@vasta I like that model as well. I ran a modified version of that for a local poetry organization. People hadn’t read the poet’s work beforehand, necessarily, but I made room during the reading, in between poems, for questions and conversation, so that the poet often didn’t get through her or his “set list.” It was interesting to see where the conversations about the poems took us, especially when they went off in non-literary directions. That’s hard to do, though, with a standard reading. I’m wondering how to give that kind of control/authority/whatever to a more conventional kind of audience.