just another heads-up
I’m on a panel re: the future of poetry at the Twin Cities Book Festival next Saturday morning Oct 10. Also on that panel: Joyelle McSweeney, Ed Bok Lee, Elizabeth Robinson (who has a new book now), Matvei Yankelevich and Alexs Pate.
Also at the festival: Nicholson Baker, Robert Olen Butler, and Lorrie Moore!
I’ll be conversing with Donald Revell in public at the Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas Thursday Oct. 15; he will read some of his poems. I might read some of mine. I’ve been reading his new book of poems. It’s stunningly good. Sometimes it reminds me of this older book of poems.
I describe D. A. Powell in last week’s London Review of Books, also known as “this week’s” if you live in North America and prefer print to screen (alas, the screen version requires a subscriber login).
According to the Current, it’s 48 degrees and about to rain in downtown St. Paul. Why couldn’t the Book Festival take place, not in October, but rather during the State Fair? (We miss the State Fair. We like it here, but we do miss the State Fair.)
I hope soon to report on some of the best things I’ve been reading, especially those I won’t get to write on elsewhere: I just got (hurray!) a new chapbook from Allan Peterson, and am waiting on others (reviewed, by the way, in the new print issue of Rain Taxi from Jordan Davis and perhaps Mathias Svalina. Things to read, surely, as soon as we’re done watching the playoffs.
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