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Poems

• Lower Manhattan Pantoum
• The Man With Large Hands
• "Acony Bell"
• "The man who approached me in the theatre lobby and asked,
• 'like a girl saying yes'
• (The day spools up its turbines of light)
• (The first sturdy bee)
• (To crave what the light does crave)
• 1. Coming In
• 15. White: Echo
• 16 Iraqi Policemen (live)
• 16. After Abraham Mourns, He Requests Another Son
• 1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly
• 1978 (live)
• 1980
• 2000 lbs. (live)
• 50 Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug
• 6. The Past Described, As a Figure
• 8. What Isaac Knew of Forgiveness
• :Ayahuasca
• :Fact
• Ars Poetica
• Danza Macabre
• Jameel (live)
• cladonia rangifera Nineteen Years Beyond Chernobyl
• from Rock the Body Body
• from A Monologue for Voices
• from Closen
• from Natalia
• from Natalia (live)
• from President Letters
• from St. Apples
• from The Northern Sun (live, PPL)
• from Urban Renewal: xvii.
• from Urban Renewal: xxi.
• from proxy
• A
• A Beautiful Day (live)
• A Brief Attachment
• A Brief History of Patriotism
• A Canticle With Reference to the Future
• A Fence Line Running Through It
• A Gardener’s Prayer
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection
• A Group of Poems on Environmental Protection (in the original Chinese)
• A Hunger So Honed
• A Hunger So Honed (live)
• A Love Supreme
• A Natural Selection
• A Natural Selection (live)
• A Pantry Full of Canned Enchiladas
• A Pirate Fit to Opine on Feet
• A Plantsman’s Confession (live)
• A Prayer for My People
• A Reason for Concern
• A Rendering of the Site
• A Room with a View (live)
• A Scarecrow, a Feline, and a Hare
• A Show of Ice Sculpture
• A Show of Ice Sculpture (in the original Chinese)
• A Soldier’s Arabic
• A Splinter Becoming a Burning Plank
• A Square of Blue Infinity (live)
• A Square of Blue Infinity¹
• A Thousand Saxophones
• A Windmill Makes A Statement
• A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear
• A. Vespucci
• AB Negative (The Surgeon's Poem) (live)
• ANWR
• Abortion
• Absence
• Abstraction
• Accident
• Aching Knees in Palm Springs
• After Charon: A Late Aubade
• After I Said It
• After Revolution
• After Sex
• Afterlife
• Afternoons
• Against Prognostication
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Bowdoin College, October 18, 2005
• Airstream
• Alameda Street
• Alexander Leaves Babylon
• Alhazen of Basra (live)
• All Day I Dream About Sex
• All Effect
• All the Ashtrays in Rome
• All the World's Wars Commence in the Head: Ostinato—Part 2
• Alphabet for Tamar
• Amber Is a Tree's Blood
• America the Hallelujah (live)
• America, the Hallelujah
• American Beech
• American Tourist
• American Tourist (live)
• Amigos
• An Early Snow and Winter Comes into Kilter
• Ancestor
• And Day Brought Back My Night
• And Then, of Course, There's Hope
• And When
• Animal Crackers
• Annunciation
• Another Attempt At Rescue
• Anxiety
• Anyways
• Apart, Away
• Apparition
• Approaching Baltimore
• April Ossmann at Messalonskee High School, December 5, 2006
• April Peepers, Flaubert, and Springsteen
• April in Germany
• Arc
• Are You There, God? It's Me, DJ Spinoza (live)
• Arethusa
• Ark (live, PPL)
• Around the Corner
• Arrested Saturday Night (live)
• Arroz Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica
• Ars Poetica with Pain
• As Glass (live)
• Ash and Dust (live)
• Ash and Silt
• Ashberries: Letters
• Asking
• Asking for More
• Association Copy (live, PPL)
• Asterisk (live, PPL)
• Astral (live)
• At Last
• At Last the New Arriving
• At Night
• At Night (2)
• At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball (live, PPL)
