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Poem Title Poet Poetic Form Publication Year
Gay Chaps at the Bar Gwendolyn Brooks Sonnet 1945
We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks Couplet 1959
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Gwendolyn Brooks Ballad 1961
To the Diaspora Gwendolyn Brooks Free verse 1981
A Step Away From Them Free verse 1956
The Day Lady Died Frank O'Hara Free verse 1959
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O'Hara Free verse 1957
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island Frank O'Hara Free verse 1958
Thinking of James Dean Frank O'Hara Free verse 1955
"They Dream Only of America" John Ashbery Free verse 1962
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape John Ashbery Sestina
Syringa John Ashbery Free verse 1977
Daffy Duck in Hollywood John Ashbery Free verse 1977
The Problem of Anxiety John Ashbery Free verse 1995
Words to that Effect John Ashbery Free verse 2012
Paradoxes and Oxymorons John Ashbery Free verse 1981
Caesar W. S. Merwin Free verse 1967
For the Anniversary of My Death W. S. Merwin Free verse 1967
The Asians Dying W. S. Merwin Free verse 1967
For A Coming Extinction W. S. Merwin Free verse 1967
Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise W. S. Merwin Free verse 1967
The Horse W. S. Merwin Free verse 1977
Sun And Rain W. S. Merwin Free verse 1983
Berryman W. S. Merwin Free verse 1983
Worn Words W. S. Merwin Free verse 2008
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich Quatrain 1951
Trying to Talk With a Man Adrienne Rich Free verse 1971
Diving into the Wreck Adrienne Rich Free verse 1972
Twenty-One Love Poems Adrienne Rich Free verse
Ketjak Ron Silliman Prose poem 1978