Where to find me this week…

Well, if you haven’t been reading the sidebar of my blog, then you don’t know (what? you don’t read my blog sidebars, full of their wonderful links to other blogs and web sites and useful information?!) that…

I’ll be teaching two afternoons this week (Tuesday and Thursday) at Port Townsend’s Centrum Writers Conference on haibun and haiku. Other guest-afternoon teachers include Peter Pereira (great, right?) and the night readings will feature such poets as Anne Waldman and Kim Addonizio. So show up, bring your own popcorn, listen to some writing, watch some otters. All good times.

In other news, while shopping for G’s birthday present (shoes! nice ones!) I ran really hard into a high, sharp-cornered table at Nordstrom, which for some reason was blocking the path (oh, right, there was a sale, so all sides were filled with people.) I hit it so hard it knocked the breath right out of me and made me see stars. Since I have a bleeding disorder (a genetic PAI-1 deficiency, I promise I had it before it was trendy for poets to have blood disorders) this should make for exciting bruise patterns on my right side. First: honestly, what did I ever do to that table? And two, was I always this clumsy? I should really only be allowed to play with children’s scissors and round plastic furniture. Well, that’s it: no string bikinis for me this week!

In still other news: Arizona or San Diego?