The Constant State of Catching Up

Running a little close to the wire right now. Had a good time seeing Dave Perez at the Poets' Asylum Sunday, and bopped in to talk to Simone Beaubien and Megan Thoma about NPS Monday at Ralph's. Lovely to see them (and a bit more of Dave), but we weren't able to stick around. Work is piling up, and when it lets up a bit, housework takes over. Indeed, as soon as I bang this note out, dishes and dinner await ...)

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The Podcast of Barbara DeMarco-Barrett's interviews with myself and Air Kissing on Mars author Kim Dowler for Writers on Writing is up. I'd heard much about Dowler's book, but hadn't read it, but she had some interesting things to say, so I'm looking forward to tracking it down. As always, I sound like an incoherent basketcase on the radio.

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On Radius: Poems by Lenore Weiss, Pam Ward and Buff Whitman-Bradley. Also, Jean Macpherson responds to poems by Christie Ann Reynolds, and G. Murray Thomas reopens "The Next ... Files," this time looking at one of the most important pieces of my own poetic life, Jam's Coffeehouse, later known as The Java Garden. Memory lane? Oh, yes.