It’s easy to talk about the benefits of poetry when you’ve been a lifelong poetry lover like I have. I don’t even know quite where this love came from, though I am willing to bet that the poetry book my mother read to me regularly — Catch Me & Kiss Me & Say It Again by Clyde Watson, published in 1978 and now long out of print — had something to do with …
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