was AMAZING. i almost started crying during the last poem, i was so moved by the energy in the room.

x to the o to you.

in the last 2 weeks i have tied loose ends, deepened friendships, or otherwise made peace with the following people and places (in more or less chronological order):

My sister (some peace made)
projectile23
Nat Broekman
ledraymore
Kate Brandt
slouchtobethlhm
Hampshire College
Kit Wallach
Simone Beaubien
Barbara Adler
sjoraBilly Tuggle ( Read more... )

1. i miss my city. bad.

2. i miss my girlfriend. worse.

3. i was thrown out of my elementary school again this week. son of a bitch. first time, understandable: it was public school vacation week, and whereas one janitor felt it was okay to let me in, another didn't and firmly escorted me out. this time, patronizing: secretary asked me if i had ( Read more... )

i'm parked in front of the house of someone in the poems. and stealing internet from them or their neighbor.

Got Poetry was a HOT show. it was an honor. they let me read the whole book. that's 39 poems, about 45 minutes.

Cantab was great. Barbara Adler is just amazing.

be home soon.

it's been a very, very strange, very, very exhausting week, dear reader. somewhere in here the following bulletins have caught up with me ( Read more... )

sometimes, as i think geminipoet said about Martín Espada visiting Acentos last year, you must lay down your pretensions and submit to the knowledge that there are indeed masters of what we do, and that we are not always among them. tonight was a very special Cantab feature by Patricia Smith ( Read more... )

the deeper i get into my notes the more i need something that will let me cross-reference my notes, and by cross-referencing, i mean allow me to consider the various categories that certain facts fit in, because there's rarely only one. using individual text documents hasn't been working.

( don't read if you haven't read Freshwater Dredge yet )

but so exhausting. i fear this may take me several years. i fear this because i suspect i will have to become an expert on the town's history, which involves knowing information about a lot of places i just don't already know or care about. hm. i guess that's the way of making something bigger than yourself ( Read more... )

i leave this place for another place today. i leave in approximately 45 minutes. after that other place, i go to still another place, and then yet another place, where i will find myself in the very nexus of my personal history ( Read more... )

the following must be done by Friday:

• NorAZ book designed.
• 75 Freshwater Dredges boxed and packed/mailed to myself.
• Taxes mailed (so finished last night...).
• Give slomosexual his present. And a big hug.
• Something eaten.
• Ads and envelopes picked up from printer.
• Finding new printer considered.
• Backorders of Dredge sent ( Read more... )