Top favorite
anecdote: My 11 year old son carried
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein in the
front pocket of his jeans and then proudly read the poem to his 5th
grade class at the end of the day.
Sentimental anecdote: My sister shared a poem about mothers in
honor of our mother who recently suffered a heart attack.
Marriage anecdote: Robin gave a poem to Kevin on their wedding
day; he has carried the poem in his wallet every day for the past nearly 20
years.
Mary Oliver anecdote: Two friends separately mentioned poems in the
days preceding Poem in Your Pocket Day 2012 —Jackie shared a youtube clip of The Summer Day or The Grasshopper and Mary shared Wild Geese.
No Title anecdote: Cindy shared Emily Dickinson’s I taste a liquor never brewed.
Epic anecdote: The never ending joke of the day regarding
what one is carrying in his pocket included Milton’s Paradise
Lost
War anecdote: My cousin shared a poem written by my uncle
while he was in Vietnam
Facebook friend
anecdote: Carie shared my request
for poems with others on her facebook
page and listed Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
as the poem she would carry.
College Roommate anecdote:
Amy carried a Sara
Teasdale poem in honor of her 1992 college crush and husband.
Colleague anecdote: Mikkaka listened intently as I shared my poem
of the day and then she shared with
me Mad Girl’s Love Song by
Sylvia Plath.
Twitter anecdote: New
York Times Learning Network retweeted #pocketpoems all day
Kentucky
Women Writers Conference anecdote: Julie and Vaughn shared their
pocket poems through the conference listserv, a great way to promote the
September conference. Julie shared [As for me, I used to be a bird] by —
Alda Merini, translated by Susan Stewart.
Vaughn carried Pocket by Julia
Johnson, a presenter for the upcoming 2012 conference.
