Reader, it’s almost finals week. You’re tired. I’m tired. That Pass/Fail option is looking pretty good right now. The papers and the books and the PowerPoints are sitting there on your desktop, waiting for bits of love you do not have to give. The news is shouting about our everyday catastrophes. There are approximately 27 unread emails in your inbox.
You get what I’m saying. College is exhausting, especially college during finals week, and especially online college during finals week during the midst of a global pandemic that is currently ravishing parts of the world, even if things have gotten better here in PA. We all need a break. We need to slow down and take time just listen, to hear the beauty this often exhausting world still has to offer.
That’s why I wanted to try something new: what I’m calling a poetry playlist, a collection of thematically similar poems that I hope you will enjoy. You can go through this playlist in order, or you can shuffle it and see what surprises you. Regardless, I hope this playlist offers a space to think and feel and listen.
This playlist is called Each Earthen Echo (aren’t I fancy?). It’s designed to bring in mind the quiet corners of this world that are simultaneously shuddering with light, energy waiting for its beholding. I hope it transports you, or at the very least roots you to the spaces surrounding you, both natural and otherwise. Take one or two of these poems and print them out, maybe. Carry them in your wallet, in your pocket, or just in the folders of your phone. Let them ruminate. I hope you enjoy.
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| I'm holding the physical copy of "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton, which you SHOULD OBVIOUSLY READ!!! |
Each Earthen Echo
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens
Poem for My Love by June Jordan
Broken Ghazal in July by Claire Shang
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: the Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth by Fatimah Asghar (what a title)
The Imaginal Stage by D. A. Powell
Any Common Desolation by Ellen Bass
Every day as a wide field, every page by Naomi Shihab Nye
blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton
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What's your favorite poem? Who cares if it's from high school or from Dr. Seuss? Let's all sip tea, share poems, and pretend we're smart during this exhausting finals week. You and I both need the confidence boost.
Good luck on finals, readers!
~ Ashleigh Kennedy
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