Poems read so far:
Dorothy Parker - Ballad of a Great Wariness
Sylvia Plath - The Hanging Man
Marianne Moore - Letter to a Steamroller
Hera Lindsay Bird - Children are the Orgasm of the World
Dilruba Ahmed - Phase One
Denise Levertov - Overland to the Islands
Lucy Dougan - Why You Stopped Making Things
Charlotte Perkins Gilmann - A Common Inference
Ednay Millay - Time Does Not Bring Relief
Ali Cobby Eckermann - Kulila
Joy Ladin - Living in the Past
Peggy Robles-Alvarado - In Leticia's Kitchen Drawer
Denise Levertov - The Springtime
Elfie Shiosaki - Refugia
Christina Rossetti - The Goblin Market
Wisława Szymborska - The Onion
Louise Glück - The Islander
Laura Riding - Forgotten Girlhood
Sonia Sanchez - Love Song No. 3
Lydia Davis - A House Besieged
Louise Glück - Gretel in Darkness
Denise Levertov - A Common Ground
Dorothy Parker - The Braggart
Laura Riding - The Way of the Wind
Fay Zwicky - The Stone Dolphin
Czeslaw Milosz - Envoy
Charles Baudelaire - Spleen
Abdulah Sidran - Chronicle of a Miracle
Owen Dodson - Guitar
Fenton Johnson - Tired
Vasco Popa - Small Box
Leila Chatti - Goatsong
Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
The Kesh - Some Five/Four Poems from Madidinou
Charles Baudelaire - The Stranger
Zbigniew Herbert - Hermes, Dog and Star
Poems are selected by reading a poet until I find something really good. No star system, all these poems have felt special to me.
Updated 12 April