Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now, blue-green meat, that's REALLY BAD for you.

Poet, critic, and translator                          

Selected Works:

Homeward to America - 1940 -  Poems.
Other Skies - 1947 - Poems.
Live Another Day - 1949 - Poems.
Mid-Century American Poems - 1950 - Anthology edited by Ciardi.
From Time to Time - 1951 - Poems.
"The Hypnoglyph" - 1953 - Short story in Fantasy & Science Fiction - using the pseudonym "John Anthony."
The Inferno - 1954 - Translation.
As If: Poems New and Selected - 1955.
I Marry You - 1958 - Poems.
39 Poems - 1959.
The Reason for the Pelican - 1959 - Children's poems.
How Does a Poem Mean? 1959 - Poetry textbook.
Scrappy the Pup - 1960 - Children's poems.
In the Stoneworks - 1961 - Poems.
The Purgatorio - 1961 - Translation.
I Met a Man - 1961 - Children's poems.
The Man Who Sang the Sillies - 1961 - Children's poems.
In Fact - 1962 - Poems.
The Wish-Tree - 1962 - Children's story.
You Read to Me - I'll Read to You - 1962 - Children's poems.
Dialogue with an Audience - 1963 - Saturday Review controversies and other selected essays.
John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan - 1963 - Children's poems.
Person to Person - 1964 - Poems.
You Know Who - 1964 - Children's poems.
The King Who Saved Himself from Being Saved - 1966. Children's story in verse.
This Strangest Everything - 1966 - Poems.
The Monster Den - 1966 - Children's poems.
An Alphabestiary - 1967 - Poems.
The Paradiso - 1970 - Translation.
Someone Could Win a Polar Bear - 1970 - Children's poems.
Lives of X - 1971 - Verse autobiography.
Manner of Speaking - 1972 - Saturday Review columns.
The Little That Is All - 1974 - Poems.
Fast & Slow - 1975 - Children's poems.
The Divine Comedy - 1977. All three sections published together.
Limericks Too Gross - 1978 - With Isaac Asimov.
For Instance - 1979 - Poems.
A Browser's Dictionary - 1980 - Etymology.
A Grossery of Limericks - 1981 - With Isaac Asimov.
A Second Browser's Dictionary - 1983 - Etymology.
Selected Poems - 1984 -
The Birds of Pompeii - 1985. Poems.
Doodle Soup - 1985. Children's poems.
Good Words to You - 1987. Etymology.
Poems of Love and Marriage - 1988.
Saipan: The War Diary of John Ciardi - 1988.
Blabberhead - Bobble-Bud & Spade - 1988. Collection of children's poems.
Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading - Writing - and Teaching of Poetry - 1989.
Echoes: Poems Left Behind - 1989.
The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks - 1989. Children's poems.
Mummy Took Lessons and Other Poems - 1990. Children's poems.
Stations of the Air - 1993. Poems.
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi - 1997. Edited by Edward M. Cifelli.
Someone Could Win a Polar Bear.                          

Also used the pseudonym John Anthony.