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New Guided Poetry Reading Groups
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Fall/Winter 2026
Reading Groups are facilitated sessions guiding committed poets and poetry readers in a practice of reading more deeply, creatively, and intentionally. Each month, groups perform a close reading of a current book of poetry—books that are overlooked and underrated, books that have something important to tell us about what it is to be alive today.
Groups meet once a month for two hours. Outside of meeting times, I’ll support your reading with prompts, guiding questions, and supplementary materials with a special focus on issues of craft.
Sunday Reading Group Fall 2026
11 am-1 pm EST
Sept. 20, Oct. 25, Nov. 22, Dec. 20
Christopher Gilbert, Turning into Dwelling (Graywolf, 2015)
Caroline Knox, To Drink Boiled Snow (Wave, 2015)
Joan Murray, Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry (NYRB, 2018)
Rachel Wetzsteon, Sakura Park (Persea, 2006)
Thursday Reading Group Fall 2026
10 am-12 pm EST
Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 19, Dec. 17
Robert Hayden, Collected Poems (Liveright, 2013)
Laurie Sheck, Captivity (Knopf, 2009)
Bill Knott, I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014 (FSG, 2018)
Donna Masini, Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? (Norton, 2026)
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Thom Gunn:
Michael Longley:
Yosa Buson (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Longley’s experience of the Dickinson house was better than mine. https://111-words.ghost.io/emily-dickinsons-house-from-outside/
Thom Gunn for the win. And whatever made you want so many quilts in this global heat? I guess it’s always cool in the book gutters.