In June 2026, I began creating content for new YouTube channel, “Read Poems Every Day.” I explain the mission and ambition of the channel in the Welcome Video. In a nutshell, the channel aims to model my process of studying and trying to get to know poems. I call this process, at times, “slow reading” or, at other times, “closer reading.”

Video Description from YouTube:

Welcome to RPED (Read Poems Every Day!). In the welcome video above, I name and gloss the steps in my process of slow reading:

1. Reading Aloud
2. Bean Counting
3. Listening for Sound & Sense
4. Describing Form & Figures
5. Shaping Ideas & Questions
6. Sketching Possible Contexts
7. Looking Again

The poems I use as examples in this and throughout the “Getting Started” series are:

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 9: [LINK]

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam, sec. 3 [LINK]

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” [LINK]

Donika Kelly’s “Brood” [LINK]

In this and other videos, I use the Hypothesis annotation platform [LINK]. Please like, subscribe, comment, share, and join me for future videos!