Poetry 1/n

A Pastoral, Agha Shahid Ali
2/n

Oranges, Telephones, Weather
Satyajit Sarna
3/n

From, Fatimah Asghar
4/n

Why are your poems so dark?
Linda Pastan
5/n

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky
@ilya_poet
6/n

The Boundary Commission, Paul Muldoon
7/n

Black Postcards, Tomas Tranströmer
8/n

He said I wrote about death,
Kim Dower
9/n

To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next stall, Kim Addonizio
10/n

In light of our disparate anchors,
Asiya Wadud
11/n

What Use is Knowing Anything If No One is Around, Kaveh Akbar
@KavehAkbar
12/n

To A Skull, Hai-Dang Phan
13/n

Scissors, Sarah Kay
@kaysarahsera
14/n

Alternate Methods Of Sexting, Lyd Havens
@lizardhavens
15/n

Days of 1903, CP Cavafy
16/n

Threadsuns, Paul Celan
17/n
To K, Who Said a Poem Ended Weakly, Vijay Nambisan
18/n
All Constellations Are Organisms, Paige Lewis
@Paige_M_Lewis
19/n
Syntax, Maureen N McLane
20/n

Self-Portrait, A K Ramanujan
21/n

Kissing in Vietnamese, Ocean Vuong
22/n

I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar, Jill McDonough @jilljillmcd
23/n

Winter Without You, Sarah Kay
@kaysarahsera
24/n

Do You Kiss Your Boyfriend With Those Verbs, Bradley Trumpfheller
@bradtrumpfh
25/n

Milk, Kaveh Akbar
@KavehAkbar
26/n

First Poem for You, Kim Addonizio
27/n

After All, John Allen Taylor
28/n

Deto(nation), Ocean Vuong
29/n

Sunday, Timothy Liu
30/n

Because One Is Always Forgotten, Carolyn Forché
31/n

Somewhere Between the World and the Mirror, Negar Emrani
(translated by @KavehAkbar)
32/n

The Sea And The Man, Anna Swir

(Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan)
33/n

Poem by Ashik Kumar
34/n

Black Stone Lying On A White Stone, César Vallejo
35/n

Monotony, CP Cavafy
36/n

Boom, Sarah Kay
@kaysarahsera
37/n

The Burning, Liz Berry
38/n

Pavlov was the Son of a Priest, Paige Lewis
@Paige_M_Lewis
39/n

The Bight, Elizabeth Bishop
40/n

Thank You, Sabrina Orah Mark
41/n

Sea Fever, John Masefield
42/n

A Mirror Never Lies, Negar Emrani
43/n

Microaggression Bingo, Fatimah Asghar
44/n

Holdfast, Robin Beth Schaer
45/n

This Sugar, Aimee Nezhukumatathil

(for @frantumaglia)
46/n

Every Morning, Mary Oliver
47/n

Sublimation Point, Jason Schneiderman
48/n

On Death, without Exaggeration, Wislawa Szymborska

(for @swaroopkaaliyan, who introduced me to Szymborska)
49/n

A vast and shining piece of beauty, Sasha Fletcher
@sasha_fletcher
50/n

Lament, Rainer Maria Rilke
51/n

Untitled, Marilyn Hacker
52/n

Try to Praise the Mutilated World, Adam Zagajewski
53/n

A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines, Gerrit Lansing
54/n

Self-portrait, Jeet Thayil
55/n

A Litany for Survival, Audre Lorde
56/n

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón
57/n

[the day shifts...], Kari Edwards
58/n

Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong,
Ocean Vuong
59/n

First Things At The Last Minute, Robert Hass
60/n

Scheherazade, Richard Siken
61/n

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi
62/n

Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
63/n

Catalog of Divine Encounters in Mobile County, Alabama, Bradley Trumpfheller @bradtrumpfh
64/n

Choi Jeong Min, Franny Choi
65/n

Leap-Centuries, Paul Celan
66/n

The Afternoon Sun, C P Cavafy
67/n

Love Poem For A Dry Spell, Emily Paige Wilson
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