"Every last one of us is someone else's Outsider," Al Young says in the introductory notes for this collection. The poets Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Joy Harjo, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz, among others, address the guises of alienation and loneliness and celebrate the stranger in society.
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Leaving Eden by Nadya Aisenberg
The Double by Joan Aleshire
Boston Year by Elizabeth Alexander
Herbie by David Alpaugh
Itinerary by Doug Anderson
No Tool Or Rope Or Pail by Bob Arnold
Corporeal by Robert A. Ayres
Heading Out West by John Balaban
The Anorexic by Ruth Anderson Barnett
The Crypto-jews by Robin Becker
The Book Of The Dead Man (#58): 1. About The Dead Man Outside by Marvin Bell
The Book Of The Dead Man (#58): 2. More About The Dead Man Outside by Marvin Bell
Nostalgia by Stephen Berg
Without by Bruce Berger
Sea World by Eric Berlin
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How To Approach Your Lover's Wife by Amy Bottke
Radiating Naivete by Lucie Brock-broido
The Good Devil by Kurt Brown
Ellis Island, September 1907 (1) by Andrea Hollander Budy
Little Citizen, Little Survivor by Hayden Carruth
Soul Make A Path Through Shouting by Cyrus Curtis Cassells
We Are Americans Now, We Live In The Tundra by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
Show Biz Parties by Elizabeth Claman
Poem For The Man Who Said Shit by David Clewell
Slaveships by Lucille Clifton
Robert Wilson by Michael Collier
Going Out For Cigarettes by Billy Collins
Brother Body by Peter Cooley
Leaving The Country by Wyn Cooper
The Old Neighborhood by Gerald Costanzo
The Barbells Of The Gods by Mark Cox
Downtown Sunday by Robert (1959-) Crawford
Among Strangers by Silvia Curbelo
Canciones by Kenneth Zamora Damacion
The Mark by Robert Patrick Dana
The Murderer by Christopher Davis
Cuando El Teolote Canta, El Indio Muere by Consuelo De Aerenlund
Exiles by Diana Der-hovanessian
Passing (2) by Toi Derricotte
In The Elementary School Choir by Gregory Djanikian
Exile by Stephen Dobyns
Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded by Lynn Domina
Homo Will Not Inherit by Mark Doty
Patholigist by Ellen Dudley
Letters From An Exile by Valerie Duff
The Guardian Angel by Stephen Elliott Dunn
At Present I Am Working As A Security Guard by Edison Dupree
The Lady In The Pink Mustang by Louise Erdrich
Beloved Spic by Martin Espada
In The Barn by Roger Fanning
Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Martin Jude Farawell
The Party by Donald Finkel
Unrepentant by Brandel France De Bravo
Consent by Carol Frost
Deflection Toward The Relative Minor by Forrest Gander
Nobody Here But Us by Richard Garcia
The Walk by Ethan Gilsdorf
Magnificat! by Michael S. Glaser
Star-spangled by Michele Glazer
On Tv The Face Of The Slaughtered by Lyle Glazier
The Book Of Human Anomalies by Albert Goldbarth
The Man In The Moon by Alvin David Greenberg
On A Certain Field In Auvers by John Haines
Line Up by Forrest Hamer
Anchorage by Joy Harjo
The Tennessee Waltz by James Haug
Poem For Natalia Ginzburg by Anita Helle
The Day Lily And The Fox by Emily Hiestand
Song by Edward Hirsch
Saturday Afternoon, October by Jonathan Holden
Depressive Episode by Janet Holmes
Current Now, Voyager Fantasy by Remy Holzer
Six Small Fires by Paul Jenkins
Poem by Denis Johnson
