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20 Poets You Should Know
For National Poetry Month, we re celebrating these bookshelf worthy scribes Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BET
April is National Poetry month and with Amanda Gorman’s historic inauguration performance centering poetry on the world stage, people inside and outside of the literary world are paying extra attention to our country’s scribes during this season.
Poets are our mirrors, healers, and judges. They reflect back our values, actions, and priorities. Exciting collections that explore gender identity, immigration experiences, Gullah-Geechee culture, and more are waiting to be added to your bookshelves from these past and present poets.
Lydia Millet’s newest novel,
A Children’s Bible, was nominated for the National Book Award, and called a masterly allegory for the climate crisis. The book follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.
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amazing and absorbing story begins with a series of substories about trees and how they affect the environment. The first episode is titled, “Nicholas Hoel.” Powers writes, “Now is the time of chestnuts. // People are hurling stones at the giant trunks. The nuts fall all around them in a divine hail. It happens in countless places this Sunday, from Georgia to Main. Up in Concord, Thoreau takes part. He feels he is casting rocks at a sentient being, with a duller sense than his own, yet still a blood relation.
Old trees are our parents, and our parents, and our parents’ parents, perchance. If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity…” (5). This is a splendid beginning for this magnificent novel.