Do people here read Poetry?
Do people here read Poetry? I kinda feel isolated with all the novels’ discussion.
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Do people here read Poetry? I kinda feel isolated with all the novels’ discussion.
Do song lyrics count… I don’t really enjoy poetry… unless it’s for kids… and I use instruments!!
Nothing barred until it has lineation breaking in mid page?
My favourites are Korean shijo poems. But now I’m reading old Roman poems by Martial.
Tell us what poetry you are reading.
Currently I’m into James Merrill
Love to read and write poetry,
Grudgingly, but every time I’ve made myself sit down and memorize a poem, it’s a gift that keeps on giving.
Pablo Neruda
Love him
I do
Sylvia Plath is my jam.
I don’t read anything contemporary. Audre Lorde. Adrienne Rich.
I try to make sure I read a mix of novels, poetry, and scripts.
Kudos to you! Not my thing tho. But truly, good for you. ?
Yes, indeed. All of them!
Yes, I read and like some poetry. Who is your favorite poet?
Right I’m it’s Hart Crane
*now
Dorothy Parker
I LOVE Dorothy Parker! 🙂
@Carol she was born too soon, she’d fit right in now.
Sure, I love poetry! My favourite would be Lord Byron.
She walks in beauty
I would I were a careless child, still dwelling in my Highland cave…
Love, love these.
A spirit passed before me : I beheld
The face of immortality unveiled
O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts are boundless, and our souls as free,
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
I heard the first two lines of this in a film and loved it!
On occasion, I have three Robert Frost quote tattoos. ?
I’m just recently bought Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell 🙂 with poems I usually just pick them and read a few at a time depending on how I feel, not from front to back. I always loved the Shell Silverstein books as a kid.
Yes I do
Love it!
I love Mary Oliver, a bit of Wordsworth and Coleridge as well as Shelly and Byron. But….I am even more intrigued by the women in their lives that kept journals. Dorothy Wordsworth journalled for her brother and Coleridge. You will find snippets of her journals in some of their greatest works. And Mary Shelley kept journals for Percy and Lord Byron. It gives you a lot of insight into what they experiencing when they wrote their poems.
I do. W.B. Yeats and w.H. Auden have helped me through the rougher patches of life. And Christina Rossetti.
I read a lot of poetry. I do feel poetry is best read out loud. There are so many fine poems and I do think you have found the right page. Poetry enhances prose and vice versa. I read so much poetry from Sappho to the lyrics of Bob Dylan.
Sappho ?
Love Bob Dylan!
Mary Oliver,Naomi Shihab Nye,Auden,Billy Collins,Rumi…❤️
Rumi, god the greatest mystic poet
April is National poetry month and I would enjoy seeing some poems posted on this page.
I write poems
Yup
I’m not a big poetry fan but there are a few that I’ve come across that really speak to me. I can’t read Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese or The Swan without weeping like a baby.
Yep. Reading (somewhat slowly in order to take it in) Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido.
I am too stupid for poetry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m educated, intelligent and such. My brain just doesn’t like me attempting poetry. Synapses backfire. Smoke starts. Fire alarms ring. It’s not a pretty site. ?
Yes my friends too feel that way
Actually, I can read it and interpret it. It’s just not for me. Some is very pretty. Others makes you think. But just not my cup of tea.
Try Billie Collins, he’s very good and so entertaining.
Thanks for the suggestion.
No but maybe you can suggest some that I might like.
I can direct u to Agha Shahid Ali’s ghazals- it’s english, Rumi, Shakespeare if u can bear archaisms. Smthing complex would be Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens
Since my elementary school days a few decades ago, I’ve been acquainted with poetry. Besides a book containing Shakespeare’s Sonnets, I have a book of poetry by W.H.Auden – as well as ‘Idylls of the King’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and ‘Selected Poems’ by Lauris Edmond (a New Zealand poet).
Nikki Giovanni
Dr Seuss… my favourite poetry…
I do.
One of my favorite poems:
The Midnight Poem
The moon has set
And the Pleiades;
It is midnight,
The time is going by,
And I sleep alone.
~Sappho
And I sleep alone
It’s so beautiful
I read Maya Angelou, May Sexton, Mary Oliver, and Robert Frost. I tried Leonard Cohen – not my style. My favorite is Maya Angelou.
Edna St Vincent Millay
My all-time favorite!
I prefer novels
Nothing wrong in that.
Atticus is a new fave of mine
Love Her Wild
Yes! This year to Make sure I read some poetry each day I downloaded a Rumi for a Year book The dated pages help me keep up and on track, along with Rumi I read some Mary Oliver ,T. S. Elliot, Alice Walker, Rupil Kaur or what strikes me as right for the day.
