Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small …
Melanie is back today to read Spell Against Sorrow by Kathleen Raine. How do we drive away our grief, sorrow and fear? Day 29.
Day 28: This is a poem I wrote after visiting Zion National Park in the glorious state of Utah. It’s about a place, eerie and beautiful, called the Temple of …
Day 27: Another visit to New York City, Patricia Young‘s Ruin and Beauty. We humans often think of ourselves as separate from nature, but underneath all of our noise and …
Day 26, Melanie Shank returns to bring us Central Park at Dusk by Sara Teasdale, a beautiful, short snapshot of Central Park in NYC, a place where you could find …
Day 25 of 40 days of poetry: Sugar by Tina Chang. I think we have all, at some point, played a role which felt wrong and uncomfortable at our core. …
Day 24: A big thank you to Melanie Shank for reading today’s poem, “when faces called flowers float out of the ground” by e.e. cummings. This is an exuberant romp …
The poem for Day 23 is Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye. May we all use our trials to learn how to be kind rather than getting bitter and mean.
Day 22: Enjoy this searingly funny satire of modern “sensibility” by Alex Lemon. This is Beautification Campaign. Who knows what might happen if people began to look past what advertising …
Day 21: Our poem is Shaking the Grass by Janice N. Harrington. It relates a simple experience of laying in the grass. Experiences that we take for granted, that don’t …
