“Read Write Poem seems like a poetry community in that larger poetry world, no? Like a coffee shop in the piazza where you know you’ll run into your friends. If anything, the ethos appears to be that all are welcome & all are priests (or, poets) too. I suppose that’s empowering — & all to the good. I’m for it!”
So said David Biespiel, among other things, to Local Reading: Portland in a recent interview.