• At the Poetry Reading
• Atlas
• Atlas (live, PPL)
• Atomic Buckdance
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade
• Aubade with Doves a Television and Fire
• Aubade with a Book and a Rattle from a String of Pearls
• Aubade with a Thistle Bush Holding Six Songs
• Aubade with the Moon, Some Bones, and a Word
• August (live)
• Aunt Rose
• Aunt Rose (live)
• Author's Prayer
• Author's Prayer (live)
• Autobiography
• Axe
• Azaleas
• Back in 1901
• Bad Language
• Band Camp
• Band Camp (live)
• Bartram among the Seminoles
• Bartram's Trail
• Battle Rhyme for the Rhetorical Disenfranchisers
• Beer Bottle
• Before Takeoff, Fidelito Prays
• Between Brightness and Weight
• Big Pussy
• Billy Strayhorn, Ohio Was Just a Terrible Dream
• Bird Figurines
• Birthplace of Memorial Day
• Black Blossoms (live)
• Black Lamb
• Blackberry War
• Blankets of Bark
• Bless the Kindling World
• Blessing Blue Crabs
• Blizzard
• Blood (live)
• Blue
• Blue Colonial
• Blue Sapphires and Land Mines
• Body Bags
• Book One
• Book Smart (live, PPL)
• Brewing Tea
• Brian Turner at Bowdoin College, November 29, 2005
• Brief Elegy on the Tip of a Match
• Bringing the Shovel Down (live)
• Broken Mania (live)
• Brutally, the Robin
• Burlesque
• But a Passage in Wilderness
• But to say
• Butterfly Lullaby
• Buying Wine
• Buzzards (live)
• Called Back, Called Back
• Cambodian Frog-Gigging
• Camille T. Dungy Full Messalonskee High School Reading
• Camille T. Dungy at Messalonskee High School, Oakland, Maine, September 30, 2005
• Camille T. Dungy at Portland Public Library, April 7, 2006
• Can You
• Can You (live)
• Caravan
• Caravan (live)
• Carving Your Future
• Casque Bleu
• Celestial Mechanics
• Chattooga
• Cheerful Defense of the Realm
• Cheese Penguin
• Chimayo, New Mexico
• Chocolate Covered Apricots
• Chomp
• Christian Barter at Bowdoin College, May 4, 2006
• Christmas Soccer Game, 1915
• Chunjiang River
• Chunjiang River (in the original Chinese)
• Cleopatra’s Bra
• Closer to Texas
• Clown Fish (live)
• Clutter
• Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Cold Harbor: June 3, 1864
• Cold War
• Cole's Guitar (live)
• Colony
• Coma
• Come Hither
• Come You White Mare, Come Striding
• Coming into Lexington, Virginia
• Commandments
• Communication by the Remnants of Fire
• Condor Man
• Confession
• Confession
• Conjugating Opposites
• Conjurement
• Conquistador (live, PPL)
• Contemporary American Hunger
• Contraction
• Coos Bay
• Corpus
• Correspondence
• Cottonlandia
• Coup-de-Soleil
• Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait
• Cowrie Apostrophe
• Crazy Jane Meets a Bear
• Crum Road, Lyons, MS
• Cuba Poem
• Cultural Scope
• Cultural Scope (live)
• Cultural Sellout
• Cultural Sitcom Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons (live)
• Cultural Sitcom; Or, Poet Laureate Guest-Stars on The Simpsons
• Cultural Slut
• Cultural Slut (live)
• Cultural Soliloquy (live)
• Cultural Strumpet
• Cultural Strumpet (live)
• Cultural Stud
• DJ Spinoza Does Not Fight the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Che Bourashka (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights Joseph Bédier (live)
• DJ Spinoza Fights the Begriffon (live)
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper
• DJ Spinoza Talks to Flipper (live)
• Daisy Cutter
• Daisy Cutter (II)
• Dancing In Odessa
• Dancing In Odessa (live)
• Dancing Near a Body of Water
• Dark Chocolate
• Daylight Savings Time
• Days of Me
• Dear Rumi (live)
• Dear,
• Dearborn North Apartments
• Death and Taxus
• December
• December 7, 1941
• Defenestrations
• Demeter, after
• Departure
• Destination
• Diagnosis
• Diamond
• Dias Irae
• Dinah
• Dinah in the Box
• Dinah in the Box (live, MHS)
