Bring Poetry Back to the Goodreads Choice Awards: An Open Petition

For the first time in over a decade, the Goodreads Choice Awards has no poetry category

Background

Three years after its founding in December 2006, Goodreads, the “it” website for book recommendations and reviews, launched the Goodreads Choice Awards.

Its modest beginning featured nine categories: eight fiction (Children’s, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction) and one nonfiction (Nonfiction).

The following year in 2010, Goodreads exp...