“Song of the Diplomat,” by John mole (Mole is an accomplished jazz clarinettist and has been known to combine poetry and jazz)

“Praise Them,” by Li-Young Lee (has received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, a Lannan Literary Award, and others)

“Eve and Adam II,” by Rethabile Masilo (The forename Rethabile is a sentence. It means “We’re happy.”)

“Eros,” by Louise Glück (Louise Glück was born in NY City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island.)

“Magdalene,” by Hilary Sideris (Hilary Sideris is the author of five poetry chapbooks)

“In the Churchyard,” by Peter Trower (25 August 1930—10 November 2017)

“What I Believe,” by Michel Blumenthal

“The End and the Beginning,” by Wisława Szymborska

“Judas and the Sanhedrin,” by Rethabile Masilo

“Ineducable Me,” by Norman MacCaig

“A Brief for the defense,” by Jack Gilbert

“It is the Rising I love,” by Linda Gregg

“If You Are Lucky,” by Michelle McGrane

“They Sit Together on the Porch,” by Wendell Berry

“A Fine Beast,” by Rethabile Masilo.

“To Katharine: At Fourteen Months,” by Joelle Biele.

“To Katharine: At Fourteen Months,” by Joelle Biele.

“A Vase of Flowers,” by John Ashbery.

[Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age."] — Wikipedia

“The Poet,” by Mary Cornelia Hartshorne

“Evening Hawk,” by Robert Penn Warren