The name originated with disarming informality one day when our hostess in the last minute rush to get out the tea things put a sign on the door Poets Walk In Since then our meetings as well as we ourselves have been gaily dubbed "The Poets." After several months of reading poetry together we found ourselves writing poetry and bringing it, albeit timidly, to the group. I do not remember how this came about; it seemed inevitable. One day early in this new phase a member brought a scrapbook in which she had mounted, over the years, poems she had written in times of deep feeling. Of them she said, quoting from Emily Dickinson, "I felt a palsy, here, the verses just relieve," and she read us even some of the most intimate of them. Such openings into the hearts of one after another of our members have been an important element in a creative association which has been both a delight and a therapeutic. Sometimes it comes as a shock to discover that other people who look so serene have eruptive joys and sorrows similar to one's own. Especially are those who have little opportunity to associate closely with others prone to think they are the only ones who have difficulties to surmount.