reading 100 poetry books in 12-ish months

My reading list is organized with the most recent on top so if, by chance, you stop by more than once for an update, you only have to scroll forever if you have forever to scroll! Note that I’ve extended the time frame to 12-ish months right out of the gate. My days of being so ambitious all the damn time are way behind me.

In the Pockets of Small Gods by Anis Mojgani

“inside me the cicadas lift”

IN THE POCKETS OF SMALL GODS by ANIS JOJGANI / What haunts me about this book is how closely it captures a sense of our own culpability in the losses that hurt us most… and how the truth/fiction of that culpability isn’t the point. It doesn’t matter what we did/didn’t do. What we must sort out is “What matters now?