On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ↗
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