Poetry Tuesday – Poetry Daily Meme

Reading and understanding poetry used to be an indispensible part of education and intelligence. However, poetry appears to me to be becoming less and less a part of curricula and the societal dialogue.

Here are some suggestions on how to make poetry a daily part of your life:

1. Read a new poem every day at Daily Poetry or at Poetry.com.
2. Subscribe to receive a Classic Poem Daily via email.
3. Visit the Poetry 180 website and read one of the poems there.
4. Purchase or borrow a collection of poetry and read one poem a day (perhaps at breakfast or before bed).
5. Subscribe to The Writer’s Almanac podcast hosted by Garrison Keillor.
6. Pick up a set of Magnetic Poetry and create poems while making dinner or chatting on the phone or play with Magnetic Poetry online.

Poetry Tuesday meme:

Make a resolution to make poetry a consistant part of your life. Select one of the above options or create one of your own and write a bit about your resolution and why you think it’s worthwhile to read poetry on a regular basis.

My resolution: #4. I’m going to keep collections of poetry around and try to read at least one poem a day. This will help me get through some of the poetry in my TBR pile, and it will help me to become more aware of the poetry sphere – any area of literature I tend to neglect.

Buy Magnetic Poetry – The Poet at Amazon.com.

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