1. “For Allen Ginsberg” by XJ Kennedy; “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg
2. “Teddy Bear” by A.A. Milne
3. “The Quiet World” by Jeff McDaniel
4. “Why I Am Not a Painter” by Frank O’Hara
5. “l(a” by e.e. cummings
6. “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. “Blackbird,” “Blessed,” “Her Spirit,” by Paul McCartney
8. “Brownie” by A.A. Milne; “Brownies at School” by Palmer Cox
9. “A Room in the Past” by Ted Kooser
10. “The Poems I Have Not Written” by John Brehm; “A True Poem” by Lloyd Schwartz
11. “What Do Women Want?” by Kim Addonizio
12. “Tea Drinking” by Lu T’ung; “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks” by Jane Kenyon
13. “A Lady’s Adieu to her Tea Table (Anon);” “Ballad of the Boston Tea Party” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. “Compulsively Allergic to the Truth” by Jeff McDaniel; “The Minotaur” by Ted Hughes
16. “Gruel” by Marilyn Chin
17. “Behold,” and poetical sayings translated by Mary Kawena Pukui
18. “Eatin’ with Sticks” by Lawson Inada
19. “Monologue for an Onion” by Suji Kwock Kim
20. “Make the Pie Higher,” by George W. Bush
21. “Underwear” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
22. “Blues” by Elizabeth Alexander
23. “A Duet” by Kevin McFadden
25. “Banquet,” “A Case of You,” by Joni Mitchell
26. “A Bear in There” by Shel Silverstein; “Afternoon Memory” by Gary Soto
26a. “Ode to Tomatoes,” by Pablo Neruda
27. “Requests for Toy Piano,” by Tony Hoagland
28. “Archibald,” by John Betjeman
29. “The Avalanche Club,” by Heather Christle
30. “How to Like It,” by Stephen Dobyns
31. “Exquisite Candidate,” by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
32.“Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare
33. “Meanwhile in Massachusetts,” by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
34. “Theme in Yellow,” by Carl Sandburg
35. “Ode on Potatoes,” by Anonymous
36.“Oatmeal,” by Galway Kinnell
37. “Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake,” by C. Frank Horn
38.”The Twelve Thank-you Notes of Christmas,” by Anonymous
39.”You Want a Social Life, With Friends,” by Kenneth Koch
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