Fellow poet Matt Donovan at the Poetry Center at Smith College put together a video series called “The Poem I Wish I Had Read” project. As he described the project to me, “I want to ask poets to choose one poem they wish they would have encountered as a teenager, and then compile videos of them offering some kind of brief personal testimony about why that poem would have spoken to them for whatever reason, followed by a reading of the poem.”
I chose the 8th century Gaelic poem, “Donal Og” for my contribution.
