As part of National Poetry Month, Rumpus Books asked writers for poems they loved, and places those poems can be found online. Here’s what they said:
Andrew Altschul: Mark Doty’s “Brilliance”
Xochiquetzal Candelaria: Shane Book’s “:Ayahuasca”
Lucy Corin: Frank O’Hara’s “Morning
Gabriel Fried: Robin Beth Schaer’s “Volcano”
Randall Mann: John Casteen’s “Regret”
Peter Orner: Zbigniew Herbert’s “The Rain”
Alexander Parsons: Tony Hoagland’s “Lawrence”
Elizabeth Prince: Zbiegnew Herbert’s “Mr. Cogito on Upright Attitudes”
Margo Rabb: Sherman Alexie’s “Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World”
Jason Roberts: Donald Justice’s “Men At Forty”
C. J. Sage: Mary Oliver’s “Poppies”
Edward Schwarschild: Stanley Kunitz’s “The Layers”
Sean Singer: Melvin Dixon’s “Spring Cleaning”
Brian Spears: Philip Larkin’s “Church Going”
Tony Tost: Theodore Roethke’s “The Shape of the Fire”
