· A.R. Ammons, "So I Said I Am Ezra"
     · W.H. Auden, from "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
     · Amiri Baraka, "Legacy"
     · John Berryman, "The Ball Poem"
     · Gwendolyn Brooks, "Boy Breaking Glass"
     · Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish"
     · Diann Blakely, "History"
     · Ciretta M. Carroll, "Here's the Thing"
     · T'ao Ch'ien, "Begging Food"
     · T'ao Ch'ien, from "Drinking Wine"
    

     · T'ao Ch'ien, from "Home Again Among Gardens and Fields"
     · T'ao Ch'ien, "... Under the Cypress Trees in the Chou Family Burial Grounds"
     · Lucille Clifton, "Blessing the Boats"
     · Cold Mountain (Han Shan), "163"
     · Cold Mountain (Han Shan), "282"
     · Hart Crane, "My Grandmother's Love Letters"
     · Robert Creeley, "Going"
     · Robert Creeley, "For No Clear Reason"
     · Robert Creeley, "Intervals"
     · Robert Creeley, "Sound"
     · Robert Creeley, "Walking"
     · Robert Creeley, "Water Music"
     · Emily Dickinson, "Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant"
     · Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night"
     · Thomas Hardy, "Proud Songsters"
     · Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
     · Daniel Halpern, "Begin"
     · Edwin Honig, "Now, My Usefulness Over"
     · Edwin Honig, "Some Knots"
     · Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

     · James Joyce, "[All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters]"
     · John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
     · Kenneth Koch, "The Mending Sump"
     · Denise Levertov, "The Ache of Marriage"
     · Liu Tsung-yüan, "Before Crossing the Ridges"
     · Robert Lowell, "Robert Frost"
     · George Macbeth, "Marshall"
     · Rethabile Masilo, "Janice's Poem"
     · Rethabile Masilo, "Growing Up in Appalachia"
     · Claude McKay, "The Harlem Dancer"
     · Josephine Miles, "Made Shine"
     · Marianne Moore, "The Fish"
     · Frank O'Hara, "Why I Am Not a Painter"
     · Rabéarivelo, "Pomegranate"
     · Adrienne Rich, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
     · Laura Riding, "The Map of Places"
     · Theodore Roethke, "A Light Breather"
     · Theodore Roethke, "A Walk in Late Summer"
     · Theodore Roethke, "I Knew a Woman"
     · Theodore Roethke, "The Dream"
     · Theodore Roethke, "The Pure Fury"
     · Theodore Roethke, "The Renewal"

     · Theodore Roethke, "The Waking"
     · Carl Sandburg, "Follies"
     · Louis Simpson, "After Midnight"
     · Stephen Spender, "Icarus"
     · Jon Stalworthy, "Letter to a Friend"
     · Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar"
     · Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar"
     · Mark Strand, "Breath"
     · Mark Strand, "The Coming of Light"
     · Mark Strand, "The Dance"   
     · Mark Strand, "The Dress"   
     · Mark Strand, "The Door"
     · Mark Strand, "The Good Life"

     · Mark Strand, "The Hill"
     · Mark Strand, "The Marriage"
     · Mark Strand, "Mirror"
     · Jean Toomer, "Her Lips Are Copper Wire"
     · Jean Toomer, "Reapers"
     · William Carlos Williams, "Flowers by the Sea"
     · William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"