For National Poetry Month this year, Poetry Daily decided to turn the spotlight onto readers of poetry: who we know are especially important, who, through the power of their attention, collaborate in the making of a poem’s meaning and worth. Which poem, we asked all of you—in our current archive of more than two thousand poems featured on the site since it moved to George Mason University in 2018—made you think, surprised you, moved you, or changed your world just a little? The resulting deep dives and bright finds, which we will feature in our Readers Write Back series across four Mondays and a Wednesday (April 30, the last day of Poetry Month) give some great recommendations on which poems to check out next, and reveal a wide cross-section of poetry in the contemporary mix. It showed us just how much we could learn from our readers, as well as how poems become an intimate part of lives, have far reaching and unpredictable effects on their readers and, at the least, offer a few minutes of thoughtful, serious reflection in each day.
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