How poems happen

Shafer Hall:     "I can write a poem about anything. There, I said it."

Me:     "please to write a poem about how you found that box of glass eyeballs in a locker and lied and told everybody you were going to put their eyes out so you were stocking up!"

Shafer:     "High School Isn't Harder on Anyone Than the High Schoolers"

Should you be looking...

I'm off to Texas, Monday morning kids. See some of you in Austin from Wednesday.

Here's a list of some of the places I will be during the conference:

Wednesday, March 8 at 7:00 PM at the Superflux reading/party

Thursday, March 9 at 11:00 AM at the Soft Skull bookfair table (#740) with Jen Benka, who will be signing her book

Thursday, March 9 at 3:30 PM at the Soft Skull bookfair table (#740) with Jennifer L. Knox, who will be signing her book

Thursday, March 9 at 7:00 PM at 12th Street books, where Jennifer L. Knox will be reading with Ada Limon

Thursday, March 9 after the reading above, I am so not gonna miss the Unassociated Party

Friday, March 10 at 3:30 PM at the Soft Skull bookfair table (#740) with Danielle Pafunda, who will be signing her book

Friday, March 10 at 9:00 PM at Club DeVille, I will be reading with these awesome peoples:

Friday, March 10 at 9:00 PM
Kitchen Press • LIT • Redivider Party at AWP

With readings by Sarah Bartlett, Adam Clay, Shanna Compton, Emily Gabbert, Matt Henriksen, Reb Livingston, Randall Mann, Sharon McGill, Danielle Pafunda, Zachary Schomburg, Laurel Snyder, Sam Starkweather, Jerome Stuart, Christopher Tonelli, Paul Toutonghi & Joshua Weber

Club DeVille
900 Red River St
Austin, TX 78701

Saturday, March 11 at 10:30 AM I will be modering a panel with these awesome peoples:

Saturday, March 11 at AWP 2006 in Austin, Texas
Associated Writing Programs Conference Panel

Saturday, March 11, 10:30-11:45 AM
DIY Publishing: Chapbooks, Micropresses, Webzines, Collectives, Blogs & More.

Jordan Davis (SubPress Collective and the Hat)
Reb Livingston (No Tell Motel and No Tell Motel Books)
Gary Norris (Burn Denver Down Press)
Felicia Sullivan (Small Spiral Notebook)

Moderated by Shanna Compton
(Soft Skull, Half Empty/Half Full, & DIY Pub Web Ring)

Austin Hilton
Salon B

Saturday, March 11 at 9:00 PM I will already be back in Brooklyn because I screwed up my reservation, but I will be at the No Tell Motel Pajama Party in lingerie-clad spirit.

As with any string of letters...

...it is what you make of it.

Dunno why

Squawkbox comments are offline. I'm getting ready to switch over to a new system anyway, but don't have time to fool with it right now & I don't like Blogger's built-in function.

Hopefully they'll be back up shortly.

Suddenly

I recall a dream in which I was smiling and taking pennies out of my mouth, one at a time.

That's right.

I can't do anything for you that you can't do for yourself.

I've resigned all positions.

However, my luscious pucker is always true.

Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, shoo!

Tom Beckett is an excellent, patient interlocutor..

...even with an overly self-conscious, maddeningly slow, wriggling subject.