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“There are too few poetry forums. After poets strive and writhe, eating their blood when necessary, to make shapes of collections of words, to make magic, there should be ways for them to reach ears as well as eyes. There should be platforms eager to receive them. And so we thank and appreciate Pittsburgh’s International Poetry Forum.”