What We’re Looking For

Poems that are accessible and understandable.

Poems people will want to re-read.

Poems people will want to share with family and friends, neighbors and co-workers.

Poems people will remember for the rest of their lives.

Poems like the following:

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee

Gate C22 by Ellen Bass

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door by Elisabet Velasquez

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly

Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco

Tour by Carol Snow

The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith

Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye

Tattoo by Ted Kooser

Unemployment Lines by Levi Romero

Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues by Joy Harjo

Haven by Paulann Petersen

How to Triumph Like a Girl by Ada Limón

America by Tony Hoagland

Dear Amy Nehzooukammyatootill by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Man in Space by Billy Collins