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Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry
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From the Book
Introduction / Billy Collins
1. Introduction to Poetry / Billy Collins
2. Selecting a Reader / Ted Kooser
3. Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad / Jan Heller Levi
4. Singing Back the World / Dorianne Laux
5. The Pink Car / Mark Halliday
6. Acting / Suzanne Cleary
7. The Cord / Leanne O'Sullivan
8. Ode: The Capris / Mark Halliday
9. Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted / Shoshauna Shy
10. On the Death of a Colleague / Stephen Dunn
11. The Space Heater / Sharon Olds
12. Numbers / Mary Cornish
13. Lines / Martha Collins
14. Listen / Miller Williams
15. Unholy Sonnets / Mark Jarman
16. Poem for Salt / Leroy C. Quintana
17. The Hand / Mary Ruefle
18. Where I Was / Dan Brown
19. hoop snake / Rebecca Wee
20. Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand / Charles Simic
21. The Summer I Was Sixteen / Geraldine Connolly
22. Did I Miss Anything? / Tom Wayman
23. Song of Smoke / Kevin Young
24. Autobiographia / G. E. Patterson
25. White Towels / Richard Jones
26. To You / Kenneth Koch
27. It's Raining in Love / Richard Brautigan
28. Moderation Kills (Excusez-Moi, Je Suis Sick as a Dog) / David Kirby
29. Mrs. Midas / Carol Ann Duffy
30. The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Larry Levis
31. Little Father / Li-Young Lee
32. Alzheimer's / Bob Hicok
33. The Book of Hand Shadows / Marianne Boruch
34. Sidekicks / Ronald Koertge
35. A Poetry Reading at West Point / William Matthews
36. Only One of My Deaths / Dean Young
37. I'm A Fool to Love You / Cornelius Eady
38. Love Poem 1990 / Peter Meinke
39. Passer-by, these are words... / Yves Bonnefoy
40. Wheels / Jim Daniels
41. Rain / Naomi Shihab Nye
42. A Myopic Child / Yannis Ritsos
43. At the Other End of the Telescope / George Bradley
44. praise song / Lucille Clifton
45. The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball / Thomas Lux
46. The Farewell / Edward Field
47. The Partial Explanation / Charles Simic
48. Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets / David Young
49. The Late Passenger / C. S. Lewis
50. On a 3 1/2 Oz. Lesser Yellowlegs, Departed Boston August 28, Shot Martinique September 3 / Eamon Grennan
51. Tour / Carol Snow
52. After Us / Connie Wanek
53. Poetry / Don Paterson
54. The Fathers / Elizabeth Holmes
55. The High School Band / Reed Whittemore
56. The Bell / Richard Jones
57. Dearborn North Apartments Chicago, Illinois / Lola Haskins
58. Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer / Chris Forhan
59. The Bruise of This / Mark Wunderlich
60. 1-800-HOT-RIBS / Catherine Bowman
61. The Printer's Error / Aaron Fogel
62. Cartoon Physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn
63. Advice from the Experts / Bill Knott
64. She Didn't Mean to Do It / Daisy Fried
65. Snow / David Berman
66. Six One-Line Film-Scripts / Tom Andrews
67. I Finally Managed to Speak to Her / Hal Sirowitz
68. Before She Died / Karen Chase
69. In the Well / Andrew Hudgins
70. The Sonogram / Paul Muldoon
71. Love Like Salt / Lisel Mueller
72. Through the Window of the All-Night Restaurant / Nicholas Christopher
73. The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 / David Wojahn
74. Barbie's Ferrari / Lynne McMahon
75. A Romance for the Wild Turkey / Paul Zimmer
76. Ye White Antarctic Birds / Lisa Jarnot
77. St. Francis and the Sow / Galway Kinnell
78. Killing the Animals / Wesley McNair
79. The Old Liberators / Robert Hedin
80. Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? / Robert Hershon
81. Grammar / Tonay Hoagland
82. Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City / Thomas Lux
83. In Tornado Weather / Judith Kerman
84. The Portuguese in Mergui / George Green
