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NOV/DEC 2020 in poetry
Jan. 3rd, 2021 09:27 pmThis is a brief sum up of the poems I liked from poets.org’s poem-a-day emails, that turned out to be not so brief.
Quick disclaimer that I’m not trying to rank or assign value to these poems at all, this is entirely my taste and what hit me in the moment I read them. (It’s something I’ve thought about before--reading something in the right moment. Whether it’s mood or time of day or location, it’s interesting to think how some part of our response to a work is not related to the work at all. I read a lot of these early in the morning, or stressed, or half asleep. Which is to say if I reread some of the poems I didn’t list here now as opposed to then, I bet they’d read differently.) I don’t have any serious background in poetry or poetry criticism either.
Anyway! This will be divided up in two-month chunks. Also, some poems from Poetry Foundation’s “Poem of the Day” emails are here. I still haven’t read all of the poems Poetry Foundation selected last year. (Their emails don’t format well on my phone, which has stopped me from reading a good chunk of them, I’ll get to it eventually. Though they’ve stopped emailing me in 2021 so maybe this will be a nonissue in the future.)
If there were some lines that particularly stood out to me, I've included them here.
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Quick disclaimer that I’m not trying to rank or assign value to these poems at all, this is entirely my taste and what hit me in the moment I read them. (It’s something I’ve thought about before--reading something in the right moment. Whether it’s mood or time of day or location, it’s interesting to think how some part of our response to a work is not related to the work at all. I read a lot of these early in the morning, or stressed, or half asleep. Which is to say if I reread some of the poems I didn’t list here now as opposed to then, I bet they’d read differently.) I don’t have any serious background in poetry or poetry criticism either.
Anyway! This will be divided up in two-month chunks. Also, some poems from Poetry Foundation’s “Poem of the Day” emails are here. I still haven’t read all of the poems Poetry Foundation selected last year. (Their emails don’t format well on my phone, which has stopped me from reading a good chunk of them, I’ll get to it eventually. Though they’ve stopped emailing me in 2021 so maybe this will be a nonissue in the future.)
If there were some lines that particularly stood out to me, I've included them here.
( read more )