(Al Filreis) I'm Al Filreis and this is PoemTalk at the Writers House,
where I have the pleasure of convening
three friends in the world of contemporary poetry and poetics,
to collaborate on a "close but not too close" reading of a poem.
We'll talk, maybe we'll disagree a bit and perhaps open up the verse to a few new possibilities
and we hope, gain for a poem that interests us, some new readers and listeners.
And I say "listeners", because PoemTalk poems are available
in recordings made by the poets themselves as part of our PennSound archive.
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound .
Today, I'm joined here in Philadelphia in our third-floor garret studio
of this 1851 cottage called the KellyvWriters House, by:
Frank Sherlock, author of Over Here (check), Factor School, 2009,
a new book, and co-author of Ready to Eat Individual, Lavender 2008,
and other books,
whose duet with C.A. Conrad, entitled The City Real and Imagined
(inaudible) a few poems is due out in the Fall of 2009. (1:04)
And my friend Ryan