Published September 16, 2021
As a part of our annual Route 1 Reads recommended reading initiative, this free, virtual poetry reading featured poets selected by each East Coast Center for the Book and was hosted by the Georgia Center for the Book.
Watch the video from this event:
These poets and poetry collections were presented through a combination of live and recorded readings:
- Maine—A New Land: 30 Groundbreaking Poems by Youth Poets, introduction by Amanda Gorman
- New Hampshire—Covid Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, editor, Alexandria Peary
- Massachusetts—Women in the Waiting Room, by Kirun Kapur
- Rhode Island—then, we were still living, by Michael Klein
- Connecticut—Afterswarm, by Margot Schlipp
- New York—The Best of Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis
- Pennsylvania—Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, poet, and Steven Rubin, photographer
- New Jersey—Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith
- Delaware—Our Work, Our Words, by Twin Poets, Representative Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
- Maryland—How to Carry Water: Selected Poems, by Lucille Clifton
- District of Columbia—By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capitol, edited by Kim Roberts
- Virginia—White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, by Kiki Petrosino
- North Carolina—Cardinal, by Tyree Daye
- South Carolina—The Birth of All Things, by Marcus Amaker
- Georgia—Peach State, by Adrienne Su
- Florida—Lucky Bones, by Peter Meinke
