Poetry

Morgan Ritter's poem tags

Love, love, love these scraps of verse/clothes tags by Mo Ritter. They are dedicated to the memory of a beloved grandfather, a tailor who survived the concentration camps and used his skills to help others hide little treasures in their coat lapels. Sew them in a collar Glue them to a dollar Pin them on a quilt Tuck them in your kilt Use them as a bookmark Diffuse them in the bathroom Plug them into your console Give one to a friend Watch it blow in the wind

My Favorite Late August Poem, and Now Yours Too

Vespers, from The Wild Iris, Louise Glück, 1992.

The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry

how truly beautiful nature helps you realize the smallness of you, and the vastness of peace in creation.

How to Triumph Like a Girl By Ada Limón

An anthem, really.

Alan Sobrino's poetry measuring tape (Cinta Para Medir)

For measuring reality with poetry. The length is 30 love verses in Spanish, with the English translation on the reverse side.

Anne Sexton The Complete Poems

Every woman needs to read Anne Sexton--raw, confessional, beautiful, vibrant, the female experience.

Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition

You’re reading poetry. You’re reading about sex. You’re reading poetry about sex. Post up in the courtyard somewhere safe (a graduate school library, a cafe, on the steps of the Met, the backyard at a party because not enough people read at parties) and let it flow. Just don’t abuse your new power!

Oyster

A summer poem to read aloud before gently clinking glasses, and enjoying a platter of shucked oysters.

“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright

I love reading this poem, and I love reading Dan Piepenburg's short, thoughtful 2015 Paris Review blog post about the conflicting reactions it inspires + poetry as failure.

Instructions on Not Giving Up

By Ada Limòn

The Fallujiad

This guy is writing an epic poem about the battle of Fallujah in iambic pentameter. Extremely ambitious, a little crazy. I’ve only read the first canto so far, but it rocked; psyched to read the rest

Comment Posted by Kristen, Cup of Joe Reader

I love this comment/poem about a hike that appeared on Cup Of Jo @joanna goddard

connect with the big things

Come, Thief by Jane Hirschfield

Thinking of this incredible poet today.

Green for Luck by Margaret Yapp

i really really love this book of poems! it's so beautiful – loving, light touch, gorgeous syntax. sometimes when i'm wanting to get into the writing mood i'll read a bit from this

Having a Coke with You

By Frank O’Hara

CAConrad at the Poetry Foundation

(plus another poem for the joy of it) Acclimating to Discomfort of the System Breaking Beneath Us           I do not take any            calls except from           the century we are in when there is no bible in my hotel room  it makes me sad to have no place to put      my filthy poems for future guests       it is important to let them know everyone should burn with abandon as soon as the heat is available  be a self-styled alarm clock no one can shut off    be the storm Love places in someone's home          are you sure we can handle this           because I am absolutely certain            c'mon wind knock us around              we are a tide that cures ills                look at us in the mirror        as soon as the invented language enters       us something else will vibrate in our skin      opening door with teeth of the future to    the place where we let the freer feeling go when you told me you had been looking for me         we pressed through every        invisible barrier between us      I watched you gently let the gods    know you are ready to win the lottery         there were people from the            19th century alive in my             lifetime many years ago               I met some of them             they are all gone now              as we hold on to              the side of one            another howling down            the velocity of seconds

Travel By Edna St. Vincent Millay

In 2014, this poem was in the body of an email and the subject line was simply, “Poem that rhyme.”

Mutability - Percy Shelley

My favorite poem 💟 long live all the Romantics of the world 🌹

Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats

By Kaveh Akbar

Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, edited by Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan

A selection of poems and excerpts culled from various writers organized to chart the changing weather of a single day.

Notes on Witches (Pip McGough)

When I was small I believed witches lived alone. Then I met one in a kitchen full of relatives. She was slicing bread while the others argued. Every time she laid a hand on someone's back the argument slowed the way a river does when it widens.

The Magpie at Night

My dealer in London just sent me the Wendy Chen translation of Li Qingzhao (1084–1151), considered the greatest woman poet in Chinese history. Comes out in the US next month. Absolutely beautiful reflections on life during wartime, the paradoxical loneliness and nourishment of country life for a poet. 11th century and fresh as can be!

Loose Woman (Sandra Cisneros)

If you enjoyed The House on Mango Street, you might dig this poetry collection from Sandra Cisneros. "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me" is unforgettable.