Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day at Tweetspeak Poetry, and the site has a raft of resources to help you do that. The celebration of poetry and work has been going strong, and I’ve been an enthusiastic participant from the get-go. I even wrote a small book, Poetry at Work, on finding poetry in all aspects of work.
When I still had an office (or a cubicle), I’d pick a poet and bring him or her to work on the designated day in July. Typically, I’d bring my longstanding favorite poet, T.S. Eliot.
Ten years ago, I was preparing to give notice of my intended retirement from work, which I did in September of 2014. I officially retired in May of 2015. It was early, but it was time. Enough said.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Photograph: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in old age.
Some Wednesday Readings
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton – reviewed at Redeemed Reader.
The Endless Possibility of Renewal – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review on Willa Cather’s My Antonia.
Why so few men take up the pen – Paul Burke at The Critic Magazine.
Merrie England: Hillaire Belloc in the South Country – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
“Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows,” poem by Thomas Carew – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
