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Five Book Club Ideas for Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month and the League of Canadian Poets has selected “resilience” as their theme for 2021. Resilience has taken so many forms this past year and everyone’s efforts to stay afloat deserve to be recognized and celebrated. “Resilience is the courage to start each day anew,” writes the LCP.
Here are some thoughts for how you and your book club can celebrate resilience through poetry:
1. Read Coconut by Nisha Patel
Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that they can be burnt. Above all, Nisha Patel’s work questions and challenges propriety and what it means to be a good woman, second-generation immigrant, daughter, consumer, and lover.
2. Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day
On April 29th, select a poem to carry around in your pocket or share on social media. We love the idea of folding your selected poem into an origami crane.
4. Read Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun by Rayanne Haines
This collection contains a visceral narrative that questions our relationship with religion and challenges how we reflect on our own memories of trauma.
5. Read The Bad Wife by Micheline Maylor
The Bad Wife Micheline Maylor
Published: Mar 09, 2021 by University of Alberta Press
