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Poetry books meme

Last seen in papersky's journal:

Poets whose collected, selected or volumes of poetry one has on the shelf, excluding poetry and prose in one volume, excluding anthologies.

(The original meme, as seen in supergee's journal, also specified "They should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc).")

• Basho
  
• George Bradley (I don't know if this counts as "there by my choice"; it's a Yale Series of Younger Poets winner; I used to read their slush pile, so I got a comp copy)
  
• e.e. cummings
  
• T. S. Eliot
  
• James Joyce (in 1983, I photocopied a library book of Pomes Penyeach)
  
• Marge Piercy
  
• Sylvia Plath
  
• Diane Di Prima
  
• A. A. Milne
  
• Rainer Maria Rilke
  
• Adrienne Rich
  
• Rumi (or should I say Coleman Barks - my favorite translator of Rumi, and I suspect him of being very liberal with his translations)
  
• Mark Strand

I'm vaguely embarrassed by how small the list is. But I guess it's not so bad for my having spent 15 years hating poetry (as a result of the slush pile reading) and only recently coming out of that (thanks to a gift of Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages.).

Poetry books meme

Last seen in papersky's journal:

Poets whose collected, selected or volumes of poetry one has on the shelf, excluding poetry and prose in one volume, excluding anthologies.

(The original meme, as seen in supergee's journal, also specified "They should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc).")

• Basho
  
• George Bradley (I don't know if this counts as "there by my choice"; it's a Yale Series of Younger Poets winner; I used to read their slush pile, so I got a comp copy)
  
• e.e. cummings
  
• T. S. Eliot
  
• James Joyce (in 1983, I photocopied a library book of Pomes Penyeach)
  
• Marge Piercy
  
• Sylvia Plath
  
• Diane Di Prima
  
• A. A. Milne
  
• Rainer Maria Rilke
  
• Adrienne Rich
  
• Rumi (or should I say Coleman Barks - my favorite translator of Rumi, and I suspect him of being very liberal with his translations)
  
• Mark Strand

I'm vaguely embarrassed by how small the list is. But I guess it's not so bad for my having spent 15 years hating poetry (as a result of the slush pile reading) and only recently coming out of that (thanks to a gift of Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages.).

Joyful movement

Every Woman Health Club

Local (Redwood City, California) women who have any interest in a friendly, non-competitive, women's health club, please please go check it out. I so much want it to succeed.

I just got back from their grand opening party.

They're going to have Afro-Caribbean dance classes! *bounce bounce bounce*

They're run by happy fit fat women!

They don't have scales!

They have reasonable yearly and monthly rates! (Unfortunately, you have to pay extra for the classes they offer.)

They also have drop-in rates for equipment use, classes, or both!

I saw lots of acquaintances from the former Women of Substance Health Spa.

I did the sample Afro-Caribbean dance class - sitting in a chair, because I'm not ready to exert myself a lot after my surgery. Discovered I mostly still have the moves from when I used to do Haitian dance at Dance Mission in San Francisco over a decade ago.

Joyful movement

Every Woman Health Club

Local (Redwood City, California) women who have any interest in a friendly, non-competitive, women's health club, please please go check it out. I so much want it to succeed.

I just got back from their grand opening party.

They're going to have Afro-Caribbean dance classes! *bounce bounce bounce*

They're run by happy fit fat women!

They don't have scales!

They have reasonable yearly and monthly rates! (Unfortunately, you have to pay extra for the classes they offer.)

They also have drop-in rates for equipment use, classes, or both!

I saw lots of acquaintances from the former Women of Substance Health Spa.

I did the sample Afro-Caribbean dance class - sitting in a chair, because I'm not ready to exert myself a lot after my surgery. Discovered I mostly still have the moves from when I used to do Haitian dance at Dance Mission in San Francisco over a decade ago.