hi — this is prob the only thread i’ll ever do, possibly the only thread i’ll ever need. i try to stay reading poetry most days, which is easier when people share great poems with me. feel free to share poems or links to poems here & i’ll do the same.
these days i am reading marie howe’s collection Magdalene and this poem, as i continue thinking about sobriety and addiction and unconscious cycles worth interrupting, feels a bit like a prayer, an invitation
This is lovely, thank you. . . and a good reminder how we chemically put our fingers in our ears and close our eyes sometimes. I thought perhaps you might like this.
https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/meditations-in-an-emergency
"no borders, only wind"
i've heard/encountered that last line "hand on my stupid heart" somewhere but never knew the context. thank you
here’s a favorite written by Cameron’s partner, Franny Choi! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151513/the-world-keeps-ending-and-the-world-goes-on
Thank you for this thread! I'm loving Saeed Jones' new collection, including the title poem. I recommend listening to him read it. 💓 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/07/alive-at-the-end-of-the-world
I can’t pick a favorite - i love everything by Joy Harjo https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46545/eagle-poem
I love the poem "Things to Do in Hell" by Chris Martin. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149081/things-to-do-in-hell
love this no-cost gift exchange!
This is a perfect poem
and certainly perfect use of “pissing”
“How to Sleep Without Worry,” by Coleman Stevenson: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/09/poetry/two-922
And the entirety of her Light Sleeper collection.
WOW
!!! here in the weeds with you <3
https://poets.org/poem/you-are-who-i-love
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/88747/from-the-black-maria
This Stanley Kunitz poem has always rocked me-
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/kunitz/touchme.htm
And omg yes Marie Howe!, have turned to this in many a winter and kept the book of same name by my bedside since the pandemic began-
https://poets.org/poem/what-living-do
Thx for this gorgeous thread <3
This is lovely, thank you. . . and a good reminder how we chemically put our fingers in our ears and close our eyes sometimes. I thought perhaps you might like this.
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/you-reader/
Love this thread. This poem was printed on the back of our wedding pamphlet and it stays good: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54620/peanut-butter.
I'm always thinking about this one by Terrance Hayes, too. https://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/story/rose-has-teeth-terrance-hayes
holy shi*t peanut butter -- gonna be rereading & sitting w that one for a while. thank you for sharing
here’s the poem that was on the back of our wedding program: https://internetpoem.com/amp/elizabeth-bishop/the-shampoo-poem/
Czeslaw Milosz breaks me every time.
https://roundhousepoetrycircle.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/prayer-czesc582aw-mic582osz.pdf
Any Lisel Mueller, really, from this list, though Hounds and Hares always holds a particular place. https://www.best-poems.net/lisel_mueller/small_poem_about_the_hounds_and_the_hares.html
damn
https://www.best-poems.net/lisel_mueller/index.html
Lucille Clifton, forever. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53239/the-lost-baby-poem
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51606/brothers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54590/cutting-greens
wow (also provides crucial shelly info)