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Alvaro's Favorite Poems
Selected by zapoteco
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Poems that have moved me...
 
Poetry
• "Out, Out—" by Robert Frost
• As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] by William Shakespeare
• from The Dogs by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg
• Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg
• Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Rocket Fantastic [excerpt] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• A Boy and His Dad by Edgar Guest
• A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball by Christopher Merrill
• A child said, What is the grass? by Walt Whitman
• A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman
• A Drinking Song by W. B. Yeats
• A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) by Emily Dickinson
• A Feeling of AND, a Feeling of OR by Sherod Santos
• A Hand by Jane Hirshfield
• A Kite for Aibhín by Seamus Heaney
• A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
• A Man may make a Remark (952) by Emily Dickinson
• A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt] by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
• A Short History of the Apple by Dorianne Laux
• Adjectives of Order by Alexandra Teague
• After Bombardment, Sonya by Ilya Kaminsky
• After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard by Charles Wright
• Alamogordo 1945 by Adriano Spatola
• Antique by Arthur Rimbaud
• Arts & Sciences by Philip Appleman
• At the Gym by Mark Doty
• Autumn by Amy Lowell
• Balance, onslaught by Khadijah Queen
• Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
• Beagle or Something by April Bernard
• Beginning with Two Lines from Rexroth by Ray Gonzalez
• Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Black bird, red wing by Nickole Brown
• Blood by C. Dale Young
• Bodyweight by Matthew Schwartz
• Books by Gerald Stern
• Boreal by Andrew Joron
• Buddhist Barbie by Denise Duhamel
• Cameo One by Michael McClure
• Chicago by Carl Sandburg
• Children of Our Era by Wislawa Szymborska
• Come My Cantilations by Ezra Pound
• Complaint by William Logan
• corydon & alexis, redux by D. A. Powell
• Daffy Duck In Hollywood by John Ashbery
• Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
• Dark Matter by Jack Myers
• Days of Me by Stuart Dischell
• deer & salt block by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
• Delta Flight 659 by Denise Duhamel
• Design by Robert Frost
• Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri
• Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens
• Donkey Carts and Desolation by Matthew Shenoda
• Drench by Anne Stevenson
• Each year by Dora Malech
• Evasive Action by Charlie Smith
• Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
• First Light Edging Cirrus by Jane Hirshfield
• Flesh by Joan Larkin
• Four Noble Truths by Anne Waldman
• Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder
• Ghost Story by Matthew Dickman
• Gila by Rigoberto Gonzαlez
• God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
• Good Hair by Sherman Alexie
• Gulls by William Carlos Williams
• He Asked About the Quality— by C. P. Cavafy
• He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman
• Hellish Night by Arthur Rimbaud
• Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs? by Rachel Zucker
• Hey You by Adrian Blevins
• How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual by Pamela Spiro Wagner
• I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman
• I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• If My Voice Is Not Reaching You by Afzal Ahmed Syed
• If We Must Die by Claude McKay
• In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
• In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte
• Incident on the Road to the Capital by Dara Wier
• Iscariot Rising Sutra by Ben Kopel
• Kelp by Jeffrey Yang
• Kinky by Denise Duhamel
• Larry Levis in Provincetown by Rick Hilles
• Love For This Book by Pablo Neruda
• Majakovskiiiiiiij by Adriano Spatola
• Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Migrant by Ange Mlinko
• Miracle Fair by Wislawa Szymborska
• Mosul by David Hernandez
• Mother's Day by David Young
• My Brother's Mirror by Donald Platt
• My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
• My Mother Was No White Dove by Reginald Shepherd
• My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
• Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska
• Novel by Arthur Rimbaud
• Obscurity and Selfhood by C. D. Wright
• Ode to My Hands by Tim Seibles
• Of the Surface of Things by Wallace Stevens
• On The Origins Of Things by Troy Jollimore
• On the Waterfront by B. H. Fairchild
• Page 34 / if your complexion is a mess by Harryette Mullen
• Paradise on Black Ice by Patrick Donnelly
• Paul's Tattoo by Mark Doty
• Peyote Poem [excerpt] by Michael McClure
• Poems for Blok, 1 by Marina Tsvetaeva
• Poetry in Time of War by Rosalind Brackenbury
• Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea by Cecilia Woloch
• Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee
• Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams
• Queer by Frank Bidart
• Quick Black Hole Spin-Change by Edward Sanders
• Quiet by Tony Hoagland
• Quiet the Dog, Tether the Pony by Marilyn Chin
• Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Remember, Body ... by C. P. Cavafy
• Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell
• Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky
• Secret Last Year (A Calendar Twelve-tone) [4. April, maybe] by Adriano Spatola
• Sex with a Famous Poet by Denise Duhamel
• Smell by William Carlos Williams
• Some People by Wislawa Szymborska
• Somewhere between here and Belen by Jay Wright
• Spine to Spin, Spoke to Speak by Andrew Joron
• Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
• Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox by Jalal al-Din Rumi
• Summer by Amy Lowell
• Talking About New Orleans by Jayne Cortez
• Testament by Carl Sandburg
• The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat] by Adriano Spatola
• The Balloon of the Mind by W. B. Yeats
• The Book of the Dead Man (Food) by Marvin Bell
• The Bottom by Denise Duhamel
• The Bus through Jonesboro, Arkansas by Matthew Henriksen
• The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola
• The Dance by Humberto Ak'Abal
• The Embrace by Mark Doty
• The Forecast by Michael Dumanis
• The Forest of My Hair by James Tolan
• The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
• The Hug by Thom Gunn
• The Maenads by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Noble Nature by Ben Jonson
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' by Agha Shahid Ali
• There is no frigate like a book (1263) by Emily Dickinson
• Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
• Tiny Clay Doll with No Arms by Ray Gonzalez
• To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson
• To Think of Time by Walt Whitman
• Transit of Venus by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
• Twenty Questions by Jim Moore
• Two Minus One by Gregory Sherl
• Under a Certain Little Star by Wislawa Szymborska
• Vertical by Linda Pastan
• Vision from the Blue Plane-Window by Ernesto Cardenal
• Waiting for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy
• Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What Was Told, That by Jalalu'l-din Rumi
• When You are Old by W. B. Yeats
• White T-shirt by Lewis Ellingham
• Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman
• Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
• Words and the Diminution of All Things by Charles Wright
• Yes by Denise Duhamel
• You Begin by Margaret Atwood
• Yours by Daniel Hoffman
 
Prose
• A Treasury of Read-Alouds: Poetry for Children by Jim Trelease
• Human Seraphim: "Howl," Sex, and Holiness by Mark Doty
• Of Poetry and Medicine: Rafael Campo in Conversation by Rafael Campo
• On "In a Station of the Metro" by Mark Doty
• On "A child said, What is the grass?" by Mark Doty
• Souls on Ice by Mark Doty
 
Poets
• Mark Doty
• Thom Gunn
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