#Christina Li

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (MAY 14TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur

10 Things I Hate About Prom by Elle Gonzalez Rose

It Waits in the Forest by Sarah Dass

Beach Cute by Beth Reekles

True Love & Other Impossible Odds by Christina Li

The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood

The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse

The Worst Perfect Moment by Shivaun Plozza

Flyboy by Kasey LeBlanc

Thirsty by Jas Hammonds

New Sequels:

The Girl in Question (The Girls I've Been #2) by Tess Sharpe

Blood & Fury (Chaos & Flame #2) by Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland

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Happy reading!

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[the-dust-jacket]

Huge congratulations to all those honored by the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature!

#Finding Papa #The Truth About Dragons #Ruby Lost and Found #Parachute Kids #I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom #In Limbo #full disclosure I was NOT conscious enough to watch this bit live #so all of my HOLLERING was BELATED #Deb JJ Lee #CHRISTINA LI #Shannon CF Rogers #Betty C. Tang #Angela Pham Krans #Thi Bui #Julie Leung #Hanna Cha #very excited for all these excellent humans #Asian/Pacific American Awards for LIterature #ALA Youth Media Awards

[richincolor]

Interview with Christina Li

Today we welcome Christina Li to Rich in Color. Christina is the author of the recently released book True Love and Other Impossible Odds. [Our review can be found here.]

Publisher summary: College freshman Grace Tang never meant to rewrite the rules of love. She came to college to move on from a grief-stricken senior year and to start anew. But when her roommate encounters dating woes and Grace takes an intriguing mathematics class, she develops an algorithm for a class project, the Match-Up, to find people’s perfect matches on campus. The algorithm takes campus by storm and matches up half of the students in the process. Grace is paired up with a seemingly perfect guy, too. But just as she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds herself being challenged by the past that comes to meet her, by her own increasing doubt and self-questioning, and by Julia, the enigmatic girl on her ski team and the algorithm’s biggest skeptic. Grace must determine who she truly is, reconcile her past, and figure out what love and happiness truly means.

Crystal: Thank you so much for chatting with us about your newest book! 

Christina: Thank you so much for having me!

Crystal: Can you tell us a little bit about Grace? What do you admire most about her?

Christina: Grace is a first-year college student at a liberal arts college, Leighton College, who is majoring in math. Upon taking an intriguing mathematics class and trying to solve for her roommate’s dating woes, she invents a campus-wide algorithm that puts students with their perfect romantic match. I admire how logical and clear-headed she is – she is someone who Is governed by these set rules and rationales in her life, and that is something I very much wish I had more of.

Crystal: What was the most fun part of writing her story?

Christina: I was in my last year of college when I first drafted this book, so I think the most fun part was reliving my own college memories as inspiration! College was such a fun and precious time of my life, and it was great to recall certain traditions, or college-esque experiences as I was writing the story.

Crystal: Your previous books were for middle grade readers. Were there any different challenges when writing for a young adult audience instead?

Christina: I think there are unique attributes to each age group! With YA I definitely had to learn to shift my voice a little bit from Middle Grade – I have found that my MG books are more observational, while my YA is more reflection. There is a learning curve for sure, but Grace’s voice came to me first and foremost, so I relied on that as a compass throughout this genre shift.

Crystal: The cover of the book is gorgeous. How did you feel when you got your first look at it?

Christina: The cover of my book is created by my incredibly, inimitably talented and visionary cover artist, Christina Chung. I have been such a fan of her work for such a long time. I remember getting the sketches and – it was jaw dropping. It was such a surreal moment of my life, how many details in the book were brought to life in such a gorgeous way.

Crystal: How has your writing changed since your first NaNoWriMo experience way back in sixth grade?

Christina: I think I am much more intentional about the stories I write and the way I write my stories. When I was first doing NaNoWriMo I was just writing stories for the sake of saying I wrote a book or could finish one. Now I know I am capable of finishing a book, so I am focusing on things like: what am I trying to say? How am I structuring this story? What motifs am I carrying throughout? These days, my books feel less like freewriting exercises and more like dissertations. But in many ways, I still get that wild silly joy of cracking open a new story. There is this very freeing delight that I associate with my NaNoWriMo past experiences, and I always try to recall parts of that when I start a new story these days.

Crystal: Are there specific books or authors that helped shape you as a reader and writer?

Christina: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin gave me the experience of seeing an Asian heroine in a story for the very first time. Reading Legend by Marie Lu changed my life as a 13-year-old and made me want to become a children’s and YA author. Gail Carson Levine wrote the types of books I wanted to write. There have been so many other authors that have shaped me: Jesmyn Ward, Yaa Gyasi, Ocean Vuong, that have made me believe in magic with their words.

Crystal: What would be a dream place for you to write?

Christina: I think I’ve always loved the idea of going on a writing retreat. I’ve never been to one! So, ideally, somewhere by the sea, in a little room, where all I get to focus on is my books.

Crystal: Finally, are there any other young adult books you are excited about right now or that you would recommend?

Christina: Absolutely! Books that I have absolutely adored this past year are Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington (I’m so excited for her upcoming book, The Blonde Dies First)!, This is Me Trying by Racquel Marie (very excited for her upcoming book If We Survive This), Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong, Stay With My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan, and Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta.

Crystal: Thanks again for your time and we wish you the best as your newest books makes it's way to readers!

CHRISTINA LI is the award-winning author of children’s books Clues to the Universe, which was a Washington Post summer book club pick, and Ruby Lost and Found, which was an NPR and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year and recognized for the Asian Pacific American Librarians’ Award for Best Children’s Literature. She is also the author of the YA title True Love and Other Impossible Odds (from HarperCollins / Quill Tree Books), as well as an adult literary debut, The Manor of Dreams (from Simon and Schuster / Avid Reader Press). She graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Economics and Public Policy. She loves to daydream about characters and drink too much jasmine green tea. She grew up in the Midwest and California but now calls New York home.

#interview #Christina Li #yalit #young adult fiction #lgtbqia+

[speakergame]

I would high key let Li do anything they wanted to my hair.

Can I do some weird hairstyle by myself? Hell no!

But would I like to have it, absolutely.

I appreciate and respect your willingness to trust your friend, and I hope you enjoy your hair à la chinoise

#speaker game #li cowles #the woman in the picture is christina deangelo aka thelacedangel and she does some of the most amazing historical hair and clothing #I also highly recommend abby cox on youtube she and christina do a lot of historical shenanigans together #(historical fashion is a newly discovered obsession of mine)

[wistfulwatcher]

i'm finally getting around to giffing some sacred lies for juliette, but first please enjoy this knock-off/au teen mistynat from it, where the younger version of juliette's character ogles the nerdy blonde in her choir:

#sacred lies #sacredliesedit #mistynat #it's so not them but it's so them i had to #mine #edit #* #otp: you should be thanking me #but not really lmao #i mean she kind of has christina's nose!!!

[teamkrissy]

I just watched NSYNC on hot ones and saw my old pretend crush. Looks like he's having a normal one. Good for him.

#im not aro but it seems like an aro thing to do? #idk i just dont get celbrity crushes #but i went to middle school during the height of bubblegum pop and everyone else looked like they were having fun #boy bands #pop #celebrity blorbos #nsync #backstreet boys #brittney spears #christina aguilera #bts #blackpink #idk what other generations did with this #middle school lies #middle school crushes #lgbtqia stuff #polls #hot ones

[my-bass-lies]

#christina applegate #80s #90s #actress #model #my-bass-lies

[nothinggold13]

FYI, if the version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” you’re listening to doesn’t include the “until then we’ll just have to muddle through somehow” line, you’re doing it wrong.

#was arguing with my brother about this earlier #he was like ‘I’ve never ever heard that’ #and I was like ‘you sit on a throne of lies but k’ #IT’S ABOUT THE SAD. #unless you’re listening specifically to Christmas Bops (valid) #the best Christmas songs have a little bit of Sad to them #this is also the reason Snow by Sleeping At Last had taken over my heart #’though pieces go missing may we still feel whole’ #MY. HEART. #anyway for HYAMLC I like the Christina Perri version #but you can choose the version that best suits you #so long as it has the ‘muddle through’ lyric #thank you and goodnight ❤️

[polyghostfacehours]

I don’t know why people expect some big backstory for billy and Christina relationship other than billy wanted sex but Christina wanted more and it resulted in Sam the new final girl

I think its just cause people are curious/thirsty for any crumbs of Billy lore lmao

#my theory is he just used her for sex via manipulating her since sid wasnt putting out #probably acted like he cared a lot about her even though it was all lies #but who knows maybe they had some secret relationship #idk #its worth exploring #i just dont think it will be answered since S6 takes place in NY #unless Christina is the killer and is on a trip there #billy loomis #christina carpenter #scream 1996 #scream franchise

[sunflowerchrissy]

Yes I loved him! He gave me that beautiful , jealous , sinful love! That ride with me die with me I’ll jump in front of a bullet love! That regretful, neglectful , sexual, I love it love ! But that was for him.

Please give me your love and make it not be so hurtful.

#my life #loveislove #love quotes #lasvegas #getacoach #puertorican #boricua #love #lovinglife #life quotes #lifechallenges #noworries #changes #excercise #puerto rico #getame christina #relationship #reality #breakup #lies

[lattehearted]

How the fuck did I get through almost all of vw on maddening without realizing not only that M.arianne didn't have B.lutgang on her but H.ilda didn't have F.reikugel on her either

#MAKING THINGS SO MUCH HARDER ON MYSELF?????? #there are two instances when i don't give a unit their relic #1. when i do magic class e.delgard #and 2. s.ylvain Ever #thats a trauma stick not a lance i dont let him have it #i lied 3 is the fact that l.ysie will always get t.hyrsus and l.orenz never does #me: im on s.hambalah lemme forge some of those rusted weaponry #b.lutgang and f.reikugel: 👋 #( ooc ; christina rambles )

[sourchicken]

Somebody saved my life.

I couldn’t have tolerated that filth.

Worse than that. Those are dumb motherfuckers.

Ehhh.

—

Read the books at home and stay as far away from cruddy teachers as possible.

#Vanderbilt #harvard university #Yale #brown university #mit #dartmouth #mostly shows lies and jokes #lower intelligence #stem cell regeneration #animal welfare #racism #clean medicine #Shiloh #racist ass hang up the phone Christina #human trafficking

[pinksturniolo]

Genie In A Bottle

Matt Sturniolo x Fem Reader Blurb

summary: Matt’s been having trouble falling asleep the past few nights. He’s tried everything, from white noise, to melatonin, to chamomile tea. So Nick helps him out by giving him a new sleep aid supplement that’s been getting popular lately. Zzztime. But he fails to mention just how strong the effects can really be…

content warnings: smut, suggestions of drug use, wet dream, fantasy fem character, needy!matt, oral male receiving, male masturbation

9 p.m.

Nick places the purple coated pill in Matt’s hand, as he eyes him suspiciously.

“This is the little thing everyone’s raving about?” He says, looking down at his hand. It’s small, easy enough to swallow, with a Z imprinted on the front of it.

Nick nods, a smile across his face. “Trust me, it works wonders. I was asleep in seconds.”

Matt opens his water bottle in his other hand, but hesitates before taking the pill.

“What’s exactly in this thing anyway?” he questions.

Nick shrugs, sitting back down on his bed and flipping the TV on. “I dunno, some kind of vitamin zinc or some shit that helps you sleep. It’s a supplement Matt, not a drug.”

Whatever, doesn’t hurt to try. Matt thinks and swallows the purple pill.

“Although I did have some crazy dreams last time I took it…” Nick says once the pill has gone down Matt’s throat, absorbing into his blood stream.

“Oh, thanks for that information right after I take the stupid thing.” Matt responds, walking out of his room.

Nick simply rolls his eyes. “You’ll be fine.”

10 p.m.

Matt lies in his bed, the lights off and the room dark except for the glow of his TV.

It’s been an hour since he took the supplement and he doesn’t feel sleepy at all.

What a scam. He thinks, pulling the comforter closer around him. He has no idea as to why he’s been having such trouble falling asleep lately.

He’s almost ready to just give up trying and go bother Nick in his room again when he hears laughter coming from the living room.

It’s a woman’s laugh, light and airy like the sound of bells.

Does Chris have a girl over?

Usually he would let his brothers know if that was the case.

He hears more of her laughter, the sound drawing him out of his bed with curiosity now. He pads over to his door, pressing his ear against it.

“One wish….”

He hears the feminine voice whisper as if it’s directly in his hear. The sound has his heart starting to race in his chest. But there’s no one in the room except him.

He feels an urge to see who it is that’s laughing, the voice he hears unfamiliar but strangely welcoming.

So, he cracks open his door, peering down the hallway. From his bedroom he can see a figure on the large white couch but can’t quite make out who it is.

