# How Poetry Helps Me Resist the Algorithm  ## About - Author: Charley Locke - Title: How Poetry Helps Me Resist the Algorithm - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/magazine/morning-ritual-poetry-memorization.html ## Highlights **Most mornings, as** soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone. On a *good* morning, I reach for some paper and a pen instead, turning on the lamp and scooting back against the pillows so I can prop the paper against my blanketed knees. I grab an index card on which I’ve already copied out the poem I’m memorizing, and, looking at my own shaky handwriting, prepare to copy it again. I write it out, three or four times, enough so that I know it by heart. - Note: What a meaningful way to start the day ---