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Poems

• Lower Manhattan Pantoum
• The Man With Large Hands
• "Acony Bell"
• "The man who approached me in the theatre lobby and asked,
• 'like a girl saying yes'
• (The day spools up its turbines of light)
• (The first sturdy bee)
• (To crave what the light does crave)
• - shall become as - (live)
• 1. Coming In
• 10th Street Anthem
• 11.december.2002 (live)
• 12.april.2002 (live)
• 13.march.2002 (live)
• 15. White: Echo
• 16 Iraqi Policemen (live)
• 16. After Abraham Mourns, He Requests Another Son
• 1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly
• 1978 (live)
• 1980
• 20.february.2001 (live)
• 2000 lbs. (live)
• 24-Hour Breakfast (live)
• 24.december.2001 (live)
• 28.november.2002 (live)
• 4.february.2001 (live)
• 50 Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug
• 6. The Past Described, As a Figure
• 8. What Isaac Knew of Forgiveness
• 8.september.2001 (live)
• :Ayahuasca
• :Fact
• Ars Poetica
• Danza Macabre
• Jameel (live)
• a series of 31-word prose poems (live)
• cladonia rangifera Nineteen Years Beyond Chernobyl
• from Rock the Body Body
• from the desk of The President of the United States of America
• from 16.may.2000 (live)
• from A Monologue for Voices
• from Closen
• from Natalia
• from Natalia (live)
• from President Letters
• from St. Apples
• from St. Apples (live)
• from The Northern Sun (live, PPL)
• from Urban Renewal: xvii.
• from Urban Renewal: xxi.
• from Widening Aubade (live)
• from proxy
• intro to aubades (live)
• A
• A Beautiful Day (live, Colby)
• A Brief Attachment
• A Brief History of Patriotism
• A Canticle With Reference to the Future
• A Compendium of Angels (live, City Lights)
• A Fence Line Running Through It
• A Full Life (live)
• A Gardener’s Prayer
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection (in the original Chinese)
• A House is Not a Home (live)
• A Hunger So Honed
• A Hunger So Honed (live)
• A Late Summer Day in New Haven
• A Love Supreme
• A Natural Selection
• A Natural Selection (live)
• A Note Left to the Next Group of Vacationers Staying Here In this Rental Cabin (live)
• A Pantry Full of Canned Enchiladas
• A Pirate Fit to Opine on Feet
• A Plantsman's Confession (live, 9-07)
• A Plantsman’s Confession (live)
• A Prayer for My People
• A Promising
• A Reason for Concern
• A Rendering of the Site
• A Room With A View (live, Bates)
• A Room with a View (live, Bowdoin)
• A Scarecrow, a Feline, and a Hare
• A Signal (live)
• A Soldier’s Arabic
• A Splinter Becoming a Burning Plank
• A Square of Blue Infinity (live)
• A Square of Blue Infinity¹
• A Thousand Saxophones
• A Week of Rain in My Republic (live)
• A Windmill Makes A Statement
• A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear
• A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear (live, City Lights)
• A. Vespucci
• AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem) (live)
• ANWR
• ANWR (live, Colby)
• Abel, After (live)
• Abortion
• About the White Boys who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me (live, Bates)
• Absence
• Abstraction
• Accident
• Aching Knees in Palm Springs
• Adagio Ma Non Troppo (live, Bowdoin)
• Adam (or Likeness in the Waters) (live, Stanford)
• Addressing a Country as the Name We Like
• After Birth
• After Charon: A Late Aubade
• After I Said It
• After Revolution
• After Sex
• After So Many Years
• After a Move (live)
• After the Last Days of the Circus
• After the Vision of Her Face
• Afterlife
• Afternoons
• Against Patience
• Against Prognostication
• Against Solitude
• Agents
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Bowdoin College, October 18, 2005
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• Airstream
• Aisa (live, Bates)
• Al Dente Perfecto
• Alameda Street
• Alexander Leaves Babylon
• Alhazen of Basra (live)
• All Day I Dream About Sex
• All Effect
• All the Ashtrays in Rome
• All the World's Wars Commence in the Head: Ostinato—Part 2
• Alone Enough (live)
• Alphabet for Tamar
• Amber Is a Tree's Blood
• America the Hallelujah (live)
• America, the Hallelujah
• American Beech
• American Tourist
• American Tourist (live)
• Amigos
• An Early Snow and Winter Comes into Kilter
• An Individual History
• Analogy
• Ancestor
• Ancestor (live)
• And Day Brought Back My Night
• And Then, of Course, There's Hope
• And When
• Angel’s Trumpet (live)
• Angie, Leaving
• Animal Crackers
• Annuls the Space/Time Experience
• Annunciation
• Another Attempt At Rescue
• Anxiety
• Anyways
• Apart, Away
• Apologia pro Vita Sua (live)
• Apparition
• Apparition (live, City Lights)
• Apparition (live, Colby)
• Approaching Baltimore
• April Ossmann at Messalonskee High School, December 5, 2006
• April Peepers, Flaubert, and Springsteen
• April in Germany
• Arc
• Are You There, God? It's Me, DJ Spinoza (live)
• Arethusa
• Argos
• Ark (live, PPL)
• Around the Corner
• Around the Corner (live)
• Arrested Saturday Night (live)
• Arroz Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica After a Dog (live, Bates)
• Ars Poetica Blues (live)
• Ars Poetica with Pain
• Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another (live, City Lights)
• As Glass (live)
• As Glass (live, Bates)
• Ash and Dust (live)
• Ash and Silt
• Ashberries: Letters
• Asking
• Asking for More
• Association Copy (live, PPL)
• Asterisk (live, PPL)
• Astral (live)
• At Last
• At Last the New Arriving
• At Night
• At Night (2)
• At Ravenscroft
• At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball (live, PPL)
• At the Hammers (live)
• At the Poetry Reading
• Atlas
• Atlas (live, Colby)
• Atlas (live, PPL)
• Atomic Buckdance
• Attachment: Atlantic City Pimp (live, 9-07)
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade with Doves a Television and Fire
• Aubade with Memory Crystallized into a Figure of a Dancer (live)
• Aubade with a Book and the Rattle from a String of Pearls
• Aubade with a Heel of Bread, A Heart, and the Devil (live)
• Aubade with a Thistle Bush Holding Six Songs
• Aubade with the Moon, Some Bones, and a Word
• August (live)
• Aunt Rose
• Aunt Rose (live)
• Author's Prayer
• Author's Prayer (live)
• Autobiography
• Axe
• Azaleas
• Bach's Unaccompanied (live, Bates)
• Back in 1901
• Backwards Days (live)
• Bad Language
• Baguio (live)
• Band Camp
• Band Camp (live, Bowdoin)
• Barbara Jane Reyes Full Reading at City Lights
• Bardo
• Barometers
• Bartram among the Seminoles
• Bartram's Trail
• Bass Line
• Battle Rhyme for the Rhetorical Disenfranchisers
• Bearing
• Beast (live, Bates)
• Beat Him Again (live, Bowdoin)
• Beer Bottle
• Before Takeoff, Fidelito Prays
• Beginning to Peel
• Begonia
• Between Brightness and Weight
• Big Daddy
• Big Pussy
• Billy Strayhorn, Ohio Was Just a Terrible Dream