And he doesn’t see Chris or Nick around. His curiosity is overpowering now as he walks out of his bedroom, closing his door and heading towards the couch.

The closer he gets, he can see it’s definitely a woman. But he has no clue who it is. He’s never met her before.

She sits on the couch, making eye contact with Matt once he’s close enough. She’s attractive and has a certain aura that pulls him in immediately.

“One wish.” She repeats in an alluring tone.

“Uh- excuse me?” Matt responds, utterly confused at this whole situation. “Who are you?”

She smiles and the warmth that radiates from her vibrates through Matt. Usually he would be alarmed at a stranger in his living room, maybe even a little scared.

But he’s drawn in, encapsulated with her presence. There’s something about her he just can’t put a finger on.

She motions for him to sit next to her and he does, his body moving without hesitation.

Once he’s close, she places her lips near his ear, breathing out the words again, “One wish.”

Matt’s heart is now pounding, as she moves down his neck, her lips brushing the skin lightly. A nervous chill erupts through him and he’s frozen in his seat, unable to move.

“Anything you want…” she says again and presses a feather of a kiss to the side of his neck.

Matt squeezes his eyes shut, his cock starting to harden in his sweats. This feels like a dream.

However, he doesn’t even remember falling asleep. It’s still night time, the moon light shining through the living room window.

But he feels the arousal course through his veins from the woman next to him, her energy sensual and her touch on his skin hot and filling him with need.

“Anything I want?” He finds himself saying in response and he feels her smile against his neck. “Anything, Matt.”

She runs her lips down the nape of his neck, her tongue trailing behind. He inhales sharply at the feeling as she then places her hand over the growing bulge in his pants.

“Shit..” he breathes, her hand massaging him with light pressure.

To be fair, Matt hasn’t been touched in a while. Even in the state he’s in now, his need for some help is apparent.

“I know what you want.” The female voice tells him and suddenly she’s kneeled on the floor in front of him, her mysterious gaze peering up.

His jaw is slacked open, a thrill running through him as she pulls his pants down. She drags her fingers through his happy trail, resting at the band of his boxers.

“Are you gonna be good for me?” she asks and he’s nodding, his breath quickening as she pulls his aching cock out of his boxers.

Matt knows he’s in a trance, a state of dreamy bliss and all he can feel right now is that he so desperately needs to be touched, to be taken care of.

He sighs heavily as she wraps her soft lips around his tip, swirling his pre cum around him, her tongue sliding down his shaft. He leans against the couch, his legs spreading out as she takes him into her mouth.

The warm and wet feeling of it has him groaning out loud, his fingers twitching as he has the urge to grab her hair. Her lips rub against the ridges of his veins, her tongue swirling as she bobs her head on him.

She removes her mouth from him with a pop, her hand replacing it as she wraps it around his shaft, pumping up and down. “You can touch me Matt. Go ahead.” she coaxes. Her voice is like velvet, getting his blood pumping with lust.

Matt’s eyes are hooded, his mouth still hung open in disbelief that this is even happening. He wraps his hands into her silky hair, as she takes all of him again, his tip brushing the back of her throat.

This has his hips bucking up, deep moans spilling from his mouth. Her nose brushes his pelvis as he leads her head now, his hand resting atop.

The slurping and slight gagging sounds are filthy and have Matt in absolute pleasure, his thighs tensing as she runs her hands along them.

He’s already close, teetering on the edge of release as he pants relentlessly, tugging on her hair.

She then comes up for air, jerking him with her soft hand again, spitting on the tip. “So big, Matt. You’re such a good boy, why don’t you let it all go.”

Fuck.

He throws his head back, giving into the blissful feeling as she takes him deep into her throat again, so tight and warm.

“Fuck fuck fuck-“ he rasps, his body hot and sweaty as he feels his resolve slipping.

Before he knows it, he’s releasing hot spurts of cum in her mouth, whimpering and panting with noises of pleasure.

9 a.m.

Matt’s eyes shoot open, the harsh sunlight making him squint. He’s a little out of breath, beads of sweat on his forehead as he rubs his face, leaning up a little.

He was laying on his stomach and pushes himself up with his arms as he feels a strange sensation below him.

His dick throbs with the aftershocks of an orgasm and it clicks in his head once he feels the sticky mess on his sheets underneath him.

He was rutting his hips against the mattress only moments ago, getting himself off from a wet dream.

