Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

1. Abide by Jake Adam York
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2. I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

3. The Beautiful Librarians by Sean O'Brien
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

4.Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

5. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

6. This Miraculous Turning by Joseph Mills
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

7. Kansas Poems by Brian Daldorph
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

8. The Shining Years: Poems about Aging edited by Gary Lechliter
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

9. A Plumber's Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

10. Selected Poems by Joan Colby
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

11. Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

12. Green by Melissa Fite Johnson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

13. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
Edited by James Crews

14. Playing Poker with Tennessee Williams by Kevin Pilkington
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

15. My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

16. Night Ringing by Laura Foley
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

17. The Best American Poetry 2020
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

18. Any Dumb Animal (publication date not till November) by AE Hines
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

19. The Uses of the Body by Deborah Landau
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

20. Misfits in the Front Row by Sarah Worrel and James Benger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

21. Good Bones by Maggie Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

22. The Rain Barrel by Frank Ormsby
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

23. The Luckiest Man Alive by John Cooper Clarke
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

24. Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

25. Winter in June by Lorette C. Luzajic
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

26. The Little Book of Me by Patricia Lawson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

27. Reincarnation & Other Stimulants by Ken Craft (from this review group)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

28. Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail by Brian Daldorph
(Note: book # 7 on my list is a book of poems by Brian Daldorph, a Brit who teaches at the University of Kansas.)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

29. Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

30. Loosen by Kyle Potvin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

31. Speech in an Age of Certainty (chapbook) by J. Khan
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

32. The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola (Rattle Chapbook Prize) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

33. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

34. Starshine & Clay by Kamilah Aisha Moon
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(Goodreads left out the & in the title. Perhaps they can't handle ampersands or symbols in titles.)

I added it with my librarian superpowers.

Ken wrote: "I added it with my librarian superpowers."

Thanks, Ken. I'm sure that's the smallest sampling of what your super powers can do.

35. The Echo Chamber by Michael Bazzett
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

36. I Will Pass Even to Acheron (Rattle Chapbook Prize) by Amanda Newell
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

37. Deep Gossip by Sidney Wade (new and selected poems) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

38. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I hope to have Amanda Newell at one of my Zoom events in the future, Alarie.

Thanks, Jimmy. You put together mighty good programs.