I’ve keep these poems within reach all year. Here are my 2019 go-to poems and the reasons why they’ve been so important to me.

Show notes

• Walt Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
• Ashbery’s Some Trees
• W. S. Merwin’s Berryman
• Hannah Gamble’s Growing a Bear and my episode about it
• Morgan Parker’s Now More Than Ever and her Commonplace episode
• Hanif Abdurraqib’s For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut