A POET READS--OCTOBER

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, July's reading is HERE, August's reading is HERE, and September's reading is HERE.

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

2 Sonoma State University students

Jonel Abellanosa

Anna Akhmatova

Ivy Alvarez

Yehuda Amichai

Raymond E. Andre III

Anonymous

Sacha Archer

Rae Armantrout

Margaret Atwood

Alan Baker

Joe Balaz

Ryan Bayless

billy bob beamer

Tom Beckett

Melissa Benham

John M. Bennett

Charles Bernstein

Anselm Berrigan

Brian Bilston

Johannes S.H. Bjerg

Chana Bloch

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Petrus Borel

Ingrid M. Calderon-Collins

Joseph Carter

Aileen I. Cassinetto

Paul Celan

Joel Chace

Marilyn Chin

Leonard Cohen

Matthew Cooperman

Judith Copithorne

Sam Cornish

Artemisio C.R

Artista Daily

Philip Davenport

Mabi David

Michael Dec

Melinda Luisa de Jesus

Shira Dentz

Michelle Detorie

Emily Dickinson

Steve Dickison

Donmay Donamayoora

Carol Dorf

Carrie Etter

Thomas Fink

Donna Fleischer

Diane Gage

Jeannine Hall Gailey

Danny Gallardo

Sarah Gambito

Peter Ganick

Simon “The Mapah” Ganneau

Renee Gauthier

Robert Gibb

Alex Gildzen

Kirk Glaser

Anne Gorrick

Grace Grafton

Jaimie Gusman

Ayo Gutierrez

Patricia Guzman

David Hage

Michael Hardin

Jeffrey Harrison

Judith Hemschemeyer

Tony Hoagland

Anselm Hollo

Bob Holman

Akua Lezli Hope

Fanny Howe

Ann Howell

C. Sophia Ibardaloza

Luisa Igloria

Paul Ilechko

Yang Jian

June Jordan

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jacqueline Jules

Inna Kabysh

George Kalamaras

David M. Katz

Aby Kaupang

Sherry Kearns

Burt Kimmelman

Basil King

Carolyn Kizer

Shinjiro Kurahara

Bill Kushner

Abdellatif Laabi

Rona Laban

Amy Grace Lam

Hank Lazer

Jim Leftwich

Ursula K. Le Guin

Olchar E. Lindsann

Timothy Liu

Normita Lopez

richard lopez

Audre Lorde

Mary Mackey

Scott MacLeod

Jerika Marchan

Agnes Marton

Maya D. Mason

Lila Matsumoto

Rachel May

Bernadette Mayer

Tricia McCallum

Sandy McIntosh

Jim McCrary

Scott McVay

Nicky Melville

Stephen Mitchell

Gustave Morin

Daniel Morris

Harryette Mullen

Michelle Murphy

Rich Murphy

Camilla Nelson

Lorine Niedecker

Elly Nobbs

William Oandasan

Geoffrey O’Brien

David O’Connell

Gwynn O’Gara

Jose Padua

Shin Yu Pai

Naomi Buck Palagi

Stephen Parlato

Mark Pawlak

Lorna Perez

Paul Pines

Alexander Pope

Randy Prunty

NIzar Qabbani

Renuka Raghavan

A.K. Ramanujan

Greg Rappleye

Barbara Jane Reyes

Lina Sagaral Reyes

W.J. Robertson

Tony Robles

E. San Juan

Janice Lobo Sapigao

Susan M. Schultz

Barry Schwabsky

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Diane Seuss

Shloka Shankar

John Simonds

Austin Smith

Felino A. Soriano

Analicia Sotelo

Bianca Lynn Spriggs

Jakob Stein

Eileen R. Tabios

Treva Tabios

Bronwen Tate

Mervyn Taylor

Susan Terris

Lorenzo Thomas

Lynne Thompson

Shu Ting

Barbara Tomash

Edwin Torres

Sam Truitt

Aldrin Valdez

Peter Vanderberg

Nico Vassilakis

Lawrence Venuti

Dan Waber

Holly Lyn Walrath

Dawn Nelson Wardrope

Darryl Wawa

Elizabeth Willis

Irene Willis

William Butler Yeats

Katherine E. Young

Mark Young

Maged Zaher