Clippings 20: poetry elsewhere, plus current reads

A big thank you to all who have been discussing poetry here with me this last week.  You all are so insightful! I’ve got lots more poems selected for continued discussion throughout the month, so I hope you’ll stick around.  In the meantime, I’ve noticed a number of blogging friends who are also celebrating National Poetry Month and I wanted to point you to their conversations as well:

Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness is a fellow Billy Collins fan.  She’s posting a Collins poem every Wednesday of the month, starting with his delightful “Marginialia” and “On Turning Ten” and already I can see that she loves his work for the same reasons I do. 

BookGirl is a Collins fan, too, and she recently posted an excerpt of his “Journal” to celebrate both poetry month AND her one year “Etsyversary” of selling her gorgeous handmade journals, which I’ve told you about before.  

And Sherry at Semicolon has lots of great links about a few of her favorite poets, including Ogden Nash and Edgar Allen Poe. 

But Mindy cannot live on poetry alone (close, but not quite!).  So in addition to all the poetry celebrating, I am also finally getting around to Tom Standage’s A History of the World in Six Glasses.  I just started Suzannah Dunn’s The Sixth Wife (for a very special reason, which I will reveal hopefully next week).  And I recently finished Kristin Lavransdatter, which was everything you all told me and more; I’ll be reviewing it here eventually.

What are you all reading this week—besides poetry, of course?

09. April 2009 by Mindy
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