Only the educated are free.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never complain and never explain.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.