The first poetry club meeting will be Wednesday, September 9th at 7:45 a.m. in Ms. Davis’s Room, B103. Everyone is welcome! This club is for anyone who enjoys reading, writing, or simply talking about poetry.

“Introduction to Poetry”

by Billy Collins B. 1941

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.