Thanks to all who chatted last night about books about writing poetry. Here’s the list of the books I discussed:

Reading Like A Writer by Francine Prose

Break Blow Burn by Camille Paglia

The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

The Breaking of Style by Helen Vendler

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

A Formal Feeling Comes by Annie Finch

What About The Baby? by Alice McDermott

The Art of Voice by Tony Hoagland

The Making of a Poem by Eavan Boland and Mark Strand

You Poet by Rayna Hutchison and Samuel Blake

That last one is the book with the prompts we tried out. Thanks for sharing your quick writing, and hopefully you’ll get to expand it into something more. 

Our next session is March 11, which will be Meditate, Move, & Create. This session will be free for BACCA members. It may be available to non-members for a small fee. Details are on the way.

You can join me for more upcoming events before then:

Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM EST

ESWA Poetry Reading online. Register for free here: https://www.easternshorewriters.org/event-5596316

Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 10-noon

Sunday Funday Book Club reading Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty

Hops Scotch Bottle Shop 848 Long Island Ave, Deer Park NY

FREE but you can buy a bev (NA available!)

FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/831637218478219

Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7 PM EST

Poetry Chat with the Poet In Residence: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

On Zoom through the Oceanside Library:

Meeting ID: 837 4785 6636

Passcode: 207511

FREE

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3374667666156965

Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 2-4 PM EST

Co-featuring for Poetry Street On The Road

Riverhead Library and on Zoom

More info: https://poetrystreetontheroad.com/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/914187303735599

Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8 AM

Poetic Yoga and Meditation: Bay to Ocean Writer’s Conference / Eastern Shore Writers Association

Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, MD

Conference registration required; More info: https://easternshorewriters.org/

You can always donate to BACCA to support the arts: https://www.babylonarts.org/support-bacca

Or you can become a member: https://www.babylonarts.org/membership

Hope to see you soon, and happy poetry!

Christina