• Dinah in the Box (live, PPL)
• Directions for Flight (live)
• Dissidence
• Distance
• Diva
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Four
• Divination Procedure for the Modern Day Sucker MC: Answers for Nine
• Division
• Django in Hang-Zhou
• Dolores' Blues
• Don't Start
• Doorstep Ecologist
• Doppelgänger (for Omaira Sánchez)
• Double Dutch
• Down South, all it takes to be a church
• Down by the Old Mill Stream
• Driftwood Fire
• Duende
• Duende (live)
• Early Memories of Singing in Shul
• Eastside Alphabetics
• Eating
• Echo
• Echocardiogram
• Echolocation
• Ecology
• Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
• Elba
• Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments
• Ellingtonia
• Emaciation
• Empire
• Empire #1: Mirror
• Encased in Gé¹
• English B
• Envoi
• Envoi (live)
• Equilibrium
• Eric Visits His Father
• Escape Artist
• Est, Est, Est
• Ethnogropher John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation (live, Sept. 2006)
• Eugene Ostashevsky at Bowdoin College, November 30, 2006
• Eulogy
• Eulogy (live)
• Euterpe (live)
• Eve's Sestina for Adam
• Every Other Day Aubade
• Everything Must Go
• Ex-Ventriloquist on the Moor
• Exile
• Exile
• Exile (live)
• Faggot: A Definition
• Fallen Through the Atmosphere
• Falling Asleep While Reading (live)
• Falling From the Tree of Heaven
• Family Gathering
• Farm Wife
• Faulkner
• Fear of Wonder
• Female Scarecrow
• Fernando Pessoa, I Salute You All!
• Fever
• Fiction
• Fidelito Takes Flight Up a Ladder
• Final Autumn
• Fire Ghazal (live)
• Fireflies (live)
• First Peepeesaurus (live)
• First Winter Storm
• Fixing the Life Watch
• Flagelliform #14
• Flat American Waltz (live)
• Flies
• Flight (live)
• Flor de Muerto, Flor de Fuego (live)
• Flores Woman (live)
• Fog (live)
• Football
• For Charles Mingus & That Ever-Living “Love Chant”
• For Llamas
• For Luck: A Seven Day Guide (live)
• For Maurice Sendak (live)
• For Some Slight I Can't Recall (live)
• For the Boy Who Stepped From the Curb into the Sun
• For the Eighth Annual Celebration of St. Cecilia, the Patron Saint of Music, Purcellville, Virginia, November 1999
• For the Fifty Who Formed PEACE With Their Bodies
• For the Last American Buffalo
• For the Last American Buffalo (live)
• For the Puppets
• Foraging
• Forgive me, Pumpkin, Gaither's true
• Fountain
• Fourteener 279
• Fragments with Dusk in Them
• Freddie
• Free Samples
• From Sokolniki
• From the River's Edge
• Fugu Soup Blues
• Fugu Soup Blues (live)
• Gaither Memory #42
• Gaither Memory, Every Working Day
• Gallery
• Game One of the World Series with Your Father
• Garden
• Gardener’s Song
• Gas Lamp, 1893
• Gaydar
• Get Up, John
• Gilgamesh, In Fossil Relief
• Glory
• Gods Like Naked Everythings
• Going Off the Deep End into Confectionery
• Going Outside to Find the Sky
• Gone Before
• Good Friday
• Grace Under Pressure
• Graffiti (live)
• Grass Isn't Mowed on Weekends
• Green Zone
• Grendel's Brother
• Guard Dog
• Gun of Wishes
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Halved
• Harbor
• Hard Gardens
• Harm Reduction
• He Pays the Bill at the Sidewalk Cafe
• Hearing
• Hearsay
• Heimweh
• Hello,
• Her Eye
• Her Sister
• Here
• Here Bullet (live)
• Here I Am
• Here, Bullet
• Heron (live)
• Hidden Spring
• Hiroshima: A Panorama (August 1945)
• His Voice Had Grown Softer Each Day
• History Lesson, Part 3
• Hologram
• Home Brew
• Homeroom
• Horn (live)
• Horse in the Dark
• Hot Chocolate
• Hotel Recamier
• Hour of Dawn
• Hours
• How It Is to Go On as One of the Not Chosen
• How Quickly He Went (live, PPL)
• How She Didn't Say It (live, PPL)
• How To Fall in Love With Your Father
• How do you stop the hurt of needing to breathe?
