Fairy Tale Poems

"Beauty and the Beast" by Jaimes Alsop

"Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns" by Nathalie F. Anderson

"Rose Red and Snow White" by Kim Antieau

"Girl Without Hands" by Margaret Atwood

"Night Thoughts: Scheherazade" by Ari Berk

"Bone Mother" by Holly Black

"The Step-sister's Story" by Emma Bull

"Briar Rose" by Debra Cash

"The Mermaid Sets the Record Straight" by Debra Cash

"Femmes Sauvages" by Johnny Clewell

"Green Snake" by Johnny Clewell

"The Iron Shoes" by Johnny Clewell

"Red Riding Hood Had a Pretty Good Time With the Wolf" by Karen Daly

"A Cuban Cinderella" by Margarita Engle

"Pear" by Nan Fry

"Little Cinder" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"Allerleiraugh Reveals Her True Self to the Prince" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"Becoming the Villainess" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"Conversation With the Stepmother, at the Wedding" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"The Snow Queen" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"White Bird Sister: Chu Revisits the Past" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"Boys and Girls Together" by Neil Gaiman

"Instructions" by Neil Gaiman

"Locks" by Neil Gaiman

"The White Road" by Neil Gaiman

"Washed in the River" by Beckian Fritz Goldberg

"The Girl With No Hands" by Rigoberto González

"The Bear's Daughter" by Theodora Goss

"What Her Mother Said" by Theodora Goss

"Bedtime Story" by Bob Hicok

"Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble" by Ellen Kushner

"The Beast" by Bill Lewis

"Conversations With My Father" by Elline Lipkin

"The Pea Princess" by Colleen Mills

"Seven Swans" by Carrie Miner

"Wolf" by Carrie Miner

"Cinderella" by Cory-Ellen Nadel

"Rose Red" by Cory-Ellen Nadel

"Scheherazade's Saving Grace" by Cory-Ellen Nadel

"Journeybread Recipe" by Lawrence Schimel

"Carabosse" by Delia Sherman

"Donkeyskin" by Midori Snyder

"The Princess and the Pea" by Joseph Stanton

"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Joseph Stanton

"The White Snake" by Joseph Stanton

"Witch" for Joseph Stanton

"Silver and Gold" by Ellen Steiber

"Silvershod" by Ellen Steiber

"Gretel in Berkeley" by Eve Sweetser

"Kinder– und Hausmärchen" by Diane Thiel

"Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary" by Jane Yolen

"Knives" by Jane Yolen

"'Once Upon a Time,' She Said" by Jane Yolen

"Swan/Princess" by Jane Yolen

"Undine" by Jane Yolen

"Will" by Jane Yolen




Fairy Tale Duets



"Hansel and Gretel Duet" by Nan Fry

"Snow White to the Prince" by Delia Sherman & "The Prince to Snow White" by Polly Peterson

