August update: 60 poems by 23 poets

Sweet simmering.
Sunlight bruises air

Pine trees blacken.
Where shall I go?

—Meena Alexander, "Lychees"

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is nearing its end—soon, as E. Pauline Johnson would have it, to be "lying asleep." To celebrate these last long days, we've brought together 60 poems for you, by 23 great poets from across times and places: poems to read now and to carry with you for seasons to come.

To begin, discover works by six dazzling contemporary poets of the US, UK, and India:

• Kayo Chingonyi – "Orphan Song," "Some Bright Elegance"
• Eve L. Ewing – "I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store," "to the notebook kid," "why you cannot touch my hair"
• Will Harris – "State-Building"
• K. Srilata – "Arriving Shortly," "Bionote," "England, 1999," "Ghutan/Suffocation"
• Ada Limón – "The Conditional," "Instructions on Not Giving Up"
  
• Maya Phillips – "23 Madison Avenue," "Dido," "Haunt," "Revision"

And explore poems by 11 late poets new to our site, whose writing lives range from the classical era to the 21st century:

• Meena Alexander – "Lychees"
• Lucille Clifton – "birth-day," "blessing the boats," "the river between us," "study the masters"
• Horace – "Ode 2.10"
• June Jordan – "Nobody Riding the Roads Today," "Poem for Haruko," "These Poems"
• Egbert Martin – "Inscription," "A Shaded Spot," "Sky Pictures"
• Andrew Marvell – "The Mower Against Gardens," "The Mower to the Glow-Worms," "The Mower's Song"
• W. S. Merwin – "Kites," "Lunar Landscape," "Rain Light"
• Henry Reed – "Naming of Parts"
• Stevie Smith – "Not Waving but Drowning," "Pretty"
• Wallace Stevens – "The Snow Man," "The World As Meditation"
• Rabindranath Tagore – "The Gardener 6," "The Gardener 28," "The Gardener 38," "The Gardener 62," "The Gardener 85," "Keep me fully glad..."

Don't forget to delve into newly added work by outstanding poets of the canon you may have already encountered in our poetry archive:

• Austin Clarke – "The Blackbird of Derrycairn," "The Lost Heifer," "The Planter's Daughter"
• Emily Dickinson – "Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower," "It’s all I have to bring today," "The Grass so little has to do," "This World is not Conclusion"
• Paul Laurence Dunbar – "In Summer"
• Augusta, Lady Gregory – "Alas! A Woman May Not Love!," "Donal Og"
• E. Pauline Johnson – "Harvest Time," "Low Tide at St. Andrews"
• Vladimir Nabokov – "On Translating 'Eugene Onegin,'" "from Pale Fire"

We hope, our dear readers, that you'll both rediscover old favorites and make new ones in this end-of-summer poetry offering!