Poetry Book Club Archive
This page will be updated with a list of all books discussed at the SubText Books Poetry Book Club, which takes place at 3pm on the second Sunday of each month.
2020
Space Struck by Paige Lewis, March 8
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, February 9
Hard Damage by Aria Aber, January 12
2019
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, December 8
A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib, November 10
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, October 13
Eye Level by Jenny Xie, September 8
The Tradition by Jericho Brown, August 8
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky, July 14
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker, June 9
Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, May 12
Olives by A.E. Stallings, April 14
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez, March 10
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar, February 10
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier, January 13
2018
R E D by Chase Berggrun, December 9
Look by Solmaz Sharif, November 11 (guest facilitated by Sagirah Shahid)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay, October 14th
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, September 9th
Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith, August 12th
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith, July 8th
Fort Not by Emily Skillings, June 10th
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen, May 13th
Subject to Change: Trans Poetry and Conversation ed. H. Melt, April 8th
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing, March 11th
Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich, February 11th
Space Struck by Paige Lewis, March 8
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, February 9
Hard Damage by Aria Aber, January 12
2019
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, December 8
A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib, November 10
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi, October 13
Eye Level by Jenny Xie, September 8
The Tradition by Jericho Brown, August 8
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky, July 14
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker, June 9
Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, May 12
Olives by A.E. Stallings, April 14
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez, March 10
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar, February 10
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier, January 13
2018
R E D by Chase Berggrun, December 9
Look by Solmaz Sharif, November 11 (guest facilitated by Sagirah Shahid)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay, October 14th
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, September 9th
Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith, August 12th
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith, July 8th
Fort Not by Emily Skillings, June 10th
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen, May 13th
Subject to Change: Trans Poetry and Conversation ed. H. Melt, April 8th
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing, March 11th
Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich, February 11th