Attend a poetry reading

Write an original poem

Write haiku poetry

Write collection of original poems

Pilgrims to Becket's shrine tell stories to pass the road; the Miller's is the rude one.

Whitman's "Song of Myself" and the free verse he kept expanding for forty years.

A bored dandy rejects Tatyana and regrets it; Pushkin's novel in verse.

A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems for a week; Jarmusch's gentlest film.

The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.