5 Poems To Read Today

Because really---shouldn't everyone greet you with a bunny?

Welcome to the first full week of National Poetry Month on the blog! Every week this month, we'll be stopping by with five links to poems you can (and should!) read today (or this week). They will range from contemporary to classics, but none will take you longer than 5 minutes to read. Warning: some may take you a lifetime to absorb. But hey, that's poetry for you.

5 Poems to Read Right Now:

1. "Ulysses" by Lord Alfred Tennyson

2. "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

3. "Without Ceremony" by Catherine Pierce

4. "For women who are 'difficult' to love" by Warsan Shire

---there's a video reading here---

5. "A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You" by Jon Sands

---there's a video reading here---

And that's all she wrote! (No, really, I don't have anything else to say.) Enjoy! Happy National Poetry Month!