Yes! Same place, different reading depending on the author?

I used to be part of a book club, and one month we were reading a book of poetry by a local poet. I didn't make that month's meeting, but I'm told that the poet got invited by the person who had picked the book, which was unfortunate, because none of the rest of the group liked it, so it was less a discussion that the poet got anything out of, and was more an exercise in tact.