Poetry is for Everyone Book Club

We get it: it can be daunting to dip your toes into poetry. You may not be sure where to start. That’s why H&H Books is starting a new book club: Poetry is for Everyone

We’ll gather at Valerio Coffee Roasters in Fishtown and discuss a poetry collection selected by H&H staffers (and poets!) Kristen Brida and Shoshana Bockol. During the book club, we’ll share our thoughts and impressions of that month’s selection, and Kristen and Shoshana will offer guidance and ask questions to facilitate the conversation.

Poetry for Everyone is truly meant for everyone, whether you have an MFA and or haven’t read poetry since Shel Silverstein’s Falling Up (a classic!)

Our next book club will be May 17th at 2pm at the Valerio right down the street from our shop.

For our May pick, we’ll discuss Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen (make sure you’ve read at least some of the poems!). Poet Victoria Chang has called Root Fractures a “beautiful and heartbreaking book “ where a “leaping imagistic declarative sentence becomes fractured and unreliable, as a way to parse and thread memories and feelings.”