The 5 Kinds of Poems You Hear at Weddings



My childhood friend Kathryn is marrying, and she asked me to read a poem at her wedding. I took to this task, at first, like an overachieving English major, yanking heavy anthologies off the shelf and leafing through physical books. Then I reverted to normalcy, typed “wedding poems good” into Google, and emailed a bunch of people to see if they had ideas I could rip off.

Entire article here: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/5-kinds-of-poems-you-hear-at-weddings.html#

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