How do we love poetry? Let us count the ways. This week, we’re joined by Anthony Garrett to kick off National Poetry Month with a wonderful conversation about our favorite poems and poets, how and when we read poetry, and a discussion about how to approach this sometimes intimidating part of the literary landscape. Does poetry play a part in your reading life?

We also announce the winners of our latest giveaway, so please join us!

Shownotes

Books

* Averno, by Louise Glück

* The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso, translated by Megan McDowell, Hardie St. Martin, and Leonard Mades

* A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava

* Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova

* To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace, by Kapka Kassabova

* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West

* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs

* The Fisherman, by John Langan

* Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville

* Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer

* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore

* The End, by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy

* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes

* Notes of a Crocodile, by Qin Miaogin, translated by Bonnie Huie

* “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot

* “Today,” by Billy Collins

* Poems 1962 - 2012, by Louise Glück

* Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn

* Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins

* Half-light: Collected Poems 1965 - 2016, by Frank Bidart

* Gabriel: A Poem, by Edward Hirsch

* The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, by Edward Hirsch

* “When Death Comes,” by Mary Oliver

* “As One Listens to the Rain,” by Octavio Paz

* “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe

* “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot

* Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke

* Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser

* Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison

* “Bullet Points,” by Jericho Brown

* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark

* “Tulips,” by Sylvia Plath

* Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz

* When My Brother Was an Aztec, by Natalie Diaz

* The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück

* Winter Recipes from the Collective, by Louise Glück

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Links

* Anthony’s Socials

* X

* Instagram

* Atmospheric Quarterly

* Episode 1: Bucket List Books, in which Trevor kicks War and Peace off his bucket list

* Leaf by Leaf: Chris Via on War and Peace

* Episode 15: Emily Dickinson

* One Bright Book: Episode 23: The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück

* Backlisted: Episode 208: All My Pretty Ones, by Anne Sexton

* The New Yorker Poetry Podcast

* Poetry Unbound Podcast

* The Slow Down Podcast

* The Great American Novel from The Atlantic

* Lonesome Reader on The Great American Novel

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