For World Poetry Day 2024, perhaps do the following…
ONE: Follow
TWO: Then read this quote:
“True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.”
-James C. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
THREE: Listen to the song, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain from Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers. The song’s lyrics are a poem by Emily Dickinson, written in 1861:
I listened to this three times on my way to work today, not knowing that today was a high poetry holiday… and I can’t stop thinking about this phrase:
As all the Heavens were a Bell
And Being, but an Ear
FOUR: Consider watching the TV series Dickinson on Apple TV. I adored it. I also believe it may have been too weird to be viable in this universe…
FIVE: (provided you have any energy left after all that) check out my own latest attempt at a finished work of poetry, about poetry itself:
Thank you so much for including me!