I hate to poke you like a speciman in my lab, but when and where do you read poetry? In the evening do you read for hours or is it something you read on occassion while waiting for the microwave to buzz?
One of the benefits of working 9-5 at a company that makes a million dollars a day is that I have my weekends free. So I bike to Fresh Pond[1], to the Arboretum[2], or elsewhere, and read. It's like meditation, and it improves your vocabulary.
Sounds romantic. As an undergrad I set out to read Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian one summer. What could be a better use of a summer -- and I'd learn Italian at the same time. To this day I still haven't read it, nor do I know Italian.
And oddly it does please me to know that there are people reading poetry simply for pleasure.
You may want to give it a shot now. I'm translating one of my favorite Jules Verne novels from French to English using vim and google translate (http://voyagesextraordinaires.tumblr.com/ if anyone cares). The machine does a fairly crap translation and I then puzzle over the French until I figure out what it means.