January
- Abstract/ Todd Dillard
- Disclosure/ Camisha L. Jones
- 2 Mississippi/ Steve Healey
- The Spider/ Heather Christle
- Living in the Body/ Joyce Sutphen
- HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Did Rise/ Jessica Rae Bergamino
- TEN YEARS LATER MY HUSBAND WALKS OUT OF THE WOODS/ Emily Pérez
- Pine/ Susan Steward
- Singularity/ Marie Howe
- Love/ Alex Dimitrov
- Occasional Poem/ JACQUELINE WOODSON
- Blue/ ROBERT L. JONES
- Some Waynes/ WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH
- excerpt from Ode to a Blizzard/ TOM DISCH
- Lines for Winter/ DAVE LUCA
- Natural Forces/ Vicente Huidobro
- MAKING LISTS/Imtiaz Dharker
- Thrown away/ Imtiaz Dharker
February
- Lost/ David Wagoner
- Because my grief was a tree/ Nicky Beer
- Brian Age Seven/ Mark Doty
- I Heart Your Dog’s Head/ Erin Belieu
- A Study in Eventuality/ Cristina Correa
- Threshold/ Maggie Smith
- Five Flights Up/ Elizabeth Bishop
- What Kindergarten and Partial Hospitalization Have in Common/ IZZY CASEY
- Notes on Un-Apology/ Erin Slaughter
- The Blink Reflex/ Rick Barot
- The Work of Happiness/ May Sarton
- Ash/ Tracy K. Smith
- Can You Imagine?/ Mary Oliver
- My Weather/ Jane Hirshfield
- Diana Khoi Nguyen/ Tripthych
- A Skull/ Dana Levin
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again/ Craig Morgan Teicher
- Eye Contact/ Craig Morgan Teicher
- OBIT [Memory]/ Victoria Chang
- Unwished For/ Shira Erlichman
March
- I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)/ Emily Dickinson
- Just As The Calendar Began to Say Summer/ Mary Oliver (Long Life)
- Breakage/ Mary Oliver
- The Real Prayers are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First/ Mary Oliver
- Auto-lullaby/ Franz Wright
- TO CAST/ Yesenia Montilla
- Tell all the truth but tell it slant/ Emily Dickinson
- “Faith” is fine invention (202)/ Emily Dickinson
- Slam, Dunk, & Hook/ Yusef Komunyakaa
- Goodbye to Tolerance/ Denise Levertov
- LOVESONG OF THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE/ Richard Siken
- Small Kindnesses/ Danusha Laméris
- Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese/ Benjamin Garcia
- Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)/ Dante Di Stefano
- Wind/ Florida Watts Smyth
- Who Has Seen the Wind?/ CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
- POEM WHITE PAGE WHITE PAGE POEM/ from Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Gates”
- Fool’s Gold/ Ted Mathys
April
- Rain, New Year’s Eve/ Maggie Smith (from Good Bones)
- Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry/ Howard Nemerov – 1920-1991
- BREATH/ Lee Potts
- Poem/ Charles Bernstein – 1950-
- from “The Victorious Ones”/ Chris Nealon
- Social Distancing/ Juan Phillipe Herrera
- Things I Didn’t Know I Loved/ Nazim Hikmet – 1902-1963
- Pandemania/ BY DANIEL HALPERN
- Song of a Second April/ Edna St. Vincent Millay – 1892-1950
- Dust/ Dorianne Laux
- Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale/ Dan Albergotti
- To make a prairie (1755)/ Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886
- In the name of the Bee –/ Emily Dickinson
- ABC/ Robert Pinsky
- Disorderly Abecedarian 2: Return/ Devon Miller-Duggan
- from Maud (Part I)/ ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
- I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense/ Danez Smith
- Dear One Absent This Long While/ Lisa Olstein
May
- ANTHEM/ Aaliya Zaveri
- Ode to My Right Knee/ Rita Dove
- WATER/ Li Young-Lee
- Magdalene—The Seven Devils/ Marie Howe
