Introduction / Sharon Bryan & William Olsen -- In the music room / Robin Behn -- Required reading / J.D. McClatchy -- Reading poetry / Jacqueline Osherow -- First principle / Albert Goldbarth -- Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world / Mary Ruefle -- Another, and another before that : some thoughts on reading / Carl Phillips -- One life, one writing : the middle generation / Edward Hirsch -- Shadow life / Eavan Boland -- Reading autumn / Stanley Plumly -- Caveat lector / J. Allyn Rosser -- Prosody & reciprocity (on reading) / Marvin Bell -- The cattle raid / Campbell McGrath -- Poetry and murder / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Reading list for American poets of the new millenium / Garrett Hongo -- Read me a riddle : the light and darkness of poetic form / Linda Gregerson -- Perverse reading / Mark Halliday -- A loose net : some meditative poets / Richard Lyons -- The compass of association / Cynthia MacDonald -- A few cells in the great hive / Reginald Gibbons -- Reading : preparing the mind for possibilities & the soul for tenderness / Stephen Dunn -- My road to Xanadu : a personal topography / Madeline Defrees -- Dancing as if free : reading, imitation, and influence / Richard Jackson -- Peripheral vision / Maxine Kumin -- From the valley of saying / David Wojahn -- Young poets, please read everything / Adam Zagajewski.
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