Greetings from Forest Grove, Oregon, where we have had a very rainy and chily week…
Midway through the residency now, and so very tired…classes, workshops and readings run constantly from 9 AM to past 9 PM. I’ve been workshopping with Pattiann Rogers and Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar, and listening to wonderful speakers. This time I’m especially enjoying listening to the fiction and non-fiction faculty, including Valerie Miner and Claire Davis. There are some great new students, too, a couple of fiction writers who want to write in the twisted fairy tale genre. I recommended Kelly Link and Margaret Atwood. Always fun.
The link to the podcast of Monday’s KUOW show with a discussion of my poems is finally up:
http://www.kuow.org/archives/beat20060612.mp3
and Garrison Keillor’s reading of “Spy Girls” is tomorrow. Here, Writer’s Almanac comes on at 10 AM (in the Portland, Oregon area – check your local NPR listings for times,) so I’ll be in my car then, with the local NPR channel on. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! It’s not quite the Prairie Home Companion, but it’s probably as close as I’m going to get!
I am looking forward to going home to where my lovely husband, my friends, and the new issue of 32 Poems, as well as a contributor’s copy of Rhymes for Adults (yes, me, a rhyming poem!) are waiting.