Poetry

I know, I know, poetry?! Trust me, it gets a bad rap. I consider myself a frenemy of poetry: I, too, hate most poems, but the ones I don't I love. Here are some that have made me laugh, made me cry, or, above all, made me pause to admire the simple pleasure of a beautifully articulated idea.

Poems I Don't Hate:

• Maybe Madness | Osip Mandlestam
• Kitchenette Building | Gwendolyn Brooks
• Go to the Limits of Your Longing | Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Rival | Sylvia Plath
• Bach, Winter | Jane Mead 
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T. S. Eliot
• i thank you god for this most amazing | e e cummings
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge