ROUTE 1 READS IN THE CATALOG
The Poetry selections on the 2021 Route 1 Reads reading list represent the great Poetry traditions from each of our states. History, homage, reflection, and revolution are distilled down to stanzas, couplets, lines, words.
Whether readers are at home or on the road this summer, we hope that this list of must-read books will keep everyone turning pages until Labor Day. The full list of featured books is listed here, in geographical order from North to South:
Maine
New Hampshire
COVID Spring by Massachusetts
Women in the Waiting Room by Rhode Island
then, we were still living by Connecticut
Afterswarm by New York
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel by Pennsylvania
Shale Play by New Jersey
Life on Mars by Delaware
Our Work, Our Words ... by Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
White Blood : a lyric of Virginia by North Carolina
South Carolina
The Birth of All Things by Georgia
Florida
Lucky Bones by Joy Harjo's Inaugural Reading as U.S. Poet Laureate. Streamed live Sept. 19, 2019
800's Literature
