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Poetry Recommendations
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Personal Favorites

Here are some links to favorite contemporary poems of mine. I don't control content on any of the pages linked.

"Bill Fowler's Pointer Hears a Voice" by Daniel Anderson (The Cincinnati Review)
"Each Day" by Aaron Anstett (Thieves Jargon)
"Colorado" by Jeffery Bahr (POOL)
"The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice" by Mary Jo Bang (The Paris Review)
"Love and Smoke" by Hadara Bar-Nadav (Beloit Poetry Journal)
"Mosey Is as Mosey Goes" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont (POOL)
"Kenny Roebuck's Knuckle Curve" by David Bottoms (The Kenyon Review)
"The Idiot's Guide to Faking Your Own Death and Moving to Mexico" by Jason Bredle (Columbia Poetry Review)
"Joyce" by Joel Brouwer (The Cortland Review)
"Reading an Ex Lover’s First Novel" by Ashley Capps (Post Road)
"Commencement Address: The Institute of Convoluted Speech" by Jon Davis (The New Hampshire Review)
"Francesca Can Too Stop Thinking About Sex, Reflect upon Her Position in Poetry, Write a Real Sonnet" by Olena Kalytiak Davis (Tin House)
"The Unbosoming" by Olena Kalytiak Davis (Ploughshares)
"Things That Get Out of Hand" by Paul Dickey (Swink)
"Ten Qualities as a Cosmo Girl I Really Want in My Man" by Denise Duhamel (Gargoyle)
"Epistolary" by Jill Alexander Essbaum (42opus)
"Design for the Costume of a Minor Divinity" by Kathy Fagan (Pilot)
"Body and Soul" by B. H. Fairchild (Southern Poetry Review)
"Boss Crashes the Party" by Noah Falck (Word for/Word)
"Poker Players" by Kate Gale (Valparaiso Poetry Review)
"How to Discard the Life You've Now Ruined" by Lara Glenum (Octopus)
"Life is Happy" by Albert Goldbarth (Boulevard)
"The Naked" by Paul Guest (Crazyhorse)
"How to Survive on Land & Sea" by Shafer Hall (Octopus)
"The Girl Who Became a Tom Waits Song" by Annalynn Hammond (DIAGRAM)
"Dinna' Pig" by Matthea Harvey (Forklift, Ohio)
"MJ Fan Letter #782" by Terrance Hayes (West Branch)
"Red Alert" by Lois Beebe Hayna (The Evansville Review)
"Betty" by Jennifer Michael Hecht (H_NGM_N)
"Self help" by Bob Hicok (Black Warrior Review)
"Empty Room Blues" by H. L. Hix (The Melic Review)
"Honeymoon" by Rebecca Hoogs (The Laurel Review)
"How to Listen" by Major Jackson (The New Yorker)
"Ground Swell" by Mark Jarman (Indiana Review)
"Next Tuesday" by Jesse Lee Kercheval (New England Review)
"Dart" by Dore Kiesselbach (Redivider)
"Auto Salvage" by Ted Kooser (The Hudson Review) (PDF file)
"Dedicatory Letter" by Andrew Kozma (Pebble Lake Review)
"Angel Shark" by Hailey Leithauser (The American Poetry Journal)
"Mad Lib Elegy" by Ben Lerner (Fascicle)
"Safe From Trains" by Ada Limon (Blackbird)
"Olduvai Gorge Thorn Tree" by Sarah Lindsay (Rhino)
"The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu (River Styx)
"Small Ending" by Dora Malech (Chelsea)
"52" by Sarah Manguso (MiPOesias)
"Not Let Across the Hood Canal" by J. W. Marshall (FIELD)
"Song of the Powers" by David Mason (The Sewanee Review)
"22 Minutes" by Frank Matagrano (Cimarron Review)
"Equality" by Adrian Matejka (Sou'wester) (PDF file)
"Good" by Jeffrey McDaniel (Spork)
"The Boys from Brewer Bottoms" by Jo McDougall (Natural Bridge)
"Gymnosperm" by Gary L. McDowell (No Tell Motel)
"Midwest Still-Life" by Karyna McGlynn (TYPO)
"The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello (Gulf Coast)
"You Can See How the Waves" by Michael Milligan (AGNI)
from Liner Notes by Andrew Mister (/nor)
"Semaphore" by Sarah Murphy (New England Review)
"Small Murders" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Shenandoah)
"A Mistake" by Michael Palmer (Cue)
"February Flu" by John Poch (The Paris Review)
"Deep Sea Dantesca" by Carol Quinn (The National Poetry Review)
"Love crushed us with its big death truck" by Andrew Michael Roberts (Harpur Palate) (PDF file)
"I'm Not Carlos" by Zachary Schomburg (Fence)
"Mannequins" by David Shumate (Mid-American Review)
"I've Been Working on the Railroad" by Jeffrey Skinner (Slate)
"Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings (32 Poems)
"Cuckoo" by Larissa Szporluk (Bat City Review)
"Homage to Tom Andrews" by Matthew Thorburn (Blackbird)
"Here, Bullet" by Brian Turner (Georgia Review)
"Some Promise" by Jen Tynes (42 Opus)
"Sonnet" by Karen Volkman (Ploughshares)
"The Little Man in the Fire Hates Me" by G. C. Waldrep (Ploughshares)
"Still Life with all the Animals" by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Meridian) (PDF File)
"Pointing at Things at a Rest Stop" by Jon Woodward (absent)
"Elegy for James Knox" by Jake Adam York (DIAGRAM)
"Sepsis" by C. Dale Young (Virginia Quarterly Review)
"Luciferin" by Dean Young (Poetry)


Recommended Books

No Accident by Aaron Anstett
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry edited by Francisco Aragon
A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Theories of Falling by Sandra Beasley
The Bird Hoverer by Aaron Belz
Prairie Fever by Mary Biddinger
Standing in Line for the Beast by Jason Bredle
Centuries by Joel Brouwer
Blue Front by Martha Collins
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry edited by Richard Ellman et al
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild
The Kitchen Sink by Albert Goldbarth
A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding
Never Cry Woof by Shafer Hall
Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
To the Green Man by Mark Jarman
Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Collected Poems by Donald Justice
Collected Poems by Weldon Kees
The Prayers of Others by David Keplinger
Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa
Selected Poems by Kenneth Koch
Mount Clutter by Sarah Lindsay
Siste Viator by Sarah Manguso
Ludlow by David Mason
I Can Only Go as Fast as the Guy in Front of Me by Frank Matagrano
New European Poets edited by Wayne Miller & Kevin Prufer
Poems 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon
The Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg
Lyric Postmodernisms edited by Reginald Shepherd
High Water Mark by David Shumate
The Light the Dead See by Frank Stanford
Isolato by Larissa Szporluk
Selected Poems by Cesar Vallejo
Interrogation Palace by David Wojahn
Steal Away by C. D. Wright
Above the River by James Wright
Murder Ballads by Jake Adam York


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