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i made a folder on googledrive for poetry&relevant literature that i find myself coming back to when i need to ground myself again. most are fairly well known so it’s also a good place to dive into literature if you haven’t already. all should be free to download but let me know & i’ll try to do something about it. hope some of you get just as much from these authors as i have.
i’m taking an introduction to disability studies course this semester and because my instructor is incredible, all of the material we’ve been reading is available as pdfs, so i decided to start a google drive of that plus some other pieces i’ve collected. if you want to check out some disability lit it’s here!
it’ll be updated about weekly through december with what we’ve read in class that week. if you have any pdfs you’d like to share feel free to send me a dm and i’d love to add them!
what are your all time favorite poems? I know this is an unfair question but shrug emoji
god… so many … will start w/ the ones i have memorised then go from there. big love emoji💛
good mirrors are not cheap by audre lorde
compensation by sara tesdale
touched by an angel by maya angelou
october by louise glück
holdfast by robin beth schaer
invitation by mary oliver
the ineffable by delmira agustini
for grace, after a party by frank o’hara
three women by sylvia plath
a nude by edward hopper by lisel mueller
silence by wong may
splittings by adrienne rich
the man who can only paint death by erica jong
heart’s limbo by carolyn kizer
moments by mary oliver
poem for haruko by june jordan
lady lazarus by sylvia plath
still do i keep my look, my identity … by gwendolyn brooks
the sentence by anna akhmatov
the burning girl by mary karr
med-term break by seamus heaney
the second coming by w.b. yeats
sorrows by lucille clifton
portrait by louise glück
having a coke with you by frank o’hara
rhapsody in plain yellow by marilyn chin
the glass essay by anne carson
the waste land by t.s. eliot
i am not your princess by chrystos
i will wade out by e.e. cummings
duino elegies: the eighth elegy by rainer maria rilke
aphorisms by alda merini
the teacher by may sarton
michio ito’s fox & hawk by yusef komunyakaa
willow by anna akhmatova
god by langston hughes
corpse song by margaret atwood
the condition by marvin bell
how to build a thing / west 4th by marya hornbacher
since there is no escape by sara teasdale
the fear of oneself by sharon olds
a process in the weather of the heart by dylan thomas
where does such tenderness come from? marina tsvetaeva
leda 1 / leda 2 / leda 3 by lucille clifton
a word on statistics by wisława szymborska
the world is not conclusion by emily dickinson
glory falls by maya angelou
in every life by alicia suskin ostriker
another spring by denise levertov
it is difficult to speak of the night by jack gilbert
the palace of the lowest moon by susan sherman
power by audre lorde
demeter’s prayer to hades by rita dove
the dead calf by wendell berry
wild geese by mary oliver
an empty bed at the asylum by helen s. chasin
the poem as a mask by muriel rukeyser
song by allen ginsberg
the breathing, the endless news by rita dove
service for two by marvin bell
incontinence by susan hahn
a small thing by nancy schoenberger
i’m one by may swenson
my home by nandini sahu
in a northern country by linda pastan