April 2022 Reading List

For National Poetry Month this year, I decided to work my way through my pile of unread issues of Poetry Magazine. It was quite an experience. Last time I read this much poetry, in this much variety, was in the heyday of The 3288 Review when we were getting over a hundred submissions a month, each with as many as ten poems.

Though sidelined for a few days by a touch of the flu, as well as some crazy work hours, I did manage to complete seventeen issues of Poetry, two poetry books by local writers, and the latest issue of Peninsula Poets.

The density of reading has put my mind in a very good space and I may continue this habit well into May in order to get caught up to present.

Books and Journals

16. Poetry Magazine #209.2 (November 2016) [2022.04.01]
17. Poetry Magazine #210.1 (April 2017) [2022.04.04]
18. Poetry Magazine #213.1 (October 2018) [2022.04.05]
19. Poetry Magazine #213.3 (December 2018) [2022.04.06]
20. Poetry Magazine #213.6 (March 2019) [2022.04.07]
21. Poetry Magazine #214.1 (April 2019) [2022.04.07]
22. Poetry Magazine #213.4 (January 2019) [2022.04.08]
23. Poetry Magazine #213.5 (February 2019) [2022.04.11]
24. Poetry Magazine #214.2 (May 2019) [2022.04.12]
25. Poetry Magazine #214.3 (June 2019) [2022.04.14]
26. Poetry Magazine #214.4 (July/August 2019) [2022.04.17]
27. Alles, Colleen, After the 8-Ball [2022.04.18]
28. Poetry Magazine #214.5 (September 2019) [2022.04.19]
29. Poetry Magazine #215.1 (October 2019) [2022.04.20]
30. Poetry Magazine #215.2 (November 2019) [2022.04.24]
31. Poetry Magazine #215.3 (December 2019) [2022.04.26]
32. Poetry Magazine #215.4 (January 2020) [2022.04.27]
33. Poetry Magazine #215.5 (February 2020) [2022.04.28]
34. Renee, Anna, Patina [2022.04.29]
35. Peninsula Poets #79.1 (Spring 2022) [2022.04.30]