Fall update: 70 poems by 37 poets

October is the treasurer of the year,
And all the months pay bounty to her store;
The fields and orchards still their tribute bear,
And fill her brimming coffers more and more.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, "October"

As fall brings down leaves and breathes a chill into the air, the urge to curl up in a cozy chair with a good poem becomes an imperative. To encourage our readers in this perfect cold-weather pursuit, we're offering up 70 poems by 37 outstanding poets, from the seasonal to the timeless, all the way from the 17th century to today.

First, enjoy poems by nine contemporary poets new to our site, from early-career phenoms to established voices of the canon:

• Desiree C. Bailey - "Island," "Ma and the Snake," "Malady"
• Kayleb Rae Candrilli - "Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would," "One Geography of Belonging," "Water we won't touch," "We remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the topsoil)"
• Eduardo C. Corral - "Questions for My Body," "Saguaro," "Song of the Open Road"
• Isabel Duarte-Gray - "Cutter Quilt"
• Annie Fan - "My Grandmother Tells Me About a Famine," "Sonnet Which Is Not a Sonnet"
• Patricia Kirkpatrick - "The Border," "The Grasses," "Poem Without a Subject"
• Brandy Nālani McDougall - "Water Remembers"
• Pascale Petit - "Kew Gardens"
• Robert Pinsky - "The Green Piano," "Ode to Meaning"

Plus, discover work by ten late poets whose poems we haven't shared before, from the US, UK, Australia, and India:

• Agha Shahid Ali - "Postcard from Kashmir," "The Season of the Plains"
• Ruth Muskrat Bronson - "If You Knew," "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
• Carrie Williams Clifford - "Quest," "Silent Protest Parade," "Tomorrow," "Weeds"
• Jack Gilbert - "Bring in the Gods," "Trying To Write Poetry"
• A. D. Hope - "Meditation on a Bone," "Tiger"
• Mary Lamb - "Breakfast," "Envy"
• Philip Larkin - "Church Going," "This Be the Verse"
• Nādim - "I Will Not Sing"
• Frank O'Hara - "Having a Coke with You," "Why I Am Not a Painter"
• Dorothy Parker - "Inventory," "Observation," "One Perfect Rose," "Recurrence"

We've also gathered poems new to us from four great contemporary poets with poems and poem films already on our site:

• Martina Evans - "So," "Watch"
• Nithy Kasa - "Accents," "Lone Valentin," "Monasteries," "Palm Wine Tapper"
• Elise Paschen - "Angling"
• Roger Robinson - "A Portable Paradise," "Grace"

And don't miss newly added poems from late poets from the US, UK, and Ireland that you may have come across in our growing poetry archive:

• William Blake - "To Autumn"
• Eavan Boland - "Cityscape," "How We Were Transfigured," "That the Science of Cartography Is Limited"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Frost at Midnight"
• Paul Laurence Dunbar - "October"
• Robert Frost - "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
• Robert Hayden - "Full Moon"
• Gerard Manley Hopkins - "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day," "Pied Beauty"
• Langston Hughes - "Our Land"
• E. Pauline Johnson - "In Grey Days"
• Ben Jonson - "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme"
• George Marion McClellan - "A September Night"
• Sylvia Plath - "Morning Song," "Sheep in Fog"
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Autumn: A Dirge"
• Walt Whitman - "Song of the Open Road"

We hope you'll indulge in some leaf-peeping of the bookish kind this autumn, helped along by this cornucopia of poetry!