Poetry

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Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing
Poetry

Rights

Cindy Juyoung Ok
Poetry

[...]

Fady Joudah
Poetry

Two Days Twelve Thousand Years Ago

Brian Blanchfield
Poetry

Memories Don’t Live Like People Do

Donauta Watson

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Poetry

John Ashbery, Palette, collage, 2011. © Estate of John Ashbery, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
From the Archives

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
October 1, 1968
From the Archives

My Cousin in April

Louise Glück
June 1, 1967
Paul Oakes / Creative Commons
Poetry

The Couples

Jean Valentine
April 1, 1967
From the Archives

The Public Garden

Robert Lowell
October 1, 1962
From the Archives

The Lost Ingredient

Anne Sexton
July 1, 1959
Marble sarcophagus with garlands ca. A.D. 200–225. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poetry

Garland for You

Robert Penn Warren
January 1, 1958
Floral Garlands of Nany, ca. 1050 B.C. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Poetry

Closed For Good

Robert Frost
July 1, 1949
Graphic with lyres. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Poetry

Ars Poetica

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
Two hands reaching toward each other. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Poetry

Next Moment

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
From the Archives

[Somehow myself survived the night]

Emily Dickinson
September 1, 1935