• Bird Figurines
• Bird of Paradise
• Birds Appearing in a Dream
• Birthplace of Memorial Day
• Black Blossoms (live)
• Black Lamb
• Black Walnuts
• Blackberry War
• Blankets of Bark
• Blankets of Bark (live, Colby)
• Bless the Kindling World
• Blessing Blue Crabs
• Blizzard
• Blood (live)
• Blue
• Blue Colonial
• Blue Sapphires and Land Mines
• Body Bags
• Book One
• Book Smart (live, PPL)
• Boy Bites Dog (live)
• Brewing Tea
• Brian Turner at Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005
• Brief Elegy on the Tip of a Match
• Bringing the Shovel Down (alternate ending, live, Bowdoin)
• Bringing the Shovel Down (live, Bowdoin)
• Bringing the Shovel Down (live, Colby)
• Broken Earth (live)
• Broken Mania (live, Colby)
• Brutally, the Robin
• Bullet Head (live)
• Burlesque
• But a Passage in Wilderness
• But to say
• Butterfly
• Butterfly Lullaby
• Buying Wine
• Buzzards (live)
• Called Back (live)
• Called Back, Called Back
• Cambodian Frog-Gigging
• Camille T. Dungy Full Messalonskee High School Reading
• Camille T. Dungy Full Reading at City Lights
• Camille T. Dungy at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, September 30, 2005
• Camille T. Dungy at Portland Public Library, April 7, 2006
• Can You
• Can You (live, Bowdoin)
• Canada
• Caravan
• Caravan (live)
• Carrie Jerrell Q&A on the form of her poem "The Country-Western Singer's Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California"
• Carving Your Future
• Cascades (live, 11/15/09)
• Casque Bleu
• Caution, Freight
• Celestial Mechanics
• Cephalic
• Certain Children in Central Park
• Certification
• Chattooga
• Cheerful Defense of the Realm
• Cheese Penguin
• Childhood
• Children Playing around the Monument to Lost Fisherman (live)
• Chimayo, New Mexico
• Chocolate Covered Apricots
• Chomp
• Christian Barter Full Bowdoin Reading
• Christian Barter Full Reading at Bates College
• Christian Barter at Bates College, November 1, 2007
• Christian Barter at Bowdoin College, May 4, 2006
• Christmas Soccer Game, 1915
• Chun Jiang (Spring River)
• Chun Jiang (Spring River) (in the original Chinese)
• Circle Shape
• Citrus City (live, Bates)
• Cleopatra’s Bra
• Closer to Texas
• Cloudburst (live)
• Clown Fish (live)
• Clutter
• Coastal Bop
• Cock Robin
• Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Cold Harbor: June 3, 1864
• Cold War
• Cole's Guitar (live)
• Colonization
• Colony
• Coma
• Come Hither
• Come You White Mare, Come Striding
• Coming into Lexington, Virginia
• Commandments
• Communication by the Remnants of Fire
• Condor Man
• Confession
• Confession
• Conjugating Opposites
• Conjurement
• Conquistador (live, PPL)
• Consider This Procession (live, City Lights)
• Consummatum Est (live)
• Contemporary American Hunger
• Contraction
• Contraction (live, 11/15/09)
• Coos Bay
• Corpus
• Correspondence
• Cottonlandia
• Coup-de-Soleil
• Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait
• Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait (live, Bowdoin)
• Couéism
• Cowrie Apostrophe
• Cradle-Song (live)
• Crazy Jane Meets a Bear
• Crossing to Chebeague: December in Casco Bay
• Crum Road, Lyons, MS
• Cuba Poem
• Cultural Scope
• Cultural Scope (live)
• Cultural Sellout
• Cultural Sitcom Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons (live)
• Cultural Sitcom; Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons
• Cultural Slut
• Cultural Slut (live)
• Cultural Soliloquy (live)
• Cultural Strumpet
• Cultural Strumpet (live)
• Cultural Stud
• Cybele
• DJ Spinoza Does Not Fight the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Che Bourashka (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Joseph Bédier (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper (live)
• Daisy Cutter
• Daisy Cutter (II)
• Dancing In Odessa
• Dancing In Odessa (live)
• Dancing Near a Body of Water
• Dark Chocolate
• David Cappella Q&A on his poem "After the Vision of Her Face"
• Daylight Savings Time
• Days of Me
• Dear Rumi (live)
• Dear Sirs (live, City Lights)
• Dear,
• Dearborn North Apartments
• Death and Taxus
• Death and Taxus (live, 9-07)
• December
• December 7, 1941
• Defenestrations
• Demeter, after
• Departure
• Design
• Design in America
• Destination
• Detour Ahead (live)
• Dewey Decimaling
• Diagnosis
• Diamond
• Dias Irae
• Dinah
• Dinah in the Box
• Dinah in the Box (live, MHS)
• Dinah in the Box (live, PPL)
• Diogenes
• Directions for Flight (live)
• Dirge in Canonical in Memoriam (live, 11/15/09)
• Dis
• Discouraged by Illness, Unsure How It Would Turn Out (live)
• Dissidence
• Distance
• Distance Between Desires
• Diva
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Four
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Nine
• Division
• Django in Hang-Zhou
• Dogs (live, Bowdoin)
• Doing Time
• Doll House (live)
• Dolores' Blues
• Dolphin Charter, Cape May, New Jersey (live, 9-07)
• Don't Start
• Doorstep Ecologist
• Doppelgänger (for Omaira Sánchez)
• Dostoyevsky's People (live, Bates)
• Double Dutch
• Down South, all it takes to be a church
• Down by the Old Mill Stream
• Drag King Manifesto
• Dressings
• Driftwood Fire
• Duende
• Duende (live)
• Early Memories of Singing in Shul
• Eastside Alphabetics
• Eating
• Eating Against a Wall
• Echo
• Echocardiogram
• Echolocation
• Ecology
• Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
• Elba
• Elegy for Daniel
• Elegy for a Long-Dead Friend
• Elegy for an Older Brother 1922
• Elegy for the End of the World
• Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments
• Ellingtonia
• Emaciation
• Empire
• Empire #1: Mirror
• Encased in Gé¹
• English B
• Entrance (live, Stanford)
• Enumeration
• Envoi
• Envoi (live)
• Epitaph (live, 9-07)
• Equilibrium
• Eric Visits His Father
• Escape Artist
• Eskimo whizzamajig
• Est, Est, Est
• Estuary (live, City Lights)
• Ethnogropher John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation (live, Sept. 2006)
• Eugene Ostashevsky at Bowdoin College, November 30, 2006
• Eulogy
• Eulogy (live)
• Euridice (live)
• Euterpe (live)
• Eve's Sestina for Adam
• Evenings at the Bob Cool (live)
• Every Other Day Aubade
• Everyone in the Story is Dead But Me (live)
• Everything Must Go
• Everywhere the Desert Met the Wind (live)
• Evie Shockley Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Evie asked about being in a poem (live)
• Ex-Ventriloquist on the Moor
• Exile
• Exile
• Exile (live)
• Eye
• Face Sheet
• Faggot: A Definition
• Fallen Through the Atmosphere
• Falling Asleep While Reading (live)
• Falling From the Tree of Heaven
• Family Gathering
• Family Plot
• Farm Wife
• Farmstead: Back Mountain Road
• Father
• Faulkner
• Fear of Wonder
• Female Scarecrow
• Fernando Pessoa, I Salute You All!
