Learning a craft …

… 'We Begin in Gladness' delves into how poets teach themselves to write their best - CSMonitor.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In “We Begin in Gladness,” Craig Morgan Teicher assigns himself the task of explaining how poets teach themselves to write their best. His title comes from a couple of lines by William Wordsworth: “We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”