Well, I’m closing in on 10 months (211 poets in 288 days, to be exact) of #todayspoem. Yep, and so far, I haven’t missed a day. As I’ve mused before, did I have any idea I’d be this far along a journey through poetry when a bunch of us bookish Twitter friends had the first #todayspoem discussion back in late 2011? I knew I would commit to it, and I did. What I didn’t know was how far-ranging a journey it would be, and how much I’d learn from both my own explorations, and from the discoveries I’d make through the generosity and creativity of other #todayspoem contributors (who I hope I’ve accurately captured in this Twitter list).
As far afield as I’ve gone at times with #todayspoem, I notice from keeping track of my choices that there are poets I’ve returned to more than once. The following is a list of the poets I’ve visited and revisited for #todayspoem inspiration, with links (where available) to some of their poems that I’ve chosen, read, enjoyed and derived inspiration or solace from early in the morning.
- John Ashbery, Some Trees
- Margaret Atwood, In the Secular Night
- Margaret Avison, Rising Dust
- Ken Babstock, Compatibilist
- Gary Barwin, Shout
- Christian Bok, The Great Order of the Universe
- Roo Borson, Dictionary
- Julie Bruck, Once
- Charles Bukowski, peace
- Anne Carson, XIX. From the Archaic to The Fast Self
- Kevin Connolly, Wellbeing
- Lynn Crosbie, Love Letters
- Lorna Crozier, Calm
- Michael Crummey, Your Soul, Your Soul, Your Soul
- Lorne Daniel, Dog On Ice
- Louise Gluck, A Summer Garden
- Lavinia Greenlaw, Serpentine
- Phil Hall, I Was Wrong
- David Harsent, The Garden in Dream
- Steven Heighton, Long Distance Every Sign
- Kathleen Jamie, Roses
- Philip Larkin, Party Politics
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear
- Randall Maggs, Running Battle
- Nyla Matuk, To An Ideal
- David McFadden, Strange Language
- Emily McGiffin, As Air
- Heather McHugh, Not Over It
- Don McKay, Taking Your Baby to the Junior Hockey Game
- Jessica Moore, Ghosts move through this house
- AF Moritz, Home Again Home Again
- Erin Moure, I is a foreigner
- Paul Muldoon, Love Poem With Pig
- George Murray, State of Emergency
- Les Murray, Inspecting the Rivermouth
- Sean O’Brien, Elegy
- Michael Ondaatje, Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus
- PK Page, The Blue Guitar
- Sina Queyras, Acceptable Dissociations
- Lisa Robertson, Wooden Houses
- Valerie Rouzeau (translated by Susan Wicks), Cold Spring in Winter
- Tadeusz Rozewicz (translated by Joanna Trzeciak), The Story of Old Women
- Frederick Seidel, What Next
- Karen Solie, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
- Tomas Transtromer, Black Postcards
- Ian Williams, Idioglossia
- CD Wright, Deepstep Come Shining