• Fever
• Fiction
• Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder
• Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder (live)
• Final Autumn
• Fire Ghazal (live)
• Firecracker
• Fireflies (live)
• Fireflies (live, 11/15/09)
• Fireflies at Midnight
• First Peepeesaurus (live)
• First Winter Storm
• Fish Crow
• Fish Head (live)
• Fishouse Live at City Lights
• Fixing the Life Watch
• Flagelliform #14
• Flash Forward with The Amistad Before Us in the Distance
• Flat American Waltz (live)
• Flies
• Flight (live)
• Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego (live)
• Flores Woman (live)
• Fog (live)
• Following Sea
• Football
• For Charles Mingus & That Ever-Living “Love Chant”
• For Llamas
• For Luck: A Seven Day Guide (live)
• For Maurice Sendak (live)
• For My Childhood Friend Derek who First Told Me I could Call Him Nigger (live, Bates)
• For Some Slight I Can't Recall (live, Colby)
• For the Boy Who Stepped From the Curb into the Sun
• For the Eighth Annual Celebration of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music, Purcellville, Virginia, November 1999
• For the Fifty Who Formed PEACE With Their Bodies
• For the Last American Buffalo
• For the Last American Buffalo (live)
• For the Puppets
• Foraging
• Foraging and Dodging (live)
• Forget Your Life
• Forgive me, Pumpkin, Gaither's true
• Fountain
• Fountain of Blood (live)
• Fourteener 279
• Fragments with Dusk in Them
• Freddie
• Free Samples
• Friends, I am Sick of the World (live, Bates)
• From Sokolniki
• From a Long Way Off (live)
• From the River's Edge
• From the Street Corner's Beat Up Boom Box (live, City Lights)
• Fugu Soup Blues
• Fugu Soup Blues (live)
• Full Moon, January Thaw (live, 9-07)
• Gabriel Fried Full Reading at Bates College, September 27, 2007
• Gabriel Fried at Bates College, September 27, 2007
• Gabriel Welsch Full Reading at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2007
• Gaither Memory #42
• Gaither Memory, Every Working Day
• Gallery
• Game One of the World Series with Your Father
• Garden
• Gardener’s Song
• Gas Lamp, 1893
• Gayatri Mantra (Ode to Strength) (live, 11/15/09)
• Gaydar
• Get Up, John
• Gilgamesh, In Fossil Relief
• Glory
• Gloss Upwards
• God Machine (live, Stanford)
• God Machine On Judgement (live, Stanford)
• Gods Like Naked Everythings
• Going Off the Deep End into Confectionery
• Going Outside to Find the Sky
• Gone Before
• Good Friday
• Grace Under Pressure
• Graffiti (live)
• Grass Isn't Mowed on Weekends
• Green Man Walking (live)
• Green Zone
• Gregory Pardlo & Gabriel Welsch at Bowdoin College, September 6, 2007
• Gregory Pardlo Full Reading at Bowdoin College, September 6, 2007
• Grendel's Brother
• Gretel Reconsiders
• Gretel in the Tunnel
• Grief Street
• Grown (live, Bowdoin)
• Guard Dog
• Guinea Pig
• Gun of Wishes
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Halved
• Hanging Around (live, City Lights)
• Harbor
• Hard Gardens
• Harm Reduction
• He Has a Name (live, 9-07)
• He Pays the Bill at the Sidewalk Cafe
• Hearing
• Hearing Child from a Deaf Household (live)
• Hearing Ilya Read for the First Time (live)
• Hearsay
• Heart
• Heaven Was Elsewhere (live)
• Heimweh
• Hello,
• Hemingway's House
• Her Eye
• Her Lover, Gone to Buy a Drink, Perhaps
• Her Sister
• Here
• Here Bullet (live)
• Here I Am
• Here, Bullet
• Heron (live)
• Hidden Spring
• Highway 61 Blues
• Hiroshima: A Panorama (August 1945)
• His Voice Had Grown Softer Each Day
• History Lesson, Part 3
• Hologram
• Home Brew
• Homeland (live)
• Homeroom
• Horn (live)
• Horse (live, Colby)
• Horse in the Dark
• Hot Chocolate
• Hotel Recamier
• Hour of Dawn
• Hours
• Housefire
• How It Is to Go On as One of the Not Chosen
• How Quickly He Went (live, PPL)
• How She Didn't Say It (live, PPL)
• How To Fall in Love With Your Father
• How do you stop the hurt of needing to breathe?
• How the Search Ended
• How to Fall in Love with Your Father (live, Bowdoin)
• Human Field
• Human Geography
• Hurricane
• Hymn
• Hypnosis
• I Am the Real Jesse James (live)
• I Canonize Dick Curran
• I Could Be Driving (live)
• I Could No Longer Play, I Could No Longer Play By Instinct (live, 11/15/09)
• I Demand That You Know My Flying (live)
• I Do Not Sleep For Sleep Is Like The Wind And Trees Amazed
• I Don’t Know How Many Souls You Have, My Feathered Fernando
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed
• I Missed the Parades This Week (live, City Lights)
• I Was Very Prolific
• I Will Love the Twenty-First Century
• I am not with June (live)
• I am the Real Jesse James
• I may not yet write (live)
• I will put it into words (live)
• Ian at the Waiters' Party, Out Behind the Barn, Bread Loaf
• Ideas Go Only So Far
• If Only this Baroque Music Could Go On (live, Bowdoin)
• If You Could See the Motorists' Gloves and Leathers!
• If you would or could not do/for yourself
• Ilya Kaminsky at Bowdoin College, February 2, 2006
• Imaginary Numbers
• Implications for Modern Life
• Improvisation
• In Arabic
• In High Demand
• In His Library (live, PPL)
• In Madrid
• In Medias Res
• In Our Life Watch
• In Our Time (formerly, Of Deafness)
• In Place of All the Poems about Departure, Lessons, and Ends
• In Praise of Laughter
• In Praise of Laughter (live)
• In Springfield, Oregon, I hung the state
• In Toni Morrison's Head
• In Utero (live)
• In the Binary Alleys of the Lion’s Virus
• In the Era of the Sentence Fragment
• In the Lining of My Father’s Mouth
• In the Manner of SD
• In the Manner of SD (live)
• In the Name of the People (live)
• In the Rain
• In the Romantic Longhand of the Night
• In the Tower District, Fresno
• In the Women’s Locker Room
• In vigil (2)
• Indian Song
• Infidelity
• Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza (live)
• Inoculation Time (live)
• Inside
• Insomnia
• Insomnia as Transfiguration (live)
• Inspiration
• Instructions for When You Feel That Your Head Is About to Explode
• Instructions for the End
• Instrument for Oversight
• Instrumentality (live)
• Insurance Man 1946
• Integration
• Intercontinental (To JFK)
• Into the Empty Woods
• Invention
• Invocation (live)
• Iowa
• Iron
• It Comes Down to This
• It Could Have Been the T, But I Think It Was the El
• It Starts at Birth (live, Bowdoin)
• I’ll Say It This Way
• James Hoch Q&A on becoming interested in poetry
• James Hoch Q&A on his poem The Court of Forgetting
• Jesus Saves
• Jimi Hendrix Postcard
• John 3:16
• John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July 1933 (live, Sept. 2006)
• Jorie Graham
• July
• July (live)
• Junior Goes Home
• Juniper (live, Colby)
• Just Before an April Full Moon: Life Not So Still
• Just One Insight
• K the Cyclist
• Kaddish for my Unborn Son
• Karma from Scratch (live)
• Kazim Ali at Bowdoin College, October 19, 2006
• Keeper
• Keepers (live, Stanford)
• Ken Burns poem
• Ken Norton as 'Mandingo'
• Ken Rumble Full Reading at UNC Greensboro
• Ken Rumble at UNC Greensboro, October 9, 2007
• Kevin A. González at Bowdoin College, November 16, 2006
• Killdeer
• Killing Bees (live, 9-07)
• Kingdom Animalia
• Kinky
• Knee-Deep in the Pacific
• Kristan clogged to Rocky Top
• Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock (live, Bates)
• Lamed: Ox Herding Lesson
• Landscape with Swallows
• Language Mixology
• Lapses
• Last Day with Mayflower
• Last Night's Dream (live)
• Last Night’s Dream
• Last Watch
• Late Autumn Wasp
• Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
• Late Winter
• Learning to Wait
• Leaving Saturn
• Left Eye Losing Sight
• Lents District
• Letter to Cain
• Letter to Cain (live, Stanford)
• Letter to a Stranger
• Libretto
• Life and Art (live)
• Life on the Prairie
• Lifejackets
• Lighthead's Guide to Addiction (live)
• Like Lizards
• Lilac Thieves
• Linda Trying on Clothes (live, Bowdoin)
• Lines Written Before the Day Shift
• Listening
• Litany
• Little Church
• Little Elegy
• Live Readings from the Fishouse Launch, Bowdoin College, April 30, 2005
• Live Readings, Bowdoin College, June 17, 2005
• Live at the Village Vanguard
• Live/Evil
• Lively in the Twilight with Abandoning Fleas (live)
• Living On Nothing But Honey And Smoke
• Living Room Altar
• Living Without (live)
• Living Without Memory
• Lobster
• Logger, 43, Divorced
• Loggers
• Look
• Look Again
• Looking at Satan (live)
• Loon Cove
• Losing A Memory
• Love
• Love
• Love Is Made of Images
• Love Poem
• Love is Scripted (live)
• Love like a stone
• Low Door (live)
• Lower Case i and j
• Luccia (live, 11/15/09)
• Lucy
• Lucy, Upon Hearing of Charles Schultz's Retirement...
• Lullaby
• Lullaby After Midnight
• Lullaby in SoMa for Paloma
• Luna Park
• Lying My Head Off
• Lyric Poet Disease (live)
• Mackerel Sky Elegy
• Mackerel Sky Elegy (live)
• Maestro
• Maestro (live)
• Making Love to You the Night They Take Your Father to Prison (live, Bates)
• Making the New Lamb Take (live)
• Mama's Work
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow (live, Colby)
• Manatee (live)
• Mandate
• Mangoes
• Many Are Called
• Marcelle (live, Bates)
• Marginalia on Our Bodies
• Maria Hummel Full Reading at City Lights
• Maria Hummel Full Reading at Stanford University
• Maria Hummel at Stanford University, November 2, 2005
• Marie Harris & Sebastian Matthews at Bowdoin College, September 14, 2007
• Marie Harris Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo
• Marina Tsvetaeva (live)
• Marriage
• Mary's Blood
• Matanzas
• Matriarch
• Matthew Shenoda Full Reading at City Lights
• McDonald's, Scottsboro, April, 1997
• Medussa to the Stones
• Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
• Melting
• Memorial Day
• Memory Awake
• Memory From A Bone Sample
• Mephista Recounts Her Past Lives, or Nanotechnology
• Mephista as the Desert Rose
• Messengers
• Metaphor
• Mid-Fall (live)
• Middle Fall
• Migration
• Migration
• Milledgeville Haibun
• Minister of Saudade (live)
• Minus
• Miracle Song (live, City Lights)
• Mirror 1: Mac and I Reflect on Distances
• Misbegotten
• Mise-en-scène (live)
• Miserableism
• Misty Blue (live, 11/15/09)
• Mohegan Sun (live, 11/15/09)
• Mohn des Gedächtnis
• Mom Thinks You're
• Monarch
• Monday means Moon Day, Sunday means
• Monster Theory
• More Matter, Less Art (live)
• Morning Poem of Sincerity, With Two Lines by a Four-Year-Old
• Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales
• Motionless forgetful music of women and men
• Movements (live)
• Movements (live, 11/15/09)
• Moving
• Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night (live)
• Mr. Thomas Asawa, the Man with Two Left Feet
• Much Laughter
• Mulatto Ego Remix
• Musica Humana
• Musica Humana (live)
• My Answer on Dissociation
• My Autopsy
• My Crucifixion
• My Dearest Regret,
• My Easter
• My Father's Leaving
• My First Lover Returns from Iraq
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, MHS)
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, PPL)
• My Letter of Introduction to God
• My Life as Orson Welles
• My Lovely Assistant
• My Lover Never
• My Magnifying Glass
• My Mother Tries to Quit (live)
• My Mother's Tango
• My Mother's Tango (live)
• My Only Golem
• My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task
• Myopia is Youropia (live)
• Mystery
• Myths of the Disappearance
• NASA
• Naming A Child
• Narrativity
• Nathaniel
• Nazbas
• Near the Heart of Happening
