Essential Poems (and poets):
Becoming A Horse by Ross Gay
Kindness by Yusef Komunyakaa
Balance by Dorriane Laux
Kindness By Naomi Shihab Nye
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
When Giving is All We Have by Alberto Ríos
Like You by Roque Dalton
At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
A Great Wagon by Rumi/Coleman Barks (either half)
A Community of the Spirit by Rumi/Coleman Barks
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
This Room and Everything In It by Li-Young Lee
The Nutritionist by Andrea Gibson
How to Pray by Annelyse Gelman
Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
Poetry Resources
American Academy of Poets
Brain Pickings
Button Poetry
Cave Canem
Copper Canyon Press
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Unbound
Rattle
River Writing Anthology of Black Poets
Queer Black Poets Since the Harlem Renaissance: A Reading List
The Sun Magazine
Tiffany Recommends:
Gratefulness.org
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - she sends out a daily poem via email which I highly recommend subscribing too.
Maya Stein
Poems from The Current
4/12/21
Water Table by Billy Collins (Giuliana)
Twilight from the Window of my Mother's Hospital Room by Ellen Bass from The Human Line (Karen)
No More Elegies Today by Clint Smith from Counting Descent (Jess)
Invitation by Aimee Nezhuqumatathil (Debbie)
Earth Your Dancing Place by May Swensen (nan)
4/19/21
New York by Alex Dimitrov from Love and Other Poems (Jess)
Your Life by Andrea Gibson from Lord of the Butterflies (milo)
In Common by Czeslaw Milosz (Giuliana)
Summering in Wildwood, NJ by Kaleb Rae Candrilli (nan)
6/15/21
Dust by Dorianne Laux (Debbie)
How Far Away We Are by Ada Limon from Bright Dead Things (Nan)
radical gratitude spell by adrienne maree brown from pleasure activism (Moudi)
Perseverance by Deborah Paradez (Giuliana)
Change the Lighting by Brooke McNamara (Tiffany)
Hours Days Years Unmoor Their Orbits by Racehl Zucker from She Holds the Cosmos, Poems on Motherhood (Rachel)