Like Ron Mohring, I am responding to Oliver de la Paz’s 2015 Summer Reading Challenge. A good idea I hope will go viral. I can’t resist lists. Here’s the gist — make a list of fifteen books to read between now and the end of August. Three books from your list should be poached from the lists of others. So it will be helpful to keep linking to lists you know of, I guess. As you finish a book, post some kind of…response, commentary, review, what have you.
I aspire to read more than this over the summer, but this feels like a strong start. And I know I’ll be loving reading others’ lists, so link ’em up! I’m adding the ones I know of from time to time below my list.
Here’s my list — 2 nonfiction & 13 poetry:
No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture (Matthew D. Tribbe)
The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
Bluets (Maggie Nelson)
Hoodlum Birds (Eugene Gloria)
The View from Saturn (Alice Friman)
Our House Was on Fire (Laura Van Prooyen)
Talismans (Maudelle Driskell)
Twine (David Koehn)
The New Testament (Jericho Brown)
Bloom in Reverse (Teresa Leo)
Mimi’s Trapeze (J. Allyn Rosser)
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Ross Gay)
Slant Six (Erin Belieu)
Last Psalm at Sea Level (Meg Day)
How to Be Drawn (Terrance Hayes)
Others who have made lists for this challenge — please add your link in the comments if you join the challenge:
Liz Ahl 
Liz, I’m “poaching” Mimi’s Trapeze. I love Jill’s poems.