• Negative Gravity
• New British
• New Orleans
• New Year, New Hampshire, On the Occasion of the Inauguration of Craig Benson as the 79th Governor of New Hampshire, January 9th, 2003 (live)
• Next Door
• Nice World
• Nigger Street 1937
• Night Song (live, City Lights)
• Night Thoughts in Central Pennsylvania
• Night Walk
• Night in Blue (live)
• Night, for Henry Dumas
• No Bra Required
• No Surrender
• No Weeds, No Work
• Noah's Dove (live)
• Nobody Spared
• Nocturne
• Note to Slip in Your Pocket, Never Slipped
• Note to the New Owner (live)
• November
• November Neurosis (live)
• Novice
• Now Over the Empty Apartment
• Now the Lord said to DJ Spinoza (live)
• Numen
• NyQuil
• O, Lord, I Sit In My Own Ear, Humming (live, Bates)
• Oakland Work Crew
• Oakland Work Crew (live)
• Obsessions
• Ode to Bombs
• Ode to Quickies (live, 11/15/09)
• Ode to Rosa Parks
• Ode to the Perineum
• Ode to the Watermelon
• Ode: To Trees
• Of My Fury
• Of Night
• Of the Song Bird
• Off Vermont
• Off on a Tangent
• Oklahoma City: The Aftermath
• Oliver de la Paz & Evie Shockley at Bowdoin College, February 21, 2008
• Oliver de la Paz Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems
• On Having a Tour of the Cathedral
• On Hearing that you Feel Bad After Having Sex with Me (live, Bowdoin)
• On Making Love With You Again With Words Taken From an Article about Wilson's Quest to Form the League of Nations (live, Bowdoin)
• On This Side of Mercy
• On Two Scenes from The Deer Hunter
• On Winter Nights
• On the Bus
• On the Fenestra Ovalis
• On the Ground and Through the Clouds (live)
• On the Metaphor from the Yuima-kyo Which Says “This Body Is Like a Banana Tree” (live)
• On the Night of the Moths (live)
• On the Surprising Appearance of a Strange Priest in the Author's Dream during a Time of Arduous Practice (live)
• On the anniversary of the invasion
• Once I Could Say
• One (live)
• One Kiss (live, City Lights)
• One Man at a Time (live)
• One Morning
• Onion Field
• Onlookers with the Burned Body of Jesse Washington, Eighteen-Year-Old African American, Waco, Texas, 1916 (live)
• Only We Shed Tears
• Opera Singer (live, Bowdoin)
• Origin & Ash
• Oriole
• Ourselves Woo Yourselves, Pretty Bird
• Outside the Wake of a Friend's Father (live, Bowdoin)
• Oxygen Catastrophe (live)
• Painting Vacation
• Paloma’s Church in America
• Parable of the Moth
• Parable of the South Pole Buddha
• Parable of the peach
• Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle
• Passion
• Patience (live, Bowdoin)
• Patrick Donnelly Full Reading at UMaine Farmington
• Patrick Donnelly at UMaine Farmington, November 15, 2007
• Patrick Donnelly audience Q&A at UMaine Farmington
• Patrick Donnelly introduces his Japanese translations
• Patrick Donnelly introduces the last sequence of poems
• Patrick Rosal Full Reading at Bates College
• Patrick Rosal Full Reading at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• Patrick Rosal at Bates College, February 27, 2008
• Patriot Acts
• Pause (live, 9-07)
• Penance, West Virginia (live)
• Penelope at the Wheel
• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania (live)
• Pennsylvania (live, 9-07)
• Penumbra
• Peregrine Falcon, New York City
• Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls (live)
• Person, House, Tree
• Pharmaceutical
• Phosphenes and Entopics
• Physics
• Piccolo BLACK ART
• Picnic
• Pieta (live)
• Pig's Tail Tongue
• Pigment
• Pike Place (live)
• Pine Box
• Pip (live)
• Places You Wouldn't Believe
• Plainsong
• Plate 5
• Poem
• Poem
• Poem (live)
• Poem (live, Bates)
• Poem (live, Bowdoin)
• Poem Beginning With a Line Overheard In the Gym (live, Colby)
• Poem In Thanks
• Poem for Amadou Diallo
• Poem for My Extra Nipple (live, Bowdoin)
• Poem with Frogs
• Poem with Groucho Marx Refrains
• Poetry Doesn't Need You
• Polar
• Polar Explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville—1840
• Polar Explorer Matthew Henson, Assistant to Admiral Peary (1909)
• Pool
• Pore Tune
• Portion Given
• Possession: What the Devil Said
• Possession: What the Ear Said
• Post Script (live, Bowdoin)
• Post-Soviet Sestina (October 1996)
• Postscript
• Praising the Snake (live, Colby)
• Prayer
• Prayer After Refusing to Pray (live)
• Prayer For My Unborn Niece or Nephew (live, Colby)
• Prayer at the Gym (live)
• Prayer at the Opera
• Prayer for my Unborn Niece or Nephew (live, Bowdoin)
• Preacher Was a Stern Woman's Son (live, PPL)
• Prelude to a Saturday Night
• Preserves
• Preserves (live, 9-07)
• Pressing Business
• Pressing Business (live)
• Primer for Non-Native Speakers
• Priscilla Alden's Sickness
• Processional
• Prodigal Song
• Projection
• Prologue, Of God and Strangers (live)
• Prosthesis
• Psalm 146
• Public Transportation
• Pulse
• Pumpkin with a Thousand Faces (live, City Lights)
• Quagmire
• Queen Anne’s Lace in Contrast
• Quelquechose
• Questioning the White Cloud
• Questioning the White Cloud (in the original Chinese)
• Questions for Godzilla
• Quietus
• Quisiera Declarar
• Rabid Dog
• Rabid Dog (live)
• Radiator Heat
• Raisin (live, 9-07)
• Ramadan (live)
• Ravi Shankar Full Reading at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude
• Received Wisdom (live)
• Recipe for Success
• Recreation Center
• Red
• Red Light
• Red Poppy
• Redundant Feeling of Guilt
• Reform, Missouri
• Regrets Only, Not Much
• Relentless Soliloquy
• Relentless Soliloquy (live)
• Remember Me (live, City Lights)
• Remember the Cogito (live)
• Remembering our last meal in New York
• Renunciation
• Renunciation (live)
• Report on the Willows in a Time of Color
• Reprieve
• Reprieve (live)
• Reptilian
• Requiem
• Requiem (live, PPL)
• Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok (live)
• Restoring O'Keefe (live, 9-07)
• Restraint
• Resumé
• Retards
• Rethinking Regret
• Return to Mumbai
• Return to Nantucket
• Revision
• Revival
• Rex’s Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year’s Burn
• Rhyme (live)
• Riding with My Brother to the Dump
• Rigoberto González at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005
• Ritual
• River
• River (live, Colby)
• River Cleanup (live)
• Roller Coaster
• Room of the Orphans
• Rope
• Ropethrows
• Ross Gay Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Ross Gay at Bowdoin College, February 8, 2007
• Ross Gay at Colby College, February 7, 2007
• Roughnecks and Rakes One and All, the Poet Speaks to Her Subjects, Polar Explorers
• Rubber
• Safekeeping
• Saint Patrick (live)
• Salvation
• Sam Kee, I imagine...
• Sam and Morris
• Sand
• Sappho
• Sarah Messer Audience Q&A at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Sarah Messer Full Bowdoin Reading
• Sarah Messer at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Scarecrow Fair (live)
• Scarecrow Work
• Scene: a Loom
• Scent
• Scents of the Homelands
• School Years
• School Years (live)
• Scientific Inquiry
• Scold's Mask
• Screen Test, 1965
• Sea Watchers, Oil Paint on Canvas, 1952
• Seashell Poem
• Seasonal Poem
• Sebastian Matthews Full Reading at Bowdoin College
• Second Ending of the Fairy-tale
• Second Peepeesaurus (live)
• Seed
• Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize
• Selection of German Weapons Captured by the Canadians in Their Advance to Cabrai, 1918 (live, Bowdoin)
• Self Portrait in the Glass of a Painting (live, Bowdoin)
• Self-Portrait as the Letter Y
• Self-Portrait in 1970
• Self-Portrait with Cow
• Self-Portrait with Sadness, Wild Turkey, and Denis Johnson
• Self-Portrait with Taxidermy (live)
• Self-Portrait with a Balloon, Western Novel, and Duel
• Self-interrogation under a Full Moon above Il Campo Santa Maria Formosa
• Selling Out
• Sen Jak's Address to Storms
• Sent to Her Teacher Shôkû Shônin (live)
• Sent to Ise no Tayû on the Fifteenth of the Second Month in the Middle of the Night and An Answer (live)
• Sent with Her Father's Fan which the Empress Dowager Found when She Moved to the Palace at Higashi Sanjô (live)
• September 15, 1963
• Serviam
• Service Station, Tennessee (live, MHS)
• Servitude
• Servitude (live)
• Set
• Setting the Table
• Seven Penitential Psalms
• Seven Reasons for Divorce
• Sex Ed
• Shade Garden (live)
• Shadow Poem (live)
• Shaking Free of an Epiphany
• Shane Book Full Reading at City Lights
• Shanty (live)
• Shaping the Spoon
• She Liked the Moving Things Best
• She Put on Her Lipstick in the Dark (live)
• She, Named P___ At Birth, Speaks To Me, Says
• Sherman's march snaked through the South
• Sherwin Bitsui Full Reading at Colby College
• Sherwin Bitsui at Colby College, March 8, 2007
• Sherwin Bitsui at Portland Public Library, March 7, 2007
• Shh, Now
• Shouldering
• Shout Out
• Show It!!!
• Shrewd and Beautiful is My New York
• Sijo
• Silas Wright at Age Seven 1914
• Silence
• Silence Speaks (live, City Lights)
• Since Everyone Can Never Be Safe (live, City Lights)
• Sitcomposite, A Cento (live, 11/15/09)
• Site
• Site, IV
• Skaters of Corea Harbor
• Skin
• Skin (live)
• Sky Diving
• Skywalker (live)
• Slant, and Far Across the Sea
• Sleep Door (live)
• Sleeping Shark
• Slow Burn (live)
• Small Murders
• Small Murders (live)
• Snapshot
• Snow and Bottles for Wallace Stevens (live)
• Snow so silent
• Snowblind: Threnody for Glenn Gould and Thelonious Monk
• Snowdonia
• Solstice
• Solstice
• Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue (live, Colby)
• Some Moon
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something Vagabond Strokes the Furnance
• Song
• Song Song
• Song of a Mirror
• Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age Three, Worms (live, Colby)
• Sonogram
• Sooth Seers
• Sounds
• Sounds (live)
• Soundtrack
• Source
• Source (live)
• South of Hebron (live)
• Southern Crescent
• Spangling the Sea
• Spangling the Sea (live, 11/15/09)
• Speech
• Spirits at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
• Sports
• Squeal Like a Pig
• St. Patrick (live, Bates)
• Standard Plumbing (live)
• Stark Room
• Stark Room (live, City Lights)
• Starry Night
• Startled by Summer
• Startled by Summer (in the original Chinese)
• State of Emergency
• State of the Union (live)
• Steve Scafidi at Bowdoin College, September 22, 2005
• Still Life with Suicide
• Still Life with a Halter in Its Hand
• Stone
• Story Told While Pruning
• Story of Girls (live)
• Strangler Fig Trees
• String Solo (live, 11/15/09)
• Strokes
• Stuart Dischell Full Reading at UNC Greensboro
• Stuart Dischell at UNC Greensboro, September 27, 2007
• Studio (live)
• Stupid
• Suburban Passional
• Suburban Passional (live, 9-07)
• Sudden Poem for the Last Hour of Winter
• Sugaring Redux
• Suicide (As if Napping During Twilight)
• Sunset City
• Sure (live)
• Swear Words (live)
• Swimming in the Gulf
• Synaesthesia
• Synth Composite Basketball: No more Leather
• Table for One
• Taking a Punch
• Talbotton County, 1923
• Tallahassee These Days
• Tamil (live)
• Tar the Roof
• Target
• Taste
• Teaching 8th Grade Math
• Tell it Slant
• Ten-letter Word for Lucky Man (live)
• Tenderly
• Terrance Hayes Full Reading at UMaine Farmington
• Terrance Hayes at UMaine Farmington, September 20, 2007
• Tet: How The Two Become One
• Texas Poem
• The 167th Psalm of Elvis
• The 24th Motor Machine-Gun Battalion Being Inspected, 1917 (live, Bowdoin)
• The Abattoir (live, MHS)
• The Academic's Prayer (live)
• The Academic’s Prayer
• The Amplified World
• The Angel
• The Animal Groom
• The Animal Groom (live)
• The Annoying Questions at Parties (live, 9-07)
• The Astronomer, 1668
• The Author’s Breathing Stopped Suddenly (live)
• The Avacado (live)
• The Back Yard by Twilight
• The Barrel is Surely Coming Down the Hill
• The Basque Nose
• The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 (live)
• The Battlefield
• The Beautiful Animal
• The Bee of Was
• The Best Patton Performer (live)
• The Better Half of Man (live, Bowdoin)
• The Black Shawled Widows of Castillay Leon
• The Blue Baraka (live)
• The Blue Etheridge
• The Blue Grotto
• The Blue Room (live, Bates)
• The Blue Seuss
• The Blue Seuss (live)
• The Blue Terrance (live)
• The Boatloads
• The Boulevard Trilogy (live, Bowdoin)
• The Box
• The Brest-Litovsk Treaty (live, Bowdoin)
• The Bridesmaid
• The Bridge (live, Bates)
• The Brücke Choir
• The Bullet and Its Hunger (live, Bowdoin)
• The Burghers of Calais
• The Burning
• The Calendar We Live
• The Carnival
• The Chair
• The Circumcision (live)
• The City Vs. John Henry
• The Clothespin
• The Coming Mirrors
• The Country-Western Singer's Ex-Wife, Sober in Mendocino County, California
• The Court of Forgetting
• The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
• The Dark (live)
• The Day Before Fall on Palo Verde Drive
• The Dead Magician's Things
• The Disbelieving
• The Division
• The Dog
• The Early Days of Aviation
• The Egg Suckers
• The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues
• The Evangalist at a Distinct Advantage
• The Expensive View
• The Far End
• The Farrier
• The Fiddle and the Drum (live)
• The Field
• The Film
• The Fire of Despair
• The Flaw
• The Flight South of the Monarch Butterfly (live)
• The Flock's Reply (live)
• The Foothills
• The Fourth Madonna (live)
• The Future of Terror / 7
• The Gate to Everywhere (live)
• The Gem is on Page Sixty-Four
• The Girl With No Hands (live)
• The Green Man Walks Across America
• The Groom’s Cake
• The Guides (live)
• The House Below the Dam
• The Hurt Locker
• The Hurt Locker (live)
