Honestly I would read any of these poets with the FrizzLit gang...it would be interesting (but maybe too challenging?) to read a living poet at some point. Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Seamus Heaney?
These are great ideas. Heaney kicked the bucket a few years back, I think, so he qualifies under our usual "it's better when they're dead" rule. But Rita Dove and Joy Harjo are good ideas too!
I voted for Whitman, then thought again and want to change my vote to Rilke, but it won't let me change my vote. Posting in case R's numbers can go up by one for the final tally.
*ahem* What I meant was I would love assistance with some of her last poems, written right before she died, with that sharp tonal shift of pain and anger. Reading her last collection was difficult intellectually as well as emotionally, if that makes sense.
Honestly I would read any of these poets with the FrizzLit gang...it would be interesting (but maybe too challenging?) to read a living poet at some point. Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Seamus Heaney?
These are great ideas. Heaney kicked the bucket a few years back, I think, so he qualifies under our usual "it's better when they're dead" rule. But Rita Dove and Joy Harjo are good ideas too!
I've wanted to read more and dig into the poetry of Audre Lorde. She was a librarian at one point.
That’s a fantastic idea
Oh yes!! I like that idea too.
Jim Harrison. William Stafford.
Anybody ever do Mary Oliver? Jack Gilbert? A Goldbarth?
The only poets we’ve done so far are Ovid, Plath, and Dickinson.
ahhhh... okay. Guess we've choirs and orchestras of options! I have been impressed by the Dickinson engagement. Thank you.
I love Jack Gilbert.
Marianne Moore / Elizabeth Bishop
yes! / yes!
Here is my wish list any of the following. Maybe they are too classic. I also love to learn of poets I am not familar with.
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
William Bulter Yeats
That's a great list, Kristi!
I’d love to read Rudyard Kipling’s poetry. I love his poem “If”, but have not read his other poems.
I voted for Whitman, then thought again and want to change my vote to Rilke, but it won't let me change my vote. Posting in case R's numbers can go up by one for the final tally.
One extra vote for Rilke has been noted. I say we ought to do both.
Agreed.
I voted for Whitman, because reading Grass with Mark would be amazing, but Anne Sexton would be stupendous.
Oooh, I'd love an Anne Sexton club too.
*bounce bounce bounce*
*ahem* What I meant was I would love assistance with some of her last poems, written right before she died, with that sharp tonal shift of pain and anger. Reading her last collection was difficult intellectually as well as emotionally, if that makes sense.
I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never read her, aside for a poem here or there.
William Stafford, Jane Hirshfield, Jack Gilbert, Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm a strong Rilke vote, but would happily be part of any of these seminars!