I found this quest and I've read so many of these through my adolescence, but if I mark them finished it will change my reading goal. I do want to take part in this quest and strive for more, so is there a way to change that anyone knows of?

Hello poetry questers! I hope you're all doing well. I come bearing news of our unofficial readalong (I know I said I'd make this post tomorrow, but there is a very clear winner and I have the time now, so here we are). I’m happy to share that the winner of the poll was You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

I, for one, am not at all shocked that this was the winner, haha! It really is an amazing collection. However, this is a relatively longer collection, so I want to ask if people would prefer that we extend the readalong and/or push it back (currently planned for the first 2 weeks of March; I chose this length initially to accommodate users borrowing copies from their libraries; I know March is coming very soon as well, and I want to make sure people have enough time to get their hands on a copy). Please, please comment if you have a strong opinion either way. That being said, I am still going to outline my original plan so y’all can (hopefully) see my vision. I’ve never participated in, nor put together, a readalong, so I truly have no idea what I’m doing and welcome all of your thoughts!

Draft plan (1-14 March?) My original motivation for doing a poetry readalong was to foster discussion, analysis, and enjoyment of poems, especially with those who are new to reading poetry. I believe the best way to do this would be to create a book forum post corresponding to each poem that everyone could then comment under. I created a schedule (see below) of when I would create these posts—this is not, necessarily, a reading schedule, though you could absolutely use it as one (I tried to create it with that idea in mind, so each day has roughly the same amount of reading). I think this would prevent flooding the forum and better foster discussions around each specific poem. I also believe this would encourage future readers to interact since there would be dedicated posts for the poems. This could very well be way overcomplicated (I tend to do that), so please let me know what you think (would it be better to just let everyone create their own posts?). I know most readalongs are more of a free-for-all, I just feel that might be too unstructured for this genre and new readers.

1 Mar

• Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps
• The Year of No Grudges, or Instead of Writing a Furious Text, I Try a Poem

2 Mar

• The Museum of Broken Relationships
• Time Piece
• Queer Youth Are Five Times More Likely to Die by Suicide

3 Mar

• No Such Thing as the Innocent Bystander
• To Whom it Definitely Concerns,
• Every Time I Ever Said I Want to Die
• Instead of Depression

4 Mar

• What Love Is
• Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet
• The Day Prince Died

5 Mar

• My Gender is the Undoing of Gender
• Spelling Bee Without Stinger
• The Night Shift

6 Mar

• Love Me to Life
• Love Letter to the Tick That Got Me Sick
• After the Break-Up, Our Tandem Bike Speaks:

7 Mar

• Neighbors
• Note to the Stranger Six Feet Away:
• Good Grief

8 Mar

• The Call, Option 1
• The Call, Option 2
• What Can’t Be Taken

9 Mar

• The Test of Time
• Aliens Explain Why They Are Visiting Earth
• Constellations Rearrange Themselves Into a Protest Sign

10 Mar

• Climate Change
• Wellness Check
• My Girlfriend’s Karaoke Song

11 Mar

• What You Wish You’d Said to the High School Guidance Counselor
• What Sucks About the Afterlife

12 Mar

• How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best
• Life Sentence

13 Mar

• Not Alone
• How I Became a Poet

14 Mar

• See This Through
• The Last Hours

Edit: (I'm going to assume that the people upvoting but not commenting are good to go with this set-up and schedule🙂‍↕️)