FAVORITE POETRY BOOKS

Currently, Billy Collins is my favorite poet. I haven't read all of his books (yet); these three are excellent:

The Art of Drowning

Picnic, Lightning

Questions about Angels

The Language of Life by Bill Moyer. This is a fabulous anthology with many different contemporary poets-- interviews and poetry.

Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems

Top of my Lungs by Natalie Goldberg

Good Heart by Deborah Keenan--fabulous poetry teacher, too

The Complete Poetry of John Donne

e.e. cummings: a selection of poems

Constance by Jane Kenyon

If the World Is Running Out by Kate Green

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (how could I not love it when I live in the Longfellow neighborhood, not far from Minnehaha Falls, and regulary drive on Hiawatha Avenue!)