I’ve read a number of posts over the years from fellow bloggers about their love/lust of authors from the Book Lady‘s Panty Throwing to bloggers like Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin?‘s spotlights on the books she’s drooling over. I know that we all drool over actors and various book series and more, but when it comes to poetry, many people shy away or turn their backs.
I’ve got a little incentive for you to consider reading poetry or looking at the poets who make the poems. Have you heard of the Naked Muse 2012 Calendar? If you follow my Facebook/Twitter updates, you may have when I shared the Huffington Post article on this little gem.
(I want to formally thank Anna since she sent it to me at a time I was struggling on what to write about for my first poetry post)
I really love that these poets decided to bare all for a good cause — see poets aren’t always purposefully confusing and there to just drive you crazy with seemingly incongruous allusions and metaphors. In fact, their meanings can be as plain as the skin that they bare to the camera. I’d love to see some American poets get in on this little project.
I like the idea that 100% of the profits will be used to help those with Type 1 Diabetes through research at JDRF.
What contemporary or classic poets would you like to see in a naked calendar? What is your poetry post about today?
I hope you’ll consider joining the 2012 Fearless Poetry Reading Challenge.
For those in the challenge who already have reviewed poetry volumes in January, please put your full links in the Mr. Linky below:
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