The Most Anthologized Poems of the Last 25 Years

[68c12c16]

here is a Fibonacci poem -- not sure who is the author...

  I
  wrote
  a poem
  on a page
  but then each line grew
  to the word sum of the previous two
  until I started to worry about all these words coming with such frequency
  because, as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency.

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edit 1: just found out the author of this poem is Brian Bilston. It has been included in his book, You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

[DanBC]

See also his venn diagram poem: https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/624222674559082496

[alexanderdmitri]

Nice. I waste a lot of time converting prose/poetry that I like into code. Here's the first four lines of [the widely anthologized I guess] Wasteland:

// cruellest_month.js

import lilacs from 'deadland';

import spring from 'seasons';

let April = function() {

  let season = spring;

  return {

    breeding: function() {

      return lilacs();

    },

    mixing: function() {

      return shakeUp(memory, desire);

    },

    stirring: function() {

      let dullRoots = this.breeding().roots;

      // move dullRoots in circles, using the avg

      // rainfall speed to calculate the period

      let circum = this.breeding().plotRadius * Math.PI * 2;

      let period = circum * this.season.rain.averageSpeed();

      dullRoots.setIntoCircularMotion(circum, period);

    }

  }

};

exports.cruellest = {

  "month": April

};

[ddoran]

While the author "looked at anthologies that collected international, American, and English-language poems", there is a leaning towards American poetry as 11 of the 20 anthologies surveyed were anthologies of American poetry (based on their titles, bottom of the page).

[throwaway7645]

I recognized quite a few poems...there are a lot of US based authors, but looking back 100 years I guess you would have: UK, Australia, USA, parts of Canada. Both the US & UK are well represented, and population wise I don't know how much poetry the other ones crank out. I recognized a lot of poems from the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

[corndoge]

I look forward to your diversified collection of anthologized poetry

[quirkot]

I was surprised to see a sample size of only 20 was considered representative. I wonder how genuinely representative it is (including the unstated exclusions that define the total population)

[lj3]

How many poem anthologies do you imagine are published every year? My impression was: not many at all. Poetry doesn't sell.

[flixic]

The most anthologized one, "The Red Wheelbarrow", is often referenced and even cited in an amazing TV Show, "Mr. Robot".

[salimmadjd]

Thank you! I just read the poem. I feel like I've learned a new black magic to describe complex and ambiguous thoughts with clarity and simplicity.

so much depends upon

a red wheel barrow

glazed with rain water

beside the white chickens.

- William Carlos Williams

[JoeDaDude]

No haiku? On a related note, no scifiku [1]? </tongue-in-cheek>

[1] http://www.scifaiku.com/what/