Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

1. Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
I first read this in August 2016 and reread it now for a book club. Here's the original review. My opinion didn't change more than a few tenths of a star.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2. The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics, edited by Diane Lockward
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

3. What I Saw by Laura Scott
(poetry pamphlet from England, aka chapbook in U.S.)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

4. The Grace to Leave by Lola Haskins
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

5. The Magnitude of My Sublime Existence by Selima Hill
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

6. The Infinitesimals by Laura Kasischke
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

7. Telling the Bees by Faith Shearin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

8. War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

9. The Book of Kells by Barbara Crooker
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

10. Everyone I Love Immortal by Catherine Anderson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

11. Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

12. American Radiance by Luisa Muradyan
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I actually read this book and wrote a blurb for it in November 2018, but couldn't post it to Goodreads until the book was published.

13. How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals by Al Ortolani
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This is another book I read in 2018, but you know how long journals take to publish. I got my copies of The Laurel Review today and didn't want to jinx my publication with a teaser.

14. The Silence of Red Glass by Maryfrances Wagner
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Another book read in 2018 that I couldn't share until the review was published.
15. The Northway by Lisa Bellamy

16. The Park by James Benger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

17. Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor by Mike James
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

18. The Carrying by Ada Limon
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

19. To Keep from Undressing by Aisha Sharif
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

20, Did You Know? by Elizabeth S. Wolf, Rattle Chapbook winner
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

21. Continental Breakfast by Danny Caine
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

22. The Popul Vuh translated by Michael Bazzett
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

23. Big Cabin by Ron Padgett
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

You're kicking our butts, Alarie!

Thanks, S! Makes me feel better since I'm having a hard time staying neck and neck with a local friend who isn't retired and has two kids at home. I doubt she's reading as many poetry books, but still.

24. She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

25. On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

28. Brown by Kevin Young
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

29. In Darwin's Room by Debora Greger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

30. Hansel & Gretel Get the Word on the Street by Al Ortolani
Rattle chapbook prize winner
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

31. Landscapes of Living & Dying by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

32. Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

33. Emotionally Bankrupt by Jennifer Martin
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

34. More Poems about Purple Wizards and Neon Bright Exceptionalisms https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

35. Things Have Changed (chapbook) by James Benger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

36. Be Recorder by Carmen Gimenez Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

37. The Last Mastodon (Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner) by Christina Olson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

38. Everyone's Alone Tonight by Jason Baldinger and James Benger
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

39. Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God by Tony Hoagland https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

40. Survival Tips for the Pending Apocolypse
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

(Since I read this book in ms, I forgot to share it in my 2019 reviews.)

41. Gloria by Selima Hill
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...