Good poems, American places

On the Road

A Warm Summer

The Place Where we Were Naked

City Life

2X2X2

A Comforting Immensity

A Sort of Rapture

On the Avenue

Snow

Residential

Good Work

Out West

Show Business

Ocean Brine

Never Expected to be There.

Poets include: Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Rick Agran -- Debra Allbery -- Ellen Bass -- Jeffrey Bean -- June Beisch -- Wendell Berry -- George Bilgere -- Michael Blumenthal -- Robert Bly -- Laure-Anne Bousselaar -- Jon Bowerman -- Marcia F. Brown -- Philip Bryant -- David Budbill -- Charles Bukowski -- Reid Bush -- Julie Cadwallader-Staub -- Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Raymond Carver -- Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues) -- Michael Chitwood -- Amy M. Clark -- Billy Collins -- Nancy Couto -- Barbara Crooker -- Edward Denham -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickenson -- Kirsten Dierking -- Gregory Djanikian -- Susan Donnelly -- Stephen Dunn -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Snowstorm) -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Edward Field -- James Finnegan -- Chris Forhan -- Sarah Freligh -- David Lee Garrison -- Dobby Gibson -- Allen Ginsberg (A strange new college in Berkeley) -- Dana Gioia -- Natalie Goldberg -- Charles Goodrich -- Alvin Greenberg -- Linda Gregg -- John Haag -- John Haines -- Donald Hall -- Barbara Hamby -- Patricia Hampl -- W. C. Handy (Beale Street Blues) -- Phebe Hanson -- C. G. Hanzlicek -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Jim Harrison -- Robert Hass -- Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Tom Hennen -- Nancy Henry -- Edward Hirsch -- John Hollander -- Bill Holm -- Garrett Hongo -- Marie Howe -- David Huddle -- Robinson Jeffers -- Louis Jenkins -- Gary Johnson -- Rodney Jones -- Jessica Joyce --

Julia Kasdorf

Meg Kearney

Jane Kenyon

Galway Kinnell

August Kleinzahler

William Kloefkorn

Ron Koertge

Ted Kooser

Maxine Kumin

Donald Justice

Charlie Langdon

Gary L. Lark

Dorianne Laux

Emma Lazarus (Long Island Sound)

Eleanor Lerman

Philip Levine

Brad Leithauser

Gerald Locklin

Jeanne Lohmann

Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Phillip Lopate

Freya Manfred

Dan Masterson

Sebastian Matthews

William Matthews

Linda McCarriston

Dawn McDuffie

Wesley McNair

W. S. Merwin

Corey Mesler

Carolyn Miller

Mark J. Mitchell

Robert Morgan

Malena Mörling

Howard Moss

Howard Nemerov

William Notter

Naomi Shihab Nye

Debra Nystrom

Sharon Olds

Sheila Packa

Grace Paley

Greg Pape

Linda Pastan

Alice N. Persons

Marge Piercy

Katha Pollitt

Barbara Ras

James Reiss

Kenneth Rexroth

Theodore Roethke

John Santayana

May Sarton

Ellie Schoenfeld

Philip Schultz

Anne Sexton

Harvey Shapiro

Faith Shearin

Julie Sheehan

Deborah Slicer

W. D. Snodgrass

Gary Snyder

William Stafford

Ellen Steinbaum

Terry Stevenson

Joseph Stroud

Joyce Sutphen

May Swenson

James Tate

Sara Teasdale

James Tracy

David Tucker

John Updike

Mona Van Duyn

David Wagoner

Ronald Wallace

Julene Tripp Weaver

Fred Weil Jr.

Walt Whitman

Reed Whittemore

Anne Pierson Wiese

C. K. Williams

William Carlos Williams

Christopher Wiseman

Vincent Wixon

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Baron Wormser

Charles Wright

James Wright

Kevin Young.