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December 10, 2019

That’s a Lot of Reading

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

I read a lot, over 200 books every year. This year I’m going to set a new personal record for the number of books read, but I don’t yet know exactly what that number will be – I’ve still got

July 3, 2019

One Month

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 1

My job will be sending me to grad school in the fall: I’ll start Eisenhower School in August and for the next ten months, my only job will be school. I won’t have to report to my office, or answer

October 25, 2016

Back to School!

Written by Courtney Posted in Poetry Comments 0

When I first went to college I didn’t know what I wanted to study. After switching majors and schools a few times I finally chose business as it seemed safe and generic enough that I could do pretty much anything

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Best New Poets 2012: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

by Matthew Dickman

My goal for 2015 is to read more poetry and find more poets I love so I picked this up from the library. Unfortunately only one poem really stood out to me, Why My Mother is Afraid of Heights by Shevaun Brannigan. The rest were okay but ...

Word Alchemy

by Lenore Kandel

This was the first book I read in 2015 when I stumbled upon it while renting a house with friends over NYE. It was an interesting read with a few nuggets but not enough to warrant a great rating from me. Some of the poems seem to be tryi...

The Book of Summers

by Emylia Hall

Perhaps my favorite part of this book was that the plot twist was truly a surprise - often I guess what's going to happen and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's also nice to be surprised once in a while. =)

by Evan Mandery

The premise of this book is fantastic - an older man travels back in time to tell his younger self not to marry the love of his life, a woman named Q. The younger self follows this advice and when the future life doesn't turn out as hope...

Post Marked

by Mark R. Trost

I decided to read this book for two reasons: 1) at that time it had 12 5-star reviews on Amazon, and 2) it was free. Given it's high ratings and no cost I simply had to read. Sadly, I was nothing but disappointed with this book. The cha...