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(Al Filreis) I'm Al Filreis and this is PoemTalk at the Writers House,

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where I have the pleasure of convening

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three friends in the world of contemporary poetry and poetics,

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to collaborate on a "close but not too close" reading of a poem.

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We'll talk, maybe we'll disagree a bit and perhaps open up the verse to a few new possibilities

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and we hope, gain for a poem that interests us, some new readers and listeners.

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And I say "listeners", because PoemTalk poems are available

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in recordings made by the poets themselves as part of our PennSound archive.

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writing.upenn.edu/pennsound .

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Today, I'm joined here in Philadelphia in our third-floor garret studio

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of this 1851 cottage called the KellyvWriters House, by:

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Frank Sherlock, author of Over Here (check), Factor School, 2009,

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a new book, and co-author of Ready to Eat Individual, Lavender 2008,

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and other books,

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whose duet with C.A. Conrad, entitled The City Real and Imagined

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(inaudible) a few poems is due out in the Fall of 2009. (1:04)

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And my friend Ryan