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
Find my responses by going to blog and clicking the relevant day.
How I select each poem is to keep reading a collection until I find a poem that I think is really good. All these poems have felt special to me.
Updated 12 April