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What kind of poem are you?

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Happy  National Poetry Month! We love this time to celebrate poets and their craft as well as read poetry. Make sure to check out the Academy of American Poets— they hold various events with other poetry organizations throughout the month to highlight the achievements and legacies of American poets.

Poetry recommendations for every kind of reader

To encourage readers to pick up some poetry, I've chosen a poem for different kinds of personalities.I've rounded up poetry styles by season, each corresponding to a unique personality type—complete with a poetry recommendation!
Winter Wordsmith

“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has motive.” – Jane Austen

If you are curious and resilient, you should read “Song of Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson! This poem resonates with the beauty of nature and the wonders of the universe.
Spring Sonneteer

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives–or to find the strength in a very long one.” – V. E. Schwab

If you are calm and ambitious, your perfect poem is “An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire” by Gwendolyn Brooks! It captures the true essence of love.
Summer Scribe

“I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.” – José Olivarez

If you are enthusiastic and bold, you'll love “Brute Strength” by Emily Skaja! It's vibrant, bold, and captures the intense turmoil of big emotions.
Fall Fabulist

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” – Mary Shelley

If you are creative and amusing, your poem of choice is “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson! It's reflective, thought-provoking, and offers a profound meditation on the human experience.
Boundless Bard

"Forgive me / they were delicious / so sweet / and so cold."

For everybody who refuses to be classified or is a poetry mood reader, Fable editor Jason Boog recommends "This Is Just To Say," a poem about how we sometimes make inexplicable choices because we are people in the world.

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