TAYARI JONES AT PENN STATE

Novelist Tayari Jones was just in here sharing a couple chapters from Silver Sparrow. We're looking forward to seeing her again soon at CLA in Atlanta.

MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading 2012

With great thanks to the local organizers (with an assist from SPD) the poets gathered at Seattle's Town Hall Downstairs. Records for brevity were set. Vanessa Place read silently to herself, to us. There were drinks and books and friends and links. I finally got to see Niko. Kansas was in the house.


The audio recording of the evening can be found at Penn Sound by clicking here.


There will be videos on YouTube one day.

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION - SEATTLE 2012

My own paper at this year's MLA was not scheduled till 8:30 AM on the final day, an odd time for a panel on transnational jazz, as 8:30 AM earlier in the week seemed an odd time slot for a panel on home town boy made good Jimi Hendrix. Maybe they thought the music people would all still be up at breakfast time. But all was well. You can view abstracts from the transnational jazz panel here.











The poetry division sponsored two fine panels this year: one on Robert Duncan's H.D. Book and another on women poets in the wake of modernism.

The Seattle MLA featured a series of "creative conversations," including one that featured my colleague Linda Selzer interviewing novelist Charles Johnson.
























Watch this blog for photos from the Off-Site poetry marathon --