Recited while waiting in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School waiting for someone to graduate after school-specific ceremonies have gone awry due to torrential downpour ...

Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forgethttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-e-cummings

Gioia, Dana. (2023). Meet me at the lighthouse. Gray Wolf Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Gioia

Neruda, Pablo, et al. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. City Lights Books, 2004. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-are-the-different-types-of-sonnets-4-main-types-of-sonnets-with-examples

https://poem-today.tumblr.com/post/662745689100615680/a-poem-by-ruth-lepson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota

Neruda, P., & Eisner, M. A. (2004). The essential Neruda: Selected poems. City Lights Books.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-last-the-secret-is-out-by-wh-auden-8pc77qqnmpn https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/20/secret-auden/

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-25/Mastering-Chinese-Poetry-Ep-8-Chinese-New-Year-s-Day-NuUEuGUWcg/index.html

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F05%252F29.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48918/family-reunion-56d22a8b77459

By Tomas Transömer

www.poets.org/poem/unknown-citizen

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44939/the-nymphs-reply-to-the-shepherd

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52877/the-order-in-which-things-are-broken

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39459

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentid=38645

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55827/sleeping-sister-of-a-farther-sky

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57102/antique-56d23a4272507

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47650/war-is-kind-do-not-weep-maiden-for-war-is-kind https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/veterans-day-facts

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/yuja-wang-and-the-art-of-performance https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49008/morning-song-56d22ab4a0cee

https://poets.org/poem/widows-lament-springtime https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

From 'Chinese Erotic Poems'

Poets.org/poem/ghost-land-skeletons

https://poets.org/poem/haunted-houses

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Lee

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-toomer

https://us.macmillan.com/books/978037453353

Poetry foundation.org/poets/sara-teasdale

https://poems.com/poem/october-section-i https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/12/gluck-lecture-english.pdf

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14404/recuerdo

https://www.facebook.com/poetryandcoffee/posts/nowby-denis-johnsonwhatever-the-foghorns-arethe-voices-of-feels-terribletonight-/1658302821072816/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/books/denis-johnson-dead-author-of-jesus-son.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/denis-johnsons-lasting-advice

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56508/bottled-water https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kim-dower

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147503/the-contract-says-we39d-like-the-conversation-to-be-bilingual

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150394/grief-5d0c057c36f0c

https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=2&poet=683&poem=5964

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream: "The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. In the context of death, an echo of Hamlet's comment to Claudius: 'Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.' " https://readingdysfunctionalfamilies.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/hamlets-speech-of-worms/

https://harpers.org/archive/2014/09/washington-is-burning/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ada-limon https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147506/a-new-national-anthem

Open secret Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Moyne, John. and Barks, Coleman. 1999. Boston (Mass.): Shambala.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47692/the-river-merchants-wife-a-letter-56d22853677f9

https://frankhudson.org/2017/07/09/the-river-merchants-wife/

From "Call me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals", Agha Shahid Ali, 2003, W. W. Norton, NY.

http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/02/dorianne-laux.html

https://cclitmag.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/facts-about-the-moon-by-dorianne-laux/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/fernando-pessoa

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46321/childhoods-retreat https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46317/often-i-am-permitted-to-return-to-a-meadow

https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/a-visual-footnote-for-frank-oharas-poem-lana-turner-has-collapsed/comment-page-1/

https://www.frankohara.org/audio/

From Radiant Silhouette, New and Selected Work, 1974-1988 by John Yau

https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/colossus.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus Some song renditions of the latter part of this poem:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN6kIY2A0o (Carolyn Eynon Singers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbETEBCIW5U (Irving Berlin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrAw3t5W18 (University of Utah Choir)

https://forward.com/schmooze/143344/bob-holmans-poem-for-rosh-hashanah/