[New-Poetry] West Chester Conference

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Posted  on Fri, Jun. 08, 2007 
For serious poets, the lines form hereWest Chester  conference shows their 
passion.
By Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff  Writer
 

The event is not so much a conference as a summit - a gathering of some  of 
the best in American letters, a meeting of the most accomplished and  
influential people you've never heard of. Kay Ryan? Dana Gioia? Rock stars. At  least 
here.
 
The four-day event, which concludes tomorrow and is a major occasion on the  
literary calendar, is known for its intellectual rigor and ability to shape  
conversation about poetry. Here, budding poets pay to be schooled in 
traditional  elements of their calling - to learn the nature of narrative, the reason of 
 rhyme.




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