On our monthly book show, Peter Abrahams and Jill Erickson talk about volumes of poetry, novels that feature poetry, and biographies featuring poets. Plus, an invitation to attend the 27th Annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest in Falmouth, at which poetry prizes are awarded for local submissions.
Recommendations from Mindy Todd and listeners:
Dirt On My Shirt by Jeff Foxworthy
The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
The Collar by Billy Collins
Recommendations from Jill Erickson:
American the Beautiful and Other Poems by Katharine Lee Bates
The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature edited by Margaret E. Martignoni
Circles on the Water: selected poems of Marge Piercy by Marge Piercy
Poetry Unbound: 50 poems to pen your world by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Verses from 1929 On by Ogden Nash
Poetry Says It Better by Ellen Burstyn
The Universe in Verse to Wonder through Science and Poetry by Maria Popova
Recommendations from Peter Abrahams:
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Poets of World War Two, Harvey Shapiro, editor
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Little Turtle, poem by Vachel Lindsay
Rainy Night in Soho, a song by the Pogues
