A POET READS--AUGUST

As of Jan. 1, I began tracking the following stats on a daily basis:

--how many poems I wrote and/or edited

--how many poems I read

--how many poetry chapbooks and/or books I read

--other media that relates to poetry, e.g. audios and videos

On Facebook, where I post my daily list, my favorite comment was from witty Melinda de Jesus who said, “They’re like a FitBit for poetry…” My daily posts can look like this entry:

1/7/18: Today

I wrote zero poems.

I read 6 poems and 1 poetry book

That’s it. No names, which is why I’m posting below the names of poets whose works I read. I name them, whether I read a single poem or an entire book by them. January's reading is HERE, February's reading is HERE, March's reading is HERE, April's reading is HERE, May's reading is HERE, June's reading is HERE, and July's reading is HERE.

These poets make up August's reading (translators' names also are included):

Carolyn Gutierrez-Abanggan

Kim Addonizio

Aga Shahid Ali

Kazim Ali

Merlie M. Alunan

Ivy Alvarez

Sacha Archer

JoAnn Balingit

Jennifer Bartlett

Tom Beckett

John M. Bennett

Oscar Bermeo

Sheila Black

William Blake

Paula Bonnell

Kamau Brathwaite

Stephen Brockwell

Luis Cabalquinto

Regie Cabico

Natalee Caple

Nick Carbo

Albert Casuga

Joel Chace

Neeli Cherkovski

Kazumi Chin

Michael Chin

Tom Clark

Allison Hedge Coke

Kate Colby

Cid Corman

Artista Daily

Raymond de Borja

Melina Luisa de Jesus

Emily Dickinson

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Donmay Donamayoora

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Camille Dungy

Stephen Dunn

Peg Duthie

Richard Eberhart

K.S. Ernst

Norman Fischer

Felix Fojas

Kenny Fries

Forrest Gander

Peter Ganick

Angela Manalang-Gloria

Anne Gorrick

Erica Goss

Vince Gotera

Torrin A. Greathouse

Camille Guthrie

Carolyn Gutierrez-Abanggan

Daniel Y. Harris

Lee Herrick

Thomas Hibbard

Bob Holman

Micah J Hood

Luisa Igloria

Camisha Jones

Ronak K. Kapadia

Stuart Kindmond

J.I. Kleinberg

Alysse Knorr

Kien Lam

Kathleen Ann Lawrence

Li-Young Lee

Jim Leftwich

Joseph O. Legaspi

Ada Limon

John Robert L. Luna

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon

Sally Wen Mao

Djelloul Marbrook

Agnes Marton

Billy Mavreas

Heather McHugh

Lateef McLeod

Dunya Mikhail

Chelsey Minnis

Rajiv Mohabir

Carol Moldaw

Lani Montreal

Nayomi Munaweera

Michelle Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy

Bianca Elorde Nagac

Kamen Nedev

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Mimi Thi Nguyen

Tiana Nobile

Geoffrey O’Brien

Ursula Andkjær Olsen

George Oppen

Jose Padua

Shailja Patel

Jeffrey Pethybridge

John Phillips

Aloysiusi Polintan

Cesar Polvorosa, Jr.

Cristina Querrer

Barbara Jane Reyes

Manuel E. Ortiz Rodriguez

Lisa Marie Rollins

Ammi Romero

Stuart Ross

Shawna Yang Ryan

Michael J Seidlinger

Brandon Shimoda

Larissa Shmailo

Daniel Simpson

Ellen McGrath Smith

Jessica Smith

Patti Smith

Brandon Som

Nathan Spoon

Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon

Carole Stone

Donna Stonecipher

Eileen R. Tabios

Lorenzo Thomas

Joel M. Toledo

Calvin Trillin

Tukaram

Eliana Vanessa

Nico Vassilakis

Marc Vincenz

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay

Kathy Wolfe

Jane Wong

Elaine Woo

William Butler Yeats

Kevin Young

Mark Young

Maged Zaher

J. Zimmerman