At first glance, it may seem like dyslexia and poetry just don’t mix! But if we pull back the curtain, we reveal that poetry offers many gifts to a dyslexic reader-to-be. Poetry, shall I compare thee to a summer’s day prose? Before history (or the stories about what happened in a community) was recorded in writing, it was preserved orally. Oral history is done best through poems! Why? The devices poetry employs lend to memorization, and before writing, storytellers had to remember stories somehow. The Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as other ancient civilizations’ oldest stories, were spoken and…