Later today, once we are all packed and our work projects are complete, we'll start our long drive to Boston. It's my first AWP (Association of Writers & Writers Programs) Conference since Denver in 2010. It's also my first AWP where I'll have the great pleasure of being accompanied by my man. I keep trying to warn him, but he has no idea what he's in for. I'm posting my schedule here for 3 reasons. 1. For my mother so she can see all the things that I'm doing--this way when I call her exhausted later at the beginning of next week, she'll understand. 2. For those of you who are coming to Boston and would like to meet up with me, here's where I'll be, please come. 3. So that I can view my blog on my phone and see my schedule in case I forget where I have to be while lounging too long with bloody mary's in some Boston bar with the people I love. Okay, here it goes!
Ada’s AWP Events
Wednesday: Bob’s house to drop off
dog.
Thursday:
check in to conference
Milkweed Editions Party 5:30-7:30pm
(convention center, they serve manhattans)
Sheraton, unconfirmed room as of now.
Offsite Event: New America Anthology
Date: Thursday, March 7
Time: 8PM
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square
With: Connie Clegg Hales
John Hodgen
Burt Kimmelman
Ada Limón
Sheryl St. Germain
Evie Shockley
Hal Sirowitz
Patricia Smith
James Tolan
Sandy Tseng
Estha Weiner
Friday:
Event: FAWC keeping it real
Date: Friday, March 8
Time: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Location: Room 201
With:
Mark Wunderlich
Daisy Fried
A.J. Verdelle
Jill McDonough
Event: Book
Fair Signing, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip
Levine
Date:
Friday, March 8
Time: 12-1pm
Location: at the University of Iowa Press tables (E1 and E2) at the AWP
Bookfair
Event: Teaching (and Learning!) with First Books of Poetry
Date: Friday, March 8
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Location: Room 201, Hynes Convention Center
Event: Reading Gulf Coast/Bat City Review
Date:
Friday, March 8
Time:
8:30pm
Location: David Friend Recital Hall
With:
Jeffrey McDaniel
Ada Limón
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Jamaal May
Matt Hart
Darcie Dennigan
Timothy Donnelly
Saturday:
Event
Title: Against Veils -- A Tribute to Alan
Dugan
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Location: Room 202, Hynes Convention Center
(Reading Love Song I & Thou)
With:
“Love Song: I and Thou”
Ada Limón
“Elegy”
John Skoyles
“On a Seven-Day Diary”
Gail Mazur
“Last Statement For a Last Oracle”
David Wojahn
“Note: The Sea Grinds Things Up”
Michael Morse
“Takeoff on Armageddon
—For Ronald Reagan”
Nick Flynn
“On a Desolation of the Animals at Night”
Adrienne Su
“Suburban
Ada Limón
“On Flowers. On Negative Evolution”
Matthew Lippman
“On a Desolation of the Animals at
Night”
Adrienne Su
“Suburban Exorcism”
David Rivard
“Spring Song for Symplocarpus
Foetida and Me”
Jill McDonough
“On a Myth. On a Conventional Wisdom”
Victoria Redel
“In Favor of a Free Public Library
System”
Michael Collier
“Closing Time at the Second Avenue
Deli”
Alan Dugan
Event: PBQ at 40, An Anniversary Reading
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Location: Room 309, Hynes Convention Center
With:
Jason Schneiderman
Gregory Pardlo
Keetje Kuipers
Leave Boston.
From what I recall, the writers' conference went something like this....
