poetry

[keryx]

I would like to read more poetry.

What should I read?

Comments

a few...

[retrofizz.livejournal.com]

richard siken
tony hoagland
elizabeth bishop
muriel rukeyser
minnie bruce pratt
bill knott
edna st. vincent millay
czeslaw milosz
wislawa szymborska
anne carson

there are lots of different styles in there. if there is a specific kind of poetry you enjoy I could probably make more specific suggestions.

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

Presenting... Sister NoBlues by Hattie Gossett, published by Firebrand Books.

[we-are-pliable.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Bishop!

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I just loved The Reef, by Elizabeth Arnold.

Also Elizabeth Alexander, The American Sublime (and all...) Maybe check out her website to see if you're interested.

[mirvana.livejournal.com]

I'm not very widely read in the poetry arena, but my faves have always been the bard himself (Shakespeare's sonnets), Emily Dickinson (who I think was cool because she wrote most of her work while she was a reclusive shut-in), TS Elliot---I don't know why I like him, and Sylvia Plath because she offed herself (crazy people are the best, IMHO).

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm am also not much of a poetry reader but I do love Anne Waldman's "Fast Speaking Woman"

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

Meeee?!

Or much much better, Pablo Neruda.

[turbogrrl.livejournal.com]

random selection:

rumi
barrett-browning
kahil gibran
e.e. cummings
lucille clifton
adrienne rich
emily dickinson
rimbaud

and, if you're inclined to pick up an anthology, garrison keillor's "good poems for hard times" is altogether lovely, except for the yellow cover.

[hope-persists.livejournal.com]

Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution

Michelle Tea - The Beautiful

Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

You've already read Spoon River Anthology right??

[moongirli.livejournal.com]

T.S Eliot
W.B. Yeats
Amy Lowell
Dorothy Parker
Pablo Neruda (esp. 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair)

And a favorite one-shot. I don't know if she has more (I don't think I've ever looked), but: Aya de Leon - Cellulite
(this may have appeared on fatshionista at some point, I'm also not 100% sure).

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

Get a good compilation from the library and browse to see what piques your interest?

I like Wallace Stevens.

[enchochada.livejournal.com]

Michael Donaghy