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Hey @sparrowhawke , thanks for keeping this conversation going. I’d rather hear from an amateur (someone who does something for the love of it) than a professional any day of the week. One of my favorite contemporary poets is an amateur. So if you’ve got any insights, I’d love to hear them.

I really enjoy the works of Billy Collins, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Ted Kooser, Joy Harjo, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Simic, Roise Curran, etc. And in the Bible, I can’t get enough of the last few passages in Job where God throws down some serious poetry with Job or John 1 where John perfectly sums up the Gospel in just a few poetic sentences.

Here’s something I like to ask students whenever I do readings at college campuses: what has your experience with poetry been like? Did you first learn about it in school? Was it frustrating or enjoyable for you? Why did (or didn’t) you dig deeper into it and keep up with it?