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
(JULY)
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
(AUGUST)
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
(SEPTEMBER)
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…
Ray Bradbury’s vision of the future is terrifyingly uncanny in this classic, about so much more than book burning, although, of course, there is that.
Join us as to read what happens next, in a world where entertainment is a substitute for news, where talking about what happens on screens becomes a substitute for meaningful conversations, where civil debate itself is obsolete. It’s a glimpse of the future just around every authoritarian corner. In these pages, I mean.
We will mourn, read, and write bravely together!
Read more about Fahrenheit 451 here.
*For this round only, please buy a physical copy, for obvious reasons!
*Prewrite & discussion questions go out July 1.*
*Prompts go out August 1.*
*Discussion & Readaround on September 14 from 7-9 p.m. Eastern*
I feel this is a book everyone should read.
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 illegally firings recently from NOAA, NPS or any of the 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.