Ten poems for poetry virgins

"What should I read?" Read THESE

• “Meditation at Lagunitas” — Robert Hass

• “Advice to a Prophet” — Richard Wilbur

• “Wild Geese” (aka “You do not have to be good”) — Mary Oliver

• “Good Bones” — Maggie Smith

• “New York Poem” — Terrance Hayes

• “Ulysses” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (especially part 7) — Walt Whitman

• “America” — Allen Ginsburg

• “To My Twenties” — Kenneth Koch

• Fuck it. “Turn to Kristen Bell” — Alex Howe