“I didn’t know poetry could be “taught,” instead thinking, I suppose, that poems dropped fully formed from Mount Olympus. I had never really read poetry before that–only poems for children, most trying to inspire good Catholic behavior. These poems were a revelation. They surprised me because they weren’t decorous or polite.” - Beth Ann Fennelly on why she still loves the tattered copy of Laurence Perrine’s “Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry” that she has owned since her freshman year of high school.

Asking folks about a single book that mattered has been one of the most illuminating projects I’ve taken on lately. Each little is a glimpse not only into a book but the person at a time in their life. Click to read more: elizabethmarro.substack…