Sherwin Bitsui ….. “Coyote howls canyons into windows …”
Sherwin Bitsui ….. “The vowels of the starved”
Yosu Buson ….. three haiku
Kaga no Chiyo (Chiyo-ni) ….. three haiku
Lydia Davis ….. Bloomington
Kobayashi Issa ….. five haiku
Kajetan Kovic ….. Black Prayer
Jeanne Lupton ….. four tanka
Jeanne Lupton ….. four tanka from Numbered Breaths
Jeanne Lupton ….. three more tanka
Michael Martin ….. My Bobcat Skid-Steer Loader Is My Therapy
Meeraji ….. Call of the Sea
Brane Mozetic ….. “I fell into a depressing reverie …”
Sheila E. Murphy ….. “Least amount of air along the walk”
Sheila E. Murphy ….. “I’m writing this to fathom pleasure”
Milorad Pavic ….. Seventh Song from Holy Mass for Relja Krilatica
Susan Polizotto ….. haiku: “She isn’t seeking”
Sandi Pray ….. haiku: “River clean-up”
Hattori Ransetsu ….. haiku: “one blossom of plum”
Minal Sarosh ….. haiku: “Frying kebabs”
Antoinette Scudder ….. Tea Making
Senryu by anonymous poets ….. eight sentry
Kelly Shaw ….. haiku: “Trickling roof leak”
Shiki ….. three haiku
Masaoka Shiki ….. haiku: “poppies bloom”
Kim Shuck ….. The Overseers of Complexity
Dubravko Skurla ….. Two Shores
Milivoj Slavicek ….. Once More We Talked a Long Time I and the River
Clark Strand ….. haiku: “The bathtub spider”
Dietmer Tauchner ….. haiku: “thaw”
Peter Tchouhov ….. haiku: “candlelit church”
Paul Violi ….. Melodrama
Yokoi Yayu ….. two haiku
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I started my own personal anthology of other people’s poems back in 1989. I wanted a source of poems I really loved. When I come across a poem that strikes me just right I tuck a placemark in next to it. I go back to that poem and reread it and reread it. Usually I’ve read a poem five or more times before I decide I can’t leave it behind and have to go to the hassle of copying it out by hand.
On the first day of the year I read aloud all the poems I collected in the previous year. Yes, I read them aloud to myself.
If you are curious about previous years, follow the “Best Poems of the Year” link.
2 comments:
Considering GI's talent for reading and writing and editing poetry, this is real grand, making the list. M.Martin
I had a poet friend say to me (half-seriously, he claimed) that his ambition was to make my list. He actually came close a few years ago. There was a poem about standing at a pasture fence and reading poems to cows that I liked a lot. Ultimately I chose not to copy it out -- as is the case with most poems I mark for rereading.
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