![]() ![]() Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. ![]() Morgan Parker’s ( There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce) next collection, Magical Negro, is being published by Tin House Books in February Ocean Vuong’s new book, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, will also be out in June and Jericho Brown ( The New Testament) will have a new collection out in April from Copper Canyon Press. ![]() Ewing’s ( Electric Arches and Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closing on Chicago’s South Side) second collection, 1919, will be released in June. Luckily, there are some great collections coming out in 2019. The plan is to read a poetry collection each week, which means I have to read 52 collections this year-a daunting challenge. Last year I read more poetry than I had in previous years, which encouraged me to make poetry a larger part of my 2019 reading goal. Reading poetry is like a deep stretch for a part of the brain that’s rarely used: If reading prose is a simple hamstring stretch, reading poetry is like doing the splits. Whether it’s an appreciation of the lyricism, the succinct style, meter, metaphor, or its sometimes radical themes, poetry can have a profound effect on our reading lives. We all come to poetry for different reasons. ![]()
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