Interview from the book tour, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and More News!
Check out Mary Agner’s Thursday feature with me in the Back to the Future Book Blog Tour here. I talk about my new book, there will be sample poems, Mary asks wonderful interview questions…fun, right?
Went to the Napa Valley Writers Conference for a night and attended a reading at the Mondavi winery with Major Jackson and Ron Carlson. It was wonderful to see Major read his work, which I’ve admired for a long time, and the winery setting was just perfectly beautiful for a poetry reading. Got my copy of Hoops signed (and Major’s new book is just out from Norton, though they didn’t have copies there, unfortunately.) He read from all three books of his books, and I appreciated the references to classic and pop culture hiding in his work, and his reading style was very laid back and easy to listen to. The prose reader, Ron Carlson, also read some poetry, which ended up being funny stuff. I might sneak back in to see Brenda Hillman read tonight…
Martha Silano, my Seattle-and-Steel-Toe buddy, has won the Saturnalia book prize – so her third book will be out in 2011! A good year for books, I think…
Poetry Blog Book Tour – Interview with Christine Klocek-Lim
I’m part of a poetry blog book tour called “Back to the Future” that started yesterday with an interview of Wendy Babiak at Joanne Merriam’s blog.
Today I’m interviewing Christine Klocek-Lim. Christine received the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry. She has two chapbooks: “How to Photograph the Heart” (The Lives You Touch Publications) and “The Book of Small Treasures” (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Diode, Poets and Artists (O&S), Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory and elsewhere. She edits Autumn Sky Poetry, and her website is http://www.novembersky.com/. You can also follow her on Twitter: @chrissiemkl
See the rest of the week:
28 July: Wendy hosts Mary
29 July: Mary hosts Jeannine
30 July: Christine hosts Joanne
