- “Death and Taxes” – Urayoan Noel
- “The Truth” – Tim Dlugos
- “Improvisation on Them” – Linda Susan Jackson
- “The Tree of Knowledge” – Shane McCrae
- “Letter to My Father” – Martin Espada
- “In Perpetual Spring” – Amy Gerstler
- “Carpet Bomb” – Kenyatta Rogers
- “Money” – Philip Larkin
- “Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda” – Cynthia Dewi Oka
- “Shards” – Aline Murray Kilmer
- “The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day” – Bob Hicok
- “On Swearing” – Gary Dop
- “Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels” – Paola Capó-Garcia
- “Questions” – Rachel Richardson
- “The Mortician in San Francisco” – Randall Mann
- “The Lyric in a Time of War” – Eloise Klein Healy
- “San Benito” – Chip Livingston
- “A Display of Mackerel” – Mark Doty
- “Study Guide of the Naturalization of the Mouth”- Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
- “Kissing My Father” – Joseph O. Legaspi
- “Introduction to Mycology” – Chelsea Rathburn
- “Why Bother?” – Sean Thomas Doughtery
- “My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears” – Mohja Kahf
- “The S in ‘I Loves You, Porgy'” – Nabila Lovelace
- “The God Who Loves You” – Carl Dennis
- “José Dominguez, the First Latino in Outer Space” – Dan Vera
- “Lemon and Cedar” – Melissa Stein
- “Some Interpersonal Verbs, Conjugated by Gender” – Alexandra Petri
- “The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue” – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- “Field of Skulls” – Mary Karr
- “She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “The Loneliness of the Military Historian” – Margaret Atwood
- “Losses” – Andrew Motion
Category: anthology
Link Anthology
- “Age Appropriate” by Philip Schultz
- “Dear Reader” by Rita Mae Reese
- “Democracy” by Dorianne Laux
- “A Perfect Mess” by Mary Karr
- “Reading Primo Levi Off Columbus Circle” by J.T. Barbarese
- “Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott’s ‘George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware'” by Anaïs Duplan
- “Circe” – H.D.
- “The Honey Bear” – Eileen Myles
- “Time Problem” – Brenda Hillman
- “Transubstantiation” – Matthew Dickman
- “Facing US” – Amanda Johnston
- “The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives” – Mary Karr
- “War Catalogues” – Nomi Stone
Link Anthology: Fall 2017
There are a lot of poems this time since I haven’t been doing this for a while, so they’re all below the cut
Link Anthology
- “40 Days” – Tom Clark
- “The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away” – Matthea Harvey
- “Introduction to Poetry” – Billy Collins
- “The One Thing That Can Save America” – John Ashbery
- “Close Encounters” – Marcus Wicker
- “John Henry” – TJ Jarrett
- “Grotesque” – Amy Lowell
- “St. Peter Claver” – Toi Derricotte
- “A History of Sexual Preference” – Robin Becker
- “Inventory for Spring” – Wendy Xu
- “Advertisement” – Wisława Szymborska
- “Advice from La Llorona” – Deborah Miranda
- “The Wall” – Laura Kasischke
- “Russian Ending” – Jerry Williams
- “In the Novel” – Susan Stewart
- “Radio” – Tom Clark
- ” Not Pastoral Enough” – Veronica Forrest-Thomson
- “Summer Haibun” – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- “Por Encontrar un Beso Tuyo” – Francisco Garcia Lorca
- “A Prayer to Talk to Animals” – Nickole Brown
- “Scary Movies” – Kim Addonizio
- “At the Air and Space Museum” – Linda Pastan
Link Anthology
- “He said I wrote about Death,” – Kim Dower
- “Change of Address” – Deborah Paredez
- “Sea Grapes” – Derek Walcott
- “Wife’s Disaster Manual” – Deborah Paredez
- “First Light” – Chen Chen
- “In the Museum of Lost Objects” – Rebecca Lindenberg
- “Blackout” – Margaret Fishback
- “Planetarium” – Adrienne Rich
- “Deception Story” – Solmaz Sharif
- “Maps” – Yesenia Montilla
- “Constructive” – Heather McHugh
- “The Perfect Poem” – Kaveh Akbar
- “Studies Find” – Tallon Kennedy
When I went to look up for the website link for Derek Walcott. I found a lot of posts detailing the many accusations of sexual assault that he’s received. This is a pretty well-written article about it and about how we deal with separating the author from their work. Interestingly, Walcott’s Wikipedia page only makes a passing mention of the accusations.
In this respect, his politics is intersectional. And their approach was the same: To alter the reigning culture from within, to create a mirror that exposed its hypocrisies and prejudices, to make it their own. But by degrading women in his own life, Walcott falls into an intersectional trap, forcing one claim of liberty to be pitted against another.
Pretty amused that Deborah Paredez showed up in two different email lists but I liked both of her poems. Probably should check out a book of her’s sometime. I have apparently linked to Derek Walcott before but didn’t notice. I guess it’s also interesting that all the sexual assault allegations come up again after people die – the same thing happened to David Bowie.
#8 reminds me of my crappy experiments with shape poetry. I also really like the throwaway NOVA reference.
It really tickles me more than it should that triceratops showed up in #11.
Link Anthology
- “Resume” – Dorothy Parker
- “Who Makes Love to Us After We Die” – Diana Marie Delgado
- “The Fist” – Derek Walcott
- “Thoughts While Walking” – Maxwell Bodenheim
- “In California: Morning, Evening, Late January” – Denise Levertov
- “At the Metropolitan Museum” – Matthew Siegel
- “Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others” – Ross Gay
- “Tomorrowland” – Megan Snyder-Camp
I’ve never seen “prose poems” before and I’m not sure if they really are a thing. For one, the emphasis and meaning seems as you scale the window and change line lengths. That seems like giving a lot of control over to the reader which I guess might be part of the point?
#4 and #5 just sound like poems I would write which is why I kinda selfishly like them.
I could have sworn I read #6 before, but that’s impossible since it’s from 2017.
I am a sucker for long title names. It carries beyond poems too, like “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” or the endless “It’s X But Everytime Y, Z happens” memes.
Link Anthology
I subscribed to “Poem a Day” services from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Foundation. Many props to Justine for pointing these out to me. I’ve already forwarded these poems to my list when they came out piecemeal but figured it might be nice to have the poetry in one place, similar to my Link Roundups for mellifluously@. I’m curious to see if any patterns emerge.
