Anniversary by Lucille Clifton Because People Ask what my Daughter will Think of my Poems when She’s Sixteen by Beth Ann Fennelly Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2) by Joshua Bennett Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together by Nick Lantz Growing Old by David Harsent I Dreamed That I Was Old by Stanley Kunitz Looking Back in My Eighty-first Year by Maxine Kumin Names by Wendy Cope Our Minds Are Married, But We are Too Young by George Orwell The Vanity of Existence by Philip Freneau Two Set Out on Their Journey by Galway Kinnell [to the voice of the age] by Brenda Hillman
Famous Poets Langston Hughes Carl Sandburg John Keats Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Oscar Wilde Sylvia Plath Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe Amy Lowell Dorothy Parker Robert Hayden Theodore Roethke Siegfried Sassoon E. E. Cummings