Don't Like Poetry? These Three Collections May Change Your Mind!
At the very, very end of National Poetry Month , I offer up three collections of poetry that I really loved. These are ones that I think may be a good bet if you're a person who self-identifies as someone who doesn't do poetry. Or, your English teacher made you read all sorts of boring, annoying poetry then write essays about it and it really turned you off the whole thing. Or, perhaps you used to enjoy it, but haven't read any since you were in your twenties. That last one was me until I started reading more and blogging back in 2022. Honestly, I think someone recommended Mary Oliver to me, and I read Devotions . Man, it was so good. That's how I got re-introduced to poetry after a long hiatus, and now I try to read poetry often, at least one collection several times per year. With poetry you can open the book up and read over one sitting if it pulls you in, because it's a shorter reading effort than a novel. But you can also put the slim volume by your reading ch...
