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…
From Bookshop:
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
Diane Seuss’s signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft—ballad, fugue, aria, refrain, coda—and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those too often underrepresented. Seuss provides a moving account of her picaresque years and their uncertainties, and in the process, she enters the realm between Modernism and Romanticism, between romance and objectivity, with Keats as ghost, lover, and interlocutor.
Order your book from our Bookshop Page here (or click through the image above)
*Sue Roberts will be our guide and prompt writer this season!
*Prewrite & discussion questions go out January 1.*
*Prompts go out February 1.*
*Discussion & Readaround in March live on Google Meet – Date TBD!
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
I’d be so grateful if you’d share this with anyone you think might be interested.