Connect the Poem Version 3

Over at Pffa, we are playing "Connect the Poem." Come and play, or just listen to this spontaneous, communal playlist.

1. Paired Things, Kay Ryan
2. Crows in Winter, Anthony Hecht
3. Juniper, Graham Mort
4. Song, Brigit Peggen Kelly
5. Southern Song, Margaret Walker
6. Variations on Southern Themes, Donald Justice
7. Lines Written at Thorpe Green, Anne Bronte
8. My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts, Adrienne Rich
9. Dime Store Erotics, Ann Townsend
10. You Don't Know What Love Is, Kim Addonizio
11. Stop All The Clock, W. H. Auden
12. Do Not Pick Up the Telephone, Ted Hughes
13. Rondeau After a Transatlantic Phone Call, Marilyn Hacker
14. Her Toys, Robert W. Service
15. True Love, Robert Penn Warren
16. Scenes from the Playroom, R. S. Gwynn
17. Table Manners, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
18. Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?, Garrett Hongo
19. Lesbos, Sylvia Plath
20. To a Daughter, Brian Chan
21. The Bistro Styx, Rita Dove
22. A Moment, Ruth Stone
23. My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke
24. The Dance, Willam Carlos Williams
25. Why I Am Not a Painter, Frank O' Hara
26. Oranges, Mary Pryor
27. I Stop Writing the Poem, Tess Gallagher
28. Poem of Low Lattitudes, Mike Dockins
29. Lime Cure, Gustavo Perez-Firmat
30. Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti
31. Late Summer, Ko Un
32. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
33. L'Albatros, Charles Baudelaire
34. The Archaeopteryx's Song, Edwin Morgan
35. The Pangolin, Marianne Moore
35. Smell, William Carlos Williams
36. Edward Lear, W. H. Auden
37. Piano, D. H. Lawrence
38. Home Is So Sad, Philip Larkin
39. Music I Heard With You, Conrad Aiken
40. Object lesson, Octavio Paz

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