Villanelle Central



Villanelle by W. H. Auden

Travis Bickle's Villanelle by R.D. Baker

Spilled by Bruce Bennett

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Improvisation, Palimpsest, Penny Arcade, and Labyrinth, by Jared Carter

Saturday at the Border by Hayden Carruth

What Goes Around Comes Around by Cheryl Clarke

Cold Reading by Brendan Constantine

The Rapist's Villanelle and Entropic Villanelle by Tom Disch

Villanelle of Marguerites by Ernest Dowson

Missing Dates and Villanelle by William Empson

The Last of the Courtyard by Emily Grosholz

Six Villanelles by Beth Gylys

Villanelle and Villanelle: Late Summer by Marilyn Hacker

Villanelle for an Anniversary by Seamus Heaney

Prospects by Anthony Hecht

The Stalker's Villanelle by Jeff Holt

Villanelle at Sundown by Donald Justice

Thoughtball Villanelle by Julie Kane

On a line from Valery by Carolyn Kizer

The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views by Maxine Kumin

In Hot Pursuit by Timothy Liu

How Long Do You Think the Human Race Will Exist? by Emily Lloyd

Fool's Gold by Constance Merritt

Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's First Villanelle to his Ladye and Ye Difficulties Thereof by Eugene O'Neill

Admonitions, Doomsday, To Eva Descending the Stair, and Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Northampton Style by Marie Ponsot

My First Villanelle by John M. Ridland

Villanelle of Change by Edward Arlington Robinson

The Right Thing and The Waking by Theodore Roethke

To Say it Using Just a Villanelle by Louis William Rose

A Fit of Form Against Form by Peter Schaeffer

Villanelle on a Chinese Proverb by Biljana Scott

Drawing After Summer by David Shapiro

Voice Mail Villanelle by Dan Skwire

Two de Chiricos by Mark Strand

Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Chatty Cathy Villanelle by David Trinidad

I Jokes by Ken Waldman (click on "Nome Poems")

Daughters, 1900 by Marilyn Nelson Waniek

My Son the Collector by Larry Whatley

Rockin' a Man, Stone Blind by Carolyn Beard Whitlow

Theocritus: a Villanelle by Oscar Wilde

A Villanelle for the Cows by Paul O. Williams



curated by emily lloyd @ poesy galore
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