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like A Black Person by Allison Joseph
Sand Nigger by Lawrence Joseph
Poets by X. J. Kennedy
The Elm Tree On Lafayette Street by Rod Kessler
Restaurant by Maxine Hong Kingston
Memory Of Wilmington by Galway Kinnell
To An Unknown Poet by Carolyn Kizer
Christmas At The Orphanage by Bill Knott
Lazarus by Ronald Boyd Koertge
Tsuneko-psychiatric Medications Clinic by Susan Kolodny
Salt by Yusef Komunyakaa
In The Basement Of The Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
The Riddle Of Noah by Maxine W. Kumin
The Flight Of Apollo by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Learning The War by Wendy Wilder Larsen
Prayer by Dorianne Laux
The Autobiography Of John Doe by Jon Lavieri
Persimmons by Li-young Lee
Soloing by Philip Levine
The Morning After My Death by Larry Levis
Thoreau by Timothy Liu
The Simplest And The Hardest by Margaret Lloyd
The Stranger by Gerald Locklin
Insomnia Litany by Joan Logghe
The Conspiracy by Robert Hill Long
Bodo by Thomas Lux
Gwendolyn Brooks by Haki R. Madhubuti
Mal'occhio by Jennifer Martelli
Pain by Dionisio D. Martinez
Old Folsom Prison by William Matthews
Leaving The Old Gods by Janet Mcadams
The Knife-thrower's Wife by Mekeel Mcbride
The People At The Pay Telephone by Victoria Mccabe
After The Noise Of Saigon by Walter Robert Mcdonald
Black Irish Blues (1) by Joe-anne Mclaughlin
The Exile by Pablo Medina
The Usual Immigrant Uncle Poem by Askold Melnyczuk
Erosion by Christopher Merrill
Enduring Witness, The Mosques Of Kattankudi by Peter Michelson
Midlife by Joseph Millar
The Blueness Of The Day: 1. Mizuno In Paris (1947) by David Mura
The New Boy by Peter E. Murphy
Olmos by Dennis Nurkse
At Mother Teresa's by Naomi Shihab Nye
For The Drunk by Carole Simmons Oles
Androgyny by Stephen Orlen
Two Standards by Elise Paschen
Paredon by Ricardo Pau-llosa
Under Her Crib by Marcia Pelletiere
Jewish by Harvey M. Plotnick
Being A Monster by Lawrence Raab
Paul Verlaine At The Grave Of Lucien Letinois by Bin Ramke
In The New Country by Barbara Ras
Living In At Least Two Worlds by Clem L. Rawlins
David's Rumor by Liam Rector
Parading With The Veterans Of Foreign Wars by Carter Revard
Why She Hurries Out, Then Home by Martha Rhodes
Summons by David Rivard
The Assignment by Len Roberts
For Dear Life by Alane Rollings
Long Division: A Tribal History by Wendy Rose
Shame by Vern Rutsala
Nazis by Ira Sadoff
Name The Oldest Member Of Your Family by Kalamu Ya Salaam
Mute Prophets by Nicholas Samaras
Weight by Jay Schneiders
New Netherland, 1654 by Grace Schulman
The One Polar Bear by Peter Sears
Manic: A Conversation With Jimi Hendrix by Timothy Seibles
To Jerusalem, 1990 by Myra Shapiro
Divorced by Donald (don) Share
The One Secret That Has Carried by Jason Shinder
Falling For Jesus by Enid Shomer
The Inner Man by Charles Simic
A Comment On My Host by Mark Solomon
Cajun by Sheryl A. St. Germain
Space by Maura Stanton
Diary by Gerald Stern
Portrait by Constance Urdang
Woman Who Weeps by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Upstate by Derek Walcott
On Being Kicked Out Of The Harold Washington Library Center For Nappin by Thom Ward
Max Jacob At Saint Benoit by Rosanna Warren
Battered Toddler, Page B6 by Ellen Dore Watson
Beggars by Charles Harper Webb
Everyone Who Wants To Work Can by Brooke Wiese
The Cure by Eugene Wildman
The Critic by Charles Kenneth Williams
She-who-watches...the Names Are Prayer by Elizabeth A. Woody
In And Out Of Checkpoints by Ye Weilian
The Example by Paul Zimmer
Evolution Of Appetite by Kelleen Zubick
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Leaving Eden by Nadya Aisenberg
The Double by Joan Aleshire
Boston Year by Elizabeth Alexander
Herbie by David Alpaugh
Itinerary by Doug Anderson
No Tool Or Rope Or Pail by Bob Arnold
Corporeal by Robert A. Ayres
Heading Out West by John Balaban
The Anorexic by Ruth Anderson Barnett
The Crypto-jews by Robin Becker
The Book Of The Dead Man (#58): 1. About The Dead Man Outside by Marvin Bell
The Book Of The Dead Man (#58): 2. More About The Dead Man Outside by Marvin Bell
Nostalgia by Stephen Berg
Without by Bruce Berger
Sea World by Eric Berlin
When You Are Grown, Amanda Rose by Laura Boss
How To Approach Your Lover's Wife by Amy Bottke
Radiating Naivete by Lucie Brock-broido
The Good Devil by Kurt Brown
Ellis Island, September 1907 (1) by Andrea Hollander Budy
Little Citizen, Little Survivor by Hayden Carruth
Soul Make A Path Through Shouting by Cyrus Curtis Cassells
We Are Americans Now, We Live In The Tundra by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
Show Biz Parties by Elizabeth Claman
Poem For The Man Who Said Shit by David Clewell
Slaveships by Lucille Clifton
Robert Wilson by Michael Collier
Going Out For Cigarettes by Billy Collins
Brother Body by Peter Cooley
Leaving The Country by Wyn Cooper
The Old Neighborhood by Gerald Costanzo
The Barbells Of The Gods by Mark Cox
Downtown Sunday by Robert (1959-) Crawford
Among Strangers by Silvia Curbelo
Canciones by Kenneth Zamora Damacion
The Mark by Robert Patrick Dana
The Murderer by Christopher Davis
Cuando El Teolote Canta, El Indio Muere by Consuelo De Aerenlund
Exiles by Diana Der-hovanessian
Passing (2) by Toi Derricotte
In The Elementary School Choir by Gregory Djanikian
Exile by Stephen Dobyns
Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded by Lynn Domina
Homo Will Not Inherit by Mark Doty
Patholigist by Ellen Dudley
Letters From An Exile by Valerie Duff
The Guardian Angel by Stephen Elliott Dunn
At Present I Am Working As A Security Guard by Edison Dupree
The Lady In The Pink Mustang by Louise Erdrich
Beloved Spic by Martin Espada
In The Barn by Roger Fanning
Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Martin Jude Farawell
The Party by Donald Finkel
Unrepentant by Brandel France De Bravo
Consent by Carol Frost
Deflection Toward The Relative Minor by Forrest Gander
Nobody Here But Us by Richard Garcia
The Walk by Ethan Gilsdorf
Magnificat! by Michael S. Glaser
Star-spangled by Michele Glazer
On Tv The Face Of The Slaughtered by Lyle Glazier
The Book Of Human Anomalies by Albert Goldbarth
The Man In The Moon by Alvin David Greenberg
On A Certain Field In Auvers by John Haines
Line Up by Forrest Hamer
Anchorage by Joy Harjo
The Tennessee Waltz by James Haug
Poem For Natalia Ginzburg by Anita Helle
The Day Lily And The Fox by Emily Hiestand
Song by Edward Hirsch
Saturday Afternoon, October by Jonathan Holden
Depressive Episode by Janet Holmes
Current Now, Voyager Fantasy by Remy Holzer
Six Small Fires by Paul Jenkins
Poem by Denis Johnson
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like A Black Person by Allison Joseph
Sand Nigger by Lawrence Joseph
Poets by X. J. Kennedy
The Elm Tree On Lafayette Street by Rod Kessler
Restaurant by Maxine Hong Kingston
Memory Of Wilmington by Galway Kinnell