• How the Search Ended
• Human Field
• Human Geography
• Hurricane
• Hypnosis
• I Am the Real Jesse James (live)
• I Canonize Dick Curran
• I Could Be Driving (live)
• I Don’t Know How Many Souls You Have, My Feathered Fernando
• I Live Where the Leaves Are Pointed
• I Was Very Prolific
• I Will Love the Twenty-First Century
• I am the Real Jesse James
• I may not yet write (live)
• Ian at the Waiters' Party, Out Behind the Barn, Bread Loaf
• Ideas Go Only So Far
• If Only this Baroque Music Could Go On (live)
• If you would or could not do/for yourself
• Ilya Kaminsky at Bowdoin College, February 2, 2006
• Imaginary Numbers
• Implications for Modern Life
• Improvisation
• In Arabic
• In High Demand
• In His Library (live, PPL)
• In Madrid
• In Our Life Watch
• In Our Time (formerly, Of Deafness)
• In Place of All the Poems about Departure, Lessons, and Ends
• In Praise of Laughter
• In Praise of Laughter (live)
• In Springfield, Oregon, I hung the state
• In Toni Morrison's Head
• In the Binary Alleys of the Lion’s Virus
• In the Era of the Sentence Fragment
• In the Lining of My Father’s Mouth
• In the Manner of SD
• In the Rain
• In the Romantic Longhand of the Night
• In the Tower District, Fresno
• Indian Song
• Infidelity
• Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza (live)
• Inoculation Time (live)
• Inside
• Insomnia
• Inspiration
• Instructions for When You Feel That Your Head Is About to Explode
• Instrumentality (live)
• Integration
• Into the Empty Woods
• Invention
• Iowa
• Iron
• It Comes Down to This
• It Could Have Been the T, But I Think It Was the El
• I’ll Say It This Way
• James Hoch Q&A on becoming interested in poetry
• James Hoch Q&A on his poem The Court of Forgetting
• Jesus Saves
• Jimi Hendrix Postcard
• John 3:16
• John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July 1933 (live, Sept. 2006)
• Jorie Graham
• July
• July (live)
• Junior Goes Home
• Just Before an April Full Moon: Life Not So Still
• Just One Insight
• K the Cyclist
• Kaddish for my Unborn Son
• Kazim Ali at Bowdoin College, October 19, 2006
• Ken Burns poem
• Ken Norton as 'Mandingo'
• Kevin A. González at Bowdoin College, November 16, 2006
• Killdeer
• Kingdom Animalia
• Kinky
• Knee-Deep in the Pacific
• Kristan clogged to Rocky Top
• Lamed: Ox Herding Lesson
• Landscape with Swallows
• Language Mixology
• Lapses
• Last Day with Mayflower
• Last Night's Dream (live)
• Last Night’s Dream
• Last Watch
• Late Autumn Wasp
• Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany
• Late Winter
• Learning to Wait
• Leaving Saturn
• Left Eye Losing Sight
• Lents District
• Letter to Cain
• Letter to a Stranger
• Life and Art (live)
• Life on the Prairie
• Linda Trying on Clothes (live)
• Lines Written Before the Day Shift
• Listening
• Litany
• Little Church
• Live Readings from the Fishouse Launch, Bowdoin College, April 30, 2005
• Live Readings, Bowdoin College, June 17, 2005
• Live at the Village Vanguard
• Live/Evil
• Living On Nothing But Honey And Smoke
• Living Room Altar
• Living Without (live)
• Living Without Memory
• Lobster
• Logger, 43, Divorced
• Loggers
• Look
• Look Again
• Looking at Satan (live)
• Losing A Memory
• Love
• Love
• Love Is Made of Images
• Love Poem
• Lucy
• Lucy, Upon Hearing of Charles Schultz's Retirement...
