Contents -- A Note to Readers xi -- December 7 Wallace Stevens and Joni Mitchell 3 -- December 14 In Memoriam: James Laughlin 6 -- December 21 Nativity Poems:William Butler Yeats and Louise Glück 9 -- December 28 A New Year's Poemfrom the Korean Sijo Tradition 10 -- January 4 A Korean Poet: Ko Un 13 -- January 11 In Memoriam: Denise Levertov 16 -- January 19 In Memoriam: William Matthews 18 -- January 25 Frank Bidart 19 -- February 1 A Polish Poet: Adam Zagajewski 21 -- February 8 A Question of Decency: Walt Whitman 24 -- February 15 Stanley Plumly 26 -- February 22 Sonia Sanchez 29 -- March 1 Marie Howe 30 -- March 8 John Koethe 32 -- March 15 Sylvia Plath 34 -- March 22 Ted Hughes 37 -- March 29 Spring, and a New Translation of Horace 39 -- April 5 Passover: Linda Pastan 41 -- April 12 Easter: Mary Karr 44 -- April 19 An Irish Poet: Derek Mahon 45 -- April 26 Audubon's Birthday: Birds by Robert Frost,W. C. Williams, and Robinson Jeffers 47 -- May 3 In Memoriam: Octavio Paz 49 -- May 10 Mother's Day: Dorianne Laux 51 -- May 17 Agha Shahid Ali 53 -- May 24 Margaret Atwood 55 -- May 31 Memorial Day and Shakespeare 56 -- June 7 Summer and Baseball: Linda Gregerson 60 -- June 14 Encompassing Nature:Sappho, Lady Komachi, and an Irish Bard 61 -- June 21 Father's Day: Cornelius Eady 64 -- June 28 Joseph Stroud and Larissa Szporluk 66 -- July 5 Independence Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson 68 -- July 12 Patriotism and Public Memory: Robert Lowell 70 -- July 19 Susan Wheeler 74 -- July 26 D. A. Powell 76 -- August 2 Arthur Sze 78 -- August 9 The Villanelle:Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop 79 -- August 16 In Memoriam: Zbigniew Herbert 81 -- August 23 Something Old, Something New: Charlotte Mew 84 -- August 30 Yusef Komunyakaa 85 -- September 6 Labor Day: Gary Snyder 87 -- September 13 May Swenson 88.

September 20 Donald Justice 90 -- September 27 Presidents, Poets, and Shame: James Wright 92 -- October 4 Filipino Poetry: Returning a Borrowed Tongue 95 -- October 11 John Ashbery 97 -- October 18 Sterling Brown 99 -- October 25 Robert Bly 102 -- November 1 Chase Twichell 104 -- November 8 A Canadian Poet: Roo Borson 106 -- November 15 A Portuguese Poet: Fernando Pessoa 107 -- November 22 Thanksgiving:Harriet Maxwell Converse and Iroquois Song 109 -- November 29 A Swedish Poet: Tomas Tranströmer 111 -- December 6 Czeslaw Milosz: The Poet as a Road-side Dog 114 -- December 13 Israeli Poems on War and Peace: Yehuda Amichai 116 -- December 20 Christmas: Mark Doty 117 -- December 27 A Poem for the End of a Thousand Years:W. H. Auden 120 -- January 2 A Scottish Poet for New Year's Day:George Mackay Brown 123 -- January 10 In Memoriam: Margaret Walker 124 -- January 17 In Memoriam: Janet Lewis 127 -- January 24 Philip Larkin 130 -- January 31 A Spanish Poet: Rafael Alberti 131 -- February 7 George Herbert 132 -- February 14 Valentine's Day: Kenneth Rexroth 134 -- February 21 An Irish Poet: Paul Muldoon 136 -- February 28 Ben Jonson 138 -- March 7 Pattiann Rogers 140 -- March 14 An Italian Poet: Eugenio Montale 142 -- March 21 Claudia Rankine 144 -- March 28 Gerard Manley Hopkins 146 -- April 4 Easter: Charles Wright 148 -- April 11 Richard Wright and Langston Hughes 152 -- April 18 Wang Ping 155 -- April 25 Michael Ondaatje 156 -- May 2 Forrest Gander 160 -- May 9 A Serbian Poet: Vasko Popa 162 -- May 16 Adrienne Rich 165 -- May 23 Malena Mörling 167 -- May 30 Memorial Day: Jaime Sabines 170 -- June 6 The Poetics of Travel: Elizabeth Bishop 173 -- June 13 Paul Beatty 175 -- June 20 Father's Day: Li-Young Lee 177 -- June 27 Poetry and Weddings: Benjamin Saenz 180 -- July 4 Independence Day: Rita Dove 182.

July 11 Fanny Howe 183 -- July 18 Lee Ann Brown 187 -- July 25 A Serbian Epic: The Battle of Kosovo 189 -- August 1 Denise Levertov 193 -- August 8 Summer Shakespeare 196 -- August 15 Louise Glück 199 -- August 22 In Memoriam: Sherley Anne Williams 202 -- August 29 Naomi Shihab Nye 205 -- September 5 Labor Day: Willam Blake and Debra Allbery 207 -- September 12 One Thousand Years of Poetry in English:A Millennium Gathering 210 -- September 19 Rainer Maria Rilke: Herbsttag 221 -- September 26 Rainer Maria Rilke Translated byGalway Kinnell and William Gass 224 -- October 3 Andrew Hudgins 227 -- October 10 Heather McHugh 229 -- October 17 Dean Young 232 -- October 24 John Clare 237 -- October 31 Halloween: John Keats and Lynne McMahon 240 -- November 7 Czeslaw Milosz: An Argument About Imperialism 243 -- November 14 Wallace Stevens 245 -- November 21 Thanksgiving: Daniel Halpern 250 -- November 28 A Peruvian Poet: César Vallejo 253 -- December 5 Bad Words: Stephen Berg 256 -- December 12 Seamus Heaney's Beowulf as an Ecological Epic 259 -- December 19 Snow: Emerson, Lowell, Dickinson,Longfellow, Whittier, and Stevens 261 -- December 26 Christmas: Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter 267 -- January 2 New Year's Day:Tessa Rumsey and Harryette Mullen 271 -- January 9 Charlotte Smith 274 -- January 16 Rita Dove 277 -- Epilogue Ezra Pound 281 -- Copyright Acknowledgments 287 -- Index 297.