The Far Field
by Theodore Roethke | 
Garbage
by A. R. Ammons | 
Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes | 
The Bridge
by Hart Crane | 
Actual Air
by David Berman | 
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams | 
Words Under the Words
by Naomi Shihab Nye | 
The Lives of the Heart
by Jane Hirshfield | 
The Art of Drowning
by Billy Collins | 
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde | 
Sappho
by Bliss Carman | 
Loose Woman
by Sandra Cisneros | 
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot | 
The Leaf and the Cloud
by Mary Oliver | 
Questions About Angels
by Billy Collins | 
Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur | 
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
by Warsan Shire | 
The Complete Poetry
by Maya Angelou | 
Wild Embers
by Nikita Gill | 
If They Come for Us
by Fatimah Asghar |
'Rich's writing has always lifted her naturally toward a unifying transcendental vision, a dream, but a dream simultaneously wrenched and weighted by its moral embodiment, called by her at different stages: love, truth, integrity, commonality, silence. She is a true metaphysical poet...(At times) her dialectical fire produces poems of transcendent beauty.'-Carol Muske, New York Times Book Review