january
- excerpt from Today/ Victoria Chang
- A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity / John Cage
- 11/ Lao-tzu, Translated from the Chinese by Red Pine
- Window 15/ Wendell Berry
- APRIL 2020, FROM MY WINDOWS/ Kleopatra Olympiou
- Interruption: An Assay/ Jane Hirshfield
- By my Window have I for Scenery (797) / Emily Dickinson
- Windows/Rachel Sherwood
- an excerpt from Over Time/ Martha Collins
- Window/Daniel G. Hoffman
- Arequipa/ Ben Okri
- The Brain — is wider than the Sky — (1863) J632/ Emily Dickinson
- an excerpt from Poem/ Shin Yu Pai
- To Opinion: An Assay/ Jane Hirshfield
- Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant/ Jane Hirshfield
- In Praise of Being Peripheral/ Jane Hirshfield
february
- Reverie in Open Air/ Rita Dove
- Aerial View/ Jericho Brown
- Medical History/ Nicole Sealey
- Monet Refuses the Operation/ Lisel Muller
- Reverie in Open Air/ Rita Dove
- In Praise of Darkness / Jorge Luis Borges
- I Heard a Fly Buzz/ George Bilgere
march
- Musée des Beaux Arts/ W.H. Auden
- [My favorite time is in time’s other side]/ Etel Adnan
- Door/ W.S. Merwin
- A Bell Is a Bearer of Time/ ALISON C. ROLLINS
- Late-Night Inquiry/ Charles Simic
- All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer/ Brigit Pegeen Kelly
- Prayer of a Nonbeliever/ Tim Raphael
- When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows/ Paige Lewis
- Littlefoot, 32/ Charles Wright
- The Bluet/ James Schuyler
- Red Shoulder Hawk/ Ciona Rouse
- Raining, Outlined/ Margarita Pintado Burgos
april
- Raining, Outlined/ Margarita Pintado Burgos
- The Squatting Sun/ Nikky Finney
- Beaufort Poem Scale/ Alice Oswald
- When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Alongside/ Donika Kelly
- Small Song/ A. R. Ammons
- How to Look at Pictures/ Rebecca Morgan Frank
- from Three Songs/ Mary Oliver
- Vermeer / Tomas Tranströmer
- Dementia/ Naomi Cohn (2008)
- So This is Nebraska / Ted Kooser
- A Gray Thought/ James Schuyler (1972)
- Six Notes / David Baker
may
- Life On Earth/ Dorianne Laux
- Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber/ Diane Seuss
- Still Life with Turkey/ Diane Seuss
- November/ Marianne McNamara (2009)
- 44 Questions to Ask While Bingeing/ Kemi Alabi
- Mugged By Poetry/ Dorianne Laux
- Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt/ Jorie Graham
- To a Friend Going Blind/ Jorie Graham
- Evening/ Jeremy Radin
- The Painters/ Muriel Rukeyser
- from After the Grand Perhaps/ Lucie Brock-Broido
- from Periodic Table for Ethereal Elements/ Lucie Brock-Broido
- Losing Language/ Victoria Chang
- The Flight / Victoria Chang
- In the Open/ Victoria Chang
- Late Wonders/ Victoria Chang
- The Time of Shadows/ Victoria Chang
june
- Legacy/ Diane Seuss
- Making Life on a Palette/ Raina J. León
- Morning Glories/ Ted Kooer
- Tattoo/ Wallace Stevens
- an excerpt from Mz N: the serial/ Maureen N. McLace
- Barton Springs/ Tony Hoagland
- Sea Sonnet/ Alice Oswald
- blessing the boats/ lucille clifton
july
- The Skies can’t keep their secret!/ Emily Dickinson
- from The Ponds/ Mary Oliver
- The Locust/ Leonara Speyer
- Mount Grace Priory/ G.C. Waldrep
august
- from Gave/ Cole Swensen
- The Messenger/ Mary Oliver
- Mountains/ Alice Oswald
september
- Fullness/ Edward Salem
- Pain–has an Element of Blank–/Emily Dickinson
- Anagrammer/ Peter Pereria
- Still Water/ Patricia Fargnol
- On a Walk/ Heather Christle
- In the Days of Prismatic Color/ Marianne Moore
october
- Jaws/ Emma Hine
- To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse/ Burlee Vang
- At the End, There Is Always a House / Sara Eliza Johnson
- Housekeeping/ Natasha Trethewey
november
- Configuration/ A.R. Ammons
- The Enchanted Bluff/ Carl Phillips
- Breathe Deep and Sing/ Gwen Westerman
- Night Comes and Passes Over Me/ Carl Phillips
- Surfaces/ Kay Ryan