AWP bits
Poets and writers will be converging on Denver later this week for the Associatiation of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, better known as AWP.
I'm not going to AWP, after all. I'm going to Tallahassee Pridefest instead, where I'm featuring with the wonderful Terry Galloway, author of the brilliant memoir Mean Little Deaf Queer. To be honest, I couldn't afford Denver. The hotel room prices are outrageous, plus the airfare, meals, drinks, hookers... it was just too rich for my blood. Tallahassee is a leisurely drive, they are kindly putting me up and I am thrilled that an LGBT festival has made a literary event one of its focal points. Hooray for Tally.
I will still be taking part in my AWP panel, "Poetry By Any Means Necessary," with Lola Haskins, Karen Head and Megan Volpert through the magic of the cell phone. If you're at AWP and decide to attend (it's Thursday morning early...9 a.m. I think), know I will be there in disembodied spirit. Since it will be lunchtime here, I'll probably be sipping a Mai Tai on the beach with my slim, beautiful, 21-year-old boy toy, but maybe the waves won't cause too much noise.
If you're at the book fair, don't get trampled by the MFA students rushing around with their packets of poems and manuscripts looking for a publisher. Did they ban that behavior after Atlanta? I hope so, but who can blame them? So many poets, so few teaching jobs and residencies.
Sigh.
I'm not going to AWP, after all. I'm going to Tallahassee Pridefest instead, where I'm featuring with the wonderful Terry Galloway, author of the brilliant memoir Mean Little Deaf Queer. To be honest, I couldn't afford Denver. The hotel room prices are outrageous, plus the airfare, meals, drinks, hookers... it was just too rich for my blood. Tallahassee is a leisurely drive, they are kindly putting me up and I am thrilled that an LGBT festival has made a literary event one of its focal points. Hooray for Tally.
I will still be taking part in my AWP panel, "Poetry By Any Means Necessary," with Lola Haskins, Karen Head and Megan Volpert through the magic of the cell phone. If you're at AWP and decide to attend (it's Thursday morning early...9 a.m. I think), know I will be there in disembodied spirit. Since it will be lunchtime here, I'll probably be sipping a Mai Tai on the beach with my slim, beautiful, 21-year-old boy toy, but maybe the waves won't cause too much noise.
If you're at the book fair, don't get trampled by the MFA students rushing around with their packets of poems and manuscripts looking for a publisher. Did they ban that behavior after Atlanta? I hope so, but who can blame them? So many poets, so few teaching jobs and residencies.
Sigh.
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GAV
Let the games begin.
:)