This is a recording of an Imagined Spaces Reading Group discussing Diane Seuss' Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025). The group focused primarily (though not exclusively) on five specific poems in the collection: "My Education", "Romantic Poetry", "Poetry", "Against Poetry" and "Bluish". Some of the areas of concern in the discussion ranged over the difficulty (or not) of reading poetry; the humour in Seuss' work, the tension in the collection between an autodidactic "cobbled" together intellect vs a poet steeped in literary traditions (qualities that also apply to readers); the rhetorical, prose-like quality of the verse; the poem's sonic qualities; the use of line breaks and how that affects how readers read; and the role of persona and voice in the collection.