I am going to stop myself before I list 50+ books lol. I get excited about poetry.
consciously-naive on
Any examples of poems you’ve enjoyed reading before?
If not – I usually recommend Mary Oliver. Or you can subscribe to the ‘Poem a Day’ email newsletter at poets.org and receive a poem in your inbox every day (contemporary poems during the week and classics on the weekend). If you see a poem you like, you can look for others by the same poet.
everlynlilith on
Anything Carol Ann Duffy! My personal fav is “The World’s Wife,” in high she gives famous men’s wives their own stories and voices. Anne Sexton is also fantastic- I like the one based on fairy tales (I forget the name, sorry!).
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Deaf Republic – Ilya Kaminsky
The Year of Blue Water – Yanyi
A Fortune for Your Disaster – Hanif Abdurraqib
Rocket Fantastic – Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Sometimes I Never Suffered – Shane McCrae
Be With – Forrest Gander
Space Stuck – Paige Lewis
The Tradition – Jericho Brown
Life On Mars – Tracy K Smith
Poems, 1962-2012
– Louise Glück
The Hurting Kind – Ada Limon
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I am going to stop myself before I list 50+ books lol. I get excited about poetry.
Any examples of poems you’ve enjoyed reading before?
If not – I usually recommend Mary Oliver. Or you can subscribe to the ‘Poem a Day’ email newsletter at poets.org and receive a poem in your inbox every day (contemporary poems during the week and classics on the weekend). If you see a poem you like, you can look for others by the same poet.
Anything Carol Ann Duffy! My personal fav is “The World’s Wife,” in high she gives famous men’s wives their own stories and voices. Anne Sexton is also fantastic- I like the one based on fairy tales (I forget the name, sorry!).