2 Books, 1 Poet

It's the Thunderdome of Poetry: two books (from the same poet) enter. Only one book leaves. We've got the books up on Instagram if you want to play along! @breakingformpod

Buy books authored by the poets we've referred to at Loyalty Books, a terrific Black-owned bookstore.

Check out Ada Limón's website here. The website has the correct publishing order of her fabulous books.

You can view Tracy K. Smith's poem "History" here, in its journal of first publication, Callaloo, Vol. 27, No. 4, Contemporary African-American Poetry: A New Wave (Autumn, 2004), pp. 876-882 (7 pages).

Poet Sun Signs:

Aries:
Ada Limón
Jericho Brown
Tracy K. Smith

Taurus:
Louise Glück.
Jorie Graham     
Carolyn Forché

Geminis:
Denise Duhamel
Anne Carson is most likely a Gemini (June 21).
Amy Clampitt

Leos
Carl Phillips
Rita Dove
Mark Doty
John Ashbery
Li-Young Lee

Virgos:
Natalie Diaz
Linda Gregg

Scorpio:
Terrance Hayes
Sharon Olds
Sylvia Plath

Sagittarians:
Lynda Hull

Capricorns
David Sedaris
Dorianne Laux (Her book Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2020, when Jericho Brown's The Tradition won. The other finalist was Mary Ruefle's Dunce).

Aquarians:
Elizabeth Bishop

None of the authors we listed were Libras, Cancers, or Pisceans.