• The Ice Sculpture Exhibition
• The Ice Sculpture Exhibition (in the original Chinese)
• The Illusionist
• The Influence of Anxiety
• The Insomniac Ward
• The Lady of Mojácar
• The Lake Oswego Girls' Soccer Team at the Hilton Pool
• The Language of Guavas
• The Last DJ Spinoza (live)
• The Last Line
• The Latitudes of Desire (live)
• The Laugh of the Thief
• The Laugh of the Thief (live)
• The Long-Horns
• The Lost Sea
• The Lost Son (Luke 15.11-32)
• The Loudspeaker of the Poeple's Army
• The Love Story
• The Lovers of Paz y Pelea Bridge (live, Bowdoin)
• The Magician's View on the Efficacy of Marriage
• The Malagasy Say
• The Male Mantis
• The Man I Was Supposed To Be
• The Man Who Gives You Nightmares (live)
• The Man With Small Hands
• The Manassa Mauler
• The Marionette (live, Colby)
• The Martyrdom of Saint Porcine
• The Miniaturist
• The Miniaturist (live, 9-07)
• The Moment
• The Monkey Bars
• The Mortician’s Mortician
• The Mother's Ashes Reply (live)
• The Mushroom Hunt (live)
• The Music We Travel By (live)
• The Mute of Hounds (live)
• The Name
• The Necessary Bullet
• The Neighbor
• The New Garden
• The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles
• The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga
• The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (live)
• The Nobodies
• The Nobodies (live)
• The Novice Insomniac
• The Numbers Are Not In
• The Old Record
• The One
• The Opponent (live, Bates)
• The Opposite of Eden (live, City Lights)
• The Origin of the Specious
• The Oyster
• The Oyster Gatherer
• The Paperclip Salesperson Tells All (live, 9-07)
• The Pedestal
• The Phoenix
• The Phoenix (live, Bates)
• The Place Above the River
• The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children
• The Places We Knew Not to Go as Children (live)
• The Poet Prays to Her Radio for a Country Song
• The Poetic Route
• The Poetic Route (in the original Chinese)
• The Point (live)
• The Poppies
• The Pose
• The Preachers Eat Out
• The Preachers Eat Out (live, MHS)
• The Preachers Eat Out (live, PPL)
• The Premises of Grass
• The Prodigy
• The Puppet Maker
• The Reality Testing Booth
• The Recessional
• The Retrieval (live)
• The Return of Music
• The Rift (live)
• The Ring
• The River Cloud
• The Rivers' Mouth
• The Saddest Gown in the World
• The Same City (live)
• The School Bus (live, Bowdoin)
• The Sea Is Farther Than Thought
• The Searchers (live)
• The Secret Diaries of Robot
• The Shoes of Buddy Katsuda
• The Short Happy Life (live, Bates)
• The Sign at Window One
• The Sign at Window One (live)
• The Silence Shrouding the Country (live, Bowdoin)
• The Silver Arrow
• The Singers I Prefer
• The Singers I Prefer (live, Bates)
• The Singers I Prefer (live, Bowdoin)
• The Slaughterhouse (live)
• The Smell of Warm Grass, and Shakespeare’s Majestic Silence
• The Soldier of Mietlán (live)
• The Somnambulist
• The State of Virginia after Southampton: 1831
• The Statue
• The Studio
• The Sun Also Rises (live, Bates)
• The Telemarketer Calls Basho about a Cure for the Winter Blues (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls a Poet She’s Actually Heard Once Before on NPR to Talk to Him about Relief from the Burden of High Interest Credit Cards (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls the Merwin Household (live)
• The Telemarketer Calls the Merwin Household (live, 9-07)
• The Telemarketer Means to Call Baker About Erectile Dysfunction but, in a Misdial, Winds Up With Simic (live)
• The Telemarketer Means to Call Baker About Erectile Dysfunction but, in a Misdial, Winds Up With Simic (live, 9-07)
• The Thatcher's Old Wisdom
• The Thaw (live)
• The Third Reich Claims Neu Schwabenland — 1939
• The Third of May, 1808 (live)
• The Third of May, 1808 (live, 11/15/09)
• The Tightrope Walker's Childhood
• The Tongue
• The Truth
• The Truth (live, Colby)
• The Truth about the Way and the Life (live)
• The Turkey Hunter
• The Two-Dimensional Philosopher
• The Unborn (live, Stanford)
• The Unexpected Shoulder
• The Unraveller
• The Unruly Beloved Emu
• The Unworshipped Woman
• The Visions at Lascaux
• The Wait (live, City Lights)
• The Walnut
• The Water Makes Him
• The Wave
• The Way Tony Tsujimura Walked
• The Way We Were
• The Ways in Which Leave
• The Well-Groomed Otter Is Extremely Buoyant
• The Whale (live)
• The Wheel of the Bus: A Fiction
• The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready
• The Wild Pink
• The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer (live)
• The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for You (live, Bates)
• The i is a Cricket
• The light behind her head, the bright honeycomb of the sky
• The sun shines (live)
• The undeniable desire for physical contact among boys of a certain age
• Theft
• Theft (live)
• Their Names
• They Are Not Bits of Clockwork (live, City Lights)
• They Tell Me You Are Gone
• Thicket (live)
• Things Are Disappearing Here
• Things I've Forgotten (live, Bates)
• Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale
• Third Peepeesaurus (live)
• Third Shift
• This Is A Recording
• This Is How You Can Tell
• This Life (live, Bates)
• This Life (live, Bowdoin)
• This Might Be Real
• This Page (live)
• This Poetry
• This Time in the Sky (live)
• Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud's First Mention of Transference
• Thought at Night
• Thoughts on Early Arctic Explorers and Your Time in Churchill
• Three Addresses (live)
• Three Answers In Spring
• Tina Chang & Ravi Shankar at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Tina Chang Full Reading at Bowdoin College, November 15, 2007
• Tito's Field (live, Bowdoin)
• To Blackness
• To Certain Students
• To Ireland, To Bethlehem
• To Isabella (live)
• To See Letters
• To The Men Who Mow the County Graveyards
• To The Unborn (live, Bates)
• To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire
• To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire (live)
• To Zita, Patron Saint of Lost Keys (live)
• To a Horseshoe Crab
• To the (Heart) Horse
• To the Unborn (live, Bowdoin)
• Tommy Johnson
• Tonight I Doze
• Too Steep to Climb
• Totem
• Touch
• Tour
• Tracy K. Smith at Bates College, December 7, 2006
• Train Whistle
• Train to Paris
• Traveling Fair (live)
• Trees & Stars
• Trespass
• Trickster (live, Colby)
• Turning Forty: What I Say, What I Know
• Twelve Trees
• Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street (live, Bowdoin)
• Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street (live, Colby)
• Two Moments with Strangers
• Two Poems on the Sad Effects of Adultery (live)
• Two Video Installations
• Two-Hour Delay (live)
• Two-Pack Solitaire
• Tyehimba Jess Full Reading, Fishouse Launch, April 30, 2005
• Tyehimba Jess at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
• Ultrasound (live, City Lights)
• Umbilicus (live, PPL)
• Uncle John
• Unclean. Make me.
