Reading a poem in the morning feels like giving a gift to yourself. So here are 13 lovely poems to take in when you first wake up.

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a way of attuning me to a different logic. Before 2020, certain aspects of poetry — how it often communicated mood rather than plot, how it ...