Yes! More poetry in our public lives! What if we thumbed through a slim volume of poems instead of scrolling social media when we needed a brain brake?
oooof that's a good poem. And I loved the way you wrote about this episode, particularly this paragraph: "I love seeing a book of poems in a hospital bed because that’s where they belong: in our lives as they are lived daily, not just on the moldering shelves of library basements, where students sometimes imagine that they live."
Yes! More poetry in our public lives! What if we thumbed through a slim volume of poems instead of scrolling social media when we needed a brain brake?
oooof that's a good poem. And I loved the way you wrote about this episode, particularly this paragraph: "I love seeing a book of poems in a hospital bed because that’s where they belong: in our lives as they are lived daily, not just on the moldering shelves of library basements, where students sometimes imagine that they live."