- At March 07, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Top Ten Poems Today
(Though these may implicate me as a big squishy Romantic with a capital R. I really am very edgy and um, urban, and post-post-modern.)
In no particular order:
“She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep” – Robert Graves
“My Father in the Night Commanding No” – Louis Simpson
“Somewhere I have never travelled” – e.e. cummings
“I could not live with you” – Emily Dickinson
“The Wasteland” (Yes, that’s right. I enjoyed it. Okay, really only the first half.) – T.S. Eliot
“Parsley” – Rita Dove
“Not the Moon” – Margaret Atwood
“Midnight” – Louise Gluck
“Life, Friends, is Boring” – Dream Song 14 – John Berryman
“I knew a Woman” – Theodore Roethke/”Why I am Not a Painter” Frank O’Hara
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
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Hi Jeannine
So good to see you in Blogville – and at RL’s book party. Love your ten poems list,especially Emily, Louise and Rita. Congrats on the Seattle Women’s article and your review of Rebecca’s book. I wanted to gobble it up — and did. Esther
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p.s. I’ll list you on my blog as soon as I figure out how to do it!
jeannine
Thanks Esther – Nice to meet you in real life as well! Thanks for the link – I’ll add you to my roll too.