The Poetry Log

[deadwine]

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."

Comments

[arundels]

I opened this from twt, randomly clicked on "Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.", read it, and immediately also felt like walking into the ocean. might need to go through this list carefully one by one. might need to start my own list of poems I love. I feel changed on a microscopic level. thank u for sharing these!!

[deadwine]

glad to know that's a universal reaction to poetry. what's funny is that my log was inspired by this archive so it will be a lovely little chain reaction if you start yours too (i hope you do!)