July 15: Frank O’Hara Lunch Poems 1964 (www.citylights.org)
Lunch poems i.e. summer breezes perhaps evoke more than casual and conversational warmth and energy. He focuses on the connections available amidst the multitudes in New York City.
August 19: Doireann Ní Ghrìofa To Star The Dark 2021 (www.dedaluspress.com)
Irish poet, essayist and translator( often her own Irish to English), Doireann Ní Ghrìofa calls upon the night sky constellations to illuminate our passions both of the mind and body.
September 16: Arthur Sze Sight Lines 2019 (www.coppercanyonpress.org)
“a dazzling picture of our inter-connected world” – Pulitzer Prize Committee
October 21: Claudia Rankine CITIZEN An American Lyric 2014 (http://www.graywolfpress.org)
“In a time of confounding darkness and metastasising media imagery in our society, a time when even death and the self have been reconfigured as commodities,…Claudia Rankine mobilizes the transrational logic of poetry…
November 18: Kim Addonizio Now We’re Getting Somewhere 2021 (www.wwnorton.com)
Alternatively confessional, philosophical and irreverent, these poems possess ‘raucous imagery’.
December 16: Bernadette Mayer Midwinter Day 1982 (ndbooks.com)
Written on one day December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. Midwinter Day “is an epic poem about a daily routine” – Alice Notley
Bio:
A believer in the collective voice, I hope to gather a chorus of poetry lovers who love to read and reflect on contemporary poetry. As a family doctor, I delivered hundreds of babies, sutured lots of wounds and listened to many hearts literally and figuratively. I am quiet by nature and love getting transported by books and music. Favorite musicians are Jenny Hval, Zoe Keating, Phoebe Bridges and Arthur Russell. My current pile of poetry books include Jenny Xie, Simone White and Maggie Nelson. My leavening agents are my two sons and two year old grandson.