the last (this time i mean it) awp denver roundup

At the table I was manning, an acquaintance came up to congratulate me on my novel. I thanked him and when he walked away, I thought, what novel? Am I wearing a scarf and writing a novel that I don’t know about?
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Meeting Patricia Smith was cool...
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How We Lost Our AWP Virginity
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This is basically a convention where writers go to network, buy more books than they can afford, stalk well-known poets, size each other up...
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Finally got smart and spent more time in the bookfair and in readings than I did in the panels.
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LOTS of poets.
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I liked the human beings at Indiana Review
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Anyone will tell you that the book fair was the main attraction at AWP with hundreds of lit mags, all of them practically throwing copies at you...
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