My Library
In lieu of a recommended reading list, here are the books on my shelves, lovingly acquired over time. This is a work in progress, and I will continually update it when I have more hours to spare. I have hundreds of books in my home—happy to share with you what I’m reading!
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A Nostalgist’s Map of America: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali 
Against Love Poetry: Poems by Eavan Boland 
All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 
American Sublime: Poems by Elizabeth Alexander 
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 
Bago Ang Babae by Rebecca T. Añonuevo 
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn 
Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver 
Except You Enthrall Me by Mark Anthony Cayanan 
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems by Diane Ackerman Latest posts
Self-Portrait as Tiona by I.S. Jones
"There's a dark joy in me that laughs at your meager gifts."
Summer by Robin Coste Lewis
"I peeled / a banana. And cursed God—His arrogance, / His gall—to still expect our devotion / after creating love."
love is a place by e.e. cummings
“yes is a world”
Egg by 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”
Misty by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
“I can love anyone, anyone, / even myself.”