Reading List, Fall 2022

  1. Crows/ Marilyn Nelson
  2. BIRD SONG —REBECCA TAKSEL
  3. Keeping Quiet/ Pablo Neruda
  4. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude/ Ross Gay
  5. Footnotes/ John Haag
  6. Before I got my eye put out — (336)/ Emily Dickinson
  7. Hearing Loss/ Noah Baldino
  8. Dust of Snow/ Robert Frost
  9. Words are Birds/ Fransico X. Alarcón
  10. Bel Canto/ Jane Yeh
  11. Thinking of Frost/ Major Jackson
  12. Forsythe Avenue/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  13. Joy/ Miller Oberman
  14. Birds Punctuate the Days/ Joyce Clement
  15. I Don’t Know What You’re Called, I’ll Call You by Your Sounds/ Susan Landers
  16. Song/ Lloyd Schwartz
  17. The Rules/ Leaila Chatti
  18. Poem Beginning with a Retweet/ Maggie Smith
  19. Postscript/ Seamus Heaney
  20. A Kind of Meadow/ Carl Phillips
  21. “Babel”/ Kimberly Johnson
  22. Let us for a moment call this pain by other words/ Dominik Parisien
  23. The Voice of God/ Crystal Williams
  24. Water Picture/ May Swenson
  25. From Blossoms/ Li-Young Lee
  26. O, She Says/ Hailey Leithauser
  27. Three Songs and the End of Summer/ Jane Kenyon
  28. Let’s Not Begin/ Maggie Smith
  29. Sorrow is Not My Name/ Ross Gay
  30. Sometimes/ Mary Oliver
  31. Wild Geese/ Mary Oliver
  32. To the Light of September/ W.S. Merwin
  33. October/ May Swenson
  34. One Heart/ yi-young lee
  35. Nominal/ Ann Lauterbach
  36. Vow/ Diana Khoi Nguyen
  37. Practice/ Ellen Bryant Voigt
  38. Prayer to be Still and Know/ Nickole Brown
  39. A Rhyme for Halloween/ Maurice Kilwein Guevara
  40. Fall/ Edward Hirsch
  41. Eagle Poem/ Joy Harjo
  42. The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee/ N. Scott Momaday
  43. Epistemology/ Catherine Barnett
  44. What Would Root/ Katie Farris
  45. “Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314)/ Emily Dickinson
  46. Rapture/ Linda Hogan
  47. What Big Eyes You Have/ Heather Christle
  48. White Eyes/ Mary Oliver
  49. Abstract/ Todd Dillard
  50. HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  51. Pine/ Susan Steward
  52. Natural Forces/ Vicente Huidobro
  53. Lost/ David Wagoner
  54. Threshold/ Maggie Smith
  55. Five Flights Up/ Elizabeth Bishop
  56. The Real Prayers are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First/ Mary Oliver
  57. Auto-lullaby/ Franz Wright
  58. TO CAST/ Yesenia Montilla
  59. LOVESONG OF THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE/ Richard Siken
  60. Small Kindnesses/ Danusha Laméris
  61. Poem/ Charles Bernstein – 1950-
  62. Song of a Second April/ Edna St. Vincent Millay – 1892-1950
  63. Dust/ Dorianne Laux
  64. Disorderly Abecedarian 2: Return/ Devon Miller-Duggan
  65. Dear One Absent This Long While/ Lisa Olstein
  66. Push the button, hear the sound/ HELEN MORT
  67. Voiceover/ Rita Dove
  68. Perhaps you tire of birds/ Donika Kelly
  69. HUMMINGBIRD ABECEDARIAN/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  70. The Early Bird/ Ted Kooser
  71. The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
  72. A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)/ EMILY DICKINSON
  73. Listening/ Elizabeth Hoover
  74. The Grackle/ Ogden Nash
  75. September First Again/Phillis Levin
  76. ODE TO THE LETTER B / Aracelis Girmay
  77. Logic/Richard Siken
  78. Beginning/ JAMES WRIGHT
  79. Cold Morning/ Eamon Grennan
  80. A woodpecker’s/ PHILIP GROSS
  81. Story/ Tiana Clark
  82. A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)
  83. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
  84. Goldenrod/ Maggie Smith
  85. I dreaded that first Robin, so, (1862) 
  86. Meditations in an Emergency/ Cameron Awkward-Rich
  87. Privacy/ Ada Limón
  88. Work from The Leaf and the Cloud
  89. Hum
  90. April
  91. What We Want
  92. I Worried and Don’t Hesitate
  93. Softest of Mornings from Long Life
  94.  Bird in the Pepper Tree/ Swan
  95. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO ENTER THE LONG BLACK BRANCHES
  96. 4 Sonnets from Swan and Evidence from Evidence
  97. Yellow, Then the Bluebird Sang, The Poet Always Carries a Notebookfrom Evidence
  98. Pastoral/ Forest Gander
  99. Bobolink/ Didi Jackson
  100. Such Singing in the Wild Branches from Owls and Other Fantasies
  101. Sometimes
  102. No Murder Of Crows/ J. Drew Lanham
  103. Work
  104. GROUP THINK: NEW NAMES FOR PLURAL BIRDS/ J. Drew Lanham
  105. A Heron/ Ted Kooser
  106. Syrinx/ Amy Clampitt – 1920-1993
  107. The Most Triumphant Bird/ Emily Dickinson
  108. Starlings/ Maggie Smith from Goldenrod
  109. From Nowhere/ Marie Howe
  110. Vanishing/ Brittney Corrigan
  111. Octoroon Warbler/ J. Drew Lanham
  112. For the Birds/ JOHN SHOPTAW
  113. Birdcall/ Alicia Ostriker
  114. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird/ WALLACE STEVENS
  115. If I shouldn’t be alive/ Emily Dickinson
  116. Dawn Chorus/ SASHA DUGDALE
  117. The Birds begun at Four o’clock —/ Emily Dickinson
  118. Bewilderment/ Rumi
  119. The Language of the Birds/ Richard Siken
  120. Still/ Margaret Renkl
  121. Of Being is a Bird/ Emily Dickinson
  122. These Poems/ June Jordan – 1936-2002
  123. Poet’s work/ LORINE NIEDECKER
  124. Paean to Place/ LORINE NIEDECKER
  125. A Rhyme for Halloween/ Maurice Kilwein Guevara
  126. Passive Voice/ LAURA DA’
  127. The Wild Geese/ Victoria Chang
  128. Big Clock/ Li-Young Lee – 1957-
  129. Something Told the Wild Geese / Rachel Field
  130. Things/ Lisel Mueller
  131. In the Grand Scheme of Things/ Maggie Smith
  132. Love Letter/ Diane Seuss
  133. Forsythia/ Ada Limón
  134. THE MOMENT I SAW A PELICAN DEVOUR/ PAIGE LEWIS
  135. The Wings of Daylight/ W. S. Merwin
  136. Statement of Teaching Philosophy/ Keith Leonard
  137. Egrets/ Kevin Young
  138. How to Begin/ Catherine Abbey Hodges
  139. These are the days when Birds come back— / Emily Dickinson
  140. Sing a Darkness/Carl Phillips
  141. MORE OF THIS, PLEASE / EMILY SERNAKER
  142. I Wonder If I Need the Rapture or If I Could Just Swallow A Catastrophe and Call It Good / Kelli Russell Agodon
  143. The Theft Outright/ Heid E. Erdrich
  144. Entanglement/ Arthur Sze