Spring always brings out the poetry books in my life, lol! Just the other day I was rereading Carl Sandburg’s Smoke and Steel. A rather appropriate poem, actually,
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/four-preludes-playthings-wind …
And the wind shifts and the dust on a door sill shifts and even the writing of the rat footprints tells us nothing, nothing at all about the greatest city, the greatest nation where the strong men listened and the women warbled: Nothing like us ever was.
Exactly…?
I read alittle bit. Not well versed ( hee hee) but I enjoy sharing it with my students. Recently my fourth and fifth graders have latched onto Langston Hughes. And that about makes my heart burst.
Ada Limon is pretty bad ass. “Bright Dead Things” is tops.
I’ll read that
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Love Is Not All. ??
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
@Ráj … Or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would. *sigh*
I find those by African Writers easier to push into my brain though at times they can be as crpyptic as Shakespeare
I read but prefer fiction
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
~Hart Crane
Love him??
Mary Oliver
I love the poetry published by Rattle. Four fine print books a year with amazing poetry. (Plus daily on their website.).
Rattle is also publishing chap books.
I’ll check that out
@Ráj modern poetry from around the world.
https://www.rattle.com/
@எம் thank you. Was just looking for that link. Many fine printed books as well as daily publication of poetry.
This is good
@எம் Thank you for this link. I’ve enjoyed exploring it for the last few minutes.
Not overwhelmingly into poetry, but recently read a quote by Rudy Francisco that piqued my interest
You should read his new book Helium its absolutely brilliant
@Tirsh it’s on my list
Wow! I appreciate this because I am already starting to check out the poets mentioned. I haven’t put my attention on poetry in a while. Thank you! Off to google-land to start discovering!
Don’t worry about any mean comments, I think we all know what you mean lol Poetry really is (sadly) becoming a lost art form…as for me, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Elliot, and Maya Angelou are just a few of my favorites!
Is it Neruda
O Yes. It is
2 of my favorites!
I always read (and sometimes write) poetry in addition to my regular diet of fiction. Poetry is my medium through which dreams proliferate, show their faces.
West over water,
Our oaken craft broke ice,
Longboats all,
Sturdy-built and full,
Strong timbered
Travelled hard and starlight sure:
Sought we the hythe of friendly flame;
Sought we surcease from ice and bitter wind;
Sought we the bridge of changing hue,
The skald they called Bifröst,
And the spoken runic stones
And hardship oft endured;
The soft tapping
Of the silent Norn-woven dream ‘neath cresent moon:
“Let not the dead unman us.”
(2018)
Yes! My son is a poet, majoring in it at Bowdoin College. I am very proud of him, and he writes beautifully. I have always loved poetry, and enjoy it from the New Yorker and Poets and Writers to local Appalachian Poets.
Had to add one that has defined and also expanded me: Walt Whitman’s, Passage to India.
“Sail forth and Steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are bound where no mariner has dared to go, and we shall risk the ship, ourselves and all.”
Yep. Love that.
I read.
Absolutely. A glorious past time.
Well, I guess 115 comments answers that question. ?
It does
I read and write poetry. My favourite poets are E A Poe and Khalil Gibran but I love reading all poetry.
The Prophet is a scripture for me
The first tome of Gibran which my Uncle gave me.
I do when I can’t find something I want to read it makes a nice change x
I dip in and out of my poetry books.
I read and write. I have lots to learn but feel free to have a look and comment on http://www.writingwonderland.com/ Any criticism is good criticism for me ?
It’s good
I really don’t read much poetry…I probably should
Mario Benedetti is my favourite!
I am not a huge poetry fan (unless it’s read aloud) but a few years ago I was browsing in a book store and I stumbled upon ‘The Wild Party: the lost classic by Joseph Moncure March’ which had been given a new lease of life with illustrations by Art Spiegelman. (The poem was originally banned upon its 1928 publication!) It’s a wonderful poem, with incredible descriptions of the guests at the party, and it led me to search out more of Joseph Moncure March’s work. If you have not read it then I highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Party-Classic-Moncure-Pantheon/dp/0375706437
I’ll definitely try it
Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, I loved The Wild Party and I’m a big fan of Dorothy Parker’s poems so maybe I do like poetry but am a bit intimidated by it and don’t really know where to start. As a poetry lover perhaps you could recommend something for me? I would really appreciate that. 🙂
My love fr poetry began with Wordsworth. Then dramas of Shakespeare. All the Romantics. At last the Modernists- Eliot, Hart Crane & Wallace Stevens (my favrt)
Wester wind when will thou blow,
The small rain down can rain,
Christ if my lover were in my arms,
And I in my bed again…
A sixteenth century lyric that encapsulates outdoors/nature, home/security, religious and temporal love in four brief lines…. Yup I love poetry, from ancient to modern
This is beautiful & quotable
Isn’t it just, Raj. Early 1500s anonymous, taken up and set to music several times, but it is so compact and it parses so beautifully that it barely needs accompaniment.
