What would you expect to find at a poetry brothel? What would you expect to pay? If $15 sounds like a good deal then you might want to head to New York and talk to the Poetry Madam. Because that’s a damn good deal. I once paid $20 for a “special massage” but that was in South Korea in the mid-1980s. With inflation and all, I think $15 is a great deal. But then I haven’t been checking market prices for one-on-one poetry readings.