Poetry

Folio

Dorabella

Patricia Lockwood
Poetry

Elegy

Natasha Rao
Poetry

In Spring

Natasha Rao
Poetry

The Valley

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Poetry

While Reading Lucille Clifton

Phillip B. Williams
Folio

Overture

Brenda Shaughnessy

Browse

Poetry

From the Archives

Old People on the Nursing Home Porch

Mark Strand
October 1, 1963
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
From the Archives

The Cold Divinities

James Wright
December 1, 1957
From the Archives

From a High Window

Sara Teasdale
April 1, 1950
Floral Garlands of Nany, ca. 1050 B.C. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
From the Archives

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

Retrospect

Toyo Suyemoto
December 1, 1946