M. Suzanne Terry

Hello, friends. It’s National Poetry Month! There are several specific volumes of poetry I have in mind for this month already:

• How To Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver 
• When You See my Mother, Ask Her To Dance by Joan Baez
• Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros (in both English and Spanish, reading concurrently)
• If Not, Winter by Sappho

I’ll probably also read some May Sarton. Probably some Louise Glück. And because the libro.fm reading challenge prompt, “Listen to at least ten minutes of an audiobook every day for a month” will make me listen to just a little bit of poetry every day, Poetry Unbound, curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama.

One of my in-person book clubs is participating in a choose-your-own-adventure poetry night, where we share our favorites of the poems we read this month with each other. The library book club is discussing our favorite young adult selections. The other two are reading:

• Kala by Colin Walsh
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Other than my book club selections and the heightened focus on poetry, though, I am taking the rest of my reading time this month to read the things from January-March’s TBRs that I haven’t finished yet. Or at least make a dent in them. My focus and reading speed have been way down recently, but given everything else that’s going on, I suppose that makes sense. Taking a month to acknowledge that and regroup.

What are you excited about reading next?