AWP, The Poetic Morning After

Ok, nobody else has started this thread yet, and I'm sure there are many folks out there dying to weigh in, so I'll bite: How was Y'all's AWP, from a poetry perspective, that is: favorite panels? readings? moments?

Affrilachian Poets Reading, Chicago Art Institute, Associated Writing Programs 2009 Annual Convention. Photo by Stephanie Pruitt-Gaines

For starters, I loved the Wednesday evening group press poetry reading at Roosevelt University organized by Ravi Shankar, which balanced translation so well with writing in English; the Poetic Dialogue exhibit of poetry/art collaboration at the Chicago Cultural Center; my own Multiformalisms panel, with Hank Lazer, K. Silem Mohammed, and Susan Schultz, which, until the last five minutes, was not contentious at all in spite of what people are saying; watching the poets (I figure they were poets, from the original and heedless ways they arrayed themselves) draped and perched each day with their notebooks and programs all over the lush carpeting of the Hilton lobby around the piano; and hearing rhapsodic accounts of the mega Gwendolyn Brooks tribute with Lucille Clifton, Michael Harper, and Major Jackson. . So now it's your turn...