#a year in poetry

[odetoplath]

My favorite poems of 2024

1. For Tess by Raymond Carver

2. Molly Brodak by Molly Brodak

3. Movement Song by Audre Lorde

4. White Egret by Chris Abani

5. The Two Voices by Alfred Lord Tennyson

6. I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

7. To be Human is to Sing Your Own Song by Mary Oliver

8. Seeing through the Ground by Tomas Tranströmer

9. i dream on a crowded subway train with my eyes open but my body swaying by chen chen

10. Eurydice by H.D

11. A Walk in Tsaile by Jake Skeets

12. Watching you talk on the phone, I consider the empty space around atoms by Rhiannon McGavin

13. The Anactoria Poem by Sappho

14. jasper texas 1998 by Lucille Clifton

15. Cien Sonetos de Amor: XVII by Pablo Neruda

16. a good day by Kait Rokowski

17. Raising the Titanic by Robert Hedin

18. Anagrammer by Peter Pereira

19. Calling Things What They Are by Ada Limón

20. Poem With the Last Line as the First by Didi Jackson

21. The Gift by Li-Young Lee

22. Requiem for Toni Morrison by Harmony Holiday

23. Dead Rat by Mervyn Peake

24. Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte

25. Tenderer than Tender by Osip Mandelstam

26. Darling Coffee by Meena Alexander

[annasanthology]

[potatoesandsunshine]

everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

[catilinas]

having to wait for the next book in a series to be released is evil wtf. all literature should have already been written 2000 years ago so i don’t have to wait to read it now

[bliblically-accurate-raccoon]

i’ve been bed rotting in a decidedly self destructive way lately

being and nothingness, jean-paul sartre // the metamorphosis, franz kafka // i am the architect of my own destruction, juansen dizon // albert camus // as consciousness is harnessed, susan sontag // ralph waldo emerson // allen ginsberg // tennesse williams // letters to felice, franz kafka // sylvia plath

[schuylerpeck]

2025

REMAIN BRAVE.

skate flat stones across the river.

make my home a sanctuary, a shelter, a welcome resting place.

learn the first names and favorite foods of neighbors.

keep the windows open as long as warmth allows.

ask myself: will it make a good memory?

earlier mornings, longer walks.

remember I am not without my own seasons.

write recipes on paper. print photos out for framing. seek the tangible, the homemade.

speak out about harm when I see it done. leave room for learning, but never complacency.

one long summer drive to myself. an overnight somewhere new if possible.

let the candles burn through winter.

joy is not made to be a crumb, but a feast. arrive fork and knife in hand.

BE HOPEFUL, BUT ALSO IN ACTION.

[zytes]

look alive, sunshine

[leosdooley]

MY MEMORY LOVES YOU.

jonathan carroll // margarita karapanou // jean-paul sartre // fatima aamer bilal // x // we are the dirt // x // the wedding date // haruki murakami // richard siken // x // angel a.g. // beau taplin // ryan o’connell // akhira // sylvia plath

[purplebehittindifferent]

Something changed when I realized everything I thought about her was what she had been told

buy me a coffee?🫣

[that-butch-archivist]

source: The Little Butch Book, written by Lesléa Newman

[smart-macademia]

this liminal space between Christmas and New Year's feels so cosy to me. what's on your to do list before 2025?

[doreensladle]

The Dead Man’s Fallacy: Riz Gukgak

[priyanshis-things]

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. ~John C. Maxwell

[theoptia]

Claribel Alegría, from “From the Bridge”

Text ID: poor deluded thing / you learned the consolations / of philosophy / before understanding / why you had to be consoled

[v1rginsu1cidal]

Blood still stains when the sheets are washed Sex don't sleep when the lights are off Kids are still depressed when you dress them up And syrup is still syrup in a sippy cup...

[perfectquote]

You’re still my favorite ‘what-if’.

just-useless-things // 3 years later