Teaching in Port Townsend today and tomorrow

I'm teaching an afternoon class on haiku and haibun (with a little bit of Miyazaki in there for good measure) at the Port Townsend Writer's Conference today from 2 PM to 3:30 PM at and another class tomorrow at the same time on poetry manuscript organization. Should be fun! And I have handout!

Getting up here was a bit of a nail-biter - an hour-long wait at the ferry, and then being the last car to get on - and then the B&B we were supposed to stay at that I'd made reservations months ago at didn't work out, so we had to pack up again, get on the internet only to find everything booked up, and ended up having to stay at a Holiday Inn an hour a way last night and a similar place an hour a way in the opposite direction tonight. Not exactly convenient.

But on the plus side, I got to see Kim Addonizio and say hi to some old friends, including Erin Belieu and Dana Levin (superpoets!) And I saw one deer, one very large otter, a beautiful sunset  and other various wildlife. Yay for Port Townsend. Wish me a little more luck with my lodgings tonight...