Poetry Recommendations For March

poetry recommendations for march

If You Knew by Ellen Bass

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

Spring by Mary Oliver

The Return by Mary Oliver

Green, Green is My Sister’s House by Mary Oliver

Black Telephone by Richard Siken

Proverbs and Songs by Antonio Machado

this night - for you by Halina Poswiatowska

a splinter of my imagination by Halina Poswiatowska

in your perfect fingers by Halina Poswiatowska

Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics

Every Day You Play…. by Pablo Neruda

first thought after seeing you smile by Warsan Shire

Love by Czeslaw Milosz

Insomniac by Sylvia Plath

buy me a coffee

poems about unrequited love

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Appeal by Anne Brontë 

The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines by Alessia Di Cesare

Doesn’t every Poet Write a Poem About Unrequited Love by Mary Oliver

I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes

The Want of You by Angelina Weld Grimké

I’d Like to Live With You by Marina Tsvetaeva 

A Cry by Sara Teasdale

Wind and Window Flower by Robert Frost 

I loved you by Alexander Pushkin

The Moon and the Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath

We Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova

from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva

Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy

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It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you-and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created-out of five vowels and three consonants.

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

SHE HATED HER LIFE, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS BAD, BUT BECAUSE WHEN YOU HATE YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR BODY, IT'S HARD TO ENJOY THE REST.

Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame / Erika L. Sánchez Amá / Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance / Richard Siken Birds Hover over the Trampled Field / Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous / Alberto Zamboni Ovunque / Oscar Nin / Richard Siken Crush

i. Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame [ Somewhere, / there is a version of me that isn't neck-deep in her invented filth. ]

ii. Erika L. Sánchez Amá [ Amá, I leave because / I feel like an unfinished / poem, because I'm always trying to bridge the difference. ]

iii. Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors [ I don't feel particularly proud of myself. / But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well. ]

iv. Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [ I've run out of language to explain the avalanche of anguish I feel when faced with this world, and so if I can't make sense of this planet, I'm better off imagining another. ]

v. Richard Siken Birds Hover the Trampled Field [ The enormity of my desire disgusts me. ]

vi. Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous [ You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself. We are horrible. ]

vii. Alberto Zamboni Ovunque [ The silhouettes of two human figures stand in a room. The background is blurred around them. ]

viii. Oscar Nin [ Distressed painting portrait of a man. ]

ix. Richard Siken Crush [ a gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. ]

the reader's urge to reread the books that took away your breath as you're reading them the first time

She is a 10 but she lives in disbelief.