poems I loved in december
Paruyr Sevak, "To Go Mad"
Anne Sexton, "December 18th"
Ted Hughes, "Lovesong"
Chris Abani, "Ritual is Journey"
Franz Wright, "Untitled"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "A Prayer"
Willie Perdomo, "Maybe Under Some Other Sky"
Osip Mandelstam,'You took away all the oceans and all the room', (translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin)
Osip Mandelstam, "Tenderer than tender" transl. D. Smirnov-Sadovsky
Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"
Michael Miller, "December"
Vladimir Mayakovsky, "A Cloud in Trousers"
Mohja Kahf, “Most Wanted”
Louise Glück, "Winter Recipes from the Collective"
Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Listen"
Fear, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)
Hope, Czesław Miłosz, Robert Hass (translator)
Charles Bukowski, "a vote for the gentle light"
Marina Tsvetaeva, "I Opened My Veins" (translated by Elaine Feinstein)