Reading fiction can help you reduce stress. As you emerge yourself into a story, your heart rate decreases, and muscles relax. Even six minutes read can make a difference to destress.
The Library of Congress promotes poetry and literature year-round through its online and in-person programs. Part of their collection includes literary audio recordings containing historical and contemporary poets and writers reading and discussing their work at the Library of Congress, digitized and right at your fingertips.
Join HPU Libraries' on celebrating the works of Asian American and Pacific Islander poets this National Poetry Month. Reading poetry can be beneficial for a number of reasons, especially because it encourages anyone stressed out to communicate their anxiety in a healthier way. The metaphors, imagery and other language devices may capture the right words one feels but cannot figure out how to express. Poetry’s rhythmic patterns, much like music, can illuminate powerful nonverbal reactions within people and help alleviate stress.
Check out our feature AAPI poets to start reading some powerful poetry.
