April Is National Poetry Month | Let's Read and Write Some Poetry

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Dear Poetry Readers, Writers, Enthusiasts,

It's the first day of National Poetry Month. April is ours. A month to pay particular attention to favorite poems and poets; to read or re-read chapbooks, anthologies, critiques; to be inspired by the art and craft and beauty of poetry and, perhaps, write our own. Let's go!

Happy Reading and Writing,

Friends at The Good Book Shelf

P.S. Poetry Book Recs:

1. Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt | Available in Paperback, Hardback and Ebook formats.

2. The FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Poetry Anthology | Edited by Jonathan Galassi and Robyn Creswell

Includes poems by T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Louise Gluck.

3. Master Poetry Forms: A Friendly Introduction & (nearly) Exhaustive Reference to the Construction & Contents of English-Language Poems by David Noller and Joseph Thompson

4. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop | Edited by Saskia Hamilton | Also available in Ebook format.

5. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda | Edited and Introduced by Ilan Stavans | Also available in Ebook format.