#TheSealeyChallenge Link Roundup 📚 kimberlyhirsh.com
@kimberlyhirsh I’ve always wanted to do this, but it always comes at the worst possible time for me. I have too much other work-related reading that I have to do and so I’m lucky if I get a book of poems in every four or five days.
@richnewman I don't expect I'll make it all 31 days, but I'm thinking of it the same way I think of NaNoWriMo: any is more than none.
@kimberlyhirsh @richnewman My first thought was that a book of poetry shouldn’t be read straight through, any more than a book of short stories should. On second thoughts, I think maybe this is the right approach — otherwise the book might never be read at all. I’m still not going to try it, though.
@artkavanagh @richnewman The beauty of reading for pleasure is that there isn't a wrong way to do it. My hope is to be exposed to a lot of poetry and then later go back and spend more time with my favorites.
@kimberlyhirsh @richnewman My “second thoughts” exactly, but better expressed than I could have managed.
@artkavanagh @kimberlyhirsh My own experience is that the book of poems itself lets me know how to read it. There are books in which the poems demand the space and those in which the poems’ is too disrupted if I take too much time between them. I’m reading now Joumana Haddad’s Invitation to a Special Feast, which is somewhere in the middle.
@richnewman @kimberlyhirsh I’ve often maintained that individual works — novels, short stories, poems, plays etc. — themselves show us how they are to be read. That the same should be true of collections shouldn’t come as a surprise to me but it does, a bit.