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Langston Hughes
Nin Andrews, Dedicated to the One I Love
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
Allison Benis, Anorexia
John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs (Dream Song 14)
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
Allison Benis, Anorexia
John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs (Dream Song 14)
Jenny Boully, Kafka's Garden
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Second Sermon on the Warpland
Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart
Lucille Clifton, “Come celebrate with me….”
Lucille Clifton, Night Vision
Lucille Clifton, Salt
Billy Collins, Love
Billy Collins, Poetry
Hart Crane, The River
Carolyn Creedon, Litany
Carolyn Creedon, Pub Poem
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes….”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I would not stop for death….”
Emily Dickinson, “Much madness is divinest sense….”
Emily Dickinson, “Success counted sweetest….”
Linh Dinh, The Most Beautiful Word
Tim Dlugos, Healing the World from Battery Park
Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
T.S. Eliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Nick Flynn, Cartoon Physics Part I
Alice B. Fogel, The Necessity
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Amy Gerstler, Alice and Lewis
Allen Ginsburg, America
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Louise Gluck, Vita Nova
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Second Sermon on the Warpland
Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart
Lucille Clifton, “Come celebrate with me….”
Lucille Clifton, Night Vision
Lucille Clifton, Salt
Billy Collins, Love
Billy Collins, Poetry
Hart Crane, The River
Carolyn Creedon, Litany
Carolyn Creedon, Pub Poem
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes….”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I would not stop for death….”
Emily Dickinson, “Much madness is divinest sense….”
Emily Dickinson, “Success counted sweetest….”
Linh Dinh, The Most Beautiful Word
Tim Dlugos, Healing the World from Battery Park
Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
T.S. Eliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
Nick Flynn, Cartoon Physics Part I
Alice B. Fogel, The Necessity
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Amy Gerstler, Alice and Lewis
Allen Ginsburg, America
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Louise Gluck, Vita Nova
Bob Hicok, Happy Anniversary
Tony Hoagland, November Life
Langston Hughes, I, Too, Sing America
Nick Flynn
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes, Peace
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks
Tony Hoagland, November Life
Langston Hughes, I, Too, Sing America
Nick Flynn
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes, Peace
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Who Cares About Aperture
Etheridge Knight, I Sing of Shine
Kenneth Koch, One Train May Hide Another
Evelyn Lau, Green
Dorianne Laux, Heart
Rachel Loden, The Killer Instinct
Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour
W.S. Merwin, The River of Bees
Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky
Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
Sharon Olds, The Abandoned Newborn
Sharon Olds, Feared Drowned
Sharon Olds, Satan Says
Etheridge Knight, I Sing of Shine
Kenneth Koch, One Train May Hide Another
Evelyn Lau, Green
Dorianne Laux, Heart
Rachel Loden, The Killer Instinct
Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour
W.S. Merwin, The River of Bees
Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky
Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
Sharon Olds, The Abandoned Newborn
Sharon Olds, Feared Drowned
Sharon Olds, Satan Says
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Sylvia Plath, Elm
Sylvia Plath, Fever 103
Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck
E.A. Robinson, Eros Turannos
Theodore Roethke, Her Longing
Theodore Roethke, The Shape of Fire
Matthew Rohrer, New Year’s Eve
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Delmore Schwartz, The Young Child and His Pregnant Mother
Anne Sexton, The Break
Anne Sexton, For John Who Begs Me Not to Inquire Further
Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning
Richard Siken, The Dislocated Room
Shel Silverstein, Rain
Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning
W.D. Snodgrass, Heart’s Needle
Gabriel Spera, In a Field Outside of Town
Rachel Srabus, I Want to Marry You
Sylvia Plath, Elm
Sylvia Plath, Fever 103
Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck
E.A. Robinson, Eros Turannos
Theodore Roethke, Her Longing
Theodore Roethke, The Shape of Fire
Matthew Rohrer, New Year’s Eve
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Delmore Schwartz, The Young Child and His Pregnant Mother
Anne Sexton, The Break
Anne Sexton, For John Who Begs Me Not to Inquire Further
Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning
Richard Siken, The Dislocated Room
Shel Silverstein, Rain
Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning
W.D. Snodgrass, Heart’s Needle
Gabriel Spera, In a Field Outside of Town
Rachel Srabus, I Want to Marry You
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Larissa Szporluk, Deer Crossing the Sea
Larissa Szporluk, Vertigo
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night
Walt Whitman, “O Captain, My Captain…”
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Larissa Szporluk, Deer Crossing the Sea
Larissa Szporluk, Vertigo
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night
Walt Whitman, “O Captain, My Captain…”
Walt Whitman, Drum Taps
Walt Whitman, Songs of Myself (esp. first untitled poem in original Leaves of Grass)
Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Walt Whitman, Songs of Myself (esp. first untitled poem in original Leaves of Grass)
Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Sylvia Plath
The Rules & Guidelines I used while compiling this list:
- No poem that I read for the first time in the past year.
- No more than four poems by any one poet. And usually I tried to limit it to 1-2, keeping 3-4 for the masters / those who have been around long enough to be considered masters.
- I defined "American" somewhat broadly: Any poem that was published in an American book or periodical qualified. Also, any poet who lived in the States for a significant amount of time; for example, the three transatlantic poets Dylan Thomas, TS Eliot, and WH Auden considered “American” for these purposes.
5 comments:
yall are more ambitious than me -- there's no way i could make a list like this -- 20 maybe, but 100 -- i'd be looney. LOL
enjoyed your lists though!
you've mentioned your list, and how, at one point, it was a difficult to cut said list back down to 100. An ambitious endeavor, indeed. Of those works I've not yet read, I will be on a hunt.
Sara?
Are you there?
If you are, might you consider posting a response to the book meme that's currently making the rounds? I already tagged 7 people which is two more than I should've and after tagging them, your name popped into my head. I'd love to see how you respond.
My list would have to consist of My Favorites and would not be restricted to America. And there would be way more than one hundred.
This one, for instance, a translation of an anonymous Japanese haiku (tr Peter Beilenson & Harry Behn):
As she washes rice
her smiling face
is briefly
lit my firefly.
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