Matthew Ogle started Pome, his daily TinyLetter, in 2014. What began as a bit of an experiment has turned into a small literary institution. Six years later, Ogle has sent out three-and-a-half years' worth of daily poems and reaches several thousand subscribers, all of who wake each morning to find a hand-selected poem in their inbox.
I love the unlikely moment each morning when I stumble across Pome in my Gmail. Up against online shopping alerts, meeting requests, and the other ephemera that makes up adult life, it promises me a moment of reprieve and possibility.
I always allow myself the short minute or two it takes to open the note, read the poem, and sit with it for a second. It's made my mornings feel infinitely less hectic — and infinitely more meaningful.
