This week we spotlight poets, nature, and the nature of poetry with reviews for Blue Mimes by Sara Daniele Rivera, whose poems "play with beginnings and endings and inverted repetitions... as they dance between grief and healing"; and You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, an anthology compiled by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that gives readers "a chance to revel in the sublime and ineffable qualities of both nature and poetry... as an act of communion, a balm for difficult times." Plus, we look at Nina Chakrabarti's picture book Hello Bugs: A Little Guide to Nature, where "insects of all shapes and shades stud the pages like jeweled brooches."
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we offer "An Invitation to All" as two of our reviewers go deep on what reading poetry means to them and how they each "decided poetry was special" for themselves.