85. No Return / William Matthews
86. The Panic Bird / Robert Phillips
87. A Hunger / Benjamin Saltman
88. Otherwise / Jane Kenyon
89. Happy Marriage / Taslima Nasrin
90. At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School / Sherman Alexie
91. Hamlet Off-Stage: Laertes Cool / D. C. Berry
92. Lesson / Forrest Hamer
93. Football / Louis Jenkins
94. Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale / Jane Yolen
95. Sister Cat / Frances Mayes
96. The Bagel / David Ignatow
97. On Swimming / Adam Zagajewski
98. Song Beside a Sippy Cup / Jenny Factor
99. Watching the Mayan Women / Luisa Villani
100. Queen Herod / Carol Ann Duffy
101. Video Blues / Mary Jo Salter
102. Smoking / Elton Glaser
103. Old Men Playing Basketball / B. H. Fairchild
104. Gratitude to Old Teachers / Robert Bly
105. June 11 / David Lehman
106. Vegetarian Physics / David Clewell
107. My Life / Joe Wenderoth
108. Nuclear Winter / Edward Nobles
109. Message: Bottle #32 / J. Allyn Rosser
110. Waves / Robin Robertson
111. no. 6 / Charles Bukowski
112. Tuesday Morning, Loading Pigs / David Lee
113. For Mohammed Zeid, Age 15 / Naomi Shihab Nye
114. Small Comfort / Katha Pollitt
115. Skin / Lucia Perillo
116. Telephone Repairman / Joseph Millar
117. What I Would Do / Marc Petersen
118. The Meadow / Kate Knapp Johnson
119. Rotary / Christina Pugh
120. Sax's and Selves / Mark Halliday
121. Black Leather Because Bumblebees Look Like It / Diane Wakoski
122. Beyond Recall / Sharon Bryan
123. Alley Cat Love Song / Dana Gioia
124. Goodbye to the Old Life / Wesley McNair
125. For "Fiddle-De-De" / John Hollander
126. Country Fair / Charles Simic
127. Part of Eve's Discussion / Marie Howe
128. Birth Day / Elise Paschen
129. On Not Flying to Hawaii / Alison Luterman
130. The Poem of Chalk / Philip Levine
131. My Father's Hats / Mark Irwin
132. Of Politics & Art / Norman Dubie
133. Loud Music / Stephen Dobyns
134. Elevator Music / Henry Taylor
135. A Wreath to the Fish / Nancy Willard
136. ballplayer / Evie Shockley
137. The Green One over There / Katia Kapovich
138. May / Bruce Weigl
139. The Quest / Sharon Olds
140. In Simili Materia / Timothy Russell
141. Words for Worry / Li-Young Lee
142. In Praise of BIC Pens / David Hilton
143. The Other World / Robert Wrigley
144. The Grammar Lesson / Steve Kowit
145. Fast Break / Edward Hirsch
146. The Invention of Heaven / Dean Young
147. Saturday at the Canal / Gary Soto
148. Doing Without / David Ray
149. The Death of Santa Claus / Charles Webb
150. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space / Ron Padgett
151. Thanksgiving / Mac Hammond
152. Dog's Death / John Updike
153. Hound Song / Donald Finkel
154. A Metaphor Crosses the Road / Martha McFerren
155. The Swan at Edgewater Park / Ruth L. Schwartz
156. The Blizzard / Phillis Levin
157. Where is She? / Peter Cherches
158. Coffee in the Afternoon / Alberto Rios
159. One Morning / Eamon Grennan
160. Animals / Miller Williams
161. God Says Yes to Me / Kaylin Haught
162. The Perfect Heart / Shara McCallum
163. The Birthday / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
164. Not Swans / Susan Ludvigson
165. I Wish in the City of Your Heart / Robley Wilson
166. The Accompanist / William Matthews
167. The Wolf of Gubbio / William Matthews
168. 49[superscript th] Birthday Trip (What Are You On?) / Samuel Menashe
169. How Many Times / Marie Howe
170. The History of Poetry / Peter Cooley
171. The Dead / Susan Mitchell
172. Social Security / Terence Winch
173. The Student Theme / Ronald Wallace
174. Smell and Envy / Douglas Goetsch
175. The Yawn / Paul Blackburn
176. Blue Willow / Jody Gladding
177. Tuesday 9:00 AM / Denver Butson
178. Ordinance on Arrival / Naomi Lazard
179. 96 Vandam / Gerald Stern
180. What He Thought / Heather McHugh.
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