March 2026 Books and Reading Notes

March was a good month for poetry, thanks to an event with the Grand River Poetry Collective. I picked up eight (!) books, and then a couple of weeks later David Cope gifted me with copies of the last two issues of Big Scream, the literary journal he edited for decades.

And I even had time to read some of them.

Acquisitions

  1. Lance Richardson, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen [2026.03.07]
  2. Patricia Clark, O Lucky Day: Poems (Madville Publishing) [2026.03.14]
  3. Jeni Juarez, The Life That Love Builds [2026.03.14]
  4. Katie Kalisz, Quiet Woman (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) [2026.03.14]
  5. Neil Kaufman, Jungle Gyms for Monkey Minds (Grand River Poetry Press) [2026.03.14]
  6. Sarah Clarissa Mieras, Riverbed Treasures (Grand River Poetry Press) [2026.03.14]
  7. Leslie Papp, What Am I Afraid Of (Grand River Poetry Press) [2026.03.14]
  8. Greg Rappleye, Barley Child (University of Arkansas Press) [2026.03.14]
  9. R. R. Tavárez, Drag Queen Preacher (The Pilgrim Press) [2026.03.14]
  10. Clemens Meyer (Katy Derbyshire, translator), All the Lights (And Other Stories) [2026.03.25]
  11. Big Scream #59 [2026.03.26]
  12. Big Scream #60 [2026.03.26]

Reading List

Books

  1. Shrikant Verma (Rahul Soni, translator), Magadh [2026.03.13]
  2. Leslie Papp, What Am I Afraid Of [2026.03.15]
  3. Sarah Clarissa Mieras, Riverbed Treasures [2026.03.17]
  4. Neil Kaufman, Jungle Gyms for Monkey Minds [2026.03.18]
  5. Greg Rappleye, Barley Child [2026.03.22]

Short Prose

  1. William S. Burroughs, “Exterminator!”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.01]
  2. Parker Tyler, “Dragtime and Drugtime; or Film a la Warhol “, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.02]
  3. Samuel Beckett, “The Calmative”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.04]
  4. Kameron Hurley, “Organ Optional” (Patreon story) [2026.03.08]
  5. Malcolm X, “”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.13]
  6. Michael McClure, “The Beard”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.15]
  7. André Pieyre de Mandiargues, “The Tide”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.15]
  8. Robert Coover, “A Short Story”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.29]
  9. Fred Rayfield, “How the War Ended in Vietnam”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.29]
  10. Allen Ginsberg, “Beginning of a Poem of These States”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.30]
  11. John Rechy, “By the Motel Pool”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.30]
  12. Fidel Castro, “El Che Vive!”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.30]
  13. Che Guevara, “Where it All Began: The Landing in Cuba”, The Evergreen Review Reader 1967 – 1973 [2026.03.30]