Classic and Contemporary Poets

X. J. KENNEDY

Poems found: 446

4TH STANZA FOR DR. JOHNSON, DONALD HALL

ABOMINABLE BASEBALL BAT

ABSENTMINDED BARTENDER

AGED WINO'S COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAN ...

AGNES SNAGGLETOOTH

ALL AROUND THE YEAR

AMONG STOOL PIDGEONS

ANIMALS YOU EAT

AT A LOW MASS FOR TWO HOT-RODDERS

AT BROWN CRANE PAVILION

AT THE DOG SHOW, HELOISE

AT THE DUCKPOND STEFF, THAT OAF

AT THE LAUNDROMAT LIZ MEYER

AT THE TENNIS COURT, PAUL PEST

AT THE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

ATHEIST'S STIGMATA

AUNT RECTITA'S GOOD FRIDAY

BARKING DOG BLUES

BASIL IN THE JUNGLE BRAKE

BATHING NEAR OAHU, MAY

BATTLE ACCOUNTED FOR

BEARDSLEY MOMENT

BLACK VELVET ART

BLESSING OF THE BIKES

BLUES FOR OEDIPUS

BOULDER, COLORADO

BOWLING ALLEY WONDER

CAMPFIRE-COOKING, ELOISE

CAMPING IN GRAND CANYON PARK

CARRYING ON WITHOUT HIM

CELEBRATIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF JOHN BRENNAN

CHORTLING 'HO HO! THIS'LL LEARN US.'

CHRISTMAS ABRUPTED

CHRISTMAS KALEIDOSCOPE

CITY CHURCHYARD

CITY CHURCHYARD

COMING CLOSE TO DROWNING

COMPOSITION THEORY

CONSUMER'S REPORT

COST OF A STING

CREATION MORNING

DANCING WITH THE POETS AT PIGGY'S

DAUGHTER IN THE HOUSE

DEATH OF A WINDOW WASHER

DEATH OF PROFESSOR BACKWARDS

DESTROYING OLD LOVELETTERS

DEVIL'S ADVICE TO POETS

DIRTY ENGLISH POTATOES

DOMESTIC CRISIS

DORIS DRUMMOND SNEAKED A LOOK

DRIVERS OF DIAPER SERVICE TRUCKS ARE SAD

DRIVING CROSS-COUNTRY

EARLY APRIL RATTLES SEVERELY PROFESSOR OGLEBOCK

EMILY DICKINSON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

EMILY DICKINSON LEAVES A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, NOW THAT HER HOMESTEAD

EMMA, WHO ENJOYS A JAPE

EMPTY HOUSE SINGING TO ITSELF

FACES FROM A BESTIARY

FEELING FAMISHED, LESTER FRIED

FIRST CONFESSION

FIRST CONFESSION

FIRST ONE OUT OF BED

FIVE-AND-DIME, LATE THIRTIES

FLAGELLANT'S SONG

FLYING UPTOWN BACKWARDS

FOOTPATH NEAR GETHSEMANE

FOR A HARMLESS APRIL RAIN

FOR A MAIDEN LADY

FOR A SMALL BOY'S STONE

FOR HIS NATURE PROJECT. SHERM

FORTY-SEVENTH STREET CRASH

FOUNTAIN AND THE DRAIN

FOUR ANCIENT WHEEZES

GENEVIEVE WHILE FATHER TUSSLES

GHASTLY CARIBBEAN LOBSTER

GHOST OF MY UNFINISHED PH.D.

GIRL WHO'S MOVED AROUND

GIVING IN TO YOU

GOLD BOUGHT HERE

GOSNOLD! WATCH OUT WITH THAT MATCH

GREAT CHAIN OF BEING

HALLOWEEN DISGUISES

HAMLET IN A NUTSHELL

HARKNESS PARKED HIS HOWLING HOUND

HARSH DAYS KNEEL UPON WESSEX AGRICULTURE

HELD IN SUSPENSE

HICKENTHRIFT AND HICKENLOOP

HIKING IN THE ROCKIES, MIDGE

HISS! A GULP! WHERE ARE YOU, NILES

HOME WITH SEASHORE TREASURES, TRISH

HOW TO STAY UP LATE

HOW TO WATCH STATUES

HUMBERT, HIKING MOONSHINE HILL

HURRY, DOCTOR! GREEDY GREG'S

I ANSWER AN S.O.S.

