#a.r. ammons

[typewriter-worries]

It's world poetry day so here are some (more) of my favorite poems:

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin

All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu

Rural Boys Watch the Apocalypse by Keaton St. James (@boykeats)

HOPE YOU’RE WELL. PLEASE DON’T READ THIS. by Lev St. Valentine (@dogrotpdf)

Time of Love by Claribel Alegría

Every Job Has a First Day by Rebecca Gayle Howell

ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? by Devin Kelly

Reading by A.R. Ammons

things i want to ask you by Helga Floros

Night Bird by Danusha Laméris

Prayer for Werewolves by Stephanie Burt

The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman

The Yearner by Rachel Long

If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell

I Dream on a Crowded Subway Train with My Eyes Open But My Body Swaying by Chen Chen

We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams

Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme

Cracks by Dieu Dinh

and here's part one <3

[apocryphics]

a.r. ammons

[apoemaday]

Way to Go

by A.R. Ammons

West light flat on trees: bird flying deep out in blue glass: uncertain wind stirring the leaves: this is the world we have: take it

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of december

a.r. ammons collected poems: 1951-1971: "dunes"

jennifer robertson shrill shirts will always balloon

n. scott momaday in the presence of the sun: stories and poems, 1961-1991: "the delight song of tsoai-talee"

ted berrigan the collected poems of ted berrigan: "bean spasms"

natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: "abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation"

greg miller watch: "river"

joanna klink excerpts from a secret prophecy: "terrebonne bay"

dorothy dudley pine river bay

brenda shaughnessy our andromeda: "our andromeda"

frank lima incidents of travel in poetry: "orfeo"

lehua m. taitano one kind of hunger

no'u revilla kino

linda hogan when the body

paul verlaine one hundred and one poems by paul verlaine: a biligual edition: "moonlight" (tr. norman r. shapiro)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "the cypress broke" (tr. fady joudah)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "your night is of lilac"

amir rabiyah prayers for my 17th chromosome: "our dangerous sweetness"

sara nicholson the living method: "the end of television"

charles shields proposal for a exhibition

ginger murchison a scrap of linen, a bone: "river"

tsering wangmo dhompa virtual

anne carson the beauty of the husband: "v. here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin"

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: "the book of the dead"

anne stevenson stone milk: "the enigma"

david tomas martinez love song

robert fitzgerald charles river nocturne

thomas mcgrath the movie at the end of the world: collected poems: "many in the darkness"

linda rodriguez heart's migration: "the amazon river dolphin"

donald revell the glens of cithaeron

sumita chakraborty dear, beloved

angela jackson and all these roads be luminous: "miz rosa rides the bus"

kofi

[dk-thrive]

It's nice after dinner to walk down to the beach and find the biggest thing on earth relatively calm.

— A.R. Ammons, "Reading" in The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977 (W.W. Norton, December 18, 2018) (via @ReginaRosenfeld)

[whisperthatruns]

Poetry, September 2017

[headlightsforever]

A. R. Ammons

[robcam-wfu]

— A.R. Ammons, "Play"

[roselynvictoria]

Reading

lt’s nice

after dinner

to walk down to

the beach

and find

the biggest

thing on earth

relatively calm.

A.R. Ammons

[bellamuertes]

Correction The burdens of the world on my back lighten the world not a whit while removing them greatly decreases my specific gravity

— A.R. Ammons (1968)

[onawinternight]

by paris review poetry.

[emmykent]

[apocryphics]

A. R. Ammons

[apoemaday]

Reading

by A.R. Ammons

It's nice after dinner to walk down to the beach

and find the biggest thing on earth relatively calm.

[soracities]

A.R. Ammons, from "Auditions", The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons Volume 2: 1978-2005 [ID in ALT]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[from my flickr files]

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Reading by A.R. Ammons

It’s nice after dinner to walk down to the beach

and find the biggest thing on earth relatively calm