• Lullaby
• Lullaby After Midnight
• Lullaby in SoMa for Paloma
• Luna Park
• Lying My Head Off
• Maestro
• Maestro (live)
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
• Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow (live)
• Manatee (live)
• Mandate
• Mangoes
• Many Are Called
• Marginalia on Our Bodies
• Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo
• Marina Tsvetaeva (live)
• Marriage
• Mary's Blood
• Matanzas
• Matriarch
• McDonald's, Scottsboro, April, 1997
• Medussa to the Stones
• Meeting Mammoth Cave, Eight Months Pregnant
• Melting
• Memorial Day
• Memory From A Bone Sample
• Mephista Recounts Her Past Lives, or Nanotechnology
• Mephista as the Desert Rose
• Messengers
• Metaphor
• Migration
• Migration
• Minister of Saudade (live)
• Minus
• Misbegotten
• Mise-en-scène (live)
• Miserableism
• Mohn des Gedächtnis
• Mom Thinks You're
• Monarch
• Monday means Moon Day, Sunday means
• More Matter, Less Art (live)
• Morning Poem of Sincerity, With Two Lines by a Four-Year-Old
• Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales
• Motionless forgetful music of women and men
• Movements (live)
• Moving
• Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night (live)
• Mr. Thomas Asawa, the Man with Two Left Feet
• Much Laughter
• Mulatto Ego Remix
• Musica Humana
• Musica Humana (live)
• My Answer on Dissociation
• My Autopsy
• My Dearest Regret,
• My Easter
• My Father's Leaving
• My First Lover Returns from Iraq
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, MHS)
• My Grandmother Takes the Youth Group to Services (live, PPL)
• My Letter of Introduction to God
• My Life as Orson Welles
• My Lovely Assistant
• My Lover Never
• My Magnifying Glass
• My Mother's Tango
• My Mother's Tango (live)
• My Only Golem
• My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task
• Myopia is Youropia (live)
• Mystery
• Myths of the Disappearance
• NASA
• Narrativity
• Nathaniel
• Nazbas
• Near the Heart of Happening
• Negative Gravity
• Next Door
• Nice World
• Night Thoughts in Central Pennsylvania
• Night in Blue (live)
• Night, for Henry Dumas
• No Bra Required
• No Surrender
• No Weeds, No Work
• Nobody Spared
• Note to Slip in Your Pocket, Never Slipped
• November
• November Neurosis (live)
• Novice
• Now Over the Empty Apartment
• Now the Lord said to DJ Spinoza (live)
• Numen
• NyQuil
• Oakland Work Crew
• Oakland Work Crew (live)
• Obsessions
• Ode to Rosa Parks
• Ode to the Perineum
• Ode to the Watermelon
• Ode: To Trees
• Of My Fury
• Of Night
• Of the Song Bird
• Off Vermont
• Off on a Tangent
• Oklahoma City: The Aftermath
• On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems
• On Having a Tour of the Cathedral
• On Hearing that you Feel Bad After Having Sex with Me (live)
• On Making Love With You Again With Words Taken From an Article about Wilson's Quest to Form the League of Nations (live)
• On This Side of Mercy
• On Winter Nights
• On the Bus
• On the Fenestra Ovalis
• On the Night of the Moths (live)
• Once I Could Say
• One (live)
• One Man at a Time (live)
• One Morning
• Onion Field
• Onlookers with the Burned Body of Jesse Washington, Eighteen-Year-Old African American, Waco, Texas, 1916 (live)
• Origin & Ash
• Oriole
• Ourselves Woo Yourselves, Pretty Bird
• Painting Vacation
• Paloma’s Church in America
• Parable of the Moth
• Parable of the South Pole Buddha
• Paravaledellentine: A Paradelle
• Passion
• Patriot Acts
• Penance, West Virginia (live)
• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania (live)
• Peregrine Falcon, New York City
• Perla at the Mexican Border Assembly Line of Dolls (live)
• Person, House, Tree
• Phosphenes and Entopics
• Piccolo BLACK ART
• Picnic
• Pieta (live)
• Pig's Tail Tongue
• Pigment
• Pike Place (live)
• Pine Box
• Pip (live)
• Plate 5
• Poem
• Poem
• Poem (live)
• Poem (live)
• Poem Beginning With a Line Overheard In the Gym (live)
• Poem In Thanks
• Poem for Amadou Diallo
• Poem with Frogs
• Poem with Groucho Marx Refrains
• Polar
• Pool
• Pore Tune
• Portion Given
• Possession: What the Devil Said
• Possession: What the Ear Said
• Post-Soviet Sestina (October 1996)
• Postscript
• Praising the Snake (live)
• Prayer
• Prayer For My Unborn Niece or Nephew (live)
• Prayer at the Opera
• Preacher Was a Stern Woman's Son (live, PPL)
• Prelude to a Saturday Night
• Preserves
• Pressing Business
• Pressing Business (live)
• Primer for Non-Native Speakers
• Priscilla Alden's Sickness
• Processional
• Prodigal Song
• Projection
• Prosthesis
• Psalm 146
• Public Transportation
• Pulse
• Quagmire
• Queen Anne’s Lace in Contrast
• Quelquechose
• Query to the White Cloud
• Query to the White Cloud (in the original Chinese)
• Questions for Godzilla
• Quisiera Declarar
• Rabid Dog
• Rabid Dog (live)
• Radiator Heat
• Ramadan (live)
• Realism: A Landscape of the Body at Any Longitude
• Recipe for Success
• Recreation Center
• Red Light
• Redundant Feeling of Guilt
• Relentless Soliloquy
• Remember the Cogito (live)
• Remembering our last meal in New York
• Renunciation
• Renunciation (live)
• Reptilian
• Requiem
• Requiem (live, PPL)
• Response to a Student Email Asking Why He Received a C Minus in Creative Writing While I Vacation in Bangkok (live)
• Restraint
• Resumé
• Rethinking Regret
• Return to Mumbai
• Return to Nantucket
• Revision
• Revival
• Rex’s Georgic: Hunting Morels in Last Year’s Burn
• Rhyme (live)
• Riding with My Brother to the Dump
• Rigoberto González at Bowdoin College, December 6, 2005
• Ritual
• River
• Roller Coaster
• Room of the Orphans
• Rope
• Ropethrows
• Ross Gay at Colby College, February 7, 2007
• Rubber
• Safekeeping
• Saint Patrick (live)
• Salvation
• Sand
• Sappho
• Sarah Messer Audience Q&A at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Sarah Messer Full Bowdoin Reading
• Sarah Messer at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
• Scene: a Loom
• Scent
• School Years
• Scientific Inquiry
• Screen Test, 1965
• Sea Watchers, Oil Paint on Canvas, 1952
• Seashell Poem
• Seasonal Poem
• Second Ending of the Fairy-tale
• Second Peepeesaurus (live)
• Seed
• Selection of German Weapons Captured by the Canadians in Their Advance to Cabrai, 1918 (live)
• Self Portrait in the Glass of a Painting (live)
• Self-Portrait as the Letter Y
• Self-Portrait in 1970
• Self-Portrait with Cow
• Self-Portrait with Sadness, Wild Turkey, and Denis Johnson
• Self-Portrait with a Balloon, Western Novel, and Duel
• Selling Out
• Sen Jak's Address to Storms
• September 15, 1963
• Service Station, Tennessee (live, MHS)
• Servitude
• Set
• Setting the Table
• Seven Penitential Psalms
• Seven Reasons for Divorce
• Sex Ed
• Shadow Poem (live)
• Shaking Free of an Epiphany
• Shaping the Spoon
• She Liked the Moving Things Best
• Sherman's march snaked through the South
• Sherwin Bitsui at Portland Public Library, March 7, 2007
• Shout Out
• Show It!!!
