How old were you when you read your first poem? What was the name of the poem and poet?
My mother says one of my favorite books in preschool years was Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, so I imagine that and other rhyming texts were my introduction to the magic of poetry. The first poem I remember reading and memorizing was High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. I first read it in a middle school English textbook; it had an illustration of a bird flying against the sun--the poem and the tragic fate of the poet made an immense impression on me.