“Why do we read a poem? Because it opens an old wound. Or because it closes a wound. Or because it does both at once.”— Kevin Hart

• Let it enfold you by Charles Bukowski
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley (1st favorite poem)
• Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
• Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda#
• Television by Roald Dahl
• Flying by Sarah Arvio
• Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
• A Poison Tree by William Blake
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Flying at Night by Ted Kooser
• Moonlight by Sara Teasdale (favorite poem)
• For What Blinds Us by Jane Hirshfield
• Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond by E.E Cummings
• If I Could Tell You by W.H Auden
• Funeral Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden
• How to be a Surrealist by Dean Young
• Chronicle of the Rain by Rafael Pérez Estrada; translated by Steven J. Stewart

To be read:

• Night Songs by Thomas Kinsella
• Jabberwocky by Lewis Caroll
• Nocturne by Cesare Pavese
• As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes
• The Waste Land by T.S Eliot
• Au Jardin by Ezra Pound
• Elm by Sylvia Plath
• The Greenness of Your Grass by Kat George