It was great fun to meet so many Sphereans in their physical sphere of influence. Wish I'd met more of you who were there, that just speaks to the sizeable attendance. I had not thought poetry had undone so many.
Thanks to those I did meet for the gracious welcomes to a first-timer. I am on business travel for the next week or so and plan to share photos with Katy -- if I just get the blasted things downloaded.
The Menashe reading was a highpoint for me. I had bought his CD from poetryarchive.co.uk (wide selection and great prices there, btw) and been listening to it over an iPod as I cut the grass (short poems, small lawn), so when I overheard him talking with Gioia and Yezzi in the lounge, I disrupted their conversation with "Hey, I mow the lawn to your poems." Don't think Yezzi was impressed. Anyway, go get the CD, folks; superb reader.
Cheers,
BobB
PS to All and especially the "corrigible" Hodge: Will harvest the quatrains in Drills and Amusements shortly.
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