The Poetry Log

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Posted: 2nd November 2020, 7:14 pm

Updated: 29th September 2024, 7:47 p.m
 

I'm finally starting the collection of my favourite poetry. I didn't organise by theme and took the easy way out because I categorise poems by

the universally recognised "makes me want to walk into the ocean", "slapped me across the face" and "oh...." which do not translate well into an actual list. I will try to only include those available online but I don't think I'll be able to resist putting a few that might not be so easily found. The list will be updated ever so often!

New additions: Hanif Abdurraqib - Carly Rae Jepsen - "E•MO•TION" | Emily Berry - Canopy | Miroslav Holub - The Door | Kim Hyesoon - Bear With Me Please | Kyla Jamieson - Vernal Equinox | Fady Joudah - Sleeping Trees | Ed Bok Lee - Water in Love | Marzi Margo - breakfast | Sonia Sanchez - Morning Haiku | Hua Xi - Everything Lies in All Directions

• Abdelal, Taghrid. "Not Blind."
• Abdurraqib, Hanif. "Carly Rae Jepsen – “E•MO•TION”."
• Aber, Aria. “Dirt and Light.”
• Abdolmalekian, Garous. "Bits of Darkness." Translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey. 
• Agodon, Kelli Russell. "Hunger." 
• Ali, Agha Shahid. "Land."
• Ammons, A.R. "Eyesight."
• Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. "Things That Happened During Petsitting That I Remind Myself Are Not Metaphors for My Heart."
• Atwood, Margaret. "You Begin."

• Baraka, Amiri. "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note."
• Bass, Ellen. “Sous Chef.”
• Berry, Emily. "Canopy."
• Berry, Wendell. “The Recognition.”
• Burrows, Karese. "POEM FOR YOUR LEAVING."

• Calvocoressi, Gabrielle. “Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.”
• Carson, Anne. "The Glass Essay."
• Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez. "Cenzóntle."
• Cerpa, Andrés. "The Vault."
• Chen, Chen. "The School of Song."
• Chin, Justin. "A History of Geography."
• Chitre, Dilip. "Father Returning Home."
• Choi, Franny. “Perihelion: A History of Touch.”
• Choi, Seung-ja. "Watching the Twilight." Translated by Emily Jungmin Yoon.
• Christle, Heather. "Mistake."
• Clay, Adam. "Exile."
• Clay, Adam. "Scientific Method."
• Coleman, Wanda. “Obituary.”
• Collins, Billy. "The Breather."

• Diaz, Natalie. "I, Minotaur."
• Diaz, Natalie. "THE FIRST WATER IS THE BODY."
• Dickinson, Emily. "I measure every Grief I meet (561)"
  
• Doshi, Tishani. "Rain at Three."
• Dove, Rita. "Canary."

• Elhillo, Safia. "For My Friends, in Reply to a Question."

• Farris, Katie. "In the Event of My Death."
• Fisk, Molly. "Winter Sun."
• Fulton, Alice. "Triptych for Topological Heart."

• George, Jenny. "Pnemonic."
• Girmay, Aracelis. "Elegy"
  
• Glück, Louise. "Nostos."
  
• González, Rigoberto. "The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods."

• Hayes, Terrance. "Ars Poetica with Bacon."
• Harjo, Joy. "Perhaps the World Ends Here."
• Hicok, Bob. “Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem.”
• Hirshfield, Jane. "Without Night-Shoes."
• Holub, Miroslav. "The Door."
• Hughes, Langston. “Harlem.”
• Hutchinson, Ishion. "Little Music." 

• James, Omotora. "Pier 52."
• Jamieson, Kyla. "Vernal Equinox."
• Joudah, Fady. "Sleeping Trees."

• Kaminsky, Ilya. "from Deaf Republic: 1."
• Kim, Hyesoon. "Bear With Me Please."

• Lee, Ed Bok. "Water in Love."
• Lee, Li-Young. "From Blossoms."
• liem, t. “In Response to Feeling Alone.”
• Limón, Ada. "The End of Poetry."
• Limón, Ada. "The Quiet Machine."
• Liu, Timothy. "All Trains are Going Local."

• Marić, Senka. "Rain in My City." Translated by Mirza Purić. 
• Margo, Marzi. "breakfast."
• Mennies, Rachel. "September 23, 2016."
• Merwin, W.S. "Provision."
• Merwin, W.S. "The Morning."

• Oliver, Mary. "Sleeping in the Forest."

• Pastan, Linda. "Consider the Space Between Stars."
• Phillips, Carl. "Something to Believe In."
• Piercy, Marge. "Night Flight."
• Prado, Adélia. "Meditation Beside a Poem."

• Rankine, Camille. "The Current Isolationism."
• Rankine, Claudia. "Sound & Fury."
• Ritsos, Yiannis. "Moonlight Sonata."
• Roy, Sumana. "The Lexicographer in Lower Assam."
  

• Sanchez, Sonia. "Morning Haiku."
• Seuss, Diane. "Romantic Poetry."
• Shapcott, Jo. "Muse."
• Shaughnessy, Brenda. "One Love Story, Eight Takes."
• Shire, Warsan. "Backwards."
• Siken, Richard. "Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light."
• Sneeden, Brian. "Memory is Blood Soluble." 
• Södergran, Edith. "On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems."
• Strand, Mark. "Eating Poetry." 
• Szymborska, Wisława. "Parting with a View."

• Trethewey, Natasha. “After Your Death.”
• Tsvetaeva, Marina. "Where does such tenderness come from?" Translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine.

• Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica. "I Was a Good Wife."
• Vuong, Ocean. "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous."

• Wakoski, Diane. "In This Galaxy."
• Wani Sanna & Manahil Bandukwala. "Untitled Duck Poem."
• Wein, Sam Herschel. "All My Friends Are Dead: Non-Dinosaur Version." 
• Williams, Phillip B. "Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth."
• Wiman, Christian. "Flight."
• Wong, Jane. “I Put on My Fur Coat.”

• Xi, Hua. "Everything Lies in All Directions."

• Yanyi. “Landscape with a Hundred Turns.”
• Yin, Wang. "The Evening of My Life Has Come Too Late."
• Yoon, Emily Jungmin. "What Carries Us."
•  Youn, Monica. "Marsyas, After."

•  Zote, Mona. "Anti-Love Poem."