2016 Poetry Challenge

The Poetry Challenge at Savvy Verse and Wit is on again. This year, there are levels, requiring reading of different poets. I'll be doing the highest one, as I have been planning to read some Emily Dickinson.

Haiku Level: read 1 book of poetry or 20 poems

Cinquain Level: Read 2 books of poetry, including Wet Silence by Sweta Vikram or a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson

Sonnet Level: Read 3 books of poetry, including Sweta Vikram, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, or Ted Kooser

Rondeau Level: Read 4 books of poetry, including Sweta Vikram, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Ted Kooser, or haiku poems

Villanelle Level: Read 5-10 books of poetry, including 2 of the following: Sweta Vikram, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Ted Kooser, haiku poems, Yusef Komunyakaa, Walt Whitman, John Amen, Arlene Ang, or another poet you’ve always wanted to read.

Here is what I am reading:

1. Brown Girl Dreaming--Jacqueline Woodson
2. Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
3. The Iliad--Homer
4. In a Pumpkin Shell--Joan Walsh Anglund
5. Letter to My Daughter--Maya Angelou
6. It's Raining Pigs and Noodles--Jack Prelutsky
7. Falling Up--Shel Silverstein
8. Everything On It--Shel Silverstein
9. Leaves of Grass--Walt Whitman
10. Diving Into the Wreck--Adrienne Rich
11. The Odyssey--Homer
12. The Divine Comedy--Dante Alighieri

Challenge completed on April 28