In her April 19th Sunday Platform (video here), Anne shared a selection of poems that she has found meaningful in these trying times:
“Man at the Window” by David Watts from Having and Keeping. Brick Road Poetry Press © 2017.
“What a Poem Means” by Anita S. Pulier from The Butcher’s Diamond. © Finishing Line Press, 2018.
“Living Things” by Anne Porter, from An Altogether Different Language. © Zoland Books, 1994
“Quarantine” by Eavan Boland, from Against Love Poetry. © W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
“Coats” by Jane Kenyon , from Constance. © Graywolf Press, 1993
“The Year Gentleness Died” by Michael Kiesow Moore from The Song Castle. Nodin Press © 2019.
“Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard” by Kay Ryan from The Niagara River. © Grove Press
“Sorrow” by Shara McCallum from Madwoman. Copyright © 2017 by Shara McCallum
“Waiting in Line for Eternity” by Noami Cochran from Fill in the Blank: Collected Poems 2005-2016. Just a Thought Press © 2016.
“Let Them Not Say” by Jane Hirshfield From LEDGER: Poems by Jane Hirshfield, published on March 10, 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf
“What I Learned from My Mother” from Sleeping Preacher by Julia Kasdorf © 1992.
“Friends” by William Stafford from The Way It Is. © Graywolf Press, 1998.
“To Be of Use” by Marge Piercy from Circles on the Water. © Alfred A. Knopf.
“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye, from The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. © Eighth Mountain Press, 1995
“Somewhere in the World” by Linda Pastan, from Traveling Light. © W.W. Norton & Company, 2011
“Lucky” by Kirsten Dierking from Northern Oracle. © Spout Press, 2007.
“Reading the Leaves” by Barbara Crooker from The Book of Kells. Cascade Books, © 2019.
“Yes” by William Stafford from The Way It Is. © Graywolf Press, 1998.
“Gratitude List” by Laura Foley from Why I Never Finished My Dissertation. Headmistress Press © 2019.
“Diagnosis” by Sharon Olds, from One Secret Thing. © Random House, Inc., 2009.
“Letting Go of What Cannot Hold You Back” from Playing the Black Piano by Bill Holm (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Bill Holm.
“Poem on the Fridge” by Paul Hostovsky from Selected Poems. © Futurecycle Press, 2014.
