Guardian: Rishi Dastidar: The Best Poetry Books of 2024

https://www.yearendlists.com/2024/rishi-dastidar-the-best-poetry-books-of-2024

#YearEndLists #Poetry #bookstodon
#EllaFrears #DanezSmith #FadyJoudah #VictoriaChang

Next week (Friday-Sunday) is the 8th Annual #AmherstCollege #LitFest. All events are at Amherst College: #MeganORourke, #IngridRojasContreras, #VictoriaChang, #TyehimbaJess, #TedConover, #CatherineNewman, #MarkVanhoenacker, #MartiDumas, #ValeriaLuiselli, #JenniferAcker, #DennisSweeney, #KirinKapur

See our website for the calendar & to sign up for our weekly #events newsletter: http://www.amherstbooks.com We'll be selling books by all speakers.

Or go to Amherst College's website: https://www.amherst.edu/about/literary-amherst/litfest

“The Wild Geese” from Victoria Chang’s The Trees Witness Everything: “I can hear them everywhere, wings pushing down metaphor” #poetry #victoriachang #Coppercanyonpress

Passage by Victoria Chang
from The Trees Witness Everything

Every leaf that falls
never stops falling. I once
thought that leaves were leaves.
Now I think they are a feeling,
in search of a place—
someone’s hair, a park bench, a
finger. Isn’t that
like us, going from place to
place, looking to be alive?

#TodaysPoem #Poem #Poetry #VictoriaChang