Just like writing a poem every day for thirty days changes you, suddenly you realize reading a high volume of poetry changes you too. It tunes your ear, it refines your senses.
Category: What I’m Reading
“I grow green with hope”: on Reading The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The first book I read after AWP was Jericho Brown’s new collection, The Tradition. Please is still (and will probably forever be) my favorite book by Jericho Brown, but The Tradition doesn’t disappoint. Jericho Brown’s poems are some of the “cleanest” I’ve ever read. By that I mean, his economy of language is excellent. Some…
