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This post from award-winning poet Diane Lockward's blog offers sound advice for poets, hosts, and audience members. Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us and Eve's Red Dress, both from Wind Publications. (Hat tip to The Practicing Writer newsletter for the link.)
Source: http://dianelockward.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-makes-for-good-poetry-reading.html
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