Reading Poetry – Summer 2009 May 16, 2009
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One of my personal reading goals this year is to read more poetry. I like to write poetry, but haven’t read very much outside of the classics. After taking a poetry creative writing class this semester, I know that I want to continue to read more and more contemporary poetry. I know what I like and I want to find more of it. So I’m starting a new reading challenge. I know! I know. We’re all swamped, swamped, swamped with reading challenges. And we don’t really need another one. I know these things. But I can’t pass up the opportunity after VPR posted on their blog the Valparaiso Poetry Reviews list of Recent and Recommended books. The best thing about it is that my poetry professor is on here. Good for her!
So here’s the challenge, if you so choose to accept it. You can pick any book of poetry, but I’ll go ahead and post the VPR list here, for some ideas. It has to be contemporary poetry! Published in the 20th or 21st century. For the next year, pledge to read (sorry for the lame pool analogies):
The Shallow End – 2-5 books of poetry – Your choice, poetry or poetics, just enough to cool off with your healthy dose of verse.
In the middle – 6-10 books of poetry – A little bit more ambitious, but not too much that it’ll be over your head (har har).
Dive in to the Deep End! – 11-15 books of poetry – That’s right, jump in there, get all the way in. You know the only way to test the water is dive in.
Join up any time! Contest will end May 16, 2010. Maybe this time, I’ll get up off my butt and post a recap and even give out prizes. Really. I mean it.
VPR List! Check it out, there’s some really great stuff on here.
As there is not much crime-related poetry, I will pass this challenge. A good idea, though, and right now I am reading Robert Frost with one of my classes. I hope they are going to enjoy it – I certainly like him very much.
Lu – Okay, you got me. I’ll write a post about it later in the week:)
[...] poetry, and I want to read more of it. I have to read more of it. Here’s the link to the post. Here’s the link to the book list. Why don’t you join [...]
Lu- Mr. Linky is not working for me but here’s my post on the challenge.
http://page247.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/a-poetry-challenge/
I’ll try to spread the word.
Doret, there may not be much but there is a Latina poet who has edited a volume of crime poetry and written her own. Would you like to who and the title? I could look it up if you’re interested. Well-read, articulate, very impressive.
Ah, the poet has written crime poetry. The athology she edited was Latino mystery. Anyhoo, the poet is Sarah Cortez.
Hi Susan.
Thank you for this interesting piece of information. I think I will be able to find the anthology myself now.
[...] am still working on the poetry blog and have joined a Summer Poetry Reading Challenge. If you enjoy poetry you will find this challenge very [...]
Yeah!
I love poetry – thanks for this challenge – I’m diving in the deep end!
http://lyndasbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/vpr-poetry-challenge-2009.html
[...] – For the VPR Challenge I’m [...]
Lu – I posted a link for my first reviews. I’ve never tried reviewing poetry before, an interesting challenge!
http://page247.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/flight-and-the-veiled-suite/
[...] Lu’s VPR Poetry Challenge - 5/22/09 to 5/55/10 – Read 11 to 15 books. Valparaiso Poetry Review has a great list of [...]
Well, I can’t pass this challenge up. Sign me up for the Shallow End. Are antholgogies OK?
[...] VPR Poetry Challenge – 2 of 15 books - Ends May 16, 2010. Organized by Lu at Regular Rumination. I usually read poetry but all the other challenges have pushed this one off my radar. I’ll fix that. [...]
Eliot’s The Wastelands and Other Works has been on my TBR list for a while now, so I think I’ll join this challenge to giveme a little push to read it! I love poetry, and it has been quite some time since I’ve read any. Sign me up for the Shallow End.
I thought I joined up for this challenge already! Currently I’m reading a volume of poetry by Katha Pollitt. I also have an anthology of haiku by American poets to get to next.
[...] Challenge Post: http://regularrumination.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/reading-poetry-summer-2009/ [...]
Good challenge! I’m in.
I got to know of it only today. I have read 6 poetry books in 2009 and plan to read lot more.
I wish I had noticed your blog sooner and I would have totally signed up for this and there is time, would the books I’ve already read since the beginning date of this challenge count?
Savvyverseandwit: Absolutely!
Awesome! Thanks so much! You can find my sign up post here: http://www.savvyverseandwit.com/2009/11/2009-and-2010-challenges.html
It’s a post about all the current and new challenges I’m joining!