Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

1. North American Stadiums by Grady Chambers
2. Catafalque by Adam Tavel
3. Before We Remember We Dream by Bryan Thao Worra
4. A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
5. Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, ed. by Annie Finch
6. I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World by Kim Kyung Ju, trans. by Jake Levine
7. Digest by Gregory Pardlo
8. Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
9. Selected Poems by Claude McKay
10. Magic City Gospel by Ashley M. Jones
11. A Crown for Ted and Sylvia by Kim Bridgford
12. Lean Against This Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekian, trans. by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
13. Simple as a Sonnet by Lisa DeSiro
14. Wendy Battin: On the Life and Work of an American Master, ed. by Martha Collins, Pamela Alexander, and Matthew Krajniak
15. Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry From the Wars, 1948-1993, trans. by various, ed. by Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung, and Bruce Weigl
16. Mothers of Ireland by Julie Kane
17. More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems, ed. by Lisa Russ Spaar
18. Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
19. Imagining Vesalius: An Ekphrastic, Scholarly, and Literary Celebration of the 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius, ed. by Richard M. Ratzan
20. 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
21. And After All by Rhina P. Espaillat

Awesome, Jenna! Way to stay focused in a crazy year!

Jen wrote: "Awesome, Jenna! Way to stay focused in a crazy year!"

Thanks, Jen! I had trouble staying focused in the spring, for sure, but caught up later. The sense of structure that reading and reviewing provides has in some ways helped me survive this year (so far). It reminds me that, even when I feel dreadfully impotent on certain fronts, I remain a capable person in other ways.

I'm glad you started his chain, Jenna. I'm too far behind on holiday prep to make my choices yet, but I look forward to getting more book recommendations and making my own soon.

Alarie wrote: "I'm glad you started his chain, Jenna. I'm too far behind on holiday prep to make my choices yet, but I look forward to getting more book recommendations and making my own soon."

I think you meant to post this on the "2020 Favorites" thread, Alarie? I'm looking forward to hearing what your favorites this year were, especially since you read so many.

I just updated my reading list above to add my 20th book of 2020. I reached the goal!

Jenna wrote: "Alarie wrote: "I'm glad you started his chain, Jenna. I'm too far behind on holiday prep to make my choices yet, but I look forward to getting more book recommendations and making my own soon."

I ..."

Right you are. My brain is in cocooning mode.

For completeness, I just updated my 2020 list to include Lisa DeSiro's Simple as a Sonnet, now that that title has been officially released.