Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

I finally have enough spare change to chip away at books that have been on my wishlist for years, most of which I learned about here. So there will be a lot of adding my opinion to already existing opinions in this space.

Glad to hear it! Happy new year, Jen.

I look forward to hearing more of your reviews, too.

1. Accepting the Disaster by Joshua Mehigan

2. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

3. Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. Greg Delanty and Michael Matto

5. The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, ed. Elizabeth Alexander

6. Alternative Medicine by Rafael Campo

7. The White Museum by George Bilgere

8. The October Palace by Jane Hirschfield

9. Selected Poems by Francis Ponge

I'm on a bit of a slow road with poetry these days. I'm slowly making my way through Basho: the Complete Haiku, but a slender volume of Anna Akhmatova will probably be my next review.

10. Anna Akhmatova: Twenty Poems, trans. Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsky Dunham

11. Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

12. Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass

13. What Work Is by Philip Levine

14. Basho: The Complete Haiku, trans. Jane Reichhold

15. Whereas by Layli Long Soldier


I'm on track to break my string of low poetry count years! Yay!

16. The Hunger Moon by Marge Piercy

17. What Big Girls Are Made Of by Marge Piercy
(reviewed in April but I forgot to add to my list!)

18. Fall Risk by Cameron Morse

19. Native Guard by Natasha Trethaway

20. Seam by Tarfia Faizullah

21. Refugia by Kyce Bello