favorite poems archive
28 december 2023: “The Concept of Immediacy” by Callie Siskel.
17 november 2023: “Big Blue Jay Composition” by Ron Padgett.
24 october 2023: “I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra” by Ishmael Reed.
17 october 2023: “Tuesday” by Fady Joudah.
14 october 2023: “On Walking Backwards” by Anne Carson.
13 october 2023: “A Lion” by Dorothea Lasky.
11 october 2023: “A Sonnet” by Jos Charles.
4 october 2023: “Door in the Mountain” by Jean Valentine.
1 october 2023: “Poppies in October” by Sylvia Plath.
18 september 2023: “The Most Of It” by Robert Frost.
9 september 2023: “What Resembles The Grave But Isn’t” by Anne Boyer.
8 september 2023: “The Head” by Blaise Cendrars.
6 september 2023: “Green Moon” by Dorothea Lasky.
25 august 2023: “Short Talk on Pain” by Anne Carson.
3 august 2023: “As a possible lover” by Amiri Baraka.
9 july 2023: “I Felt Sick” by Tom Clark.
4 july 2023: “Temporary Job” by Minnie Bruce Pratt.
17 june 2023: “After Many Springs” by Langston Hughes.
28 may 2023: “I Hate” by C. K. Williams.
8 april 2023: “Keeping Things Whole” by Mark Strand.
7 april 2023: “Goodtime Jesus” by James Tate.
27 march 2023: “Metaphysical Poem” by Frank O’Hara.
25 march 2023: “Weeds” by Diane Seuss.
22 march 2023: “To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams.
21 march 2023: “The One About the Robbers” by Zachary Schomburg.
19 march 2023: “When I or Else” by June Jordan.
14 march 2023: “A Boat” by Richard Brautigan.
10 march 2023: “Trust” by Liz Waldner.
3 march 2023: “Red Rum” by Dorothea Lasky.
17 february 2023: “Poem about Process and Progress” by June Jordan.
14 february 2023: “Roman Poem Number Thirteen” by June Jordan.
13 february 2023: “February 13, 1975” by James Schuyler.
11 february 2023: “Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul” by Frank O’Hara.
25 january 2023: “Seems like We Must Be Somewhere Else” by Denise Levertov.
13 january 2023: “Bolero” by Gerald Stern.
5 january 2023: “A Day is Vast” by Jane Hirshfield.
21 december 2022: “Prayer” by Jorie Graham.
1 october 2022: “My Ship” by Ira Gershwin.
21 september 2022: “Platonic” by Mary Ruefle.
19 september 2022: “Despedida” by Federico García Lorca.
20 august 2022: “YOUR PAIN IS NOT ENOUGH” by Zachary Schomburg.
12 august 2022: “Hesitate to Call” by Louise Glück.
5 august 2022: “Baudelaire’s Cats” by Hy Sobiloff.
24 july 2022: “This Room” by John Ashbery.
13 july 2022: “No Line Ma” by Harmony Holiday.
9 july 2022: “63 Shard” by CAConrad.
25 june 2022: “from The Rose” by Ariana Reines.
19 june 2022: “The Winter after Your Death” by Sharon Olds.
17 june 2022: “Yellow” by Anne Sexton.
12 june 2022: “Green Moon” by Dorothea Lasky.
10 june 2022: “Song” by Frank O’Hara.
9 may 2022: “I came to you” by Jean Valentine.
24 april 2022: “Poet’s work” by Lorine Niedecker.
15 april 2022: “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” by John Ashbery.
10 april 2022: “DO YOU WANT TO DIP THE RAT” by Dorothea Lasky.
25 march 2022: “Jane Awake” by Frank O’Hara.
9 march 2022: “Cezanne” by Gertrude Stein.
4 february 2022: “american sonnet 26” by Wanda Coleman.
29 january 2022: “PROXIMITY” by John Ashbery.
28 january 2022: “CLABBERBABBLE” by A. R. Ammons.
19 january 2022: “People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef” by Heather Christle.
13 january 2022: “Dimensions” by Robert Creeley.
13 december 2021: “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day” by John Donne.
5 december 2021: “Ekphrastic” by Rebecca Wolff.
14 november 2021: “from The Spring Flowers Own: “The morning after / my death”” by Etel Adnan.
10 october 2021: “Auto-Lullaby” by Franz Wright.
2 september 2021: “Speech Acts” by Thomas Wee.
20 august 2021: “The Tryst” by James Tate.
31 july 2021: “Early One Summer” by W.S. Merwin.
29 july 2021: “Seven Poems” by Larry Eigner.
15 july 2021: “Chokecherry” by Steven Dunn.
6 june 2021: “Running Orders” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
27 may 2021: “I am Trying to Break Your Heart” by Kevin Young.
20 may 2021: “Patronage” by Solmaz Sharif.
6 may 2021: “American Sonnet: 91” by Wanda Coleman.
15 march 2021: “Body and Soul II” by Charles Wright.
28 march 2021: “Words from a Totem Animal” by W.S. Merwin.
15 march 2021: “Body and Soul II” by Charles Wright.
13 march 2021: “Suggested Donation” by Heather Christle.
13 february 2021: “February 13, 1975” by James Schuyler.
24 january 2021: “It’s Time for the Rhythm Revue” by Thulani Davis.
