16 NOV 06
Today and Tomorrow
This afternoon, Max & I are driving west & south to Philadelphia. I'll be reading at the Kelly Writers House on the Penn campus, 3508 Locust Walk, at 6 pm--the second installment of the Emergency Reading Series. I'm reading first, followed by Jason Zuzga and Noah Eli Gordon. There will be some form of discussion or Q&A following the reading--something I haven't done before. Curious to see what we can get up to.
Jason Zuzga is a PhD student in English at the University of Pennsylvania and he is the nonfiction editor of FENCE magazine. He was the 2005-2006 James Merrill Poet-in-Residence in Stonington, CT, and a 2001-2002 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow.
Noah Eli Gordon will have two books out in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series) and A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues, winner of the Green Rose Prize). He is the author of the book-length poem The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), a collection of three long poems The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Sawtooth Prize). Ugly Duckling Presse recently published That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn. He teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Then on Friday (17 November) I'll take trains north & southeast to Brooklyn, to read with Janet Holmes and Justin Marks in the MiPo Reading Series, hosted by Amy King (with Shanna Compton acting as a special co-host for the evening). 7 pm at the Stain Bar, 766 Grand St. (the L train to Grand, 1 block west).
Justin Marks is the editor of LIT magazine. His chapbook You Being You by Proxy is out on Kitchen Press. His full length manuscript Twenty Five Hours in Iceland and Other Poems was a finalist for the 2006 May Swenson Poetry Award. He lives in New York City.
Janet Holmes is the author of 4 books of poetry, The Physicist at the Mall (Anhinga, 1994), The Green Tuxedo (Notre Dame, 1998), Humanophone (Notre Dame, 2001), and, just out, F2F (also from Notre Dame). She is the director of Ahsahta Press, an all-poetry publishing house at Boise State University, where she has taught in the MFA program since 1999.
Ahsahta Press? Yes, Janet is my editor. You knew that. Her hand, which I have yet to shake, plucked my manuscript from the open submission pile. I am looking forward to meeting her! and to sitting with her somewhere in real time with a map, to work out details of the book tour we'll be doing together in the year ahead.
So far, nothing special planned for Saturday. Back to work?
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