The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin

3/12/25 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

3/11/25 The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3/10/25 Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane

3/9/25 Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder

3/8/25 Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3/7/25 The Seasons by James Thomson

3/6/25 La Divina Commedia di Dante by Dante Alighieri

3/5/25 The Owl and The Nightingale by Simon Armitage

3/4/25 Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné

2/23/25 History by Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Impatiens Flower

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