Roof Beam Reader
A Writer and His Reading
Category: Poetry
Thoughts: The Tradition
My “no pride without Black lives” month of reading continues with Jericho Brown’s incredible poetry collection, The Tradition. I have been following Jericho Brown on Twitter for some time, now, and I have read various of his poems in other places, but this is…
Thoughts: Citizen, An American Lyric
The first half (give or take) of Claudia Rankine’s poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyric, actually felt to me like a collection of short, flash fiction. It wasn’t until about that midpoint when the full force of Rankine’s work hit me and I suddenly…
A Successful Poetry Month
For the last two months, I’ve pursued some themed-reading. This is something I tried a couple of years ago as a year-long project, changing my reading theme every month, but it didn’t quite work. It seems to work better if I choose something just…
July, July!
Have you heard the song, “July, July!” by The Decemberists? You should. This is the story of the road that goes to my house And what ghosts there do remain And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house And…
A Lesbian Classic & Walt Whitman
I wrap-up my Pride Month reading with two final pieces of fiction, one a classic adult novel of lesbian literature, the other a young adult novel inspired by Walt Whitman. Please feel free to check out the rest of my pride month reads. I…