IF YOU SHOULD TOUR A PYRAMID

IGNATZ MOTT IGNORED THE RULE

IN A DRY SEASON

IN A KANGAROO ONE DAY

IN A PROMINENT BAR IN SECAUCUS ONE DAY

IN A PROMINENT BAR IN SECAUCUS ONE DAY

IN A SECRET FIELD

IN HIS ROTTED ROWBOAT, RIP

IN THE BAKERY DIANE

IN THE DRUGSTORE HANNAH HOOVER

IN THE KITCHEN KITTY SPENDER

IN THE ROCKIES, RECKLESS BASIL

IN THE VIDEO SHOP

INSCRIPTIONS AFTER FACT, SELS.

INTO MOTHER'S SLIDE TROMBONE

INTO MOTHER'S SLIDE TROMBONE

INVASION AND RETREAT

JAPANESE BEETLES

JAPANESE BEETLES (1)

JAPANESE BEETLES (10). TO A YOUNG POET

JAPANESE BEETLES (3)

JAPANESE BEETLES (4). PARODY: HERRICK

JAPANESE BEETLES (5). THE MINOTAUR'S ADVICE

JAPANESE BEETLES (6)

JAPANESE BEETLES (7). TRANSLATOR

JAPANESE BEETLES (8). TO A NOW-TYPE POET

JAPANESE BEETLES (9). AT A SALE OF A MANUSCRIPT

JAPANESE BEETLES, SELS: #24

JAPANESE BEETLES, SELS: ON A GIVEN BOOK

JAPANESE BEETLES: SEX MANUAL

JUST BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO, GREER

KEEP A HAND ON YOUR DREAM

KITE THAT BRAVED OLD ORCHARD BEACH

KOREAN EMERGENCY

KRAKEN [OR, KRACKEN]

LADIES LOOKING FOR LICE

LAMENT FOR CAPITAL LETTERS

LANDSCAPES W. SET-SCREWS, SELS.

LANDSCAPES WITH SET-SCREWS, SELS.

LANDSCAPES WITH SET-SCREWS; I.

LANDSCAPES WITH SET-SCREWS; II.

LAST LINES: 1. FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY

LAST LINES: 2. ON A BOXER

LAST LINES: 3. ON A WRESTLER

LAST LINES: 4. TEUTONIC SCHOLAR

LATE NIGHT FLIGHT

LIGHTING A FIRE

LIGHTNING? THAT'S AN OLD WIVES' TALE

LITTLE ELEGY; FOR A CHILD WHO SKIPPED ROPE

LIZABET'S SONG TO THE SENATE

LONELINESS OF LINCOLN

LONG-DISTANCE CALL

LOUISE, A WHIZ AT CURLING HAIR

LURKING ON THE STREAM'S BANK, CLAIRE

MAMA BEAR, YOU'LL NEVER MISS

MAN WITH THE TAN HANDS

MAPLES IN JANUARY

MAURA POURED SOME TRANQUILIZER

MEANING WELL, MINERVA JEAN

MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

MERELY FOR A LAUGH, LORRAINE

MORE ROTTEN BRATS

MOTHER'S NERVES

MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING IN PERU

MY FISHBOWL HEAD

MY WINDOW SCREEN

NASAL REPRODUCTION

NEW YEAR'S ADVICE FROM MY CORNISH GRANDMOTHER

NO NEUTRAL STONE

NOTHING IN HEAVEN FUNCTIONS AS IT OUGHT

NOTICING AN OPEN-DOORED

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

O'RILEY'S LATE-BLOOMED LITTLE SON

OFF THE ROOFTOP CORA KOTCH

OLD MEN PITCHING HORSESHOES

ON A BET, FOOLHARDLY SAM

ON A CHILD WHO LIVED ONE MINUTE

ON A CHILD WHO LIVED ONE MINUTE

ON A FACTORY TOUR, WILL GOSSAGE

ON A TRIP THROUGH YELLOWSTONE

ON BEING ACCUSED OF WIT

ON HALLOWEEN, WHEN GHOSTS GO BOO

ON HIS MOTORBIKE LARS STANDS

ON HOWARD NEMEROV

ON THE GOLF COURSE GERTRUDE SPIED

ON THE LIQUIDATION OF THE MUSTANG RANCH BY THE INTERNAL REV

ON THE OLD FORMS

ON THE OLD MILL'S ROTTEN ROOF

ON THE PROPOSED SEIZURE OF TWELVE GRAVES IN A COLONIAL CEMETERY

ONAN'S SOLILOQUY

ONE A.M. WITH VOICES

ONE DAY WHILE STEAMING UP THE AMAZON

ONE WINTER NIGHT IN AUGUST

ONE-NIGHT HOMECOMING

OOL ABOUT TO PROCLAIM A PARABLE

OVER MOM'S PIANO KEYS

PANIC STRUCK FLIGHT NINE-OH-NINE

PAUL, IN AUNT PRU'S PRUNE SURPRISE

PHANTOM OF WOODLAND HOMES

PLAYING BEAVER, BUSY KEITH

PLAYING SOCCER, PLATO FOLEY

PRESENTS FROM THE FLOOD

PURPOSE OF TIME IS TO PREVENT EVERYTHING FROM HAPPENING

QUENT, BECAUSE AUNT DRU DREADS QUAKES

RAIN INTO RIVER

REED, WHO DIDN'T REASON WELL

REGGIE, SKILLED AT IMITATING

RENAISSANCE HISTORY

ROASTING PUMPKIN SEEDS

ROBERT FROST DISCOVERS ANOTHER ROAD NOT TAKEN

ROTTEN REVEILLE

SAILORS WITH THE CLAP

SCANDAL IN THE SUBURBS

SCHIZOPHRENIC GIRL

SECRET JOY OF DIVING BELLS

SEPARATED BANKS

SHARING THE SCORE

SHOULD ALL OF THIS COME TRUE

SISYPHUS SISYPHUS

SLEEPING BAG AND ALL, FRITZ FRY

SLEEPY SCHOOLBUS

SNEAKING IN ON SOUNDLESS SNEAKERS

SNICKERING LIKE CRAZY, SUE

SNOOPING ROUND THE CLINIC, CRAIG

SNOWFLAKE SOUFFLE

SOCIAL DISTINCTION

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

SONG FOR SALVADOR DALI

SONG TO THE TUNE OF 'SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL'

SONG: ENLIGHTENMENT

SPECULATING WOMAN

STAN SAID, GUESS I'LL DO SOME SEWING

STARING INTO A RIVER TILL MOVED BY IT

STEALING EGGS, FRITZ RAN AFOUL

STEPHANIE, THAT LITTLE STINKER

STEWART WITH A PEA-SHOOTER STIRRED

STILTS, THE TALLEST EVER BUILT

SUCCESS IN THE CHURCH

SUMMER CHILDREN

SUZETTE SMART DID SOMETHING DUMB

SWITCHED CAREER

TALKING DUST BOWL

TELEVISION NOSE

TEN BILLION CROWS

TEN BILLION CROWS

TENDING A COOKOUT IN POURING RAIN

TERSE ELEGY FOR J. V. CUNNINGHAM

THINKING IT HARD CANDY, RUBE

THOUGH HIS FRIENDS WITH FEARFUL SQUEALS

THREE EPIGRAMS ON POETRY: FALLING-OUT FROM GLORY

THREE EPIGRAMS ON POETRY: FOR JAMES DICKEY

THREE EPIGRAMS ON POETRY: THEODORE ROETHKE

TIME MACHINE! ROB FELT AN ITCH

TO A FORGETFUL WISHING WELL

TO A FRIEND WHOM A LITERARY PRIZE PASSED OVER

TO A YOUNG POET

TO AN ANGRY GOD

TO DOROTHY ON HER EXCLUSION FROM THE GUINNESS BOOK ...

TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION, BRENT

TO OPEN CANS OF COLA, LIL

TO THE ONE-EYED POETS

TO THE WRITERS FORBIDDEN TO WRITE

TOLD TO WASH POOCH, AWFUL ARCH

TOURING TV STUDIOS

TRAVELER'S WARNINGS, SELS.

TRISH UPON THE RAILROAD TRACKS

TROUBLE IN TOWN

TRYING TO MAKE TIME ON A COUNTRY HIGHWAY

TRYING TO WRITE THANK-YOU LETTERS

TWELVE DEAD, HUNDREDS HOMELESS

TWO APPARITIONS

TWO VIEWS OF RHYME AND METER

UNCLE OOL'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ILL-PAID LIFE OF VERSE

UNEXPLAINED OUCH

VACUUM CLEANER'S SWALLOWED WILL

VINCE RELEASED A JAR OF VERMIN

VISIT TO THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE

WALLACE FIRED HIS WATER PISTOL

WAR NEWSCAST IN ST. THOMAS

WATERBURY CROSS

WEST SOMERVILLE, MASS.

WHALES OFF WALES

WHERE THE HUGE SEA TORTOISE SITS

WHERE WILL WE RUN TO

WHERE WILL WE RUN TO

WHILE THE FRUIT BOILS, MOM SENDS LARS

WHO TO PET AND WHO NOT TO

WICKED WITCH'S KITCHEN

WILBURFORCE FONG

WITH HER FELT PEN FLO, THAT WRETCH

WITH THE GARDEN SPRINKLER BRETT

YIELDING TO HIS YEN TO ROAM

YOU OUGHTN'T TO HAVE MADE IT, BERT

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