Winter update: 31 poets, 75 poems
Emptying myself
of all things ripe
and wanton, I am winter grass.
—Victoria Kennefick, "January"
It's chilly out with a chance of snow, and dusk is gathering... Scroll down to step inside and warm yourself by the fire with 75 poems new to our site, by 31 brilliant poets past and present.

Photo by Matthew Thompson.
Please welcome nine contemporary poets based in the US, Ireland, and the UK to our poetry archive for the first time:
- John Agard - "Doing My Bit for Pomp and Pageantry," "This Thing Called Gardening: 10: The Margin & 13: Seed," "Weeds"
- Aldo Amparán - "Aubade at the City of Change," "Genealogy," "Lullaby, After You Left the Immigrant Shelter"
- Jane Clarke - "After," "Becoming," "Little Tern Colony, Kilcoole," "Passage"
- Ama Codjoe - "Blueprint," "Heaven as Olympic Spa," "Le Sacre du printemps," "Lotioning My Mother's Back," "Why I Left the Garden"
- Imtiaz Dharker - "At the Lahore Karhai," "Women Bathing"
- Donika Kelly - "Dear— (We come from abundance)," "In the Chapel of St. Mary's," "Love Poem," "Self-Portrait in Labyrinth"
- Mícheál McCann - "Devotion: 4. Impromptu Evening," "Haircut with Beard Trimmer," "Keen for A— (4 sections)," "Poet and Cat"
- Craig Santos Perez - "A Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef," "Love in a Time of Climate Change"
- Solmaz Sharif - "America," "He, Too," "Now What"
If you'd like more of these poets, Ama Codjoe and Solmaz Sharif appeared on the first season of our podcast, The Glimpse.
We've also added works by six late poets new to our site:
- Otto Leland Bohanan - "The Dawn's Awake," "Paean," "Villanelle"
- Lewis Carroll - "All in the golden afternoon," "Jabberwocky"
- Arthur Hugh Clough - "Say not the Struggle nought Availeth"
- Michael Drayton - "Amour 30: Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee," "Idea 37: Dear, why should you command me to my rest," "Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part"
- Kenneth Koch - "One Train May Hide Another"
- William Carlos Williams - "January," "The Lonely Street," "Summer Song," "Willow Poem"

Photo by Matthew Thompson.
Ready to throw another log on the fire? Enjoy more poems new to our site from 16 poets whose work we've previously featured, three currently writing and 13 from the past:
- Meena Alexander - "Muse"
- Anna Lætitia Barbauld - "Song VI," "A Summer Evening's Meditation"
- Gwendolyn Bennett - "Moon Tonight"
- Elizabeth Bishop - "The Armadillo," "The Fish," "Sandpiper," "Sestina"
- Gwendolyn Brooks - "the sonnet-ballad"
- Carrie Williams Clifford - "The Gift"
- Angelica Weld Grimké - "A Winter Twilight"
- Seán Hewitt - "Ilex," "Psalm," "Suibhne Is Wounded, and Confesses," "Wild Garlic"
- John Keats - "On the Sea," "To Sleep"
- Victoria Kennefick - "January," "Swing," "A Young Girl Considers Her Grandmother, Ballinamona 1921"
- Thomas Moore - "The Last Rose of Summer," "When ’Midst the Gay I Meet"
- Yone Noguchi - "Hokku"
- Arthur O’Shaughnessy - "Has summer come without the rose," "I made another garden, yea"
- John Crowe Ransom - "The Swimmer," "Winter Remembered"
- Padraig Regan - "Life Drawing: Jacob," "Rehydrating Mushrooms," "Salt Island"
- J. M. Synge - "Winter"
We hope these poems will help keep out the draft during the winter to come!