Love Poetry Out Loud (19 page)

“Sleeping with You,” from
Collected Poems
1953–1993, by John Updike. Copyright © 1993 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond,” from
Collected Poems
, by e. e. cummings. Copyright © 1923, 1925, 1938, 1951, 1954, 1959 by e. e. cummings. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.

“Sources of the Delaware,” by Dean Young. Originally published in
First Course in Turbulence
, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Dean Young. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Still Looking Out for Number One,” from
All of Us: The Collected Poems
, by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1996 by Tess Gallagher. Introduction copyright © by Tess Gallagher. Editor's preface, commentary, and notes copyright © 1996 by William L. Stull. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Symptom Recital,” from
The Portable Dorothy Parker
, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright © 1926 and renewed 1954 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin,
a
division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

“Taking Off My Clothes,” from
Gathering the Tribes
, by Carolyn Forché”. Copyright © 1976 by Carolyn Forché. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

“The Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style,” from
The Collected Poems and Epigrams of J. V. Cunningham
, by J. V. Cunningham. Copyright © 1971 by J. V. Cunningham. Reprinted by permission of Swallow Press/Ohio University Press (Athens, Ohio),
www.ohiou.edu/oupress/
.

“The Changed Man,” from
Spinach Days
, by Robert Phillips. Copyright © 2000 by Robert Phillips. Reprinted by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.

“The Greeting,” from
The Greeting
, by R. H. W. Dillard. Copyright © 1981 by R. H. W. Dillard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Light,” from
Like Water for Chocolate
, by Common. Copyright © 2000 by Bobby Caldwell, Norman Harris, Lonnie Lynn, Bruce Malament, and Jimmy Yancey. Reprinted by permission of Bendan Music (ASCAP), Bobby Caldwell Music/The Music Force LLC, Songs of Universal/Senseless Music Inc. (BMI), and Universal-Polygram Interational/EPHCY (ASCAP).

“The Lingam and the Yoni,” from
Collected Poems 1930–1970
, by A. D. Hope. Copyright © 1966, 1969, 1972 by A. D. Hope. Reprinted by arrangement with A. D. Hope, care of Curtis Brown (Aust) Ptv Ltd.

“The Rival,” from
Ariel
, by Sylvia Plath. Copyright © 1962 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber and Faber Ltd.

“The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter,” from
Personae
, by Ezra Pound. Copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

“Then Came Flowers,” from
The Yellow House on the Corner
, Carnegie Mellon University Press, copyright © 1980 by Rita Dove. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“To an Usherette,” from
Collected Poems 1953–1993
, by John Updike. Copyright © 1993 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Variations on the Word Love,” from
Selected Poems 1966–1984
, by Margaret Atwood. Originally published in True
Stories
. Copyright © 1981 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of the author and Oxford University Press.

“Wet,” from
Mars and Her Children
, by Marge Piercy. Copyright © 1992 by Middlemarsh, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

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