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Building on an original concept by poet and anthropologist Yuyi Chen, and inspired by the writings of Sylvia Jones and Cait O’Kane, this panel explores the urban influence of cities within New York State, as well as more widely in each poet’s life, upon the poetry of Joe Hall, Thom Eichelberger-Young, and Ry Cook. The hope is to produce a potential template for wider incorporation of urban attention within poetic practice, no matter the geographical realm of domicile, though we simultaneously acknowledge the limitations in scope are by no means comprehensive or universal. The roundtable features readings and explorations of each poet’s recently published works (from Cloak, Black Ocean, and Choo Choo) from a craft oriented perspective (with attention to the many poets attending the festival), attuned to their lives in Buffalo and New York City, as well as an introductory “surrogate” invocation of Chen and O’Kane conducted by the panelists.