Poetry Please is 30 Years Old!

As I grow reluctantly older, I find myself drawn more and more into the world that I unwittingly abandoned so many years ago - poetry. I do read a lot of it, both classical and modern, but I just never feel right about the way I "consume" it. I feel like I am doing it a disservice. I feel that my rudimentary skills at scanning and voicing it are so far away from being even remotely acceptable. It has been about 6 mos since I discovered this wonderful radio show, and it turns out it is quite a phenomenon in Britain (of all the countries!). When I get to a complete rehash of my website, there will be a separate section just for poetry - the art of strumming our brain's inner rhythmic strings overwhelming it with raw emotion while sedating its intellectual zeal. The (proper) opium of the (proper) masses...