Follow these links to read some of the poems that currently hold my heart. I update this page every now and then, as I find new favorites online.

• “the earth is a living thing” by Lucille Clifton (poets.org)
• “Children in a Field” by Angela Shaw (Poetry Foundation)
• “Old Man Throwing a Ball” by David Baker (Poetry Foundation)
• “Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni (Poetry Society of America)
• “Christmas Night” by Conrad Hilberry (Poetry Foundation)
• “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll (Poetry Foundation)
• “Girls Not Wanted” by Lauren Henley (Eclectica Magazine)
• “Home to Roost” by Kay Ryan (Poetry Foundation)
• “Cautionary” by Dana Wildsmith (Asheville Poetry Review)
• “Wild Flowers” by Matthew Vetter (Poetry Foundation)
• “On a Moonstruck Gravel Road” by Rodney Torreson (Poetry Foundation)
• “Learning How to Pray” by Cathy Smith Bowers (r.k.v.r.y quarterly literary journal)