Tips for Reading Poetry as a Non-Poetry Reader

Описание: The bright yellow cover of Springhill Mine really messed up the color balance of this video.

My year of making a conscious effort to read and enjoy poetry. Here are some of my tips for how to you too can read and enjoy poetry, as well as what I read this year.

Hasib Hourani reading from Rock Flight:    • Poets for Palestine - Hasib Hourani - Poet...  

Joanne Kyger reading her poems:    • Joanne Kyger  

Books mentioned in this video
The Pill vs the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan
Modern Arab Poets by Issa J Boullata
Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mamoud Darwish
Arabian Love Poetry by Nizar Kabbani
[...] by Fady Joudah
Rock Flight by Hasib Hourani
Heaven Looks Like Us by George Abraham and Noor Hindi
On Time by Joanne Kyger
The Back Country by Gary Snyder
Muzzle Thyself by Lauren Fairbanks
Rommel Drives Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork by Richard Brautigan
June 30th June 30th by Richard Brautigan
Nonsense and Happiness by Peter Handke
Houseboat Days by John Ashbery
Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery