Ode to reading and memorizing poems - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Ode to reading and memorizing poems - The Martha's Vineyard Times

A month before COVID struck, I took a course in writing poetry. I chose poetry for the same reason I might have chosen opera singing or screenprinting: It was a subject I knew nothing about and in which I’d feel no pressure to excel. I read the first week’s assignment. I don’t remember the particular poems we read, but I remember feeling as if I were sinking into a great, comfortable couch, and that I wanted to stay there forever. I wrote my fir…