According to popular sentiment, poets live in ivory towers where, far from the hoi poloi, they can shoehorn words like "hippogriff" and "hokum" into obtuse, inaccessible forms. Of course, this is nonsense (not to mention offensive). Tonight, four wordsmiths firmly root their craft in everyday concerns: 100% of raffle-raised dollars and half of the evening's book-sale profits benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The public-spirited function also celebrates the release of Word of Mouth curator/host Meghan Punschke's first volume of poems, Stratification. Amy King, Crotian expat Ana Božičević, and Best American Poetry series editor David Lehman round out the formidable bill.
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