Maya Jewell Zeller Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Maya Jewell Zeller

@KelliAgodon This year, I loved The Blue Hour (Laura Pritchett) for this (you may also think very hard, but your body will do it for you). Last year, I loved Pigs (Johanna Stoberock) & Luster (Raven Leilani) for immersion. For all, you can “get lost,” &/or think/ layer. 🌿

Maya Jewell Zeller

@eawright Ooh! Renee Gladman’s Calamities! & yes / 2nds to Carson, Rankine, Nelson, Nuernberger.

Maya Jewell Zeller

@wandadeglane Some of my favorites, in no particular order: -Morgan Parker, Magical Negro -Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning -Kathryn Nuernberger, RUE -Melissa Kwasny, Thistle -Jen Bervin, Silk: Poems -Stacey Waite, The Lake Has No Saint -Jamaal May, HUM -Rebecca Tamás, Witch

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Watching raucous blue jays demolish last season's hawthorn berries while reading @GabrielleBates' JUDAS GOAT on the deck; a drop of gutter water fell on its cover & made the book appear to be crying! (Don't worry, Gabby, I wiped it off, gently, but holy hell: the universe knows.) https://t.co/j7q84iyQBj

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@Nomi_Stone Jen Bervin's SILK Poems, Kathryn Nuernberger's The Witch of Eye, Kate Lebo's The Book of Difficult Fruit, Renee Gladman's Calamities, Paisley Rekdal's Intimate (& really, all her work), Srikanth Reddy, Mary Ruefle, Kiki Petrosino, Layli Long Soldier . . .

Maya Jewell Zeller

@wandadeglane Some of my favorites, in no particular order: -Morgan Parker, Magical Negro -Eduardo Corral, Slow Lightning -Kathryn Nuernberger, RUE -Melissa Kwasny, Thistle -Jen Bervin, Silk: Poems -Stacey Waite, The Lake Has No Saint -Jamaal May, HUM -Rebecca Tamás, Witch

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Taking inspiration from Aimee Nezhukumatathil's “One-Star Reviews of the Taj Mahal” & “One-Star Reviews of the Great Wall of China," my students this week wrote "one-star review" found poems . . . & reader, I 10/1star recommend both assigning & completing this prompt. 😅💥

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Maya Jewell Zeller

@AnnaElizClark Mrs. Caliban; Great Gatsby; Housekeeping; Raven Leilani’s LUSTER; Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS; Sharma Shields’ The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac…

Maya Jewell Zeller

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

Maya Jewell Zeller

@madelinevo Maggie Nelson (Bluets), Victoria Chang (OBIT & Dear Memory & The Trees Witness Everything & & ), E. Briskin (Orange), Jack Gilbert (The Great Fires, and esp: https://t.co/BJOnAEMuL4)