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
(JANUARY)
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
(FEBRUARY)
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
(MARCH)
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…
Commander Sam Vimes is accidentally transported to the past while in pursuit of a serial killer. This is the past of his youth, just days before revolution. The city is ruled by an insane tyrant. The police force is riddled with cruelty and corruption. People are suffering at the hands of the very ones who are meant to protect them. It’s hard to tell who is a friend and who’s a foe. Much as he’d like to crack a few skulls together, his younger self is watching and learning. How can he be sure the future will stay the same if he can’t turn the tide for the better? Things are looking grim, and he isn’t even sure how he’s going to get back home, much less save this past from a serial killer who knows too much. One wrong move and the future as he knows it may not even exist.
*Even tho this is the 29th(!!) book in my favorite fantasy series, you do not have to have read any of the other books to understand what’s happening in this book. It can be read as a standalone.
We’ll write poems inspired by dark times, fantasy, and on making small changes in the hopes of having a better future.
Here’s a book trailer for Night Watch.
*This is a WONDERFUL audiobook. Here’s a preview.
*Prewrite & discussion questions go out January 1.*
*Prompts go out February 1.*
*Discussion & Readaround on March 15 from 7-9 p.m. Eastern*
If price is a barrier to your joining, please just fill out the form labeled “scholarship,” and I’ll add you to our list.
No questions asked! <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 that sign up will be free.
I’d be so grateful if you’d share this with anyone you think might be interested.