Online Extras

E-mail Article to a FriendPrint ArticleBookmark and Share

Recommended list-poem reading

ONLINE EXTRA
By Marilyn Taylor
Published: February 29, 2008
A SELECTION OF CONTEMPORARY LIST POEMS

Marilyn Taylor's article "Brainstorm to begin a list poem" appeared in the April 2008 issue of The Writer. Other examples of list poems include:

Al-Azzawi, Fadhil: "Nothing Happens in My Dreams Any More"
Blaeser, Kimberly: "Speaking Those Names"
Bogan, Louise: "Train Tune"
Brainard, Joe: I Remember
Brooke, Rupert: "The Great Lover"
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: "How Do I Love Thee"
Calbert, Cathleen: "Bad Judgment"
Carruth, Hayden: "The Fantastic Names of Jazz"
Chin, Marilyn: "Blues on Yellow"
Clifton, Lucille: "my dream about the cows"
Coles, Katharine: "The Moth"
Duhamel, Denise: "Mille et un Sentiments"
Equi, Elaine: "Things to Do in the Bible"
Ford, Terri: "Valentine"
Francis, Robert: "Blue Cornucopia"
Francis, Robert: "Silent Poem"
Goldbarth, Albert: "Desire Song"
Goldbarth, Albert: "Library"
Harjo, Joy: "She Had Some Horses"
Harrison, Jeffrey: "Arrival"
Hecht, Jennifer Michael: "No I Would Not Leave You If I Suddenly Found God"
Hopkins, Gerard M.: "Pied Beauty"
Katz, Joy: "Some Rain"
Kearney, Meg: "Creed"
Keenan, Deborah: "Loving Motels"
Kenny, Maurice: "Going Home"
Kenyon, Jane: "Let Evening Come"
Kooser, Ted: "At the Bait Stand"
Larkin, Joan: "Inventory"
Levertov, Denise: "Pleasures"
Momaday, N. Scott: "The Delight Song of the Tsoai-Talee"
Mörling, Malena: "Another Poem of Gifts"
Morris, Ivan, trans. "Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book" (Shin Yu Pai)
Mueller, Lisel: "Night Song"
Ondaatje, Michael: "Elimination Dance"
Parker, Dorothy: "Resume"
Rabinowitz, Anna: "Anthem"
Rogers, Pattiann: "Geocentric"
Rogers, Pattiann: "Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew"
Ruefle, Mary: "Marked" (Jeanne Beaumont)
Smart, Christopher: "Jubilate Agno" ["For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry"]
Sterle, Francine: "After Visiting a Nature Conservancy Volunteer"
Strand, Mark: "Giving Myself Up"
Tate, James: "First Lesson"
Trinidad, David: "Gloss of the Past"
Wakoski, Diane: "Blue Monday"
Wakoski, Diane: "Ode to a Lebanese Crock of Olives"
Waldman, Anne: "Fast Speaking Woman"
Weaver, Aafa Michael: "Sub Shot Girl"
Whitman, Walt: "I Hear America Singing"
Whitman, Walt: "Song of Myself" Section 15
Wormser, Baron: "A Quiet Life"

--Posted Feb. 29, 2008
Free Newsletter
Get our free newsletter