This blog is meant to offer a few thoughts about known and unknown poets. It is meant to produce joy (what better than a poem to do that?) and to spread the influence of poetry like sunlight over a starved garden.
Please. I beg you.
Read the poems aloud. Read them to your self, to your lover, to the cat. Read them in bed, late at night. Read them when you’re hungry, when you’d rather be sleeping but can’t, read them the moment you first wake up. Read them when you’re so happy you think your life can’t be any fuller, and feel your capacity for happiness widen. Read them when you’re desperate for contact, for the touch of something other than your own voice. Take them into your body and make them part of you. Do any of this, even one of these things, and you will be a better person. Wiser, more whole.
And please check back here often for the best of the best. Old and young, published and unpublished, dead and alive.
