by envisionmg | Apr 3, 2023 | Alissa Reviews, Ari Reviews, Max Reviews, Noelle Reviews, Poetry, Poetry Collections, Shilpa Reviews
National Poetry Month was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 to celebrate the integral role of poets and poetry in our culture. One of the ways we are celebrating National Poetry Month at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers is through this...
by envisionmg | Apr 8, 2022 | Poetry, Poetry Collections, Staff Picks
April is poetry month so we thought we’d share some of our favorite poems and poetry collections. Poetry Collections Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver. Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio. If Not, Winter:...
by envisionmg | Apr 30, 2020 | Poetry, Poetry Collections
A few collections and an anthology I am eager to lean into (that may reappear as recommendations next year during National Poetry Month): Deluge – Leila Chatti “In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to...
by envisionmg | Apr 20, 2020 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry, Poetry Collections
The Spring 2019 issue of The Paris Review served as my introduction to Franny Choi, in the form of “Amid Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula.” I was floored by that poem. Even after reading it untold times I remain astonished by that poem. Shortly...
by envisionmg | Apr 6, 2020 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry, Poetry Collections
Paige Lewis’ Space Struck claimed a high spot on my list of top five poetry collections released in 2019. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve returned to its pages, to various poems, to single lines. (The entire collection is a standout, but to...
by envisionmg | Apr 2, 2019 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry Collections
Raptus “Everywhere, a forceful, scrupulous intelligence is active- a luminous diction, a range of cadences.” So has Mark Strand written of the work of Joanna Klink, who has won acclaim for elegant, sensual, and musical poems that “remain alert to the...
