Reading In Grand Rapids April 9
I’m giving a reading in Grand Rapids at the wonderful Literary Life Bookstore, on Wealthy Street, SE at the corner of Eastern and Wealthy, on April 9 at 7 pm. There will be music. The winners of the poetry contest I am judging will be announced. And my student, the transcendent and glorious Krista Mehari, will also read a short excerpt from her novel-in-progress. Free snacks! Free night! Beautiful books!
I hope people will come. I think about readings a lot. I think about Kay Ryan saying, “I like to read my work but I don’t really like to hear other people read theirs that much.”
I think I am going to read from my new essay on religion. Or maybe the Face Book. Which I just delivered to my agent! FIVE YEARS of work. I feel lucky tonight, and happy to have a career that attends to me as much as I attend to it. Today in class I showed the great Gary Hawkins Larry Brown movie…. and I have a lot of questions. How much time do we spend on our work? How much time do we spend with the people we love? What’s fear and what is focus?
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