David Kirby's Poetry: How Does It Make You Feel? [Opinion]

I love David Kirby's "The Man Who Discovered Uranus" from the July 2026 issue of POETRY Magazine.

I respect Kirby's rambling style because his poetry makes me laugh, burn, dream, and look stuff up.

Each poem gives me the sense that he is handing his mind a microphone and voicing his soul, and I should be doing the same.

When life needs more lightning and laughter, I'll read these poems by Kirby:

• More Than This

• Six Seconds

• Little Movies

• Our Fathers Give Birth to Themselves

• Mary Weiss

• Everything's Weird

• Insomnia Cookies

• Get Up, Please

• Life Is Easier Than You Think

• Silly Kids

• After 40 Years

• This Magic Moment

• Stanza

• The Simplest Language Possible

• Early to Bed

• Third Time’s a Charm

• I Cry My Heart, Antonio

• Big Shot

• The Late News

• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

• Baby Exchanging Station

• The Fates

• The Great Man Theory

• Mass Shootings

• Ketchup

• This Living Hand

• Galileo

• Study Electricity, Etc.

What do you think of Kirby's narrative poetry, and how does it make you feel?