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{{Big|Margaret Atwood}}
{{Big|Margaret Atwood}}
* “[[November 13, 2017|Circe, Mud Poems]]” (excerpt)
* “[[November 13, 2017|Circe, Mud Poems]]” (excerpt)
{{Big|Gwendolyn Brooks}}
* “[[May 23, 2020|Primer For Blacks]]”
* “[[May 30, 2020#Cool|We Real Cool]]”


{{Big|Constantine Cavafy}}
{{Big|Constantine Cavafy}}
* “[[June 14, 2003|And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds]]”
* “[[June 14, 2003|And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds]]”
* “[[July 23, 2003|Ithaka]]”
* “[[July 23, 2003|Ithaka]]”
{{Big|Lucille Clifton}}
* “[[June 16, 2020#Hips|homage to my hips]]”
* “[[June 16, 2020#Visions|seeker of visions]]”
* “[[June 16, 2020|won’t you celebrate with me]]”


{{Big|Hart Crane}}
{{Big|Hart Crane}}

Revision as of 17:22, 16 June 2020

Most of these poems (and occasional short story) I have posted over the years on various blogs as I (re)discovered them. This will explain why the articles are dates, rather than the poems’ titles. Some of them even accompany those online musings still. Each has meant something to me at one time, and many continue to resonate. A few I teach.

Charles Meynier, Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, ca. 1800.

Margaret Atwood

Gwendolyn Brooks

Constantine Cavafy

Lucille Clifton

Hart Crane

John Donne

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

Franz Kafka

Philip Larkin

Andrew Marvell

Ovid

Edgar Allan Poe

Carl Sandberg

William Shakespeare


Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mark Strand

Derek Walcott

William Butler Yeats