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Penny J. Johnson
Apr 4, 2020
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I'm not going to provide a book review in this post so much as to provide a suggestion. During this unprecedented time in our world when we are all staying home to prevent the spread of a nefarious disease, why not spend the month of April, which happens to be poetry month, reading poetry? Here are a few of my favorite poets (in alphabetical order) whose works may span the length of these sequestering days and in some cases surpass them.

  • Elizabeth Bishop

  • Emily Dickinson

  • Annie Dillard

  • Louise Erdrich

  • Carolyn Forche

  • Robert Frost

  • Dana Gioia

  • Louise Gluck

  • H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

  • Stanley Kunitz

  • Czelaw Milosz

  • Jim Moore

  • Mary Oliver

  • Anne Porter

  • Rainer Maria Rilke

  • William Shakespeare

  • Luci Shaw

  • William Stafford

  • Tomas Transtromer

  • Walt Whitman

  • William Butler Yeats

I'll join this challenge myself and may share insights along the way.

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