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Anyone who has curated a series or is thinking about it should take a look at the cautionary words in Brian Kim Stefan's "A Poem for Tyros" in his new book What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers -- "I try to shave at least in the week prior to the reading -- / I have just completed a two-month run as the 'curator,' / -- even approached mastery of the social rules such that such a challenge could / even be humored past the first move, / in fact."