Book Club Choices: April 2012
- Fiction
- Books
- American Civil War
- American poetry
- inspiration
- literary criticism
- National Book Award
- nature
- poet laurete
- poetry
- poetry circles
- protest
- Pulitzer Prize
- spirituality
- Transcendentalism
- Walt Whitman
- Zen
- May We Suggest
April 1, 2012 | madame librarian
April is National Poetry Month, if you haven’t already, maybe it’s time your group considered reading and discussing poetry. Choose a poet and let members select 2 or 3 poems from the poet’s collected worksto read. Members can discuss their reactions to the poems or maybe to poetry as a whole.
The complete poems by Walt Whitman ; edited with an introduction and notes by Francis Murphy
How to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry by Edward Hirsch
How to read a poem— and start a poetry circle by Molly Peacock
Migration: new & selected poems by W.S. Merwin