First, apologies for not yet sending Loretta work for There. My work of late has (surprisingly) not been very location based. I'm glad Dillon will be at PSD, since I'm always glad to see anyone. And since I don't know of any other journeymen/musicians/poets. Ever. Sean is also speaking (on a panel with Chris Stroffolino & someone else I don't know), about adjuncting. I will be sitting in the audiences of things remembering how last year Loretta and Sarah and I and others got very motivated & bubbly at lunch and decided to host house readings. And whenever we're not in the middle of semesters, they've happened. It's a start.

But, alas, my semester has begun. Laurel and I are semester buddies. That is, we have all the same classes. I've had a semester buddy every time at Mills, first Jen Nellis & Jacob, then Jen again, then Keith, and now Laurel. I don't know what this means, but it's grand to have someone with all the same deadlines and stresses as you. But I have text due for by first book on Monday and I wrote and designed it last night. It will need modification because I want to print larger than will fit on the bed of the press, so that needs tweaking, or at least some scissors and glue. But it means that I wrote, new words. I'm getting used to them, settling, and I'll try them out at Wrecks in Progress on Tuesday, but it's much more suited for the layout of the book than for aural listening. I'll be using much more image than I normally do, some acetone transfers and carving a few lino blocks. And some hand stuff on the paper (I'm only making 15).

But, tonight, of course, Sean is reading at New Yipes, so if you check this today, come on out. Also, I'm likely going to Laura Moriarty & Jocelyn Saidenberg's reading on Thursday @ Modern Times.

Rock on.