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					by  Conor  O'Callaghan 			





	
	

				
Dear Editor,


I really loved A.E. Stallings’s tour of the graves of poets in Athens [“Austerity Measures,” September 2012]. A gorgeous piece. With your use of the inside front cover to feature poems of recently 
deceased former contributors to Poetry, who could forget that we are all grave-bound? But it was good of  Stallings to remind us all the same.


That said, I did take great heart from the blankness of the inside covers of the September issue. (Am I the only poet who gets the 
willies from that particular feature?) I can only assume none of us had died in the interim, myself included.
			


	

		Originally Published: February 1, 2013	


	
		
		

	
		

			
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Conor O’Callaghan is an Irish poet who teaches at Wake Forest University and Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. His most recent collection is Fiction (Wake Forest University Press, 2005).

							
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