Western *…
I read poetry, write it, and publish now and again in the literary journals. Any company?
Send me some hints, I’d like to have a poetry buddy ??
Me too
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Of course. I read works of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost. Then some Japanese and Chinese poetry as well.
Of course. I read works of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost. Then some Japanese and Chinese poetry as well.
I have a few poetry books. LOVE Robert Frost. I also have a book of Car Sandberg, and one of Walt Whitman I haven’t dug into yet. And I recently picked up a book of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ poems from my store’s 50 cent bin in looking forward to (didn’t know she wrote poetry). And I have a volume of the complete works of Shakespeare, including his sonnets. I don’t read poetry as often as novels. I’m super picky about what I like. And I need to be in the right mood.
I do. I love rupi Kaur and Pablo Neruda. I also write poetry
I haven’t read rupi kaur yet. I’ll try. Thanks fr suggestion
She is wonderful. You should also see her performances. There is a TEDx talk by her. It is pretty amazing.
Yes
I adore British and American poetry.
Plus it’s National Poetry Month in the U.S. Let’s celebrate!
I read poetry.
Reading Edgar Allan Poe .
Rudy Francisco’s “Helium” is the best book I’ve read in a while, poetry or not
https://www.amazon.com/Helium-Rudy-Francisco/dp/1943735190
I’m really bad I write poetry but I very rarely ready. I think that is mostly through fear of comparing amazing poetry to my own and putting myself down. Although my good friend @Hallie has two books filled with her poetry and short stories and I do read and re-read these regularly??
The opposite usually happens with me. I read so much that I loose all hopes of doing good.
@Ráj that’s what I mean, if I read other people’s I’ll think mine is terrible (it probably is terrible) if I don’t read others I can’t compare.
I read a lot of poetry. Currently reading: Anna Akhmatova, T.S Eliot and Ocean Vuong
And Rumi. This ones my favourite
Thanks for sharing that-love it!
You are very welcome
I do. And I notice that several YA adult novels are written in verse format so it is moving into my student’s worlds again 🙂 I also get a poem a day in my email from Poetry 101. I would like to read more but when I do take the time to read poetry, I love it!
I read poetry from time to time, Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou were my first favs when I was a teenager. More recently I’ve read from Rumi and Hafiz.
Whose translation?
I’ll have to get back to you on hafiz I don’t have it on hand rn
Lovely
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Frost, Blake, my all time favorite W. H. Auden. ( & others! )
of course!
I am always open to suggestions.
Try Agha Shahid Ali’s book of ghazals in english Call Me Ishmael Tonight
Hafiz, Rumi, Rilke, rupi kaur…
At my elbow sits God’s Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson. A masterpiece.
Yes, we do 🙂 Not as often as I used to, as I’ve been writing more of my poetry than reading it. I look at a lot on Instagram too, as there are a lot of really talented unknown poets sharing their poems on there for free. I’ve been enjoying Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur, Janne Robinson and Chasers of the Light by Tyler Gregson Knott. Maya Angelou. Yeats and Rumi. Want to discover more old and new 🙂
Yes mostly the classics but I love new takes on old themes and styles
You asked. No, I am not a big fan of poetry. Maya Angelou, I love, the rest not so much. I love music, and when the lyrics are terrific–I love the song even more.
Some. I only care for certain authors.
Love poetry. Most folks don’t really discuss poetry…unless they’re taking a poetry class, in my experience. Happy to discuss though.
Me. I’m happy to talk about it, too. Who are you reading now?
James Merrill & Shelley
Love poetry
I read poetry; lately I’ve been taking a break because a lot of contemporary poetry has been letting me down
It does.
Yes! Ted Kooser is my favorite poet.
I love The Book of Questions by Neruda. All of Coleman Barks’ translations of Rumi. Hafiz. Rabindranath Tagore. Gibran.
yes! i love poetry. i read older poetry and contemporary poetry. it is national poetry month and i have been posting a poem a day on my own fb page ….. which means reading lots of poetry to find the perfect one.
this one is mary oliver
One of my favorite contemporary poets is David Whyte. I also love Alberto Rios and Norman Dubie’s persona poems. Plath. Mary Oliver. Roethke. Ai.
Have u read Agha Shahid Ali
@Ráj No. But I will!!
Love poetry – old and new. Neruda, Whitman, Billy Collins, Marianne Moore, Louise Gluck, ….Elton Glaser (my old college professor) — so many books on the shelf.
