I’m trying to get started on the Bradbury Challenge, where you read a poem, an essay, and a short story every day. Right now the biggest challenge is just finding engaging texts, especially when it comes to poetry. I find myself just going back to “the classics” like Shakesspeare, Robert Frost, C. S. Lewis and so on. I’d like to broaden my horizons.


Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse had some lovely short stories. Mary Oliver and Charles Bukowski are some of my favorite English-language poets but I also enjoy translations of Japanese haikus.