JAMES TATE

• The Trust (2022)

• The Bag of Feed (2020)

• Heaven (2020)

• The Cognac (2020)

• The Humming (2020)

• The Disappearing Wife (2020)

• In the Rough (2020)

• A Good Date (2020)

• Spaceship (2020)

• The White Thing (2020)

• A Shift in the Attic (2019)

• The Phone Call (2019)

• Double-Trouble (2019)

• The Walk Home (2019)

• The Truth (2019)

• The Thief (2019)

• The Government Lake (2019)

• The Afterlife (2017)

• Untitled (2016)

• Untitled (2015)

• The Escapade (2015)

• A Vagabond (2015)

• Dear Mr. President (2013)

• Camp of No Return (2012)

• The Interrupted Flow (2012)

• Conspiracy (2012)

• Mount Fuji (2012)

• Marcella in the Forest (2012)

• Our Roles in Life (2012)

• The Chickadee (2012)

• Unlikely Friends (2012)

• The Kiss (2012)

• The Aviary (2012)

• Flight (2011)

• Honey, Can You Hear Me (2009)

• A Last Hayride (2008)

• Making the Best of the Holidays (2008)

• The March (2008)

• Father's Day (2007)

• The New Horses (2007)

• Lost River (2005)

• Brittle Family Photographs (2005)

• Spiderwebs (2005)

• The Loser (2004)

• The Search for Lost Lives (2004)

• Bounden Duty (2004)

• What Had To Be Done (2004)

• Banking Rules (2004)

• The Shadowman (2003)

• At the Clothesline (2003)

• Very Late, but Not Too Late (2003)

• Lucinda (2003)

• Barroom Confession (2003)

• Song of the Nightingales (2003)

• Collect Call from Nepal (2003)

• The Rally (2003)

• How the People Live (2003)

• Half-Eaten (2002)

• Ancient Story (2002)

• The Promotion (2002)

• It Happens Like This (2002)

• A Shipwrecked Person (2002)

• Somali Shopping for Organic Figs (2002)

• Lust for Life (2001)

• Shiloh (2001)

• The Workforce (2001)

• The Florist (2001)

• The Nimbus (2001)

• The Fragrant Cloud (2001)

• For the Love of Veronica (2001)

• Cricket Cricket (2001)

• Wild Beasts (2000)

• Precious Little We Can Do (2000)

• Witches (2000)

• The Diagnosis (2000)

• Right Conduct (2000)

• The Painter of the Night (2000)

• Denied Areas (1999)

• A Knock on the Door (1997)

• The Definition of Gardening (1997)

• Restless Leg Syndrome (1997)

• Shroud of the Gnome (1997)

• Damaged Stopper with Marigold (1996)

• Different Kinds of Embroidery (1996)

• Never Again the Same (1996)

• The New Chinese Fiction (1994)

• A Fox (1993)

• The Early Years (1993)

• Rainy Day (1993)

• From an Island (1993)

• More Later, Less the Same (1992)

• A Bar in Aspen (1991)

• Pimone, Stranded in the Countryside (1991)

• Porch Theory (1991)

• More About Peggy (1991)

• Pimone, Stranded in the Countryside (1991)

• The Beach (1991)

• Summer, Maine Coast (1991)

• Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers (1991)

• Fuck the Astronauts (1991)

• The Motorcyclists (1991)

• The Lost Pilot (1991)

• Poem to Some of My Recent Poems (1991)

• A Vagabond (1991)

• The Wheelchair Butterfly (1991)

• The Chaste Stranger (1991)

• A Wedding (1991)

• On the Subject of Doctors (1991)

• The Expert (1990)

• I Am a Finn (1990)

• Teaching the Ape to Write Poems (1990)

• Anatomy (1989)

• Certain Nuances, Certain Gestures (1989)

• City at Night (1989)

• Consolations After an Affair (1989)

• Crimes Against the Lyric (1989)

• Haunted Aquarium (1989)

• Mimi (1989)

• No Spitting Up (1989)

• Trying to Help (1989)

• The Banner (1988)

• Bewitched (1988)

• Burn Down the Town, No Survivors (1988)

• The Condemned Man (1988)

• Editor (1988)

• How Was Your Day? (1988)

• Indivisible (1988)

• A Little Skull (1988)

• Pastoral (1988)

• Quabbin Reservoir (1988)

• Saturdays Are For Bathing Betsy (1988)

• You Are My Destination and Desire, Fading (1988)

• Nuisance (1987)

• The List of Famous Hats (1985)

• Storm (1983)

• Constant Defender (1982)

• The Honking (1982)

• It Wasn't Me (1981)

• To Fuzzy (1981)

• Red Bricks and Camphor Trees (1981)

• With a Child All Day (1978)

• In New York (1975)

• Two For Charles Simic (1975)

• Rising Absenteeism (1975)

• Zebras Anything (1975)

• Journal of Youth (1975)

• Poem (I Can't Speak for the Wind) (1973)

• Sensitive Ears (1973)

• From Absences (1972)

• Alert (1972)

• One Traveller to Another (1972)

• My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry (1971)

• Breathing (1970)

• Shadowboxing (1970)

• Saint John of the Cross in Prison (1970)

• Why You Wanna Know What Time It Is You Got an Appointment with Your Analyst (1970)

• The Blue Booby (1969)

• Cryptozoa (1969)

• The Square at Dawn (1969)

• Pride's Crossing (1969)

• Jim's All-Night Diner (1968)

• Leaving Mother Waiting for Father (1968)

• The Whole World's Sadly Talking to Itself (1967)

• Pity Ascending with the Fog (1967)

• Coda (1967)

• Rescue (1967)

• The Salute (1967)

• The Cages (1967)

• The Lost Pilot (1966)

• Success Comes to Cow Creek (1966)

forthcoming: a list of poems appearing in print