Poetry

Let's begin our discussion of poetry with some experiences you've had with poetry. Tell us about an encounter with a poem--good or bad.

I'll begin. I see my relationship with my wife bracketed by two poems that I wrote for her. The first, when we were college students, was probably the result of reading way too much Shakespeare and drinking way too much wine. In other words, I thought just enough of myself to think I could write a good poem. And one rarely writes poems to one's teammates, so I wrote to my girlfriend. Thirteen years later --and a few other poems in between--I wrote this poem for her for Christmas when we found out we were going to have a baby. Both poems can be found in the Dana College Sower.