okay so i’m finally doing this because i have put it off for too long now and it’s literally been weighing on my conscience. i’m modeling it after emma’s rec list, which is amazing, and you should definitely check out. also like i know the line between established and online poets can be kind of blurred but i’m gonna do my best. alright here we go.
richard siken: little beast, scheherazade, snow and dirty rain, litany in which certain things are crossed out, war of the foxes, landscape with a blur of conquerors, seaside improvisation, the language of the birds, saying your names
margaret atwood: helen of troy does counter dancing, quattrocento, the saints, they are hostile nations, the poet has come back
pablo neruda: sonnet xvii, sonnet xvi, the queen, ode to a cluster of violets, september 8th
jeanann verlee: finally i allow him the pen, polyamory, with knives, lessons on loving a prophet
jeannine hall gailey: the little mermaid has no regrets, she justifies running away, introduction to the body in fairy tales, the secret life of the forest, when the princess becomes the prophet, okay, ophelia
sylvia plath: lady lazarus, three women, the jailer, fever 103°, electra on azalea path
mary oliver: a settlement, wild geese, in blackwater woods
azra.t (5000letters): take me to church, howl, prideful of lions, whale song, these wrists, these eyes, these praying hands, no grave can hold my body down
caitlyn siehl (alonesomes): a list of facts dressed up as a poem, start here, spectacular bodies, four in the morning, haunting, a prayer
ashe vernon (latenightcornerstone): backwash, profane, anatomy of a relapse, i didn’t speak at the funeral
madeleine christie (vespairs): letters to an insomniac, pandora absolved, the man of twists and turns, to be/not to be, the nature of living, girl/gone
a. davida jane (wefragilehumans): salt, non est, halfway into the lake, arbores, apollo 11, the house of pindar, a study in restoration
darshana suresh (afterthelonely): oblivion, overcrowded thoughts & overwhelming time, the love story, growth
emma bosacki (agooduniverse/daedalians): lunar observation, when my mother tells me that my grandmother finally knows, creature map, the times where i want to touch you but do not touch you, easy terror or love that sounds the same, schism, split, a hillside, a schoolyard at dusk, eurydice speech
clementine von radics (clementinevonradics): kim kardashian redux, for teenage girls with wild ambition and trembling hearts, all that’s left to tell
bob hicok, other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem
danez smith, tonight in oakland
michael ondaatje, the cinnamon peeler
blythe baird, theories about the universe
yasmin belkhyr, fishtails by the sycamore tree
frank o’hara, mediations in an emergency
ocean vuong, torso of air
warsan shire, and were you being good to yourself?
t.s. eliot, the love song of j. alfred prufrock
suji kwock kim, monologue for an onion
jorge luis borges, two labyrinths
ilse bendorf, catch a body
kristina haynes, i don’t know how to make a poem out of this
