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11/05/12 11:18

Jesse Millner read his poetry at Books & Books Friday night, before a small group of friends and others. After his signing, a few of us looked for a table in the courtyard, which was a lot more crowded than the reading had been. In the battle between food and poetry (even free verse), food will almost always win.

When we were finally seated, Michael, who is also a poet, asked Jesse how many books he'd sold. Jesse answered by holding up one hand, palm facing outward. Then he told of a reading he once did to which no one came. To try to make the poets feel better, I told of the time that I drove to Tampa and read for a group of six, two of whom had cell phones that went off during the reading. Michael upped the ante by saying that he once went to a bookstore that was going out of business and all of the shelves were empty save for those in the poetry section, which looked, he said, as if they hadn't been touched.

During our conversation, waitresses passed on their way to neighboring tables, all the while ignoring ours. "We're in the poetry section," Lyn said.

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