poetry
You never know when a poem will crack you open. Let’s find out together.
Poetry Book Club meets the second Monday of every month.
The first 2026 meeting for the Poetry Book Club will be Monday, January 12th at 7pm. We will be reading SPACE STRUCK by Paige Lewis. You can purchase the book by clicking here.
About the book:
Zig-zagging through the realms of nature, science, and religion, one finds St. Francis sighing in the corner of a studio apartment, tides that are caused by millions of oysters "gasping in unison," an ark filled with women in its stables, and prayers that reach God fastest by balloon. There's pathos: "When my new lover tells me I'm correct to love him, I/realize the sound isn't metal at all. It's not the coins rattling/ on concrete, but the fingers scraping to pick them up." And humor, too: "...even the sun's been sighing Not you again/when it sees me." After reading this far-reaching, inventive collection, we too are startled, space struck, our pockets gloriously "filled with space dust." -POETRY Magazine
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