Best Loved Pig Poems
“…therefore would I rather be a swineherd on Amager, and be understood by the swine than a poet, and misunderstood by men.”
— Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish existentialist philosopher writing in Either/Or (1843).
Alphabetical Index
- Baker, Aaron
- Berry, Wendell
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blake, William
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Blount, Roy Jr.
- Blunden, Edmund
- Brant, Sebastian
- Brooks, Walter R.
- Buck, Janet
- Carroll, Lewis
- Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní
- Clark, Badger
- Collins, Billy
- Cotton, John
- Coward, Noël
- Cowlan, Paul F.
- Cowper, William
- Dahl, Roald
- Davis, Brian
- Dickey, James
- Doinas, Stefan Augustin
- Dyson, John P.
- Ede, J.P.
- Edson, Russell
- Fein, Richard
- Finch, Anne Kingsmill
- Forrest, Frederick
- Ghigna, Charles
- Glück, Louise
- Green, Craig
- Han Shan
- Hartman, Charles O.
- Hatcher, John Southall
- Hawkins, Spike
- Hay Machine (e)
- Hecht, Jennifer Michael
- Hicok, Bob
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Hood, Thomas
- Horace
- Hughes, Ted
- Jerrell, Carrie
- Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove (The)
- Kinnell, Galway
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Ko Un
- Lampman, Archibald
- Lape, Fred
- Lee, David
- Leslie, Shane
- Levertov, Denise
- Levine, Philip
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Loy, Mina
- Mansfield, Charlie
- Mare, Walter de la
- Marks, Corey
- Meyers, Jeff
- Mighty Anglo-Saxon Uprising (The)
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- Morris, Ash
- Murray, Charles
- Nash, Ogden
- Peters, Robert
- Plath, Sylvia
- Renard, Jules
- Reynolds, Alan
- Rice, Stan
- Robert1919
- Rumi
- Russell, George William (A.E.)
- Service, Robert W.
- Shakespeare, William
- Silin-Palmer, Pamela
- Silvera, Robert
- Smart, Christopher
- Southey, Robert
- Spoonbill Generator
- Steen, Jon R.
- Stevens, Wallace
- Stodart-Walker, Archibald
- Teasdale, Sara
- Turner, Duncan
- Walker, Gary E.
- Wesley, Samuel, Sr.
- Yeats, William Butler (W.B.)
In this world, pigs, as well as men, must dance to fortune's 