The poetry goddess-among-us, Alice Notley, shares her to-read pile this month. Her latest collection, For the Ride, is just out from Penguin!

With the public library closed, I keep accumulating books through my local bookstore. (Check out BookShop.org if you are wanting to do something akin to this, too, and don’t have a bookstore you know of!) All this quarantine time has given me space to do a lot of reading, at least.


– NEWIES –
The Tower, Paul Legault
Almonds Are Members of the Peach Family, Stephanie Sauer
Travesty Generator, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Hard Damage, Aria Aber
Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney
Upend, Claire Meuschke
There There, Tommy Orange
Heaven, Emerson Whitney
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
– OLDIES –
Conference of the Birds, Farid Ud-din Attar (in-progress); Social Poetics, Mark Nowak; Dunce, Mary Ruefle