What to Read After Ordinary Genius
Readers who loved Ordinary Genius by Kim Addonizio keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ordinary Genius is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Ordinary Genius
The poetry home repair manual
The Practice of Poetry
The Triggering Town
A Poetry Handbook
The Art of the Poetic Line
The art of syntax
What Is This Thing Called Love
The Poet's Companion
Proofs & theories
Tell me
Letters to a young poet
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Song-writing without boundaries
Songs of experience
Making your own days
The life of poetry.
The Making of a Story
A poet's craft
Naming the world
Rules for the dance
The wild iris
Blood dazzler
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Song