Yes, my list goes on and on.
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I notice a lot of readers of dark stories, abuse, trauma, etc. Hopefully, those stories will inspire same readers for action to help society to be a better place. Awareness is the 1st step to charity for those victims.
I try about once a year. I never really can “get it.” I keep trying though.
Try Wendy Cope, she is not too hard to understand and her poems are funny.
Me too! I also keep trying.
Yes!!! More than prose
Yes, I read and write poetry. There are many varieties of poetry. Some are hard to read, hard to understand. Some are blank verse. Some require strong rhyming schemes. Keep trying new types. It is rather like deciding what kind of fiction you like.
Yup
I love it, but mostly I read fiction.
Rumi
I made a few poetry though. You can check my page…and I do not require you to like it. Just sneak a peek.
You write in Greek?
nope but I like to learn especially Ancient Greek
nope but I like to learn especially Ancient Greek
I sometimes read poetry because I teach literature, and that is as much on the students’ syllabus as novels, short stories or plays… I particularly enjoy 19th century and 20th century poetry, although I must admit I’m far from being a specialist… Last year, we studied In Flandres Fields and the pupils were quite sensitive to it. The year before, that was The Road Not Taken, and this year, some poetry by Langston Hughes and Tim Burton…
YES!!! Rumi, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver just to name a few. Poetry is good for the soul!
I do.
Definitely
I wish I did! Could recommend a poet for a newbie?
Definitely Billie Collins
Buy a general anthology and begin to dip in
Emily Dickinson
Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry (“To a Siberian Woodsman” is one of my very favorites, and you can find it online), and going back several decades, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Butler Yeats, so many others….every issue of the New York Times Sunday magazine has a poem in it, usually very good, and so does every issue of the magazine Spirituality and Health, as well as many other publications.
Robert Frost, Walt Whitman (19th Century), Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Gerard Manley Hopkins (19th Century) are my favorites.
Sarah Teasdale
I love poetry. I used to read (and write) it a lot. Life got away from me and I haven’t been doing either lately. I miss it. Time to pick up one of my anthologies…
You will catch up with both. Wish you luck
Billy Collins, Wendy Cope, Margaret Atwood (many people think she is only known for her novels) and for brilliant spoken poetry: Sarah Kay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQgz2AhHaQg
I have read Rumi’s poetry. ?
Sometimes—
I have, getting back into it soon as I can and always loved it! got some poetry books, have yet to get hands on more.
I love Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton etc.
I do and I write it as well
William Carlos Williams!
Yes.
I have always wanted to try reading poetry but I don’t know where to start.
I would love some recommendations.
Milk and honey
This is me letting you go
Thank you ?
You’re welcome
Yeah I’ve read till now 4
I always go back to the Romantics, from time to time. Shelly, and Wordsworth, particularly. Wordsworth’ s view of world always strikes a card.
Sure! I read poetry, mostly the standard authors everyone has heard of. I read new or at least newer poetry sometimes.
Put up some posts!
This is one of my favourite poetry books ever- written by children wise beyond their years and with no future – but love and memories to write about.
Oh yes. William Blake is a particular favorite of mine.
I love poetry.
Cast the bantling on the Rocks, suckle him and she wolfs teat: wintered with the hawk and fox, power and speed be hands and feet.
R.W.E.
Just start a discussion of a favorite book of poems, I’m pretty sure that others will join in! 🙂
Sure
Lol who was mad about this post?
Love poetry. I was raised on Russian classical poets like Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, etc. But I love me some modern poetry as well. Check out Jen Rogue, insta: j.r.rogue
Tonya. You might like Rattle then. Some really good modern poetry.
Oooh. I love the Russian poets!
Anna A!!!?
@Laura yes, and Marina Tsvetaeva, Veronika Tushnova, Zinaida Gippius…
@Tonya thank you! Was going to ask for recommendations.
+ Osip Mandelshtam, Segei Yesenin, Bella Akhmadullina, Bulat Okudzhava… 19th and 20th century 🙂
I second the recommendation of Rattle.
Oh yes! I believe poetry is essential; I agree with William Carlos Williams: “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
I love Rupi Kaur’s “Milk and Honey” and of course all the classical poets.
Yes I do read poetry! And occasionally write poems.
Just tried lang leav book titled love ?
Yes, and write it and have taught workshops on it!
Yes. I love poetry.
My people..???? Yassss!
Yes!
I think this is one of my favorite readings –
W.S. Merwin’s “The Vixen,” performed by Markaye Hassan. Makes me cry every time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2wZT37vg5Y
Love poetry. Reading and writing.
I love poetry. W B Yeats is my favorite