The following poems capture a portrait of a poet, written by the poet, and are appropriate for young people.
Featured Poems
“Self-Portrait” by Adam Zagajewski
Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter...
“Self-Portrait with Eraser” by Andrea Cohen
I drew the eraser...
“Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror” by Mary Jo Bang
Some days, everything is a machine...
“Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove” by Nathan Hoks
When I smell the dirt on the oiled leather...
“Self-Portrait” by Ira Sadoff
I sniff after the sparrow and the spaniel, flitting around...
“Self-Portrait at 28” by David Berman
I know it’s a bad title...
“Self-Portrait as the Changeling” by Halee Kirkwood
Wet, where all I had longed for...
“Self-Portrait as Artemis” by Tarfia Faizullah
It wasn’t long before I rose...
“A Benign Self-Portrait” by N. Scott Momaday
A mirror will suffice, no doubt...
“Portrait (After Arcimboldo)” by Dan Beachy-Quick
I made this self all by myself...
“Alternate Self-Portrait” by Dean Rader
One day / I will drift...
“Self-Portrait as Miranda” by Geri Doran
My story begins at sea, in the bitter liquid...
“Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid” by Diane Seuss
Some women make a pilgrimage to visit it...
“Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City” by Jennifer Grotz
The lettering on the shop window in which...
“SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)” by Patricia Spears Jones
Shall we have cocktails while slipping about the...
“Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre’s Boulevard du Temple” by Robin Coste Lewis
I don’t believe...
“Self Portrait in Dark Interior” by Curtis Bauer
Before, ache never seemed long like a tunnel...
“My/My/My” by Charles Bernstein
my pillow...