“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke

What I love about this poetry reading is that the poem is read not by an actor, not by an English professor but by a high school custodian, demonstrating that poetry is for everyone, not just the academics or the elite. 

Tom Moran reads the Roethke poem and tells why it is meaningful to him. You can find other people from all walks of life reading poems at the Favorite Poem Project site, Americans Saying Poems They Love. It is a wonderful way to show that poetry does indeed matter

 

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