"Baba Yaga Duet" by Midori Snyder & Taiko Haessler

"The White Hind at Bay" by Eve Sweetser

"Brother and Sister Duet" by Terri Windling & Barth Anderson



Folklore & Myth Poems

"The Slaking" by Nathalie F. Anderson

"Tell" by Nathalie F. Anderson

"Troll" by Nathalie F. Anderson

"Wings" by Kim Antieau

"A Bag of Medicine and Wind" by Ari Berk

"Anatomy" by Ari Berk

"Paserik Burial on the Uqok Plateau" by Ari Berk

"Icarus" by Rebecca Baggett

"Two Polar Bear Poems" by Ari Berk

"The Dream of Angus" by Patrick Cotter

"How Cáer Came Into Being" by Patrick Cotter

"Coyote" by Charles de Lint

"The Red Hills" by Charles de Lint

"Sweetgrass and City Streets" by Charles de Lint

"Tapu'at House" by Charles de Lint

"Wiglaf" by Marisa de los Santos

"Charm Song for Hunting a Deer" by Carolyn Dunn

"Coyote and Pele" by Carolyn Dunn

"Coyote Builds a House" by Carolyn Dunn

"Coyote Tears" by Carolyn Dunn

"Deer Woman" by Carolyn Dunn

"Outfoxing Coyote" by Carolyn Dunn

"Archetype" by Margarita Engle

"A Garden in Cuba" by Margarita Engle

"Los Guijes" by Margarita Engle

"The Blue Girl" by Margarita Engle

"The Dancing Manatee" by Margarita Engle

"The Headless Horseman of Cuba" by Margarita Engle

"Wile E. Coyote's Lament" by Larry Fontenot

"Persephone or, Why the Winters Seem to be Getting Longer" by Wendy Froud

"From Persephone's Letters to Demeter" by Nan Fry

"Female Comic Book Heroes" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"The Selkie Wife's Daughter" by Jeannine Hall Gailey

"The Fairy Reel" by Neil Gaiman

"Balance of the World, Part I," by Howard Gayton

"Balance of the World, Part II," by Howard Gayton

"Daphne" by Faye George

"Kore" by Faye George

"The Changeling" by Theodora Goss

"Old Tree Healing" by Taiko Haessler

"Why Coyotes Laugh" by Taiko Haessler

"The View" by Emma Hardesty

"Becoming Bird" by Bob Hicok

"Why She Howls" by Kij Johnson

"Birthdream" by Laurie Kutchins

"The Voice Outside" by Laurie Kutchins

"Gwydion's Loss of Llew" by Ellen Kushner

"Bears" by Bill Lewis

"Blodeuwedd" by Bill Lewis

"Coyote and the White Folks" by Bill Lewis

"The Green Men" by Bill Lewis

"I Am the Stone That Breaks All Hearts" by Bill Lewis

"Sheela Na Gig" by Bill Lewis

"Shapeshifter" by Maureen McQuerry

"A Daughter's Tale" by Wendy McVicker

"How France Gets Into it All" by Wendy McVicker

"Pandora's Getaway" by Wendy McVicker

"Yip, Yip, Yip" by Mario Milosevic

"Bigfoot" by Mario Milosevic

"Mark" by Mario Milosevic

"Reindeer Presence" by Mario Milosevic

"Settled on the Sky" by Mario Milosevic

"She's Eve: A Walking Poem" by Mario Milosevic

"The Real Scoop About Pixies" by Mario Milosevic

"What If Words Had Guardian Angels" by Mario Milosevic

"When I Was" by Mario Milosevic

"Wondering What They Are Up To In the Middle of the Night" by Mario Milosevic

"Llantos de La Llorona: Warnings From the Wailer" by Pat Mora

"Sappho" by Cory-Ellen Nadel

"The Girl Who Married the Reindeer" by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

"At the River of Crocodiles" by Zan Ross

"Odyssey" by Veronica Schanoes

"A Prayer for Breath" by Munro Sickafoose

"Four Black Birds" by Munro Sickafoose

"They Say Apollo Sun King Slew the Serpent Goddess" by Munro Sickafoose

"Charms" by Gary Snyder

"Shibata Zeshin's 'Monkey Posing as a Collector'" by Joseph Stanton

"Poet Hare in Mid-Air" by Joseph Stanton

"The Child Bride of the Lost City of Ubar" by Catherynne M. Valente

"Aesculapius in the Underworld" by Ryan G. Van Cleve

"The Night Journey" by Terri Windling

"Migration" by Terri Windling

"Fable" by Mark Yakich

"Green Children" by Jane Yolen

"The Fates" by Jane Yolen

"When Raven Sang" by Jane Yolen

More Poems

"Lords of the Ring" (for Alan Lee) by Ari Berk

"Cherokee Girl" (song lyrics) by Charles de Lint

"Winter Haiku" by Charles de Lint

"Lost Boys" by Wendy Froud

"The Ophelia Cantos" by Theodora Goss

"The Glowing Heart of the World" (song lyrics) by Brian Andrew Laird

"Scars" by Munro Sickafoose

"May 28" by Ellen Steiber

"Three Love Prayers for Beckie" by Alan Weisman

"Weaver's Cottage" by Terri Windling

"Family Stories" by Jane Yolen

"Winter is no time" by Jane Yolen