Poet's choice

Nightingales / Jorge Luis Borges -- God's grandeur ; Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Caemon's hymn -- Caedmon / Denise Levertov -- Olympian odes: Pindar ; Bacchylides -- The Greek anthology -- Sappho (fragment 31) -- The poet as maker / F. T. Prince -- The Ars poetica / Blaga Dimitrova -- The bardic order / Eavan Boland -- Aztec poets: Nezahualcoyotl, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin -- Riddles / Daniel Hoffman, Ella Bat-Tzion, Eytan Eytan -- Charms / Thomas Campion, Kathy Fagan -- Lines: 'I am' / John Clare -- Christmas poems / Thomas Hardy, Robert Fitzgerald -- Rooms ; The call / Charlotte Mew -- Cuchulain comforted / W. B. Yeats -- Rabindranath Tagore, final poems -- Night of terror ; The bosses of Rome / Giuseppe Belli -- In memory of / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Sit the noon out... ; The eel / Eugenio Montale -- The panther ; The gazelle / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Self-portraits: Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Bidart -- The saying / Ernst Stadler -- Butterfly / Nelly Sachs -- Women and war: After every war -- The beggar woman of Naples ; The yellow star again / Max Jacob -- Insomnia / Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva -- Opened my veins... / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Incantation by laughter ; Russia, I give you... / Velimir Khlebnikov -- May 24, 1980 / Joseph Brodsky -- Gift / Czeslaw Milosz -- A flame ; Fire ; A quick poem / Adam Zagajewski -- Nothing is lost / Tomaz Salamun -- A wake for the living / Radmila Lazic -- Shema / Primo Levi -- Blessed are they who sow and do not reap... / Avraham Ben Yitzhak -- Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky -- Letter of recommendation ; My father's Memorial Day / Yehuda Amichai -- J'Accuse / Aharon Shabtai -- Abd El-Hadi fights a superpower / Taha Muhammad Ali --

Here there was once a country / Venus Khoury-Ghata

Thomas Lux, Saadi Youssef / Protest poetry

Sad toys / Ishikawa Takuboku

Garden fragrance ; Night harvest ; Summer / Lam Thi My Da, Zuan Quynh

My heart can't go on any longer / Miguel Hernandez

The black heralds ; Mass / Cesar Vallejo

Suffering / Rudolph Muller, Cesar Vallejo

Self-naming / Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cesar Vallejo

Body of a woman / Pablo Neruda

Roller coaster ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra

To Eros ; To my lady of poetry / Alfonsina The enigmas / Jorge Luis Borges

Between going and staying / Octavio Paz

Seawall / Julia de Burgos

Contemporary Mexican poets (Reversible monuments)

Sleep and poetry / Mary Ruefle, Maria Negroni

Praise of a collie / Norman MacCaig

The disguises / P. K. Page

Spell of creation / Kathleeen Raine

Waste land limericks / Wendy Cope

Still life / Thom Gunn

To E. T. ; The owl / Robert Frost ; Edward Thomas

Arabic / Agha Shahid Ali

It's me, I'm not home ; Lullaby / Reetika Vazirani

Reading / C. K. Williams, Wallace Stevens

Birth poems / John Berryman, Lee Upton

The poet as mother / Kate Daniels, Kathleen Ossip

The runner / Allen Grossman

The portrait / Stanley Kunitz

Childhood / Robert Hayden

The flag of childhood / Naomi Nye

Grandparents: Lorine Niedecker, Li-Young Lee

Ichabod! / John Greenleaf Whittier

Baseball / Richard Hugo

The American prose poem / Russell Edson

The banner bearer / William Carlos Williams

The taxi / Amy Lowell

Psalm / George Oppen

Yom Kippur: Jacqueline Osherow

Psalms / Brooks Haxton.