Hello there! You may have noticed that I only did a few days of BEDA. This is because I didn’t have much to say besides gushing about my favorite poems — so I decided to cut what I didn’t like, and focus my energy on my favorite subject, poetry. And here’s what I’ve been doing all month!
Important: The annotations will not show up on an embedded video, so you should click through to watch it on my YouTube page!
This video took three weeks of planning, two days of filming, three days of editing, 10 GB of footage, and 7 hours of annotating in order to create 80 videos and hundreds of annotations. I can say that this is the most difficult and largest video project I have ever undertaken. I really hope you like it!
Below you will find the full bibliography of the nearly 40 poems I included. That’s one for every day of National Poetry Month, plus a few bonuses! I hope you play along, or just read / listen to your favorites.
Bibliography for The Poetry Game
Berry, Wendell. “Manifesto: the Mad Farmer Liberation Front” | Text | My reading
Carroll, Lewis. “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” | Text | My reading
Corso, Gregory. “Marriage.” | Text | My reading
cummings, ee. “anyone lived in a pretty how town” | Text | My reading
cummings, ee. “may i feel said he” | Text | My reading
Dickinson, Emily. “I heard a fly buzz when I died” | Text | My reading
Eliot, T.S. “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” | Text | My reading
Giovanni, Nikki. “kidnap poem” | Text | My reading
Ginsberg, Allen. “A Supermarket in California” | Text | My reading
Ginsberg, Allen. “Howl” | Text | My reading
Hardy, Thomas. “Drummer Hodge” | Text | My reading
Hass, Robert. “Meditation at Lagunitas” | Text | My reading
Hudgins, Andrew. “In the Well” | Text | My reading
Hughes, Langston. “Daybreak in Alabama” | Text | My reading
Hughes, Langston. “Suicide’s Note” | Text | My reading
Larkin, Philip. “High Windows” | Text | My reading
Larkin, Philip. “MCMXIV” (1914) | Text | My reading
Lerman, Eleanor. “Starfish” | Text | My reading
Limón, Ada. “The Wild Divine” | Text | My reading
Mali, Taylor. “What Teachers Make” | Text | My reading
McConnell, Marty. “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell” | Text | My reading
McConnell, Marty. “I Let You Call me Beautiful” | Text | My reading
Millay, Edna St Vincent. Sonnet (“I shall forget you presently, my dear”) | Text | My reading
Oliver, Mary. “Why I Wake Early” | Text | My reading
Owen, Wilfred. “SIW” | Text | My reading
Poe, Edgar Allen. “Annabel Lee” | Text | My reading
Sandburg, Carl. “Bones” | Text | My reading
Sexton, Anne. “Her Kind” | Text | My reading
Sexton, Anne. “The Expatriates” | Text | My reading
Swiftburne, Algernon Charles. “The Garden of Prosperpine” | Text | My reading
Rives. “Dirty Talk” | Text | My reading
Rumi. “Bewilderment” | Text | My reading
Whitman, Walt. “Song at Sunset” | Text | My reading
Whitman, Walt. “Song of the Open Road” | Text | My reading
Williams, William Carlos. “Danse Russe” | Text | My reading
