It's #PoetryMonth! Since we're all locked in the house, I'm going to recite a poem every day and memorize a bunch of new ones. Poetry helps me center myself, may it do the same for you.

Today, it's Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild Things

Day two of national #PoetryMonth. Today's poem is Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." (Two part video)

Keats died at 25 of tuberculosis. He spent his last years knowing he was dying and living, more or less, in quarantine. Relevant to #coronavirus May you find beauty and truth today

And part two of Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn (Twitter video limits, ugh)

It's day 3 of #NationalPoetryMonth, and with the first wave of spring subsiding in DC it's a good day for some Robert Frost.

Stay gold, my friends.

Day four of our #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project is Dylan Thomas' response to Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay.

This is Fern Hill (two part video)

Fern Hill, part two #NationalPoetryMonth

Day five of my #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project is @laborseller's To Eat the Fruit, Climb the Tree, a recommendation by @oohpujie https://twitter.com/laborseller/status/1242457094399438851?s=19

Time to get ham! It was supposed to be spring break this week (and I should be in Vieques), so it's children's poems all week, and I'm gonna do them just like I do for my kids. Kicking things off, here's Jabberwocky #NationalPoetryMonth

Day 7 of my #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project goes out to everyone who's freaking out every time you sneeze from pollen or feel an itch in your throat.

This is A. A. Milne's Sneezles

Today's entry for the #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project would require 3 video splits, so if you're excited to hear The Cremation of Sam McGee I invite you to come watch it on my IGTV :) https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-u7JBbAoEh/?igshid=thae0xuzl0hi

Today's entry for the #nationalpoetrymonth poem-a-day challenge is a about having a friend who's always there and you can always count on, no matter what. Just in case you could use someone like that right now. #poems #poetry #covid_19 #QuarantineLife

I've got a special guest for the Good Friday edition of the #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project. Please welcome @amythefred (who can now talk for about two minutes without coughing) for A. A. Milne's Us Two

Had to ham it up a bit for this entry in the #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project. One of my all-time favorites, this is The Highwayman https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-4eeVRnkxj/?igshid=1tf5cbw8pd9yt

Didn't get around to recording this entry for the #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day challenge until late, so it's a good day for a lullaby. This is Winken, Blinken and Nod

The kids interrupted my planned poem for today's #NationalPoetryMonth entry, but it reminded me of this perfect Shel Silverstein bit about siblings, so here is Two Boxes

Y'all, we're halfway through April. Whether we wanted to or not, we all changed our lives. So here's Archaic Torso of Apollo for today's #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project.

Since madness is setting in here in #quarantinelife , today's #nationalpoetrymonth poem-a-day project is from Maryland's mad poet. This is Annabel Lee #poetry #poems

Short and haunting, this is Ezra Pound's In a Station of the Metro for today's #nationalpoetrymonth poem-a-day project

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, this is for you.

The kids playing by the river moved me to choose Mary Oliver's Wild Geese for today's #NationalPoetryMonth poem-a-day project.

If I find myself faltering when a difficult thing needs to be said, I'll think "and should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force this moment to its crisis?"

This is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock #NationalPoetryMonth https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_ObwmknwzK/?igshid=t9jmxtzjzz2l