A friend of mine's been encouraging me to get into poetry. I can't recall ever having been into it before. I own a copy of the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe so I've read a few of his but mostly skipped over the poetry section to get to the good stuff, his short stories. I once won an Android tablet in a poetry reading competition, but I don't remember the poem I read. It might've been by Sun Tzu. I've also been subjected to whatever "slam poetry" is. 

Since reading poetry is something I hardl...