POET CAMP Book Club
Poet Camp Book Club
A progressive and generative book club! Each quarter we’ll read a different book together.
Here’s how each round will go:
MONTH 1
(APRIL)
Read!
Book club book is announced! Joy! Excitement! Those who sign up will receive a set of questions that we’ll use to frame our thinking the rest of the time we spend with this book.
MONTH 2
(MAY)
Write!
We’ll read! We’ll ponder! We’ll post favorite quotes in a book club members only Poet Camp page. Sarah will send a few prompts inspired by this book to encourage you to generate work inspired by our reading.
MONTH 3
(JUNE)
Share!
We’ll gather together on Google Meet for an evening of sharing our thoughts about the book, and a read-around of poems inspired by the book we’ve read.
Our next Book Club book is…
This collection of 6 of Tracy K. Smith’s lectures, to audiences as wide ranging as MFA students and professors, inmates at prisons, school age children each offer us a window into resilience through poetry. It offers this glorious advice from the start – “Vulnerability, uncertainty, and even desperation are not only signs of life, but tools for moving forward toward courage, hope, and purpose.” What better way to celebrate and gather strength and hope together than through communal exploration of our 46th Laureate’s words?
We’ll write poems inspired by current events, poet mentors we treasure or encounter for the first time in these chapters, and consider the ways that we can, as a society and in our creative lives, fear less.
Here’s a book trailer for Fear Less.
*There isn’t yet an audiobook for this work, much to my sorrow.
*Prewrite & discussion questions go out April 1.*
*Prompts go out May 1.*
*Discussion & Readaround on June 14 from 7-9 p.m. Eastern*
Scholarships funded in part by Guest Teaching Artist workshops. <3
If you or someone you know has been impacted by the mass illegal firings recently from NOAA, NPS or any of the government departments which do so much good, please reach out to me and sign up will be free.
I’d be so grateful if you’d share this with anyone you think might be interested.