Daily Doses of Art for March 2026
Below is a running list of some of my Daily Doses of Art for March 2026.
Here’s the list for February 2026.
And here’s the list for January 2026.
And here’s everything I’ve recorded since I launched this public accounting of artful encounters.
This is a lovely daily practice (when I do it!) that helps me review or anticipate my day and choose one art encounter to share here. I usually have multiple art encounters each day, but it’s simpler to include one.
March 1: The great quote below is from Toni Morrison’s Beloved is featured in today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment offering, and I read it like three or four times.
“Some things you forget. Other things you never do… Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.”
March 2: The poem “Rain” by Kazim Ali is featured in today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment offering, so I read it because I like it a lot.
March 3: While doing a bunch of laundry and straightening up the house I listened to Waxahatchee.
March 4: Read more of A Mercy by Toni Morrison.
March 5: I read the poem “Jazzonia” by Langston Hughes.
March 6: I looked at a bunch of paintings by Édouard Vuillard online.
March 7: Today’s daily poem from The Paris Review’s daily poem email is “Dog Man” by Lydia Davis, and I read it even though Davis wouldn’t say she’s a poet. She would call “Dog Man” fiction. But it doesn’t really matter. Except it does? Because I’m mentioning the poem vs. fiction thing, and if it didn’t matter I wouldn’t mention it.
March 8: Reg’s Coffeehouse on Birmingham Mountain Radio, as one does.
March 9: Read“How to Be Alone” by Pádraig Ó Tuamawith a class I’m teaching at The Threshold Center. I spoke about this a bit here.
March 10: Looked atthis artthanks toSpiritual Direction for Writers Daily Nourishment.
March 11: Looked atthis art thanks toSpiritual Direction for Writers Daily Nourishment
March 12: More“Transformation” by Adam Zagajewski.
March 13: Attended (and thoroughly enjoyed!) a local children’s theatre production of a Junie B. Jones musical.
March 14: Listened to some Billie Holiday. Again.
March 15: Went to ArtLit with Thank You Books: Tayari Jones at the Birmingham Museum of Art, and it was fantastic. (Also sat with Joan Mitchell’s Bonjour Julie for a while.)
March 16: Finished reading A Mercy by Toni Morrison.
March 17: Sat with two poems by Ashley M. Jones, thanks to the video featured in today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment.
March 18: Read the poem “Spring” by Maura Stanton thanks to today’s SDW Daily Nourishment offering.
March 19: Blasted Queen while driving to an appointment 20 minutes away.
March 20: Watched the Grey Gardens documentary for the first time, about 25 years too late. I kind of knew what it was about, but I wish I’d seen it sooner!
March 21: Watching the Grey Gardens movie that was released in 2009, I think.
March 22: Read two poems by Scott Cairns, thanks to Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment.
March 23: I read “Prayer at Sunrise” by James Weldon Johnson a few times this morning, thanks to today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment offering.
March 24: I looked at Sun-Drenched Farm by John Fabian Carlson a few times today thanks to today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment.
March 25: I reread some of Ninth Street Women because this book is so good.
March 26: I liked this hymn’s words this past Sunday at church so I returned to the hymn today.
March 27: I read this poem by Ashley M. Jones today thanks to today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment.
March 28: I listened to the song “Abbeville” a few times today thanks to today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment offering.
March 29: I joined a Zoom call to discuss A Mercy by Toni Morrison and it was fantastic. And I looked at this Palm Sunday art today.
March 30: I looked at Stations of the Cross art by Allan Rohan Crite.
March 31: I read the poem “Who Shall Deliver Me?” by Christina Rossetti thanks to today’s Spiritual Direction for Writers® Daily Nourishment.