News at Eleven: I closed the book, transformed,

bolstered from the inside out.

From that day forward, each morning I read a poem. Even with a crazed daily docket, I can manage a minute or two for the words, reading while waiting for the bread to toast, sitting in a school parking lot. I've read poems at jury duty. At Jiffy Lube. Once, at a football tailgate, I read a poem in a Portajohn.

That's the practical greatness of a poem.

from NPR: Find a Station: A Poem A Day: Portable, Peaceful And Perfect
or NPR: All Things Considered: A Poem A Day Keeps The Craziness Away

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