Voltage!

A constantly-growing collection of poems that engage particularly thrilling turns.

“Western Wind,” by Anonymous

“An American in Hollywood,” by Frank Bidart

“Any Man May Be Called a Pilgrim Who Leaveth the Place of His Birth,” by Christina Davis (in Forth a Raven (Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books, 2006): 18).

“Fragments,” by Stephen Dobyns

from Holy Sonnets, VII (“At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow”), by John Donne

“The Flea,” by John Donne

“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part…,” by Michael Drayton

“Archaic Fragment,” by Louise Gluck

“The Collar,” by George Herbert

“Justice (1),” by George Herbert

“The snow is melting…,” by Issa

Letter to Mrs. James Wylie–August 6, 1818, by John Keats

“The Other Place,” by William Logan

“Portrait of a Child,” by Corey Marks

“Sonnet,” by Bernadette Mayer

“Because You Asked about the Difference between Poetry and Prose,” by Howard Nemerov

“The Day Lady Died,” by Frank O’Hara

“As in the midst of battle there is room…,” by George Santayana

“East Hampton Airport,” by Frederick Seidel

“Between Walls,” by William Carlos Williams

Good conversation about “Between Walls” can be found here.

“A Sort of a Song,” by William Carlos Williams

“Mind,” by Richard Wilbur

“Mad Daughter and Big-Bang,” by Araki Yasusada (in Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada, edited and translated by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin (New York: Roof Books, 1997): 11).