3 Dozen Poems: From the Writer's Almanac

Summary

Full contents:

• Ge Mig En Dag (Scandinavian traditional)
• Abecedary (Thomas Disch)
• Old Mother Hubbard (traditional)
• Frankenstein (Edward Field)
• Names of Horses (Donald Hall)
• To One Who Asked Me Why I Love J.G. (Ephelia)
• What I Learned from My Mother (Julie Kasdorf)
• When Adam Was Created (anonymous)
• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (William Shakespeare)
• Casey Jones (anonymous)
• I Think to Live (Emily Dickinson)
• I Dwell in Possibility (Emily Dickinson)
• Fallacy of Experience (William Harmon)
• Crocodile (William Jay Smith)
• Spring (Mary Oliver)
• I Go Back to May, 1937 (Sharon Olds)
• Language of Crows (Louis Jenkins)
• Horse (May Swenson)
• I Am Cherry Alive (Delmore Schwartz)
• Easy (Roland Flint)
• Variations on the Word Love (Margaret Atwood)
• Mad Gardener’s Song (Lewis Carroll)
• Honey (Robert Morgan)
• A Blessing (James Wright)
• Vision (May Thielgaard Watts)
• The Simple Truth (Philip Levine)
• From the Garden (Anne Sexton)
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe)
• Mehitabel and Her Kittens (Don Marquis)
• I Was Born about 10,000 Years Ago (anonymous)
• Aunt Sarah (Carl Dennis)
• What Work Is (Philip Levine)
• The Summer We Didn’t Die (William Stafford)
• Money (Dana Gioia)
• Squash (Susan Williams)
• From Out the Cave (Joyce Sutphen)
• Wild Geese (Mary Oliver)
• Closing Music—Slavonic Dance Opus 46 #4 in F Major (Dvorak) performed by Robert Fischer