Poetry Books Read for National Poetry Month

 

Every year, I try to do something to celebrate National Poetry Month. I love poetry. I love reading it and writing it! In fact, poetry is the first kind of writing that I started writing with!

 

For this year’s NPM, I decided to read as many poetry books as possible. I ended up doing something more than just this one thing, but that’s the goal I had for the month, just to get started.

 

Here is the list of all of the poetry books I read this month. Some of them are books I was happy to add to my personal library. As a book reviewer for Reader Views, I was able to obtain two poetry books to review. Only one of those reviews has been posted as of today and I have included the link to it.

 

Words Left Unspoken by J.A. McGovern

 

The World Eats Love by Carol Edwards

 

My Heart is Like a Singing Bird by Christina Rosetti, Illustrated by John James Audubon

 

Unspoken: An Anthology of Poetry

 

Troubled Times Ahead: A Poetry Collection by Steven Roy Burton

 

Tracings by Carolyn Howard-Johnson (Note: I already read this book years ago, but I reread it this month in order to write about it for my article on short poetry books.)

 

Imperfect Echoes by Carolyn Howard-Johnson

 

Relative Sanity by Ellen Lord

 

I enjoyed reading all of these books and I look forward to reading many more in the months ahead!