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Please tell me your favorite poem? The one you come back to, think about, can’t ever let go of.
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Adam
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Billy Collins - Litany
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Our former poet laureate. Simple smooth elegance personif...
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Samantha Culp
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“Poem” by Denis Johnson 1985
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Denis Johnson the legend. “Loving you is every bit as ...
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Heather Kilpatrick
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On children by Kahlil Gibran
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As my own kid makes his own way through this world, it ca...
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Mimi Wainwright
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot)
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“Prufrock” provided a profound opening to what became my ...
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Julia
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How Is Your Heart? By Charles Bukowski
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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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Spring Peeper
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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo
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I found this poem when looking for a reading for my… stat...
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Maggie Dodson
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Power by Adrienne Rich
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Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a b...
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Maggie Dodson
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Habitation by Margaret Atwood
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Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that...
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Maribeth
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i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) by e e cummings
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I’ve carried that line in my heart since elementary schoo...
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Maribeth
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Hope (is the thing with feathers) by Emily Dickinson
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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul...
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Ona
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Widening Circles by Rainer Maria Rilke
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My grandmother’s favorite too, though she could understan...
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Charley
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Diving into the wreck, Adrienne Rich
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I memorized (some of) this in college and it rolls around...
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Casson
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Keeping Things Whole
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Amy
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Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
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I don’t think I can choose a single favorite poem (though...
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Ross Chait
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Delmore Schwartz - Father and Son
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Lou Reed’s only mentor with whom he didn’t have a fiery f...
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Anniebraves
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Mother (Ted Kooser)
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I read the last sentence at my grandmother's funeral. I h...
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Darragh
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The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden
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I learned it by heart in 10th grade because my teacher ma...
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jennifer
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Diving into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich)
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the depths! the imagery. the truths. . .
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Laura
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Afternoon on Hill
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The first poem I ever learned by heart. My late mother, a...
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Soleil
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Magdalene: The Addict & The Affliction by Marie Howe
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A poem I return to, specifically when she gets to the par...
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Cris
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“but what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and lives” - rupi kaur
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Sealligator
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Jane Hirshfield
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one of my favorite poets and this is one of my favorite p...
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Cole
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Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
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Popular on Tumblr years ago, but it still resonates with ...
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Emilie Bienvenew
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Demain dès l'aube (Victor Hugo)
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Victor Hugo wrote this poem about grieving his daughter -...
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Tamar Fox
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Sorting laundry
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By Elisavietta Richie
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Pam
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The peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
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It brings me back to my core self, the one that knows how...
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Bookalli
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Anything by Billy Collins but particularly “The Afterlife “
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Maoxian
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Larkin's Talking in Bed
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Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Juliet
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At North Farm (John Ashbery)
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Among my very favorites. 🙏🏻
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Emily Shen
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After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad (Elisa Gonzalez)
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A prismatic, sublime poem. Representative stanza: “You ...
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Emily Shen
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One Art (Elizabeth Bishop)
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A poem that trembles with cope
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Lisa
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Wild Geese
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How many of us need the line "You do not have to be good"?
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Catherine Davis
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This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
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Read this as a teen and found it oddly comforting althoug...
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Roger
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Wishing Well by Gregory Pardlo
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Is there a better poem about human connection?
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SammyBoBammy
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I want a dyke for president
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I do
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Kate
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What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t by Anne Boyer
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I think of a line from this at least once a day
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