Anonymous · 23d
Adding on to all the other comments -- Thank you sprout for all the poetry recommendations!! I'm going to be teaching English in high school soon and these poems are so amazing, I'm really excited to read some of them with my students :D
If you have more poem recommendations please do share, they are life-saving!! I really appreciate them 🥺
JJAHSDLKFJHSAFD THIS IS SO SWEET AND SO COOL?? OH MY GOD ID LOVE TO SHARE MORE OF MY FAVORITE POEMS/POETS WITH U AND UR STUDENTS
okay okay okay let me just list poets i like and then some more poems that i havent sent yet TRUE
- kaveh akbar
- ocean vuong
- mary oliver
- danez smith
- kinsale drake
- louise gluck
- nazim hikmet
- ross gay
- ilya kaminsky
some interesting books maybe:
"the symmetry of fish" by su cho - saw this in the library and read a few of the poems, i really liked them but i need to finish the whole book
"alive at the end of the world" by saaeed jones - friend showed me one poem that i really liked, sadly i cant remember the name but i loved the style and the language
misc poems
"dear white america" made me lose my mind: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542/dear-white-america
"we lived happily during the war": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war
"my god, it's full of stars": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/my-god-its-full-of-stars
yeah okay thats about it ive already sent some of my most beloved ones earlier but YEAH!!! THANK U FOR THE ASK IM ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK POETRY!!!
