As if running Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls’ Foundation isn’t enough, Mary Stillman reads a poem featured in award-winning, St. Louis-based decemberMagazine. Mary’s compelling reading is part of december’s social media poetry project to get more people into poetry and grow readership of december (decembermag.org). We encourage you to post your own reading, tag it with #december_mag and any of the hashtags below…and ask your friends to do the same. We’re hoping to make this like the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS…but with poetry. @decembermagazine @december_mag #decembermag #poetry #poetryofinstagram #writersofinstagram #poet #instapoetry #poetrycommunity #poetlaureate #hawthornleadershipschoolstl

There is no better time than now to come together around poetry. A good poem can heal, illuminate lives, and give comfort. So while you are #StayingHome be sure to share a poem!