Beginner Poetry Reading List

[Todd]

Mark these are just more random poems that I happen to like:

Wallace Stevens: Invective Against Swans

Kim Addonizio: Chicken

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias

Lucile Clifton: shapeshifter poems

James Autry: On Firing a Salesman

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty

Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Marge Piercy: Joy Road and Livernois

Ted Kooser: Abandoned Farmhouse, After Years

Philip Levine: What Work Is

Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays