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I'm opening registration for my Guided Poetry Reading Groups for May—August. https://www.seansingerpoetry.com/join-book-club These are facilitated sessions guiding committed poets and poetry readers in a practice of reading more deeply, creatively, and intentionally. Each month, I’ll guide groups through a close reading of a current book of poetry—books that are overlooked and underrated; books that have something important to tell us about what it is to be alive today.

Louise Bogan (1897—1970) was the first woman appointed as Poet Laureate (1945—1946), and a significant 20th century poet. Her first book, Body of This Death, came out in 1923. Her second, Dark Summer, came out in 1929. Bogan made herself into a major poet despite being one of the few women publishing poetry at the time and despite her working class, Irish immigrant background and limited formal education. Bogan perfected formal, yet lyric poems.

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Life expectancy in the United States is very low, particularly when compared with other advanced countries. It’s between Cuba’s and Albania’s. There have already been 1.07 million Covid deaths, and last year there were 49,000 gun deaths, and 37,461 car crash deaths. Firearms are the number one cause of death for children ages 1-19 (more than cancer, car crashes, malnutrition, congenital illnesses, or anything else by far).