Hmm …

… Amid some well-articulated dismay, West Chester Poetry Conference gets a new director - Philly. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In her Oct. 16 message, Bacon said that working from far away, as Gwynn had done, was “not ideal” and that West Chester would now search for someone “local-ish.” 

But it was never intended to be merely “local-ish.” It was, from the start, “international-ish.”