Sharon Olds Time-Travel, Night Terrors
Charles Simic “Puppet-Maker”
Michael Dickman “We Did Not Make Ourselves” From the Fishouse Poems, on PSA
Matthew Dickman …from the fishouse @how a poem happens 2 poems from The Story 3 poems at Boston Review “Blue Sky” @Bomb
Brenda Shaughnessy “I’m Over the Moon” “Me in Paradise”
Judith Harris “In Your Absence”
Nick Flynn “Father Outside“, “My Mother Contemplating Her Gun” 
Sharon Olds “I Could Not Tell“, “The Fear of Oneself” “That Year”
Amy Gerstler “In Perpetual Spring“, “Lost in the Forest”
Michelle Amerson “Delusions” from RATTLE #34, Winter 2010
Jane Hirshfield on poetry: “All the Difficult Hours and Minutes“, “Sentencings” “Spiritual Poetry: Nine Gates: 22 poems about spirituality and enlightenment”
W.D. Snodgrass Vuillard: “The Mother and Sister of the Artist”
Tony Hoagland “At the Galleria Shopping Mall”
Stephen Dunn “All That We Have“, Dismantling the House, “Regardless” …all poems
Donald Hall “Convergences”
D. A. Powell “Chronic”
Howard Altmann “Fragments”
Li-Young Lee “Little Ache“, “From Blossoms“, “Nocturne”
Mark Strand “Keeping Things Whole” “No Words Can Describe It”
Yusef Komunyakaa “The Shortest Night”
Ted Kooser “Walking on Tiptoe” “Abandoned Farmhouse”
Lisel Mueller “The Lonesome Dream” “Bedtime Story” “For a Thirteenth Birthday” …more poems
Robert Hass “Faint Music”
Denise Levertov “What Were They Like?”
Charles Wright “The Fever Toy”
Louise Gluck “First Memory” The Untrustworthy Speaker” “The Wild Iris” “The Red Poppy” “Gretel in Darkness” “Mother and Child” “The Empty Glass” “Decade” “Confession” “Snow” pdf “48 Poems of Louise Gluck”
Virginia Chase Sutton “Manic” “Lemons”
Mary Saracino “Grace”
Tom Healy “Mirror, Mirror”
Christian Wiman’s Every Riven Thing (poetry book) And I Said to My Soul, Be Loud
Bill Knot The Closet
Robert Pinsky Samurai Song
Jon Pineda (from fishouse poems) Coma, My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task, Losing a Memory
Czeslaw Milosz Ars Poetica?
Francisco Matos Paoli The Profound Truth; Variations in the Sea
Yasmeen Hameed (from Granta)
About Poetry
Glossary of Poetic Terms From the Poetry Foundation
The Publishing Revolution is Here—Pen American
DOWNLOADS–Audio Recordings of FSG’s Poets (mp3)
An Interview with jubilat’s Robert Casper
from Boston Review: Called Into Being: Charles Bernstein’s All the Whiskey in Heaven (Richard Deming)
from Boston Review: Body of Work–On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (Tess Taylor)
Penn Sound Men with Pens Cats Eye Writer (blogging) The Renegade Writer
Backspace “The Writers Place” Wordplay PREDITORS & EDITORS
The Creative Penn **Poetry News in Review
GalleyCat: The First Word on the Book Publishing Industry but.if.and.that
**The Review Review **Beyond the Margins
Grub Street (Boston Writing) Pub Rants (blog)
***She Writes
The Drum Literary Magazine (for your ears) Writers Unboxed
Timothy Green’s blog (Rattle Editor)
…WORTH CHECKING:
Haggard & Halloo Poetry Anemone Sidecar Alice Blue Review POOL
Calyx, Redactions, BLR (Bellevue Literary Review), Artichoke Haircut, Gloom Cupboard Wicked Alice
GutCult Gutter Eloquence Alligator Juniper 
Moria Womb Poetry
Magma Poetry tinfoil dresses Thieves Jargon Stirring
Origami Condom Melusine–or Woman in the 21st Century
Hutt Poetry Hoboeye *epidermis Dusie
Blackbox Manifold 2nd Ave Poetry Subliminal Interiors
****Hazel & Wren
Poets on Poetry
“A Defense of Poetry“–Charles Bernstein 2001
“Beginnings” –CK Williams
“Confessionalography” –Rachel Zucker
“Elements and Function of Poetry” –George Santayana
Reasons for Poetry –William Meredith
The Very Act of Telling –Sharon Olds
Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters –Mark Doty
Jonathan Galassi on The State of Poetry
Poetry and Ambition –Donald Hall
What is Poetry About –Cynthia Ozick
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Poetry –Marjorie Perloff
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Difficult Degrees 
Amy,
I hadn’t read “That Year” from Sharon Olds before. Thank you for making it available here, and for sharing it. I am always intrigued by her work when it does go by. Olds has a collection of poems simply titled, “The Father,” which are all about her relationship with him, from her childhood to her adulthood, and through to his death. I have read excerpts of it, but not it in its entirety – have you read it? If so, what do you think of it?
Your links are fantastic, you have some of the best stuff I’ve seen listed on poet blogs, PTSD blogs, or survivor blogs combined – and I’ve read and have been exposed to a huge array of them over the years.
Some of the links you have listed here, I have saved in my own personal files already:
Rachel Zucker’s essays in particular made a profound impact on me, and I have re-read them multiple times. It’s so nice to read something by someone who thinks the way I do about poetry.
Many blessings to you, toward your writing and healing. Please continue to do what you’re doing (I’m not sure you could stop, honestly – it gets to where the journaling, the purging, the hurt for truth within poetry, begins to run you, doesn’t it?)
I admire your strength and courage, and your willingness to share, naked and open, vulnerable.
Sincerely,
Penney
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