Book excerpt: // For five months these poets, meeting at their dinner table, have paused to jot down ruminations, and pondering more deeply have withdrawn to their bedroom to limn their dueling/mutual misunderstandings of the eternal questions of love, coexistence, and bodily presence, while never forgetting to eat dinner, their favorite meal. // "This collaboration opens up what the everyday means to two people in love and what every day can be when opened up to the other. We need this." -Joe Hall, author of The Devotional Poems // "...Dinner Poems forces us to ask: what is collaborative writing as a genre? Moreover, what is the bare minimum at which a genre can function and still be recognized as itself?" -Holly Melgard & Joey Yearous-Algozin, from the Introduction to Dinner Poems // This is the first book in Bon Aire Projects' "Lovers" series.