1. Thomas Crawford's "Ginko Tree" is a great example of using a central image (the bus crashing into the tree).
2. Crystal Williams' "from People Close to You" is not only an elegy, but gives us a good example of white space/shaping a poem.
3. Since we just looked at sonnets, here is a "sonnet crown," in which the last line of one sonnet is the first line of the next sonnet, until 8 are linked. David Trinidad's "A Poet's Death" is a sonnet crown elegy!
4. Matthew Nienow's "Ode to the Belt Sander & This Cocobolo Sapwood" has a speaker who really expresses a great joy in work and what they get out of the crafting.
5. Tom Disch's "Ode to a Blizzard" seems relevant to our polar vortex!
6. Terrance Hayes' "Ode to Big Trend" is a great example of using a particular diction within the constraints of a poetic form.
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