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Letters from AWP: Re-Entry Is Hard

AWP 2019 is done.  The tweets tell the tales, from , to many pictures of , to the surest evidence that a literary conference has just taken place: .  There are also, of course, many photos of many people’s , books .  I search these photos for evidence that someone has purchased my books and find none.  But the sort of reader that buys my books doesn’t take pictures, I’m sure. “My hope is vague,” as Richard Hugo wrote,

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