To An Unknown Poet by Carolyn Kizer
Christmas At The Orphanage by Bill Knott
Lazarus by Ronald Boyd Koertge
Tsuneko-psychiatric Medications Clinic by Susan Kolodny
Salt by Yusef Komunyakaa
In The Basement Of The Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
The Riddle Of Noah by Maxine W. Kumin
The Flight Of Apollo by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Learning The War by Wendy Wilder Larsen
Prayer by Dorianne Laux
The Autobiography Of John Doe by Jon Lavieri
Persimmons by Li-young Lee
Soloing by Philip Levine
The Morning After My Death by Larry Levis
Thoreau by Timothy Liu
The Simplest And The Hardest by Margaret Lloyd
The Stranger by Gerald Locklin
Insomnia Litany by Joan Logghe
The Conspiracy by Robert Hill Long
Bodo by Thomas Lux
Gwendolyn Brooks by Haki R. Madhubuti
Mal'occhio by Jennifer Martelli
Pain by Dionisio D. Martinez
Old Folsom Prison by William Matthews
Leaving The Old Gods by Janet Mcadams
The Knife-thrower's Wife by Mekeel Mcbride
The People At The Pay Telephone by Victoria Mccabe
After The Noise Of Saigon by Walter Robert Mcdonald
Black Irish Blues (1) by Joe-anne Mclaughlin
The Exile by Pablo Medina
The Usual Immigrant Uncle Poem by Askold Melnyczuk
Erosion by Christopher Merrill
Enduring Witness, The Mosques Of Kattankudi by Peter Michelson
Midlife by Joseph Millar
The Blueness Of The Day: 1. Mizuno In Paris (1947) by David Mura
The New Boy by Peter E. Murphy
Olmos by Dennis Nurkse
At Mother Teresa's by Naomi Shihab Nye
For The Drunk by Carole Simmons Oles
Androgyny by Stephen Orlen
Two Standards by Elise Paschen
Paredon by Ricardo Pau-llosa
Under Her Crib by Marcia Pelletiere
Jewish by Harvey M. Plotnick
Being A Monster by Lawrence Raab
Paul Verlaine At The Grave Of Lucien Letinois by Bin Ramke
In The New Country by Barbara Ras
Living In At Least Two Worlds by Clem L. Rawlins
David's Rumor by Liam Rector
Parading With The Veterans Of Foreign Wars by Carter Revard
Why She Hurries Out, Then Home by Martha Rhodes
Summons by David Rivard
The Assignment by Len Roberts
For Dear Life by Alane Rollings
Long Division: A Tribal History by Wendy Rose
Shame by Vern Rutsala
Nazis by Ira Sadoff
Name The Oldest Member Of Your Family by Kalamu Ya Salaam
Mute Prophets by Nicholas Samaras
Weight by Jay Schneiders
New Netherland, 1654 by Grace Schulman
The One Polar Bear by Peter Sears
Manic: A Conversation With Jimi Hendrix by Timothy Seibles
To Jerusalem, 1990 by Myra Shapiro
Divorced by Donald (don) Share
The One Secret That Has Carried by Jason Shinder
Falling For Jesus by Enid Shomer
The Inner Man by Charles Simic
A Comment On My Host by Mark Solomon
Cajun by Sheryl A. St. Germain
Space by Maura Stanton
Diary by Gerald Stern
Portrait by Constance Urdang
Woman Who Weeps by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Upstate by Derek Walcott
On Being Kicked Out Of The Harold Washington Library Center For Nappin by Thom Ward
Max Jacob At Saint Benoit by Rosanna Warren
Battered Toddler, Page B6 by Ellen Dore Watson
Beggars by Charles Harper Webb
Everyone Who Wants To Work Can by Brooke Wiese
The Cure by Eugene Wildman
The Critic by Charles Kenneth Williams
She-who-watches...the Names Are Prayer by Elizabeth A. Woody
In And Out Of Checkpoints by Ye Weilian
The Example by Paul Zimmer
Evolution Of Appetite by Kelleen Zubick
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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