There is a rumor going around that some people attend poetry
readings just for the cookies.
We're going to have the cookies after our next reader.
Take a break, and then come back for the other two.
Now if I catch you going out that door, you're in trouble.
We also have books for sale tonight.
We are sorry that not all the books came in in time.
So we don't have a representative of all the poets
who are reading tonight and tomorrow night.
Our next reader is Ross Talarico.
He's published three collections of poetry.
Most recently, his book coming out next month,
Trying to Leave, Simple Truths and Snow Fires.
His work is in Contemporary American Poetry,
The Artist's Anthology of New American Poetry,
and various poetry magazines.
He's an English faculty at Loyola University,
in Chicago, Ross Talarico.
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