More Poetry Month Celebration – Busy busy busy
If you haven’t signed up yet for my poetry month book giveaway, do so now! And here’s Kelli’s links to even more poetry book giveaways!
Tonight I’m going to go see Susan Rich, Major Jackson, and Brian Turner read and do a Q&A together downtown as part of Seattle Arts & Lectures. This Sunday I plan to attend a reading with some of my fave peeps – Susan Rich, Kathleen Flenniken, Rebecca Loudon, and Colleen J. McElroy. I’m only attending like, 1/100th of the poetry events going on around Seattle for Poetry Month, yet I have something to attend almost every single day. Not to mention that Sakura-Con and NorWesCon are both going on next weekend, which means lots of socializing in a short time with out-of-town friends.
I’ve also spent some time each day proofing my manuscript (with help from other poet-friends and family members, whom I thank profusely) and teaching National U’s MFA program’s April/May advanced poetry workshop. I’m lucky to get one poem written a week in April, much less a poem a day! No time for loafing or leisure – it’s April! Ha! (I’m also formulating an idea of doing a class on speculative poetry on my own. Seems like there are lots of speculative poets but not a lot of speculative poetry classes!)
Hope to see some of you down at Benaroya Hall tonight!
Karen J. Weyant
Hi Jeannine, do you have a list of speculative poets? That would be an interesting list to have! (and hopefully, a great to read booklist!)
Radish King
Hey, I’m going to see Rebecca Loudon, too!
xo
Supervillainess
Dear Karen,
Start with Margaret Atwood, and then a little sprinkling of a bunch of poets – mostly garnered from my spec lit mags over the years – but there’s good ones by Mary Agner, Tracy K. Smith, and a bunch of others – I’d have to make up a little mini-anthology for the class.