Taylor and Martheaus’s Recommended Reads:
We love reading. You love reading. Here are some banger books to add to your TBR. These def give some insight into the type of poetry we each like. We plan to just keep adding to this as we read new books so check back often for new recs.
Also, we strongly encourage you to either use your local libraries to request these books, or to purchase directly from the publisher and/or buy second hand when possible. Poetry collections rarely make large amounts of money and purchasing directly from the publisher goes a long way, and buying second hand/using libraries is of course, a great option for our environmentally conscious girlies. (:
(we didn’t want duplicates so a * indicates a book we both like)
Martheaus’s Selections:
I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood - Tiana Clark*
Thomas and Beulah - Rita Dove*
Sailing alone around the room - Billy Collins
Room Swept Home - Remica Bingham-Risher
Murmur - Cameron Barnett*
For colored Girls who have considered suicide - Ntozake Shange
The Carrying: Poems - Ada Limón*
Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz*
An American Sunrise - Joy Harjo
Homie - Danez Smith*
Don't Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine
Hell of a Book (novel)- Jason Mott
As I Lay Dying (novel) - William Faulkner
Floaters - Martín Espada
100 Boyfriends (short story collection) - Brontez Purnell
Giovanni's Room (Novel) - James Baldwin
The Kite Runner (Novel) - Khaled Hosseini
Taylor’s Selections:
A Tower Build Downwards - Yang Lian
alphabet - Inger Christensen
Ardor - Alyse Knorr
At the Lepidopterist’s House - Maggie Smith
Beholden: a poem as long as the river - Rita Wong and Fred Wah
Bestiary - Donika Kelly
Belly to the Brutal - Jennifer Givhan
Calling a Wolf a Wolf - Kaveh Akbar
Every Form of Ruin - Erin Adair-Hodges
Exploding Head - Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Forest Primeval - Vievee Francis
Frank: Sonnets - Diane Seuss
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] - Craig Santos Pérez
Goldenrod - Maggie Smith
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
New Collected Poems - Eavan Boland
Of the Florids - Shawn Hoo
Past Lives, Future Bodies - Kristin Chang
pH of Au - Vanessa Couto Johnson
Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar
Psalms - Julia Fiedorczuk
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Nonfiction) - Steve Bursatte
Whereas - Layli Long Soldier