my 2005 in poems

Hats off to Emily Lloyd for her list… Here's my own year in poetry:

January: Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
February: Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”
March: Lynda Hull, “Ornithology”
April: Elizabeth Bishop: “The Shampoo”
May: W.S. Merwin, “Yesterday”
June: Denise Levertov, “Living”
July: Victor Hernandez Cruz, “Yjuanas”
August: Lisel Mueller, “On Finding A Bird’s Bones in the Woods”
September: Buson, “Washing the hoe –”
October: Jorie Graham, “The Surface”
November: Raymond Carver, “The Cobweb”
December: Charles Wright, “Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho”