1. Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility"

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We begin with Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility." As you read, keep in mind that Emily's poems call out for mul...
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2. William Carlos Williams, "Between Walls"

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  William Carlos Williams was a medical doctor - a pediatrician. You went to his home office for consults, or he did house calls. He was ...

3. H.D., "Sea Rose"

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Hilda Doolittle, or "H.D.," was an imagist, just as Williams was when he wrote "Between Walls." Perhaps you can say t...

4. Lorine Niedecker, "Grandfather advised me"

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Lorine Niedecker was tough and independent. She spent a good part of her life living on her own in rural Wisconsin. In this poem the spea...

5. Cid Corman, "It isnt for want"

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Cid Corman wrote thousands of short poems like this one. Not all of them are as striking and pointed as this one, but they really were wr...

6. Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"

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The image above shows a portion of a portrait of Gertrude Stein painted by Pablo Picasso. They were friends. Each thought he/she was a ge...

7. Claude McKay, "If We Must Die"

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Claude McKay wrote a poem of revolutionary content, "If We Must Die." The poem calls for counter-violence as a response to viol...

8. Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

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Most of the poems in this grouping of 15 poems participate in the modernist/postmodernist mode. Depending on how you interpret McKay'...

9. Robert Creeley, "I Know a Man"

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In this poem we seem to have a conversation between two people. The speaker is apparently the driver and another person - a man not named ...

10. Frank O'Hara, "The Day Lady Died"

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  Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is an elegy. But its approach to the deceased person being memorialized is quite ...
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11. Bob Perelman, "Chronic Meanings"

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Bob Perelman's poem consisting of 5-word lines was written as a pre-elegy for the poet and editor Leland Hickman, who had recently re...

12. Rae Armantrout, "The Way"

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  Rae Armantrout has been called the Emily Dickinson of our time. "The Way" is typical of Armantrout's style: succinct, d...

13. Caroline Bergvall, "VIA"

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  Caroline Bergvall has made a poem out of forty-seven English translations of the opening tercet (three-line verse) of Dante Alighieri...

14. Jena Osman, "Dropping Leaflets"

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Jena Osman wrote this poem not long after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. She was frustrated by the seeming m...

15. Tracie Morris, "Afrika"

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  Tracie Morris is a musical poet. For this project - called "Afrika" - she "sampled" a single conventional sentenc...