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my poetry collection
updated 10.29.25
Bridge Poem
by John Ashbery
On Hedonism
by Anne Carson
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rilke
Tackle Football
by Dave Chiasson
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car
by Dan Pagis
Borderline Mambo
by Rita Dove
Are You Going To Stay?
by Thomas Meyer
After Skate
by Carol Muske-Dukes
The Young Man's Song
by W.B. Yeats
Other poems I have available include:
"Rain" by Joy Harjo;
"
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
" and "
Preludes
" by T.S. Eliot;
"
The Second Coming
," "
A Drinking Song
," and "
An Irish Airman forsees his Death
" by Yeats;
"
The Tyger
" by William Blake;
"
Dirge Without Music
" by Edna St. Vincent Millay;
"
The Two-Headed Calf
" by Laura Gilpin;
"
The Last Known Sighting of the Mapinguari
" by Traci Brimhall;
"
Gooseberry Fool
" by Amy Clampitt;
"
How Do I Love You?
" by Mary Oliver;
"
[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
" by Bernadette Mayer;
"
I have to tell you
" by Dorothea Grossman;
"
Poem (External Scene)
" by Dan Beachy-Quick;
"
Pornography
" by Richard Siken;
"
Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
" by Matthew Olzmann;
"
Goodtime Jesus
" by James Tate;
"
Essay on the Bathroom Floor
" by an unknown author;
"
Everyone calls me their husband
" by Séamus Fey;
"
30 Second Play
" presumably by Dalton Day;
"
Kissing in Vietnamese
" by Ocean Vuong;
"
We Lived Happily During the War
" by Ilya Kaminsky;
"
July in Appalachia
" and "
Rural Boys Watch The Apocalypse
" by Keaton St. James;
an
anonymous love poem
to someone who looks high;
an
excerpt from Primer
by Aaron Smith;
"
Lluvia pasada
" and "
Del arrabal
" by Alfonsina Storni;
"
Hombres necios que acusáis
" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz;
"
Yo soy un hombre sincero...
" by José Martí;
"
Puedo escribir los versos más triste esta noche
" by Pablo Neruda;
some
love poems
, and
and some poems by my friends.
(A poem about alien abduction
by my friend from outer space,
some poems by my friend who is a cowboy:
a letter
,
"
Beyad'cha Afkid Ruchi
,"
a lament of talking
,
a love poem to a mountain
,
a poem about sleeping over
,
a shooting in 15 acts
,
and some poems by my friend who is a sailor:
"
When the War Comes to Chicago
,"
"
California I & II
,"
"
I cross the horizon at the end of the world on Highway 20
,"
a response to the cowboy's lament
,
a poem drafted on a bike ride
,
and
a musing on perfectionism
.)