Upcoming events
Though they’re spaced apart, I feel like all these events are happening at once–though that’s probably the events planner in me talking.
Either way, here’s where you can find me (in public), now through June:
Monday, April 8: Literary Firsts
The three-year anniversary of Literary Firsts! I founded this series three years ago and have been so honored to work with such talented, humbling writers. Please be there next week (only five days away!) to help me celebrate the work of every writer who’s read at the series so far, as well as Reyna Clancy, Myfanwy Collins, Chris Marstall, and William Pierce, who will help usher us into our fourth year. It will start at 7pm at Middlesex Lounge. It’s free and open to the public and I would love to see you there.
Friday, April 26: Lorem Ipsum reading
Featuring James Tadd Adcox, Caroline Crew, Robert Kloss, Glen Shaheen, and–me. I was thrilled to have Tadd and Robert read at the AWP Literary Firsts, so I’m even more excited to read with them, as well as with Caroline and Glen, at the always awesome Lorem Ipsum Books. 8pm. Admission is free, but you should definitely buy a book while you’re there. If you do, I’ll give you a hug. (I may hug you anyway.)
Friday and Saturday, May 17-18: “The Daughters” at the Dorchester Fringe FestivalYou may have read my story, “Sacramento: 2006″ in Newfound last year. Or “1964, Berkeley” in Consequence. Or “On Tender Hooks [Seattle, 1931.]” in The Massachusetts Review. Even if you haven’t, you should know that those three stories are related (in more ways than one). They’re sections of a three-part story called “The Daughters,” which involves four generations of guilt, obligation, and war, and I cannot communicate how excited I am to say that Aforementioned will be producing a staged reading of the play adaptation at the very first Dorchester Fringe Festival in May. The cast will include Jennifer O’Connor, Timothy Hoover, Randolph Pfaff, and me, among others. Admission is free and open to the public. I’ll list more information as I have it (like the whens and wheres), but please, please come to this. I’d love to pack whatever space they give us.
Friday, May 31: Release party for Michael Lynch’s Underlife and Portico
I want everyone to read Michael Lynch’s poetry. Michael writes about suburban life in a way that’s both shrewd and reverent. He takes what you already know–what you live everyday–and reveals it through a dangerously lovely interiority. It’s there in his poem, “Lost.” It’s there in each of the opening pieces of his book, Underlife and Portico. I love and believe in this book so steadfastly. That’s why I am going to be at the release party for the second edition of U&P (the permanent edition of the book that we’d been waiting to make since we put out the first edition in 2009). If you are in the Boston area, I want to see you there. I want to put this book in your hands. So please join me at Brookline Booksmith on Friday, May 31, at 7pm when Michael will read with Nicole Terez Dutton and Erica Anzalone and we will celebrate this beautiful book. Admission is free, but you’ll also want the book, which is a steal at $8.
June 14-June 30: Vital
There’s a theatre company in Boston called Whistler in the Dark and if you haven’t seen one of their productions yet, you’re doing yourself a great disservice. I am honored to be part of a collaborative show they’re running in June called Vital, which will combine the work of five local writers into one performance. I had a very difficult decision in attempting to figure out a story to send them, but I chose “Extensions,” (published as an ebook last June by short story impresario, Troy Palmer, at Little Fiction). It’s now out of my hands, but it will soon be in yours–in your hands and eyes and ears. So let me know when you’re going. I’ll sit next to you. It’ll be a tiny party.
