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[SapioSexual9]

All My Pretty Ones Anne Sexton.

 

[Angeline]

A Certain Slant of Sunlight by Ted Berrigan

 

[42BelowsBack]

A podcast discussion on John Giorno, Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment.

Fast forward to -46:30 for 5 mins and 10 secs or so, of his poem, Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment.

 

[Angeline]

Excerpt From Subduing Demons in America, 1975 by John Giorno

 

[Angeline]

The Sonnets: III by Ted Berrigan


sonnet III read by Ted Berrigan

 

[Waeponwifestre]

The Fool by the Roadside by William Butler Yeats

 

[Angeline]

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival by Yusef Komunyakaa

 

[Angeline]

English by Yusef Komunyakaa

 

[42BelowsBack]

[Dear one, the sea…] by Dawn Lundy Martin.

 

[Tzara]

Drunken Memories of Anne Sexton by Alan Dugan

 

[SmilingLez]

50 years ago - Allen Ginsberg

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b41f119f

 

[SapioSexual9]

A Late Walk by Robert Frost.

 

[SapioSexual9]

The Diameter Of The Bomb by Yehuda Amichai

 

[NivKay]

David Gorin’sTo A Distant Country

 

[Angeline]

Pale Lemon Fire In A Partly Cloudy Autumn by Dennis Mahagin

 

[NivKay]

I've read and reread this poem, and I don't think I will ever tire of it!

 

[Angeline]

Window by Forough Farrokzhad

 

[Waeponwifestre]

September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden

And a second poem

Blessed is the Light by Grace Schulman

 

[Tzara]

Charles on Fire by James Merrill

 

[42BelowsBack]

Two translations and two seemingly different poems about The Battle of Salamis by Aeschylus Around 478-467 BCE

The Battle of Salamis

Translated by Peter Levi

The Battle of Salamis

Translated by William Cranston Lawton.

 

[mousberry]

A Wall Flower by Amy Levy

 

[Waeponwifestre]

Because I was thinking of Ubi sunt and also love really old poetry

The Wanderer by Anonymous (translated from Old English by Roy Liuzza)

 

[42BelowsBack]

An essay / discussion on Sir Gawayne and The Green Knight (an alliterative romance poem).

 

[SapioSexual9]

The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop

 

[NivKay]

The Answer - Sara Teasdale