I love reading poetry! It was always something of a fringe interest for me through high school, but in college I really started pushing myself to discover poets that I really enjoyed and connected with.
I'm interested in reading poetry. Where do I start?
For me, the easiest way to get into poetry was to find one poem that I loved. Once I did that, I explored that poet's works and worked out from there.
You're not going to enjoy all poetry, and that's just something you have to accept! If you start reading a poetry book and you're not vibing with anything when you're a fourth of the way through, you don't have to finish it!
However, there's nothing like finding a poet's whose entire work you want to devour whole.
My favorite Poets
Frank O'Hara
Mary Oliver
Federico García Lorca
Below is a list of my favorite poems, with reading links wherever I can provide them! (click the !)
Poems are lsited in alphabetical order by title.
A city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck | Ilya Kaminaky
A soliloquy for Cassandra | Wislawa Szymborska
A True Account Of Talking To The Sun At Fire Island | Frank O'Hara
All the worlds a stage | William Shakespeare
All Souls | Paul Celan
Another visit to the oracle | Margaret Atwood
At the river Clarion | Mary Oliver
Autumn Song | Federico García Lorca
Bird-Understander | Craig Arnold
Carcosa | Robert W Chambers
Death and the lady | Lesley Nelson
Dido | Frank O'Hara
Do not stand at my grave and weep | Mary Elizabeth Frye
Don’t hesitate | Mary Oliver
Earth | Federico García Lorca
Everyone’s dying to be someone else | e. e. cummings
For james dean | Frank O'Hara
Good bones | Maggie Smith
Having a coke with you | Frank O'Hara
He would not stay for me | A. E. Housman
Her strong enchantments failing | A. E. Housman
I carry your heart | e. e. cummings
I go down to the shore | Mary Oliver
i love you to th moon & | Chen Chen
If the real is so real why isn’t it | Alice Notley
If you like my poems | e. e. cummings
Invitation | Mary Oliver
It used to be | Ursula K le Guin
It was early | Mary Oliver
July | Ursula K le Guin
Li po and the moon | Mary Oliver
Lines Depicting Simple happiness | Peter Gizzi
Litany in which certain things are crossed out | Richard Siken
Looking Back | Ursula K le Guin
May my heart always be open | e. e. cummings
Meditations in an emergency | Frank O'Hara
Miss you want to get noodles with you | Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. | Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Morning | Frank O'Hara
October | Mary Oliver
October | Louise Glück
Rift | Ursula K le Guin
Romance Sonámbulo | Federico García Lorca
Sanity | Caroline Bird
Song of the Open Road | Walt Whitman
Sonnet 142 | William Shakespeare
Steps | Frank O'Hara
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost
Sunrise | Louise Glück
Summer morning | Mary Oliver
The fable and round of the three friends | Federico García Lorca
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