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Poems
Twice a week, I post a poem I love by another poet. Some are well-known poems, but most are poems that have been published in the last 20 years. I find many in journals, online, and in chapbooks and books I own. My tastes in poetry is eclectic--poems just have to be great--so you will find every type of poem on my blog.
The Revenant by Billy Collins
The Revenant by Billy Collins (hear the poet read this and another of his dog persona poems here) I am the dog you put to sleep, as you...
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Aug 16, 20232 min read
Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary by Jane Yolen
Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary by Jane Yolen (from her book, The Faery Flag, 1989) It is winter now, and the roses are blooming...
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Aug 13, 20231 min read
Learning a Foreign Language by Matt Muth
Learning a Foreign Language by Matt Muth published in RHINO, 2016 I needed to associate like with like, object with suggestion. I needed...
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Aug 9, 20231 min read
Xarpo: A Sontina by Mary Christine Delea
Xarpo: A Sontina by Mary Christine Delea Xarpo was the Greek goddess of autumn and the harvest Just one of the Horai, seasoned like Auxo...
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Aug 6, 20231 min read
Buddhist Barbie by Denise Duhamel
Buddhist Barbie by Denise Duhamel (published in her book, Kinky, Orchises Press, 1997) In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher...
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Aug 2, 20231 min read
Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom by Robin Becker
Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom by Robin Becker published in Harvard Magazine by Harvard Press https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/fil...
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Jul 30, 20231 min read
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made...
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Jul 26, 20231 min read
A New Poet by Linda Pastan
A New Poet by Linda Pastan (published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins, and here) Finding a new poet is like finding a new...
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Jul 23, 20231 min read
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer
For Her Villain by Grace Bauer (published in the anthology, Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012) The time...
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Jul 19, 20231 min read
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of...
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Jul 16, 20231 min read
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit (Poetry 180, Library of Congress website) A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is...
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Jul 12, 20231 min read
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St.Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare...
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Jul 9, 20231 min read
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia
A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia (published in the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the...
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Jul 5, 20232 min read
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our...
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Jul 2, 20231 min read
Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney
Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 6 You hid yourselves so well, invisible ones,...
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Jun 28, 20231 min read
Eurydice by Ocean Vuong
Eurydice by Ocean Vuong published in The Nation (January 28, 2014) It’s more like the sound a doe makes when the arrowhead replaces the...
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Jun 25, 20231 min read
Pride by Diana Goetsch
Pride by Diana Goetsch from In America (2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection) https://www.rattle.com/pride-by-diana-goetsch/ for Paula...
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Jun 21, 20231 min read
Untitled by Marilyn Hacker
Untitled by Marilyn Hacker page 121 of her book, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons W.W. Norton and Company, 1986 You did say,...
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Jun 18, 20231 min read
As Planned by Frank O'Hara
As Planned by Frank O'Hara published in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen After the first glass of vodka you can...
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Jun 14, 20231 min read
Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay
Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay published in The/tEmz/Review, Issue 22 I stitch whimsy-careful scenes for people who don’t...
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Jun 11, 20231 min read
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