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.