Poets
Each poem here is written in conversation with a poet whose work is in the public domain — an echo of their preoccupations and cadence, not their words.
- Alan Seeger
- Anacreon
- Frances E. W. Harper
- François Villon
- Juvenal
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Nguyễn Du
- Paul Verlaine
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Robert Burns
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Andrew Marvell
- Anne Bradstreet
- Archilochus
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Bai Juyi
- Catullus
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Mew
- Christina Rossetti
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Constantine Cavafy
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Edith Södergran
- Eduard Mörike
- Emily Dickinson
- Federico García Lorca
- Felicia Hemans
- Fernando Pessoa
- Friedrich Schiller
- Georg Heym
- George Meredith
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Ghalib
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Gustaf Fröding
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Heinrich Heine
- Hilaire Belloc
- Homer
- Isaac Rosenberg
- John Donne
- John Keats
- Jonathan Swift
- Joyce Kilmer
- Li Qingzhao
- Lord Byron
- Louise Labé
- Lucretius
- Matthew Arnold
- Mihai Eminescu
- Nikolay Gumilyov
- Pindar
- Robert Herrick
- Rumi
- Saadi
- San Juan de la Cruz
- Sappho
- Sergei Yesenin
- Su Shi
- Thomas Moore
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake