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I’m trying to get started on the Bradbury Challenge, where you read a poem, an essay, and a short story every day. Right now the biggest challenge is just finding engaging texts, especially when it comes to poetry. I find myself just going back to “the classics” like Shakesspeare, Robert Frost, C. S. Lewis and so on. I’d like to broaden my horizons.
English author, but Adrian Tchaikovsky has some fun short-ish stories under the title Terrible Worlds
Thanks!
Kevin Brockmeier has some fun short stories. Also Peter Watts, with the Rifters sequence. You could also try some classics like Rashomon.
For poetry, try Gary Snyder, Li Po, Cold Mountain, Bashō.
Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Rainer Maria Rilke are also worth checking out. I’ve been working my way through Adrienne Rich recently.
You could also look into subscribing to a journal or checking out an independent bookstore or press to find work by local authors you wouldn’t encounter otherwise. Or check out theses from your nearest university to see what students near you are reading, I’ve discovered some neat work that way.
Re: essays, I just finished reading Everything is Too Small and enjoyed it.
I’ve only read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran so I don’t know about the rest of his work, but it’s worth checking out
