How did you first engage with poetry?
As a boy, I went to church services at least three times per week. Our songs were sung in a cappella, so everyone had the song book out and was reading all the verses while singing. So I spent a lot of time with lyrics before I was exposed to poetry. And then there was the Book of Psalms, etc., all of the Old and New Testaments in the weird music of the King James Version. I was exposed to poetry at school but nothing really clicked until we got to Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. Then, soon after, we read aloud "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in class and I thought "This is even better than going to the movies.”
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