After much experimentation we discovered that the most effective means of involvement for students is to proceed as follows: a group of three or four students, text in hand, select any poem. Read it over casually. Then, clockwise, take it one sentence for each person and record and play it back at once. Discuss and play back. Up to this point more than fifteen minutes should elapse. Then tackle another poem in the same way at once. Then another. By the time three poems have been done, the group is cohesive and enthralled in a quite magical way. The young people who have shown no interest in poetry until that moment are suddenly most interested in poetry and want to go on and on. The ages of the group can range from ten upwards. This process seems to have some of the character of progressive jazz, or, as Eric puts it, “it creates a group awareness of structures rather than semantics.”