Poetry Reading Challenge 2021

 Another I have enjoyed. I will get as many books of poetry as I can.

• 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.

What I am reading:

1. Crank--Ellen Hopkins
2. Assata: An Autobiography--Assata Shakur
3. Other Words For Home--Jasmine Warga
4. Girl, Woman, Other--Bernardine Evaristo
5. Brown Girl Dreaming--Jacqueline Woodson (reread)
6. Fairy Tales of Ireland--W.B. Yeats
7. The Earth is Painted Green--Barbara Brenner
8. Sister Outsider--Audre Lorde
9. Classic Poetry--Michael Rosen
10. The Dog in British Poetry--R. Maynard Leonard
11. Victorian Poetry, Volume 1
12. The Tradition--Jericho Brown
13. Girls Like Me--Lola St. Vil
14. An American Sunrise--Joy Harjo
15. Forget Me Not--Ellie Terry
16. Inside Out & Back Again--Thanhha Lai
17. Moldilocks and the Three Scares--Lynne Marie
18. Wings--Cheryl B. Klein
19. Harlem--Walter Dean Myers
20. Clap When You Land--Elizabeth Acevedo
21. Los Gatos Black on Halloween--Marisa Montes
22. Ten, Nine, Eight--Molly Bang
23. The Scariest Book Ever--Bob Shea
24. The Ghosts Go Haunting--Helen Ketteman
25. Dancing Naked...In Red Fuzzy Slippers--Carmen Richardson Rutlen
26. The Poetry of Strangers--Brian Sonia-Wallace
27. What Makes a Family?--Annette Griffin
28. Llama, Llama, Red Pajama--Anna Dewdney
29. A Visit From St. Nicholas--Clement C. Moore (reread)
30. Construction Site on Christmas Night--Sherri Duskey Rinker
31. All I Want for Christmas is Ewe--Rose Rossner
32. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree--Robert Barry
33. A Coronavirus Christmas--Shannon Jett
34. I Would Leave Me If I Could--Halsey
35. A Very Merry Little Christmas--Mary Engelbreit
36. Pete the Cat's 12 Groovy Days of Christmas--Kimberly Dean

Calling challenge complete on December 19