Honestly? I wasn't sure about poetry either. April is National Poetry Month, which makes it a good time to ask: when did you last read a poem? If you've ever felt like poetry was somehow not for you — too dense, too obscure, too much like homework — you're in very good company. Many of us leave school with the vague impression that poems are puzzles to be solved, and that we probably don't have the right tools. But here's something worth knowing: poetry is also song lyrics. I