Poetry With Dogs – Page 26 – Jay Ruud

Carrie Fountain’s “Prayer (Close)” & “Prayer (Stranger)”

Jericho Brown’s “As a Human Being”

José Olivarez’s “A Mexican Dreams of Heaven”

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

From John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Sharon Olds’ “Secondary Boycott Ode”

Chaucer’s “Truth,” or the “Ballade de bon conseyl”

Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care”

Lord Byron’s “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”

Rita Dove’s “Fifth Grade Autobiography”