This chat is designed to be an open forum for sharing the poetry that influenced you the most. Of course, personal poetry is always welcome here as well. This next week I will be sharing work of one of my favorite relatively unknown poets, Ai. She taught at Arizona State for many years and won the Guggenheim fellowship as well as many other awards. Her honesty is striking and she spanned the gap from naturalist poetry to completely surreallistic poetry with an almost unnatural ease. I will be sharing my favorites of her work and I urge our members to bring examples of their favorite poems as well. I hope to see you all there!

Ron
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