My Reading Schedule: April/May 2010
I hit the road starting April 7th for a spin through Colorado and the Pacific Northwest to do some reading in support of my two books, Boys Whistling like Canaries (EWU Press) and The Circle Line (The Backwaters Press). If you are in the area of any of these readings, I hope I get to see you. I am listing the dates and times below, though I will have to update the specific location (which building on campus etc.) for a couple of the readings later. Stay tuned, in other words. Times below may also be updated later, but mark off the day in your calendars now!
Friday April 9th – Book signing at the AWP Conference in Denver for EWU Press at the Willow Springs table in the Book Fair at 4:00PM.
Tuesday April 13th – Reading at the University of Colorado in Boulder at 7:00PM, location to be announced. Thin air poetry!
April 15-17 – GetLit! Festival in Spokane, WA. Several events, including a poetry salon reading at 9PM on April 16th at the Hotel Lusso.
Mon. April 19th – Reading at Elliott Bay Book Co. in Seattle, WA at 7:00PM. Lots of people please! Bring friends and strangers!
Friday April 23rd – Reading at Village Books in Bellingham, WA at 7:00PM. If you missed Elliott Bay or if you live in Vancouver, come to this one!
Weds. April 28th – Reading at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR at 7:00PM, location to be announced. Come see me relive my youth!
Thurs. May 6th – Reading at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, CA organized by Poetry Flash at 7:30PM. SF’ers please come! Bring Code Pink with you!
And finally, back on the East Coast:
Friday May 14th – Sommer Browning’s Multifarious Array Reading Series with Jen Chang, Ed Skoog & Jason Bredle at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC at 7PM. New Yorkers I know, both believers and non-, come see for yourself!
I would like to thank Jamie Wood at EWU Press for doing a super job coordinating all this. She is terrific, and I was no help whatsoever. She is also moving to Portland, OR soon and needs a teaching job. So if you have secret knowledge, hint hint….
And thanks to Sommer Browning for being the only person in NYC who returned any sort of modern communication attempt I made while searching for reading locales.
Speaking of which, the best quote so far comes from a bookstore a block or two from my house after I asked if I could leave a copy of my book for review in hopes that they would actually stock it in their store: “Well, you won’t get it back. Of that I can promise you. I can’t promise much else.”
Ah poetry and grave digging. Thankless tasks both.
Hope to see as many of you as possible! For a couple locations, I will be hanging around aimlessly for a couple days, so let’s have lunch. Or coffee. Keep me out of trouble.