• Shrewd and Beautiful is My New York
• Silence
• Site
• Site, IV
• Skaters of Corea Harbor
• Skin
• Skin (live)
• Slant, and Far Across the Sea
• Sleep Door (live)
• Sleeping Shark
• Slow Burn (live)
• Small Murders
• Small Murders (live)
• Snapshot
• Snowblind: Threnody for Glenn Gould and Thelonious Monk
• Snowdonia
• Solstice
• Solstice
• Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue (live)
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something About Grandfathers
• Something Vagabond Strokes the Furnance
• Song
• Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age Three, Worms (live)
• Sonogram
• Sooth Seers
• Sounds
• Sounds (live)
• Soundtrack
• Source
• Source (live)
• South of Hebron (live)
• Spangling the Sea
• Speech
• Spirits at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
• Stalin on Stage
• Stark Room
• Starry Night
• Startling Summer
• Startling Summer (in the original Chinese)
• State of Emergency
• State of the Union (live)
• Steve Scafidi at Bowdoin College, September 22, 2005
• Still Life with a Halter in Its Hand
• Stone
• Story Told While Pruning
• Strangler Fig Trees
• Strokes
• Studio (live)
• Stupid
• Suburban Passional
• Sudden Poem for the Last Hour of Winter
• Suicide (As if Napping During Twilight)
• Sunset City
• Sure (live)
• Swear Words (live)
• Swimming in the Gulf
• Synaesthesia
• Synth Composite Basketball: No more Leather
• Table for One
• Taking a Punch
• Talbotton County, 1923
• Tallahassee These Days
• Tamil (live)
• Tar the Roof
• Target
• Taste
• Ten-letter Word for Lucky Man (live)
• Tenderly
• Tet: How The Two Become One
• Texas Poem
• The 167th Psalm of Elvis
• The 24th Motor Machine-Gun Battalion Being Inspected, 1917 (live)
• The Abattoir (live, MHS)
• The Academic's Prayer (live)
• The Academic’s Prayer
• The Amplified World
• The Animal Groom
• The Animal Groom (live)
• The Astronomer, 1668
• The Barrel is Surely Coming Down the Hill
• The Basque Nose
• The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 (live)
• The Battlefield
• The Beautiful Animal
• The Bee of Was
• The Black Shawled Widows of Castillay Leon
• The Blue Etheridge
• The Blue Grotto
• The Blue Seuss
• The Boatloads
• The Box
• The Brest-Litovsk Treaty (live)
• The Brücke Choir
• The Burghers of Calais
• The Burning
• The Calendar We Live
• The Chair
• The City Vs. John Henry
• The Coming Mirrors
• The Court of Forgetting
• The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
• The Dark (live)
• The Day Before Fall on Palo Verde Drive
• The Dead Magician's Things
• The Disbelieving
• The Division
• The Dog
• The Early Days of Aviation
• The Egg Suckers
• The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues
• The Evangalist at a Distinct Advantage
• The Expensive View
• The Far End
• The Fiddle and the Drum (live)
• The Field
• The Film
• The Fire of Despair
• The Flaw
• The Flight South of the Monarch Butterfly (live)
• The Flock's Reply (live)
• The Foothills
• The Future of Terror / 7
• The Gem is on Page Sixty-Four
• The Girl With No Hands (live)
• The Green Man Walks Across America
• The Guides (live)