In My Reading Stack

I was recently given a subscription to Poetry Magazine and am enjoying picking up my first issue and reading a single poem now and then. Is the poet Dan Stryk the son of Lucien Stryk?

I pulled What Do We Do Now? A Workbook for the President-Elect by Stephen Hess from the Bestseller shelf at the library. I am trying to learn more about politics and how things are done in Washington. This book was written as an open letter to the President-Elect (before we knew who that would be) and talks about the many facets of a transition from one administration to another.

Picked up a new book of poems for young people, Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye (she wrote Habibi, which I am reading to Olivia's History Class). I really like Nye's work. She "gets" kids but doesn't dumb things down to snare them. She is smart and inclusive and kind and poetic.

Am kind of also rereading Fifty Days of Solitude by Doris Grumbach. It's a woman alone with her thoughts, books, radio, writing, and art one winter.

I have another young person's book on deck, Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl. But haven't started it yet.