What are some of your favorite poems/pieces of writing?
general disclaimer that im much less well-read as my carefully curated internet persona might lead on... but these are some pieces of writing that make up the mycelium network of my mindâs undergrowth:
tim riggins speaks of waterfalls - nico alvarado
as from a quiver of arrows - carl phillipsÂ
what the dragon said: a love story - c. valente
hunting season - steven chung
from blossom - li-young lee
sleeping in hte forest - mary oliver
percy wakes me (fourteen) - mary oliver
here there are blueberries - mary szybist
try to praise the mutilated world - adam zagajewski
de profundis - christina rosetti
new bones - lucille clifton
morning love poem - tara skurtu
forfeiting my mystique - kaveh akbar
that kind of good - natalie wee
the mower - philip larkin
valentine - carol ann duffy
happiness from paul schmidtbergerâs design flaws of the human condition
we ate the birds - margaret atwood
i want to tell you yes - kallie falandays
ode to buttoning and unbuttoning my shirt - ross gay
not the beloved from anne carsonâs erso the bittersweet
after the movie - marie howe
accident report in the tall, tall weeds - ada limĂłn
in tennessee i found a firefly - mary szybist
when i put my hands on your body - david wojnarowicz
the mystery of grocery carts - john olson
your night is of lilac - mahmoud darwish
a dead thing that, in dying, feeds the living - donika kelly
please read - mary ruefle
dudes, we did not go through the hassle of getting these fake ids for this jukebox to not have any springsteen - hanif andurraquib
we lived happily during the war - ilya kaminsky
while the child sleeps - ilya kaminsky
the forgotten dialect of the heart - jack gilbert
what the living do - marie howe
revolutionary letter #4 - diane di prima
elegy for my sadness - chen chen
