I wrote my first poem in the fourth grade. My teacher gave us an assignment just before Christmas break. Write an essay on something to do with the season. I wrote a poem entitled Snow. It took all of ten minutes. She had me stay after class and asked me straight out if I had actually written it or if it was from someone else's work. By the time we got back from vacation, she and the music teacher had made it into a song. What's more, they had...