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
(OCTOBER)
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
(NOVEMBER)
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
(DECEMBER)
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…
When the body of an unidentified man is discovered in the town bistro, Three Pines is thrown into turmoil. Chief Inspector Gamache and his team of investigators turn the town upside down to identify the victim, the motive and the killer, with little to go on, and betrayals and secrets on all sides. Beloved townspeople old and new are the suspects. Favorite places are now crime scenes. What happens to a community when decades old lies are revealed? There are no easy answers when solving the case doesn’t resolve old heartaches.
*Even tho this is the 5th book in Louise Penny’s celebrated Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, you do not have to have read the first four books to immerse yourself in this atmospheric fall mystery. This book is packed with art, humor and endearing characters, despite its grim plot. It is not a cozy mystery, having said that. It contains no spoilers, and quickly catches you up on the characterization of the townspeople without glossing over the depth and richness which brings people to its idyllic town of Three Pines over and over.
We’ll write poems inspired by our own mysteries, brutal tellings and of the ways we hold onto what matters most to us.
Here’s her book trailer for The Brutal Telling.
*Prewrite & discussion questions go out October 1.*
*Prompts go out November 1.*
*Discussion & Readaround on December 14 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.