Poetry Reading Challenge 2020

Always like doing this one. I will most likely do the third option.

• One of the easiest, and possibly most difficult, will be getting people to sign up to read a poem-a-day through the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day service. The challenge is to read a poem-a-day for a week once per month and write about which poems were your favorite and why. You can write up a short blurb on your Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, or your blog. I’d love for you to share your experience in the comments each month.

• Second, read at least 1 book of poetry (doesn’t have to be cover-to-cover) and write about your favorite poems and what you learned about yourself while reading those poems.

• Third, if you want to go all out, feel free to read as many books of poetry as you can in one year and link to your reviews in the comments.

Here is what I am reading:

1. Daisy Jones & the Six--Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. Rose: Poems--Li-Young Lee
3. Imaginary Animal--Rachelle Linda Escamilla
4. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart--Alice Walker
5. The Poets' Corner--John Lithgow
6. Foundry, October 2019 Edition
7. River of Stars--Yosano Akiko
8. Morning is a Little Child--Joan Walsh Anglund (reread)
9. Identical--Ellen Hopkins
10. The Complete Poems of John Keats
11. Rani Patel in Full Effect--Sonia Patel
12. The Brontes--Juliet Barker
13. His Bright Light--Danielle Steel
14. The Canterbury Tales--Geoffrey Chaucer
15. The One and Only Bob--Katherine Applegate
16. Kalona's Fall--P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
17. All the World--Liz Garton Scanlon
18. Bob and 6 More Christmas Stories--Sandra Boynton

Challenge completed on December 7