I Don't Like Poetry, I'm Not a Poetry Person

Every time I hear someone say I don't like poetry, or I'm not a poetry person, I think the opposite is true. I believe everyone is a poetry person. Poetry is just a form of storytelling, and we're born to tell stories. A few weeks ago at Bistro de l'Arte in Brașov, Romania, I was rearranging the order of my manuscript, yet again, when a little girl wandered over to me, looked at my laptop screen, and rested her chin on my table. I asked her in Romanian if she knew poetry. Yes, yes, she said, I ...