- May/ Jonathan Galassi
- I Am Learning To Abandon the World/ Linda Pastan
- [the snow is melting]/ BY KOBAYASHI ISSA, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HASS
- ADVICE FROM A BAT/ Michael T. Young
- Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]/ Walt Whitman
- Push the button, hear the sound/ HELEN MORT
- I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses/ Diane Seuss
- Eyesight/ A.R. Ammons
- What Kind of Times Are These/ ADRIENNE RICH
June
- Resistance/ TRACI BRIMHALL
- Mirror/ Rita Dove
- Voiceover/ Rita Dove
- I dwell in Possibility – (466)/ EMILY DICKINSON
- Perhaps you tire of birds/ Donika Kelly
- Self-Portrait as a Door/ Donika Kelly
- truth/ GWENDOLYN BROOKS
- O/ Chaire Wahmanholm
- HUMMINGBIRD ABECEDARIAN/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- The Stuff Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth/ Patricia Smith
- won’t you celebrate with me/ Lucille Clifton
- A Lecture on Aphids/ Charles Goodrich
July
- eyeye/ Aram Saroyan
- Poem Recognizing Someone in the Street/ Aram Saroyan
- The World Has Need of You/ Ellen Bass
- I Go Down To The Shore/ Mary Oliver
- Ars Poetica/ Aracelis Girmay
- Memorizing “The Sun Rising” by John Donne/ BILLY COLLINS
- Nothing/ Krysten Hill
- Proverbs and Canticles/ Antonio Machado
- Abecedarian For the Future/ Ada Limón
- What Issa Heard/ David Budbill
- Goshen/ Ruth Stone
- Eyes/ Laura Riding Jackson
- Grasshopper/ Ted Kooser
- The Early Bird/ Ted Kooser
- The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
- A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)/ EMILY DICKINSON
- Wintergreen Ridge /Lorine Niedecker
August
- TIME FOR SERENITY, ANYONE?/ William Stafford
- from Song of the Open Road/ Walt Whitman
- When You Walk Over the Earth/ Katie Farris
- My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun (764)/ EMILY DICKINSON
- Listening/ Elizabeth Hoover
- Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout/ GARY SNYDER
- Vertigo/ LES MURRAY
- The Grackle/ Ogden Nash
September
- September First Again/Phillis Levin
- THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO/Walt Whitman
preface to Leaves of Grass - Wind in the Grass/ Mark Van Doren
- further & further/ Lauren Holden
- ODE TO THE LETTER B / Aracelis Girmay
- An Old-Fashioned Song/ John Hollander – 1929-2013
- LEAF HUTS AND SNOW HOUSES/ Olav Hauge
- Optometrist/ Sun Yu Pai
- Les Étiquettes Jaunes/ Frank O’Hara
- Holmes Lake/ Jessica Poli
October
- October/ ROBERT FROST
- First Leaf/ Lia Purpura
- Leaves/ Lloyd Schwartz
- Corsons Inlet/ A. R. Ammons
- Ode to the Head Nod/ Elizabeth Acevedo
- Logic/Richard Siken
- Wrong Side of the River/ Stanley Plumly
- The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy/ Yehuda Amichai
- Snow flakes. (45)/ Emily Dickinson
- Beginning/ JAMES WRIGHT
- My Doubt/ Jane Hirshfield – 1953-
- Black Cat/ Rainer Maria Rilke
November
- A Rogue Dream/ Melanie Figg
- The Copper Beech/ MARIE HOWE
- Wind/ Emily Dickinson
- In the Event of My Death/ Katie Farris
- In the Evening/ William Reichard
- Praise Song for the Day/ ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
- A Divine Image/ William Blake
- The Fly/ William Blake
- Cold Morning/ Eamon Grennan
December
- What Things Want/ Robert Bly – 1926-
- In drear nighted December/ John Keats – 1795-1821
- A woodpecker’s/ PHILIP GROSS
- Real Estate/ Richard Siken
- In Wiry Winter/ James Schuyler
- The Guest House/ Rumi
- How It Happens/ W.S. Merwin
- ABECEDARIAN FOR THE DANGEROUS ANIMALS/ Catherine Peirce