The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge discussion

Poetry Genre

"Poetry is literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm."


Which Poetry book will you be reading?


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I read Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman, 3 Stars

I have gone with an Australian classic, The Man from Snowy River, by A. B. Paterson. Single poem but a good one.
For anyone who has seen the movie much of it will be familiar.

I went old school with The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

I read And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou that contains the title poem, which is one of the best in the book and other poems divided into three categories. I was thrilled to read some poetry by this incredible author.

I did the Sealey Challenge, so I read a lot of poetry in August, but I would like to proclaim READ AND BUY BOOKS BY OUR NEW AMERICAN POET LAUREATE please.

Like this one, "The Carrying" by Ada Limon

I've been going through my poetry shelf, rereading all the books I collected in my early 20s and it is not going well. Only two modern poets have made it through the purge so far, When the Moon Knows You're Wandering by Ruth Ellen Kocher and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. 22 year old me was apparently way too easily impressed.