my favorite poems

updated 2.21.25

• Bridge Poem by John Ashbery
• On Hedonism by Anne Carson
• Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rilke
• Tackle Football by Dave Chiasson
• Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car by Dan Pagis
• Borderline Mambo by Rita Dove
• Are You Going To Stay? by Thomas Meyer
• After Skate by Carol Muske-Dukes
• The Young Man's Song by W.B. Yeats

Other poems I recommend include:

• "Rain" by Joy Harjo;
• "Gooseberry Fool" by Amy Clampitt;
• "How Do I Love You?" by Mary Oliver;
• "Pornography" by Richard Siken;
• "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot;
• "The Second Coming," "A Drinking Song," and "An Irish Airman forsees his Death" by Yeats;
• "The Tyger" by William Blake;
• "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay;
• "Lluvia pasada" and "Del arrabal" by Alfonsina Storni;
• and "Puedo escribir los versos más triste esta noche" by Pablo Neruda.