I just returned to my room from what was slated as a poetry reading.  I honestly was ready to skip it - poetry, I'm sorry to say, is not my thing.  Dr Helen Kidd is a poetess but she also teaches creative writing at Oxford. It was great.  Not only does she write great poetry that is meaningful to me but she also inspires her students to find the right words.  We worked individually on a list of words and phrases around a central theme and then put the poem together.  It was fun and I learned that maybe poetry isn't all that bad. I was definitely out of my comfort zone but that is good.