Great Regulars: By library, by bookshelf or by bookstore,

I call on you to get yourself a book of poems and commit to one poem a week at night just before you drop off. If youth is wasted on the young, let's not waste poetry on the young, too. Reading poetry is a non-electronic, Y1K pastime that'll transport you to that childhood pleasure--transport you, that is, in the full universe of your adult experience--where you can revel in the great questions of humanity such Ogden Nash's why the "Lord in His wisdom made the fly/And then forgot to tell us why."

Stately Verse

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Childhood's bedtime ritual of poetry reading overdue for adulthood revival

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