This year I'm taking another poetry class at UTSA. I've taken a few through the years but recently most of my courses have been focused on prose literature. I've never been good at poetry, but I love it. To me, poetry is a celebration of words. It's a chance to manipulate language to tell a story in a way prose cannot. The value of reading isn't just in the story, what lesson or point that's obviously being made, but how we can interpret and analyze what we read. There are so