A Daily Dose of Poetry
I'm convinced that a daily dose of poetry is medicine for the soul. My favorite source is The Writer's Almanac, which you can have delivered to you as a daily email or as a podcast of the Public Radio segment as read by Garrison Keillor.
There's something magical about having poetry reliably and effortlessly bestowed upon me, no matter how hectic or mundane or awful or marvelous the day. I've discovered so many poems and poets that I would otherwise have missed. A sampler of personal favorites:
Of poetry anthologies in print, two that I recommend with special fondness are
Americans' Favorite Poems and
Poems to Read, both edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz as part of the
Favorite Poem Project. I love them as much for the accompanying notes on the real people who recommended these poems, and why they loved them so, as for the poems themselves.
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