I know there tends to be a heavy lean toward fiction here, and particularly toward short, short fiction, but I do try to incorporate poetry from time to time.
I just have a harder time falling in love with poems. But it does happen.
And here’s one now!
Go read “Planting a Sequoia” by Dana Gioia, published by The Writer’s Almanac. (Thanks to NPR, you can even listen to it if you’d rather!)