media diary: august

September 18, 2024

media diary: august

Media Diary:

August 2024

Books

Goldsmith Market by Liliana Ursu

Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 by Eavan Boland

The Sorrow Dance: Poems by Denise Levertov

Against Love Poetry: Poems by Eavan Boland

An Explanation of America by Robert Pinsky

Life Studies and For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

Salt Monody by Marzanna Bogulima Kielar

The Survival Expo by Caki Wilkinson

The Queen of Queens by Jennifer Martelli

I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price

A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle

Crush by Richard Siken

Salad Anniversary by Machi Tawara

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina

Stumbling Blocks: Roman Poems by Karl Kirchwey

You & Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye

Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Doll Apollo: Poems by Melissa Ginsburg

I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love by Mahogany L. Browne

Hoodwitch by Faylita Hicks

The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Good Monster by Diannely Antigua

Enola Gay by Mark Levine

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Finna by Nate Marshall

Ceive by B.K. Fischer

Exhibitionist by Shari Caplan

Poems

I have so many favorite poems from this month because I completed the Sealey Challenge (reading one poetry collection per day in the month of August). I'd really like to create a digital anthology of my favorites as a way of slow-studying the pieces that I fall in love with. I can't put them all here, but you should check out these if you have time.

I can't stop thinking about this Terrance Hayes poem from American Sonnets where he writes that Sylvia Plath must've been insufferable to be around. You can read it on the New Yorker site (it's the first poem. I'm framing it and putting it in my apartment).

"Keep it Going" by Federico Garcia Lorca

"I Was Going to Burn Some Sage for the People of this World But I Read an Article on the Internet Saying it was a Bad Idea" by Tom Snarsky

"de Criminal" by Gail Wronsky

"Apologia Matilde" and "Portrait of the Horse" by Jaswinder Bolina

"A Roman Garden", "Saint Cecilia", and "A Return" by Karl Kirchwey

"The Drinker", "Home After Three Months Away", "Waking in the Blue", and "Night Sweat" by Robert Lowell

"Nakedness", "After the Rain", "In the Shade", "In the Morning", and "Portrait" by Marzanna Kielar

"Lazarus", "Saint She of All the Missing Things" and "Black Escapism" by Faylita Hicks

I wrote several poems this month, including a piece about the Barbie dolls that get bagged and sold NAKED at the thrift shop, a poem about a baffling Hinge profile comment, and a poem about sitting at the dinner table in my twenties and hearing the real family lore.