He sighs as he stands up from the bed, stripping himself of his now dirty boxers and pulls on a new pair, proceeding to pull the sheets from his bed to go wash them.

He hears a knock on his door, followed by Nick’s voice. “Good morning! I take it the pill worked well for you?”

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[my-bass-lies]

#christina applegate #actress #80s #90s #my-bass-lies

[dannyriccsupremacy]

suburban legends | CL16

| charles leclerc x fem!exgf!reader smau

| summary : charles doesn't do enough to keep his girlfriend and when the internet finds out, they are less than happy.

| faceclaim : christina nadin

| part one here ! part two here !

youruser just posted a story!

yn, her bff, chloe, julia and amelia all sat at a cafe by the water catching up. their drunken plans from the club bathroom that night had turned into a reality, and they were all so excited to see each other- and follow each other on social media.

as they were chatting, giggling with each other, your bff suddenly gasped and scoffed.

"whats that for?" yn asked, slighting laughing at her antics.

"ex-o'clock." she said sipping her drink, "yours, not mine."

"what?!" yn exclaimed, giving her bff a look, "definitely him?"

your bff nodded, rolling her eyes. the other three girls were avidly looking at everyone in the vicinity, trying to work out which man was eliciting this reaction from the duo.

"brown hair, sunglasses, white shirt, two o'clock." your bff answered their unspoken question.

the trio's eyes landed on the man at the same time, and amelia suddenly went white. soon the other four's attention was on her, concerned.

"miels, what's wrong?" julia asked, placing her hand on amelia's arm.

"oh, n-nothing." amelia shook her head.

"no, honey, what's wrong?" chloe questioned, her curiosity peaking.

"i feel awful. i didn't know, i swear." amelia apologised frantically.

"know what?" yn furrowed her brows.

"he's the one i'm talking to right now. charles is the one i'm seeing. and yn, your the ex he isn't over yet." amelia blurted, cheeks turning pink.

"amelia... i am so, so sorry." yn apologised, a sympathetic expression on her face.

"yn! do not apologise. especially not for a man!" amelia scolded, laughing slightly, "i was going to break things off with him anyway. he is well and truly still in love with you."

yn smiled sadly, taking another glance at the man, only to find him already staring at her, love still shining in his eyes.

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amelia sat across from yn, a slightly embarrassed look on her face.

"look, yn, i really like you and i really want to stay friends with you, so i just really need to tell you this so i don't think that our entire friendship is built on lies." amelia blurted, causing the confused look on yn's face. yn nodded for her to continue.

"basically, charles hired me. i'm an aspiring actress and i answered a call he had put out for someone that fit my description. when i sat down and met him for the first time, he explained that he wanted someone to pretend that they were his girlfriend to make his ex- you- jealous." she explained, wringing her hands together.

"when i first met you, i didn't know you were the ex, but he told me to keep up the act with everyone since monaco is such a small place and everyone talks." she took a breath, "but then when your bff pointed out him as your ex, i wanted to say something, but i really liked you so i didn't want to ruin the friendship we had already created."

yn sat in silence as she took in the girl's words. "okay."

"okay?" amelia was nervous, "just okay? is that like a bad okay, or is it a good okay?"

"a good okay," yn smiled, "i really want to keep being your friend so i'm so happy that you told me now. i definitely would of had to re-evaluate the relationship if it happened later down the line."

"oh thank god!" amelia let out a sigh of relief, at which yn laughed, "but i do want to let you know that charles still truly loves you. like he would not shut up about how amazing you are. i have only heard his side of the story, but if i were you, i would definitely get back together with him."

"he kissed me in a way that screwed me up forever, then i broke my own heart because he was too afraid to do it." yn responded, thinking back on their relationship.

"sounds like you were born to be suburban legends!" amelia giggled.

"i think i might." yn grinned.

"now i did meet his friend lando... what's his deal?"

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authors note i literally took so long to get this part out i am so sorry!! but this will be the last part. a spin off may occur 👀

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[soracities]

what are your suggestions for starter poetry for people who dont have strong reading/analysis backgrounds

I've answered this a few times so I'm going to compile and expand them all into one post here.

I think if you haven't read much poetry before or aren't sure of your own tastes yet, then poetry anthologies are a great place to start: many of them will have a unifying theme so you can hone in based on a subject that interests you, or pick your way through something more general. I haven't read all of the ones below, but I have read most of them; the rest I came across in my own readings and added to my list either because I like the concept or am familiar with the editor(s) / their work:

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (ed. Nick Astley) & Being Alive: The Sequel to Staying Alive (there's two more books in this series, but I'm recommending these two just because it's where I started)

The Rattlebag (ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes)

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (ed. Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris)

The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (ed. Robert Hass)

A Book of Luminous Things (ed. Czesław Miłosz )

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass (this may be a good place to start if you're also looking for commentary on the poems themselves)

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World(ed. Pádraig Ó'Tuama)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (ed. Kevin Young)

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (ed. Kevin Young)

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poems

The following lists are authors I love in one regard or another and is a small mix of different styles / time periods which I think are still fairly accessible regardless of what your reading background is! It's be no means exhaustice but hopefully it gives you even just a small glimpse of the range that's available so you can branch off and explore for yourself if any particular work speaks to you.

But in any case, for individual collections, I would try:

anything by Sara Teasdale

Devotions / Wild Geese / Felicity by Mary Oliver

Selected Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein

Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez

Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls by Maram al-Masri

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Tell Me: Poems / What is This Thing Called Love? by Kim Addonizio

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (Billy Collins is THE go-to for accessible / beginner poetry in my view so I think any of his collections would probably do)

Crush by Richard Siken

Rapture / The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

Collected Poems by Vasko Popa

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas (this is a play, but Thomas is a poet and the language & structure is definitely poetic to me)

Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire,

Nostalgia, My Enemy: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef

As for individual poems:

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

[Dear The Vatican] erasure poem by Pádraig Ó'Tuama // "The Pedagogy of Conflict"

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith

"The Author Writes the First Draft of His Weddings Vows (An erasure of Virginia Woolf's suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"One Last Poem for Richard" by Sandra Cisneros

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

“I’m Explaining a Few Things”by Pablo Neruda

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" //"Nothing Gold Can Stay"//"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost

"Tablets: I // II // III"by Dunya Mikhail

"What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden,

"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider

“I, too” // "The Negro Speaks of Rivers” // "Harlem” // “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“The Mower” // "The Trees" // "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

“The Leash” // “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” // "Downhearted" by Ada Limón

“The Flea” by John Donne

"The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore

"Beauty" // "Please don't" // "How it Adds Up" by Tony Hoagland

“My Friend Yeshi” by Alice Walker

"De Humanis Corporis Fabrica"byJohn Burnside

“What Do Women Want?” // “For Desire” // "Stolen Moments" // "The Numbers" by Kim Addonizio

“Hummingbird” // "For Tess" by Raymond Carver

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin

“Bleecker Street, Summer” by Derek Walcott

“Dirge Without Music” // "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Digging” // “Mid-Term Break” // “The Rain Stick” // "Blackberry Picking" // "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney

“Dulce Et Decorum Est”by Wilfred Owen

“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”by Wislawa Szymborska

"Hour" //"Medusa" byCarol Ann Duffy

“The More Loving One” // “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

“Small Kindnesses” // "Feeding the Worms" by Danusha Laméris

"Down by the Salley Gardens” // “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats

"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

"The Last Love Letter from an Entymologist" by Jared Singer

"[i like my body when it is with your]" by e.e. cummings

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" by Paige Lewis

"A Dream Within a Dream" // "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (highly recommend reading the last one out loud or listening to it recited)

"Ars Poetica?" // "Encounter" // "A Song on the End of the World"by Czeslaw Milosz

"Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” // "Two Countries” // "Kindness” by Naoimi Shihab Nye

"Slow Dance” by Matthew Dickman

"The Archipelago of Kisses" // "The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Mimesis" by Fady Joudah

"The Great Fires" // "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" // "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

"The Mermaid" // "Virtuosi" by Lisel Mueller

"Macrophobia (Fear of Waiting)" by Jamaal May

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

I would also recommend spending some times with essays, interviews, or other non-fiction, creative or otherwise (especially by other poets) if you want to broaden and improve how you read poetry; they can help give you a wider idea of the landscape behind and beyond the actual poems themselves, or even just let you acquaint yourself with how particular writers see and describe things in the world around them. The following are some of my favourites:

Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver

"Theory and Play of the Duende" by Federico García Lorca

"The White Bird" and "Some Notes on Song" by John Berger

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

"Of Strangeness That Wakes Us" and "Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky" by Ilya Kaminsky

"The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

Paris, When It's Naked by Etel Adnan

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