Letters from Our Readers
Over the years, I’ve received quiet, beautiful letters from people who found a poem here when they needed one most. This space is a gathering of some of those reflections—words from readers about how poetry has accompanied them, changed them, held them. May you find something here that meets you where you are.
How do we know anything about ourselves?
May your work keep holding us together
You are celebrating 20 years of your love affair with poetry
I always love your words as much as I love the poems you share
My encounter with you was like meeting a friend
RALP is a gesture of delicacy and generosity
The business of living
Just know I'm all those miles away, thinking of you
Is it possible that grief can give me hope too?
Thanks for reminding me that there is a beyond from now
I finally found a way of speaking that made sense of the world
I started writing in part because of you and your blog
I find so much quiet in your words
Your careful curation reminded me that words are all we have
Thank you for understanding us
I want to tell you that when nothing could comfort me, poetry did
This place has given me words to use as anchors
I’m comforted in the fact that I’m not totally alone
A little letter from a stranger
Thank you for sharing with the world such raw and vulnerable fragments of yourself
What a rapture to rediscover poetry
I could build a life off of poetry teaching poetry and a love for it, a love you rekindled in me.
Thank you so much for giving me joy
Your blog helped bridge a distance of over a thousand miles
I’ve recently had a lot of loss in my life and heart
It has been a tremendous blessing to me
