Love Poetry Out Loud
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“A Girl in a Library,” from The Complete Poems, by Randall Jarrell. Copyright © 1969 and renewed 1997 by Mary von S. Jarrell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Bearded Oaks,” from Selected Poems 1923–1975, by Robert Penn Warren. Copyright © by Robert Penn Warren. Reprinted by permission of William Morris Agency, Inc. on behalf of the author.
“Coral,” from Collected Poems: 1948–1984, by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Down, Wanton, Down!” from Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. Copyright © 1966 by Robert Graves. Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
“Fire and Ice,” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1916, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1964 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright © 1936, 1944 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
“For an Amorous Lady,” from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, by Theodore Roethke. Copyright © 1936 by Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
“December at Yase,” from The Back Country, by Gary Snyder. Copyright © 1968 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Freedom,” by Jan Struther. Copyright © 1938 by Jan Struther. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of Jan Struther.
“Good Morning, Love!” from The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn, edited by Edith Jarolim. Copyright © 1985 by Joan Blackburn. Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc. (NewYork).
“Good Night,” by W. S. Merwin. First published in the New Yorker, May 2, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted by permission of the Wylie Agency.
“Her Lips Are Copper Wire,” from Cane, by Jean Toomer. Copyright © 1923 by Boni & Liveright, renewed 1951 by Jean Toomer. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
“Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” from Collected Poems 1937–1971, by John Berryman. Copyright © 1989 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“I, Being Born a Woman,” from Collected Poems (HarperCollins), by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright © 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, Literary Executor.
“I Will Not Let Thee Go,” from Poetical works of Robert Bridges, by Robert Bridges. Copyright © 1936 by Robert Bridges. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
“Juke Box Love Song,” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, by Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Letter Home,” from New and Selected Poems 1974–1994, by Stephen Dunn. Copyright © 1994 by Stephen Dunn. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
“Litany,” from Nine Horses, by Billy Collins. Copyright © 2002 by Billy Collins. Reprinted by permission of Random House.
“Lonely Hearts,” from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, by Wendy Cope. Copyright © 1986 by Wendy Cope. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
“Love Poem,” by Connie Voisine. Originally published in Slate. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Love Portions,” from The Woman I Kept to Myself, by Julia Alvarez, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Copyright © 2004 by Julia Alvarez. Reprinted by permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York. All rights reserved.
“Love Song,” from The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright © 1926 and renewed 1954 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
“Love Song: I and Thou,” from Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, by Alan Dugan. Copyright © 2001 by Alan Dugan. Reprinted by permission of Seven Stories Press, www.sevenstories.com.
“Love under the Republicans (or Democrats),” by Ogden Nash. Copyright © 1930 by Ogden Nash. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
“Love: Two Vignettes,” from Selected Poems 1923–1975, by Robert Penn Warren. Copyright © by Robert Penn Warren. Reprinted by permission of William Morris Agency, Inc. on behalf of the author.
“Lullaby,” from Collected Poems, by W. H. Auden. Copyright © 1940, 1968 by W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Meeting and Passing,” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1916, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1964 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright © 1936, 1944 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
“Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments,” from Collected Poems, 1917–1982, by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
“Poem (for Marie),” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996, by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.
“Poem for Sigmund,” from Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence, by Lorna Crozier. Copyright © 1988 by Lorna Crozier. Reprinted by permission of McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
“Portrait of a Lady,” from Collected Poems: 1909–1939, Volume 1, by William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Pucker,” from Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, by Ritah Parrish. Copyright © 2000 Ritah Parrish. Reprinted by permission of Manic D Press, San Francisco.
“Resignation,” from The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1968, 1972, 1974, 1976 by Nikki Giovanni. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Since the Majority of Me,” from Collected Poems, by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1988, 2003 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LIC, and Faber and Faber Ltd.
“Sleeping with You,” from Collected Poems 1953–1993, by John Updike. Copyright © 1993 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond,” from Collected Poems, by e. e. cummings. Copyright © 1923, 1925, 1938, 1951, 1954, 1959 by e. e. cummings. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
“Sources of the Delaware,” by Dean Young. Originally published in First Course in Turbulence, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Dean Young. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Still Looking Out for Number One,” from All of Us: The Collected Poems, by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1996 by Tess Gallagher. Introduction copyright © by Tess Gallagher. Editor’s preface, commentary, and notes copyright © 1996 by William L. Stull. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Symptom Recital,” from The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright © 1926 and renewed 1954 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
“Taking Off My Clothes,” from Gathering the Tribes, by Carolyn Forché”. Copyright © 1976 by Carolyn Forché. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.
“The Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style,” from The Collected Poems and Epigrams of J. V. Cunningham, by J. V. Cunningham. Copyright © 1971 by J. V. Cunningham. Reprinted by permission of Swallow Press/Ohio University Press (Athens, Ohio), www.ohiou.edu/oupress/.
“The Changed Man,” from Spinach Days, by Robert Phillips. Copyright © 2000 by Robert Phillips. Reprinted by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.
“The Greeting,” from The Greeting, by R. H. W. Dillard. Copyright © 1981 by R. H. W. Dillard. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Light,” from Like Wat
er for Chocolate, by Common. Copyright © 2000 by Bobby Caldwell, Norman Harris, Lonnie Lynn, Bruce Malament, and Jimmy Yancey. Reprinted by permission of Bendan Music (ASCAP), Bobby Caldwell Music/The Music Force LLC, Songs of Universal/Senseless Music Inc. (BMI), and Universal-Polygram Interational/EPHCY (ASCAP).
“The Lingam and the Yoni,” from Collected Poems 1930–1970, by A. D. Hope. Copyright © 1966, 1969, 1972 by A. D. Hope. Reprinted by arrangement with A. D. Hope, care of Curtis Brown (Aust) Ptv Ltd.
“The Rival,” from Ariel, by Sylvia Plath. Copyright © 1962 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber and Faber Ltd.
“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter,” from Personae, by Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Then Came Flowers,” from The Yellow House on the Corner, Carnegie Mellon University Press, copyright © 1980 by Rita Dove. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“To an Usherette,” from Collected Poems 1953–1993, by John Updike. Copyright © 1993 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Variations on the Word Love,” from Selected Poems 1966–1984, by Margaret Atwood. Originally published in True Stories. Copyright © 1981 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of the author and Oxford University Press.
“Wet,” from Mars and Her Children, by Marge Piercy. Copyright © 1992 by Middlemarsh, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
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