Poetry Reading

When do you read it? What poets? Any favourites?

Do you need a particular mood to read poetry?

I can read it at any time. But when I am down and out, I read more of it. I love Pablo Neruda, Frost, Mary Oliver, Poe and lot others. Syvia Plath and Dorothy Parker never let me down.

Rumi keeps me balanced and so does Gibran.

Poetry sustains me in all I do.

What about you?

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Mary McCartt Sep 27, 2007, 10:42am EDT

I read poetry everyday. It serves to center me and brings me peace.

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Paul M. Sep 27, 2007, 10:43am EDT

I'm not really a poetry reader.

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Heidianna "Coriander" T. Sep 27, 2007, 12:35pm EDT

I love poetry, but I have to really focus on it to get the most out of it which means I need a lost of concentration. I like e.e. cummings, Rimbaud, Emily Dickenson... I have only read a small bit of Mary Oliver, and want to read more! Rumi is always a favorite of mine as well.

I'm not allowed to read Sylvia Plath any more. It leaves me too depressed.

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Alison H. Sep 27, 2007, 1:47pm EDT

Kathleen Raine, English poet, is a favorite. She has written memoirs and criticism as well. Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck (though she can be depressing), Barbara Drake (good sense of humor), Jane Hirschfield, Mary Oliver, Daisy Zamora, Jane Kenyon, Lorine Niedecker, Malena Morling, Bill Holm. I like fairly straightforward poetry that I don't have to strain to decipher.

I agree with Cori, it takes lots of concentration to read poetry. I usually read a little every night along with other kinds of reading.

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Alison H. Sep 28, 2007, 3:31pm EDT

Alicia Ostriker, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Rolf Jacobsen.......

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Margaret G. Oct 16, 2007, 7:42pm EDT

I always like Longfellow. Went to his house when I was a little girl and walked down the same stairs that his daughters did in The Children's Hour.

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Maggie Blue Dec 23, 2007, 3:29am EST

Loved Gibran in college and still do; loved Emily Dickinson from the first poem of hers I read. Eliot too - Robert Frost. He's always good. Ezra Pound too.

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