This April, I read a poetry collection a day and wrote some thoughts on each one. It was an invigorating experience in an unsettled time. So many great collections out there.
Chad Bennett, Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon
Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country
Jericho Brown, The Tradition
Nickole Brown, Fanny Says
Jennifer Chang, Some Say the Lark
Tina Chang, Hybrida
Alison Colbert, Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Stephen Dunn, Pagan Virtues
Julie R. Enszer, Avowed
Elaine Equi, The Intangibles
Eve L. Ewing, Electric Arches
Tess Gallagher, Is, Is Not
Kimiko Hahn, Foreign Bodies
Garrett Hongo, Coral Road
Kim Hyesoon, Autobiography of Death
Major Jackson, The Absurd Man
Janine Joseph, Driving Without a License
Paige Lewis, Space Struck
Ada Limón, The Carrying
Luljeta Lleshanaku, Negative Space
John McCullough, Spacecraft
Karyna McGlynn, Hothouse
Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here
Anne Sexton, Live or Die
Clint Smith, Counting Descent
Gary Snyder, The Back Country
Karl Tierney, Have You Seen This Man?
John Updike, Telephone Poles
Kevin Young, Brown
-Jeffery Berg
The above piece is by Titus Kaphar, who did the art for the striking jacket of Reginald Dwayne Betts' Felon.
