Saturday, October 11, 2008

Local notes

A couple items of interest primarily to Bloomingtonians (that's the real Bloomington, here in beautiful south-central Indiana, not those impostors in Minnesota and Illinois):

*** Copies of Breach are now available at Howard's Bookstore (on the downtown courthouse square) and Boxcar Books (in its new location next door to the Runcible Spoon). I dropped them off today on consignment and both shops seemed quite pleased to have them. Howard's was going to put one in their local authors section in the front window, and Boxcar put one on a little stand facing out. Nice. Support independent bookstores, because they support us! :)

*** The annual Five Women Poets reading is coming up a week from tonight! Saturday, October 18, 7:30 pm, at Rachael's Cafe on Third Street. Free admission, but do try to get a cup of coffee or a sandwich or a cup of soup or something to support the place. I'll have chapbooks available for sale. Readers will be: Antonia Matthew, Deborah Hutchison, Anya Peterson Royce, Leah Helen May, Patricia C. Coleman, and yours truly. (Yes, there are six members of Five Women Poets. We're poets, not mathematicians.)

*** Finally, I'll be on WFIU's weekly poetry show, The Poets Weave, twice in upcoming weeks: Sunday, October 19 and Sunday, November 9 (11:46 am Eastern Time). It's a five-minute show, and if you aren't local you can listen live online or you can download the podcast later. I am mostly reading from Breach, but the October 19 show also includes my elegy for Danny Federici, E Street Band keyboardist/accordionist, who died this past April. I hope some of y'all will listen in.

3 comments:

Lyle Daggett said...

Very cool about all the poetry action. Keep on rocking --

FYI, I'll inform Bloomington, Minnesota (suburb south of Minneapolis, known primarily for freeways, an airport, and an oversized shopping mall) that it's an impostor. I always knew there was something fishy about the place...

Anonymous said...

I'll have the catch "The Weave" again - you were so good on it last time!

Anne Haines said...

Lyle: Hey, Bloomington MN isn't even its own city! Everybody thinks it's part of Minneapolis. Definitely an impostor. ;)

PWADJ: Awww, thanks!! :) I like radio. I don't have to fuss about what the heck I should wear, like I do for readings...