Read a poem
Before Breakfast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Laura. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Today's tip is to build a reading habit by tackling a poem a day. |
| 0:50.0 | Poems tend to be short but can take you to amazing places and so can help you find space and life for a little bit of beauty. |
| 0:59.0 | As I've talked to people about their schedules over the years, I've learned that many people want to find more time to read. |
| 1:06.8 | Along with volunteering and exercising, reading is something that we know would improve our lives. |
| 1:15.6 | But when life gets busy, it's easy to let it go. |
| 1:20.8 | And once you let it go, getting back in the habit can seem intimidating. |
| 1:25.2 | Most books demand at least a few hours of time and reading in little bits might not be very satisfying. Hence the beauty of poems. |
| 1:30.8 | Unless you're reading T.S. Elliot's The Wasteland, most poems are relatively short. |
| 1:36.3 | You can easily borrow e-books of poetry from your library through an app like Libby, and then |
| 1:41.0 | read through them on the Kindle app. |
| 1:43.0 | Or you can go to a website such as Poets.org or Poetry Foundation |
| 1:47.0 | and find poems selected by their editors. |
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