The event has attracted poets of all ages, continents and literary stature -- from Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) to Poet Laureates Kay Ryan (U.S.) to Bill Manhire (New Zealand).

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This month, the main event is an attempt to showcase every poetry book published in the U.S. in the past year, from tiny letterpress chapbooks and poetry baseball cards (laminated cards with pics of contemporary poets and a poem on the back) to poetic CDs and hefty volumes by poet laureates.

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