Creative People Read 1 Poem a Day
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Creativity takes practice. . . .
More to the point, it takes practices. I aspire here to encourage one simple practice: Read one poem a day. . . . . for the rest of your life. Poetry teaches us to hear beauty and trains us to see love. Reading one poem a day just may be the most pragmatic impractical practice you will ever engage.
Read on.
Read on.
Why Read a Poem a Day?
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Weave this Word into your Day
Fresh Catch of the Day
Garrison Keillor posts a poem a day on his Writer's Almanac website. The poems come from everywhere and on most days they sing.
Poetic Musings
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A poem can be said to have two subjects, the initiating or triggering subject, which starts the poem or "causes" the poem to be written, and the real or generated subject, which the poem comes to say or mean, and which is generated or discovered in the poem during the writing."
Richard Hugo, "The Triggering Town"
Books of Poetry
Books on Poetry
Important!
The Last Word
What you do before 7am is your life. What you do after is your life's situation. (author?)
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