• Unclean. Make Me. (live, Colby)
• Uncommon Denominators
• Under the Veil of Wildness
• Underground Orchids
• Understanding Al Green
• Underwhelmed
• Undressing the Muse
• Unfinished Love Poem
• Unnamed Events
• Unraveling
• Unremembered
• Unsung (live)
• Untitled
• Untitled (live, Colby)
• Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased from the Blackboard Except the Word 'Save'
• V. Penelope Pelizzon & Patrick Rosal at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• V. Penelope Pelizzon Full Reading at Bowdoin College, April 19, 2007
• Vacation
• Vagrancy
• Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto
• Vanishing Armenia
• Vanitas: Camden Ferry (live, 9-07)
• Veranda Views (live, City Lights)
• Vigil
• Villa of the Mysteries (live, Bowdoin)
• Vision
• Void and Compensation (My ear, my Alabama, my Monk)
• Void and Compensation (Pug-nosed Dream)
• Void and Compensation (Stephon Marbury)
• Void and Compensation (Upanishads)
• Volcano
• Votech (live, PPL)
• WYSSA: Antarctica, 1961
• Waking Up (live)
• Waking to Timetables with Glaring Inconsistencies
• Walter B.'s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit
• Watching the News Hour
• Watershed (live, 9-07)
• We Generous
• We Lived Happily During the War
• We both drink the water; neither can describe its taste
• We're Sitting on Buildings
• Weasel in the Turkey Pen
• Wedding Dress
• Weighing Light
• West 16th Street
• Western Grebe
• What Every Soldier Should Know (live)
• What Happens
• What He Thought (live, Bowdoin)
• What Her Father Said
• What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk (live)
• What I Was Acquainted With Was Not Mine (live)
• What Is Sacred
• What Love Is
• What My Fathers Taught Me
• What Really Dies in Autumn
• What Will You Feed Them?
• What You Want (live, City Lights)
• What the news won’t tell
• When All of My Cousins Are Married
• When Are You Not
• When I missed the South the most
• When I was four, we drove to Nashville
• When You Haven't Made Love in a Long Time (live, Bowdoin)
• When You're Not Allowed to Daydream
• When it came time, I would leave the South
• Where Wires Tangle
• Where Wires Tangle (live)
• While an Old Clock Rang the Hour (live)
• White Shirt
• White Slip on the Paris Metro
• White Wolf
• Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry
• Who Wants to Know What Love is Worth? (live)
• Whom Beggars Call
• Whose Fragile Lips (live)
• Why I Crave Ribs Tonight
• Why I Crave Ribs Tonight (live)
• Why I Go To Bed Earlier
• Why I Live West of the Rockies
• Why Would We Not? (live, Bowdoin)
• Why the Marriage Failed
• Wife and Child Leave Mr. Walton Spanish Teacher
• Willard Pond (live)
• Wind In a Box (live)
• Winston, you were wrong (live)
• Winter Clock
• Winter Residency (live)
• With Her at All Times Ethel Nakano Carried a Sledgehammer
• With Samson's Strength In Mind
• Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other (live, Bowdoin)
• Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other (live, Colby)
• Wolf
• Wolf Prays at the Galaxy (live, Bates)
• Woman Walking on the Road
• World without end
• Worm Food (live, 9-07)
• Worn
• Writ
• Written on a Folded Piece of Paper during a Snowfall as the Author Was about to Enter the Priesthood (live)
• X-Factor
• Yankie My
• You (live)
• Your Event Horizon
• Your Own Finite Toes above a Small Tin Bath
• Your body'd gone
• Ysleta, Texas
• Yud: The Hand of God
• apples and oranges:                 an allegory
• atlantis made easy (live)
• ballad of bertie county
• being in the perfection of a jersey city july (live)
• black spoon
• black spoon (live, City Lights)
• black spoon (live, PPL)
• blank cassette
• bodas de sangre
• bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920 (live, Sept. 2006)
• called: Eurydice
• duck, duck, redux (live)
• fabulous ones
• five year sentence (live, April 2005)
• five year sentence (live, Sept. 2006)
• freedom (live, April 2005)
• freedom (live, Sept. 2006)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (four) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (one) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (three) (live, Bowdoin)
• from The Villa of the Mysteries (two) (live, Bowdoin)
• gamelan
• her table mountain (live)
• i-j
• im•per•a•tives
• in a non-subjunctive mood (live)
• innumerable ones
• it hurts/that what I mistook (live)
• it’s pouring
• laveau's sojourn
• leadbelly in angolo prison: down again (live, Sept. 2006)
• leadbelly sings to his #1 crew (live, Sept. 2006)
• leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934
• leadbelly's lessons (live, Sept. 2006)
• lifeline
• lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 (live, Sept. 2006)
• london bridge
• martha promise receives leadbelly (live, April 2005)
• martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935 (live, Sept. 2006)
• mistress stella speaks (live, Sept. 2006)
• mothafucka
• notes for the early journey
• owed to shirley chisholm (live)
• prelude to "Approaching Ice"
• sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, April 2005)
• sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, Sept. 2006)
• samuel johnson,
• seeing what awaited her, she took the ghost path home
• sing out (live, Sept. 2006)
• someone calls
• stella: diminuendo (live, Sept. 2006)
• sweet metal sweet
• the debt/I owe the breasts (live)
• the defense of marriage act, alternatives to (live)
• the gigans: iii.
• the gigans: ix.
• the gigans: v.
• the gigans: viii.
• the gigans: xi.
• the gigans: xii.
• the gigans: xvii.
• the gigans: xviii.
• the surreal life
• those that have just broken a flower vase
• what the water gave me
• winter
• write to the lights
• you can say that again, billie
• you must walk this lonesome (live)
• á table
• ‘Where-o-where is the Blues’ Blues
• “Dying Is An Art”