Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry

Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins

Selecting a reader / Ted Kooser

Not bad, dad, not bad / Jan Heller Levi

Singing back the world / Dorianne Laux

Pink car / Mark Halliday

Acting / Suzanne Cleary

Cord / Leanne O'Sullivan

Ode: the Capris / Mark Halliday

Bringing my son to the police station to be fingerprinted / Shoshauna Shy

On the death of a colleague / Stephen Dunn

Space heater / Sharon Olds

Numbers / Mary Cornish

Lines / Martha Collins

Listen / Miller Williams

Unholy sonnets / Mark Jarman

Poem for salt / Leroy V. Quintana

Hand / Mary Ruefle

Where I was / Dan Brown

Hoop snake / Rebecca Wee

Bestiary for the fingers of my right hand / Charles Simic

Summer I was Sixteen / Geraldine Connolly

Did I misss anything / Tom Waymna

Song of smoke / Kevin Young

Autobiographia / G.E. Patterson.

White towels / Richard Jones

To you / Kenneth Koch

It's raining in love / Richard Brautigan

Moderation kills (excusez-moi, je Suis sick as a dog) / David Kirby

Mrs Midas / Carol Ann Duffy

Oldest living thing in L.A. / Larry Levis

Little father / Li-Young Lee

Alzheimer's / Bob Hicok

Book of hand shadows / Marianne Boruch

Sidekick / Ronald Koertge

Poetry reading at West Point / William Matthews

Only one of my deaths / Dean Young

I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady

Love poem 1990 / Peter Meinke

Passer-by, these are words / Yuves Bonnefoy

Wheels / Jim Daniels

Rain / Naomi Shihab Nye

Myopic Child / Yannis Ritsos

At the other end of the telescope / George Bradley

Praise song / Lucille Clifton

Man into whose yard you should not hit your ball / Thomas Lux

Farewell / Edward field

Partial explanation / Charles Simic

Poem for Adlai Stevenson and yellow jackets / David Young.

Late passenger / C. S. Lewis

On a 3 1/2 oz. lesser yellowlegs. departed Boston August 28, shot Martinique September 3 / Eamon Grennan

Tour / Carol Snow

After us / Connie Wanek

Poetry / Don Paterson

Fathers / Elizabeth Holmes

High school band / Reed Whittemore

Bell / Richard Jones

Dearborn North apartments Chicago, Illinois / Lola Haskins

Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer / Chris Forhan

Bruise of this / Mark Wunderlich

1-800-HOT-RIBS / Catherine Bowman

Printer's errors / Aaron Fogel

Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn

Advice from the experts / Bill Knott

She didn't mean to do it / Daisy Fried

Snow / David Berman

Six one-line film scripts / Tom Andrews

I finally managed to speak to her / Hal Sirowitz

Before she died / Karen Chase

In the well / Andrew Hudgins

Sonogram / Paul Muldoon

Love like salt / Lisel Mueller

Through the window of the all-night restaurant / Nicholas Christopher

Assassination of John Lennon as depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 / David Wohjahn.

Barbie's Ferrari / Lynne McMahon

A romance for the wild turkey / Paul Zimmer

Ye white Antarctic birds / Lisa Jarnot

St. Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell

Killing the animals / Wesley McNair

Old liberators / Robert Hedin

Sentimental moment or why did the Baguette cross the road? / Robert Hershon

Grammar / Tony Hoagland

Plague victims catapulted over walls into besieged city / Thomas Lux

In Tornado weather / Judith Kerman

Portuguese in Mergui / George Green

No return / William Matthews

Panic bird / Robert Phillips

A hunger / Benjamin Saltman

Otherwise / Jane Kenyon

Happy marriage / Taslima Nasrin

At Navajo monument valley tribal school / Sherman Alexie

Hamlet off-stage: laertes cool / D. C. Berry

Lesson / Forrest Hamer

Football / Louis Jenkins.

Fat is not a fairy tale / Jane Yolen

Sister cat / Frances Mayes

Bagel / David Ignatow

On swimming / Adam Zagajewski

Song beside a sippy cup / Jenny Factor

Watching the Mayan women / Luisa Villani

Queen Herod / Carol Ann Duffy

Video blues / Mary Jo Salter

Smoking / Elton Glaser

Old men playing basketball / B. H. Fairchild

Gratitude to old teachers / Robert Bly

June 11 / David Lehman

Vegetarian physics / David Clewell

My life / Joe Wenderoth

Nuclear winter / Edward Nobles

Message bottle #32 / J. Allyn Rosser

Waves / Robin Robertson

No. 6 / Charles Bukowski

Tuesday morning, loading pigs / David Lee

For Mohammed Zeid, Age 15 / Naomi Shihab Nye

Small comfort / Katha Pollitt

Skin / Lucia Perillo

Telephone repairman / Joseph Millar

What I would do / Marc Petersen

Meadow / Kate Knapp Johnson.

Rotary / Christina Pugh

Sax's and selves / Mark Halliday

Black leather because bumblebees look like it / Diane Wakoski

Beyond recall / Sharon Bryan

Alley cat love song / Dana Gioia

Goodbye to the old life / Wesley McNair

For "fiddle-de-de" / John Hollander

Country fair / Charles Simic

Part of Eve's discussion / Marie Howe

Birth day / Elise Paschen

On not flying to Hawaii / Alison Luterman

Poem of chalk / Philip Levine

My father's hats / Mark Irwin

Of politics & art / Norman Dubie

Loud music / Stephen Dobyns

Elevator music / Henry Taylor

A wreath to the fish / Nancy Willard

Ballplayer / Evie Shockley

Green one over there / Katia Kapovich

May / Bruce Weigl

Quest / Sharon Olds

In Simili materia / Timothy Russell

Words for worry / Li-Young Lee

In praise of BIC pens / David Hilton.

Other world / Robert Wrigley

Grammar lesson / Steve Kowit

Fast break / Edward Hirsch

Invention of heaven / Dean Young

Saturday at the canal / Gary Soto

Doing without / David Ray

Deth of Santa Claus / Charles Webb

Ladies and gentlemen in outer space / Ron Padgett

Thanksgiving / Mac Hammond

Dog's death / John Updike

Hound song / Donald Finkel

A metaphor crosses the road / Martha McFerren

Swan at Edgewater Park / Ruth L. Schwartz

Blizzard / Phillis Levin

Where is she / Peter Cherches

Coffee in the afternoon / Alberto Rios

One morning / Eamon Grennan

Animals / Miller Williams

God says yes to me / Kaylin Haught

Perfect heart / Shara McCallum

Birthday / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Not swans / Susan Ludvigson

I wish in the city of your heart / Robley Wilson

Accompanist / William Matthews

Wolf of Gubbio / William Matthews.

49th birthday trip (what are you on) / Samuel Menashe

How many times / Marie Howe

History of poetry / Peter Cooley

Dead / Susan Mitchell

Social security / Terence Winch

Student theme / Ronald Wallace

Smell and envy / Douglas Goetsch

Yawn / Paul Blackburn

Blue willow / Jody Gladding

Tuesday 9:00 AM / Denver Butson

Ordinance on arrival / Naomi Lazard

96 Vandam / Gerald Stern

What he thought / Heather McHugh.