a few poems I was introduced to the other day

[sciatrix]

A few poems I was introduced to the other day.

What the Living Do, Marie Howe

You Are Jeff, Richard Siken

Wandering Around an Alberquerque Airport Terminal, Naomi Shihab Nye

This'll do until I can get round to updating my poetry book. Do other people do that? I have an epub I've made myself (and I can tell you, I'm proud of the formatting), filled with the poetry I like best.

Sharp Women with Teeth

Silent Rebellion

Liminal Spaces

A Woman Looks at the Universe

The Unbearable Delight of Being

Rueful Loves

Gifts from English Classes

Feel free to bring up other poems you like in the comments, if you feel moved, or ask for others. I'm in a mood.

Comments

[writerkit]

This one you've probably heard of, but if we're sharing, I'm rather fond of Marilyn Hacker's "She Bitches About Boys" https://amisouennemis.tumblr.com/post/62158340107/she-bitches-about-boys-marilyn-hacker

[sciatrix]

I'm super slow to engaging on my own post today /o\, but while I do enjoy Marilyn Hacker I actually haven't seen this one! I love it.

[gentlyepigrams]

The ABQ airport poem makes me happy every time I see it.

[sciatrix]

Right? It's such a quiet expression of kindness that leads to more kindness and joy and ripples outwards. I love it.

[viggorlijah]

I keep poems I find in my Evernote commonplace folder tagged #poetry. My favourite anthology still is The Rattle Bag which is essentially just a collection of random loved poems arranged idiosyncratically as well. There's something about stepping stones from one to another rather than a theme.

[sciatrix]

Yeah. Sometimes that kind of thing is really nice, especially when you can poke at the connections your own brain makes.

[siderea]

Alastair Reid's "Curiosity"

Marge Peircy's "To Be of Use"

A.D. Hope's "Advice to Young Ladies"

[brainwane]

This post is how I learned of "The Moment" by Patricia Hampl, which I like a lot.

[hopelesse]

Oh, I love Naomi Shihab Nye. The first of her poems I ran across was My Father and the Fig Tree, and I was so entranced by the way she sees people.

I don't have an epub of poems, but I feel like I should. Instead, my DW is sporadically tagged #poetry. Out of curiosity, who's in your Sharp Women with Teeth collection? That's a subgenre that Speaks to me. (Off the top of my head, Do Not Make Things Too Easy by Martha Baird seems like it might fit in there.)