To have fun with poetry, reading it and writing it -- 

To read poems by famous poets – poems sad and happy, rhymed and unrhymed, long and short, about made-up things and things that really happened, poems that tell stories and poems that paint pictures --

To discover, even if you’ve never written poetry, that you have countless poems inside you waiting to get out, poems about how you feel and what you see and what you’ve experienced and what you imagine --

That a poem is not like a math problem in which you’re either right or wrong – there’s no right or wrong in poetry, merely opportunities to say things in a different way and possibly make a good poem even better –-

To experience the satisfaction of taking a blank sheet of paper and putting your words in an order and a form that, as far as we know, has never been done before by another writer--

To ask a published author any questions you might have about the process of writing poems or stories, about where authors get ideas, about getting poems and stories and books published – and anything else relating to writing!