Poems Found on the Interwebs

1. Never Again the Same by James Tate, on sunsets and wonder


2. The Summer Day by Mary Oliver


3. Litany in which Certain Things are Crossed Out by Richard Siken, a nonpareil. All of Siken's work is incredible.


4. Jessica Gives Me a Chill Pill by Angie Sijun Lou, on girlhood and childhood and so much more


5. The Gun by Vicki Feaver


6. Reasons Not to Kiss Him by Natalie Wee


7. Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong. All of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is incredible, but this is my favourite


8. Mad Girl's Love Song and Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath are my favourites of hers


9. Shame is a Girl's Second Skin by Fatima Aamer Bilal


10. Rhubarb by Matthew Burns


11. How to Watch Your Brother Die by Michael Lassell. Incredibly difficult to read, but so so worth it


12. Not technically a poem, but this video on the Indy 500 is close enough to poetry, and I really do think about it a lot. It's very simple, but sometimes I convince myself it's profound. I've also provided the transcript.


13. my mother calls the new land unbearable in the same land in miraculous by k.i.n.g is a poem that explores being an immigrant in a fascinatingly gendered way


14. Kinder than Man by Althea Davis


15. Three Poems About Baseball by Devin Kelly. My favourite of the three is 'The Old Catcher Considers the Failing of His Knees', but all of them are astonishing and deeply affecting.

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