I like poetry. I like to read it. I like to share it with friends. And for the past 20 years or so, I've been collecting it. Individual volumes of poets both contemporary and classic. Poets who write in English, but also, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese. 303 poets. 431 books. 
Over the past several days, I've been cleaning all of them and reshelving. Fortunately, they all fit on a single 6 ft tall shelf. They fit because I have modified the shelf to be able to display them on both sides of an open design!The project should have taken about 2 hours at most, but you can't disassemble shelves of books of poetry without stopping to visit, to read, to savor. So it's taken the better part of a week, and even then, I felt rushed. Such is the power of poetry.
Diane Ackerman to Constantine Cavafy
Christopher Cessac to Chris Forhan
Robert Frost to Frieda Hughes
Langston Hughes to Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Michael McFee to Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver to Joe Salerno
Carl Sandburg to Connie Voisine
Fred Voss to Paul Zimmer
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