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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Yusef Komunyakaa

“Guardian angels, wherever you're hiding, / we know you can't be everywhere at once.” — Yusef Komunyakaa

World, Raymond Carver, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English

“I hate to seem greedy—I have so much / to be thankful for already.” — Raymond Carver

World, Poetry, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Translations, Etel Adnan, Lebanon, Sarah Riggs, Lebanese

“I love the rain when it / wraps me like a / river” — Etel Adnan

World, I.S. Jones, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English, Nigeria

"There's a dark joy in me that laughs at your meager gifts."

World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English, Robin Coste Lewis

"I peeled / a banana. And cursed God—His arrogance, / His gall—to still expect our devotion / after creating love."

Notes, Lists

Dive into our exploration of famous poems about rain, from Joy Harjo's celebration of life to Louise Glück's meditation on love.

World, e.e. cummings, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English

“yes is a world”

World, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English, C.G. Hanzlicek

““Why are you always whistling?” she asks. / “Because I’m happy.” / And it’s true, / Though it stuns me to say it aloud”

World, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

“I can love anyone, anyone, / even myself.”

World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Asian American, India, Indian, Natasha Rao

“I want to be unabashed, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun, knowing / I’ll end up in an eager mouth.”