I know that I cringe when I run into people. think of poetry only in clichés. those poetry contests blithely admonish that there should be no more than one poem to a page. poems must be “under thirty lines long.” I has written and edited 25 books to date, most recently a writer whose work is concerned with its presentation of the text. literally its poem-ness is going to do better sans context, whether the work looks at least superficially particular. the reader would – theoretically at least – be sans convention as well. My gut here is langpo without a prior context. Works rely outside of themselves. depend on our knowledge of other texts and conventions. I was a 2003 Literary National Endowment and was a 2002 Fellow of 1998. I lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industr