So I was part of a poetry reading tonight, and it went okay. I'd hoped to have a chance to revise some new stuff to make it readable, and that didn't happen, so I ended up reading slightly older stuff, including a poem that I initially wrote in praise of jerusalem artichokes (although it ended up going somewhere a bit different later on, and is not ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got an e-mail from someone (an intern, probably) at the little press that's publishing some of my poems next year. She explained that the press is putting together a catalogue of their titles, including forthcoming ones, and she'd like my suggestions for "two or three sentences" about the chapbook, as well as a short bio ( Read more... )