16 january 2021: “Provision” by W.S. Merwin.
1 january 2021: “resolution #1,003” by June Jordan.
27 december 2020: “Leaflet on Wooing” by Lucie Brock-Broido.
23 december 2020: “O” by Claire Wahmanholm.
20 december 2020: “from “Plan Upon Arrival”” by Saretta Morgan.
10 december 2020: “O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” by Anne Carson.
8 december 2020: “Short Lecture on the Nature of Things” by Mary Ruefle.
3 december 2020: “choral or” by Asiya Wadud.
26 november 2020: “Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think” by Frank O’Hara.
19 november 2020: “Poem” by Maureen N. McLane.
25 august 2020: “Things to Do in Hell” by Chris Martin.
17 july 2020: ““XXXVI” from The Arab Apocalypse” by Etel Adnan.
13 july 2020: “Socks” by Margaret Ross.
9 july 2020: “Carceral, Undone” by Harmony Holiday.
17 june 2020: “Marijuana Notation” by Aram Saroyan.
27 may 2020: “revision, impromptu” by Fred Moten.
12 may 2020: “After: Isn’t there something” by Jean Valentine.
4 may 2020: “At Night the States” by Alice Notley.
1 may 2020: “Göteborg” by Eileen Myles.
27 april 2020: “[Trying to see the proportional relation]” by Ariana Reines.
25 april 2020: “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy” by Jack Spicer.
22 april 2020: “lake-loop” by Natalie Diaz.
25 march 2020: “A/A” by Dolores Dorantes.
15 march 2020: “My Friends” by Ali Power.
19 february 2020: “Stingray” by Simone White.
15 february 2020: “Trojan” by Jericho Brown.
10 february 2020: “from My Life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons” by Lyn Hejinian.
8 february 2020: “Stargazer” by Dara Wier.
22 january 2020: “The Fish” by Marianne Moore.
18 january 2020: “Light of the Fig” by Stéphane Bouquet.
16 january 2020: “Lullabye” by Albert Goldbarth.
16 december 2019: “Poet’s work” by Lorine Niedecker.
13 december 2019: “A White City” by James Schuyler.
12 december 2019: “Travel” by Ron Padgett.
19 november 2019: “Surface Translations” by Lisa Fishman.
25 october 2019: “Any News from Alpha Centauri” by Anselm Hollo.
4 september 2019: “The Best Thing Anyone Ever Said About Paul Celan” by Shane McCrae.
14 august 2019: “Tom O’Bedlam among the Sunflowers” by Thomas James.
30 july 2019: “The Glass Essay” by Anne Carson.
27 june 2019: “The Tooth” by Heather Christle.
24 june 2019: “Hi, Melissa” by Max Ritvo.
16 may 2019: “[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]” by Diane Seuss.
22 april 2019: “Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life]” by Bruce Smith.
17 april 2019: “Broadway” by Michael Dickman.
10 april 2019: “Japanese Bloodgod” by Mary Ruefle.
6 april 2019: “Separation” by W.S. Merwin.
2 april 2019: “While Everything Becomes Symmetrical” by Vi Khi Nao.
11 march 2019: “The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica” by Bernadette Mayer.
17 february 2019: “Burn Lake” by Carrie Fountain.
12 february 2019: “For a Snow Leopard in October” by Lucie Brock-Broido.
5 december 2018: “Our Bodies” by Denise Levertov.
28 november 2018: “Any Common Desolation” by Ellen Bass.
17 november 2018: “Landscape with Happily Ever After” by Lynn Melnick.
10 november 2018: “90 North” by Randall Jarrell.
1 november 2018: “In the Tree House at Night” by James Dickey.
29 october 2018: “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright.
25 october 2018: “Peanut Butter” by Eileen Myles.
8 october 2018: “All Wild Animals Were Once Called Deer” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly.
1 october 2018: “A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood” by A.E. Stallings.
9/19/2018: “I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance” by Kaveh Akbar.
18 september 2018: “Birches” by Robert Frost.
17 september 2018: “Caedmon” by Denise Levertov.
12 september 2018: “Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards” by Kaveh Akbar.
17 may 2018: “Meditation at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass.
3 may 2018: “A Girl Ago” by Lucie Brock-Broido.
1 may 2018: “Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver.
26 march 2018: “Vulnerability Study” by Solmaz Sharif.
22 march 2018: “Squirrel Problem” by Zachary Schomburg.
5 march 2018: “Afternoon” by Max Ritvo.
27 february 2018: “Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert.
25 february 2018: “Death Fugue” by Paul Celan.
21 february 2018: “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” by Thomas James.
27 december 2017: “I Do Have a Seam” by Jamaal May.
8 november 2017: “Aubade with Bread for the Sparrows” by Oliver de la Paz.
1 november 2017: “The Lights Going on in the Rooms Strung out Back through the Years” by Anselm Hollo.
30 october 2017: “Knocking or Nothing” by Mary Szybist.
24 october 2017: “Sonnet w/ Rose” by Matthew Yeager.
18 october 2017: “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” by Richard Siken.
13 september 2017: “Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)” by Kaveh Akbar.
12 september 2017: “The Drunkenness of Noah” by Kathleen Graber.
8 september 2017: “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name” by John Ashbery.
6 september 2017: “Experience” by Carrie Fountain.