Poems

"They Dream Only of America"

Poet: John Ashbery Poetic Form: Free verse

"To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage"

Poet: Robert Lowell Poetic Form: Couplet

#465 (591) ("I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——")

Poet: Emily Dickinson Poetic Form: Common meter

(To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century)

Poet: Muriel Rukeyser Poetic Form: Common meter

A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Poet: Arna Bontemps Poetic Form: Quatrain

A Communication to Nancy Cunard

Poet: Kay Boyle Poetic Form: Free verse

A Grave

Poet: Marianne Moore Poetic Form: Vers libre

A Kind of Chill

Poet: John Ashbery Poetic Form: Free verse

A Letter from Phillis Wheatley

Poet: Robert Hayden Poetic Form: Blank verse

A Song in the Front Yard

Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks Poetic Form: Free verse

A Step Away From Them

Poet: Frank O'Hara Poetic Form: Free verse

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island

Poet: Frank O'Hara Poetic Form: Free verse

After Apple-Picking

Poet: Robert Frost Poetic Form: Vers libre

Altar

Poet: Marilyn Chin Poetic Form: Free verse

An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

Poet: Marianne Moore Poetic Form: Vers libre

An Octopus

Poet: Marianne Moore Poetic Form: Vers libre

An Old Man's Winter Night

Poet: Robert Frost Poetic Form: Blank verse

And One for My Dame

Poet: Anne Sexton Poetic Form: Tercet

at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989

Poet: Lucille Clifton Poetic Form: Free verse

At the Crossroad

Poet: Paul Blackburn Poetic Form: Free verse

At the Fishhouses

Poet: Elizabeth Bishop Poetic Form: Free verse

At the Well

Poet: Paul Blackburn Poetic Form: Free verse

At Tikal

Poet: William Bronk Poetic Form: Blank verse

Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves

Poet: Robert Hayden Poetic Form: Quatrain

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Poet: Adrienne Rich Poetic Form: Quatrain

Beaufort Tides

Poet: John Beecher Poetic Form: Free verse

Berryman

Poet: W. S. Merwin Poetic Form: Free verse

Birches

Poet: Robert Frost Poetic Form: Blank verse

Bird-Witted

Poet: Marianne Moore Poetic Form: Vers libre

Black Art

Poet: Amiri Baraka Poetic Form: Free verse