my favorite poems

updated 11.20.24

• 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, "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, "Lluvia pasada" and "Del arrabal" by Alfonsina Storni, and "Puedo escribir los versos más triste esta noche" by Pablo Neruda.