FAVORITE POEMS

In no particular order, not all can be listed and the list is always growing...

• Oranges, Envying the Children of San Francisco, Gary Soto
• For Desire; Garbage;HA; New Year's Day; What Do Women Want; Physics; Leaving Song; Noir; Body and Soul; What the Dead Fear; The Call; Reminder; From Then to Now, (So many to name) Kim Addonizio 
• Fork; Stone; Country Fair; The Clocks of the Dead; Charles Simic, Charles Simic
• Black Tambourine; Garden Abstract, Hart Crane
• Dulce et decorum est, Wilferd Owen
• Why on a Bad Day I Relate to the Manatee; Happy Ending; Lines; The Difference Between Pepsi and the Pope; Grace, The entire book Ka-Ching, Denise Duhamel (So many to name)
• Vacation Sex; Moon in the Window; The entire book Facts About the Moon, Dorianne Laux (So many to name)
• Persimmons, Li-Young Lee
• Liking It; Bus Station; Cross Town, Alicia Suskin Ostriker
• Vocabulary; Landscape; The End and the Beginning, Wislawa Szymborska
• The Pope's Penis; The Blue Dress; Cambridge Elegy; Rite of Passage; The Missing Boy; Monarchs, Sharon Olds
• Letter VII, Brendan Constantine
• Crab Boil, Rita Dove
• Blackberry Eating, Galway Kinnel
• Blackberries, Yusef Komunyakaa
• Touch Me, Stanley Kunitz
• The Simple Truth, Philip Levine
• Daddy; Morning Song; The Moon and the Yew Tree, Sylvia Plath
• Diving into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich
• Keeping Things Whole, Mark Strand
• From my Window, C.K. WIlliams
• Reading Plato, Jorie Graham
• The entire Stand Up Poetry Collection
• The Taxicab Incident; Disappearer; According to One Statistic; The Goldfish; Bully, David Hernandez
• Homage to My Hips; Wishes for Sons; At Last We Killed the Roaches, Lucille Clifton
• Embrace; Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House, Billy Collins