Procrastinated Poem List

Man. I held on longer than most. From September 2006 to February 2022, I blogged at least once a month (although towards the end, the posts got shorter and shorter, and some of them are actually unfinished). 15 years 5 months of blogging at least once a month. I miss when a lot of other people blogged, too, and it felt like a community. I mean, “blogosphere” was a word for a bit there. But now, if people want to write more long-form things, they do it on Medium or Subtack. Which is sort of like blogging, but sort of not? Anyway. I’m still here. I’m attached to this space even if I don’t update it often.

I meant to do this for National Poetry Month last year and never did, so here I am doing it on the LAST day of April. Yea procrastination! It’s just a list of 30 of my favorite poems, one for each day of the month. Enjoy!

1 Devotion, Robert Frost

2 Feared Drowned, Sharon Olds

3 Summer Rain, Richard Tillinghast

4 Sestina, Elizabeth Bishop

5 A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay

6 Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost

7 The Summer Day, Mary Oliver

8 Risk, Anais Nin

9 the great advantage of being alive, e.e. cummings

10 Good Bones, Maggie Smith

11 Having a Coke with You, Frank O’Hara

12 Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning