I've Landed!

In San Francisco, a brief stop off before Hawaii. Ah, this is the life.

Oh. And now. I'm one year older.

I miss you, blog.

You're so nice and warm and you always smell like lemons.

Speaking in Public

Scared. Of. It.

I've been asked to blog for the Poetry Foundation. Gulp. Check it out if you want..and make comments if you'd like.

Poetry Foundation Harriet

Go.

2020 VISIONS: DAVID FLOYD, ABRAHAM SMITH, AND BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON
March 14 – 6:30 PM

David Floyd is a former Charles D. Berwind Foundation scholar and a 2000 Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets fellowship recipient. His poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Born Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Xconnect, as well as other literary periodicals and anthologies. His first full-length collection, The Sudden Architecture of the Dark (CustomWords, 2006) was a finalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Floyd has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in creative writing and literature and is currently a visiting assistant professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University.

Abraham Smith’s first book, Whim Man Mammon, is published by Action Books (Notre Dame University, 2008). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Fence, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Typo, APR, and Northwest Review, among others. He was a 2004-2005 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Smith teaches English and creative writing at the University of Alabama.

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, both from Random House. In 2006 he received a National Book Award honor for emerging writers. Johnston is director of creative writing at Harvard University.

New Poems. Thanks Octopus 10.

New Poems in Octopus 10

Thanks music. Man that was fun.

Unveiling of Sonny & Gwen Tonight at Pete's Candy Store

(pic was here)

Apparently, this show is not top secret any more. It's our first official gig as just the two of us (Mark Evces & I) and well, we're just going to have a lot of fun.

Learn more about Mark (who is Jennifer L. Knox's cousin) as she blogs this week for Best American Poetry.

For Pete's Sake

That was fun. Thanks to all who came out. It was nice to be back at the old stomping grounds. Melissa and Rebecca read beautiful poems and Sommer in the loveliest host. I read a poem that I had never read aloud, in fact, I had never even shown it to anyone. So, that was interesting. Great crowd. Wow, even in a snow storm. Beautiful.

The kind of night that happens once every four years.

I'll be back at Pete's soon making some music with a friend, but I think for now, that's top secret.

So don't tell anyone.