It sounds completely crazy even to me, but I have three readings this week. Online, of course, in this altered reality. I am trying to be the good writer who not only puts her work in the world but also lets someone know it’s there.
11/17: Two poems were recently published in an ekphrastic (visual art) collection, The Plague Papers. It’s beautiful and designed for the reader to easily navigate the visual and the literary together, and to introduce you to a world of available art online. I am so delighted to have been able to write to the work of two of my favorite artists, Mark Bradford and Toyin Ojih Odutola. If so moved, come to a reading with about 10 others Tuesday, 11/17, @ 5 p.m. (ET).
11/18: Two poems in Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest. A reading with 12 others, 11/18, @ 7 p.m. (ET). The link is here.
11/21: A memoir excerpt from a larger work-in-progress. Reading in the Local Writers Read series, a statewide program, with two other (fabulous!) writers, a short story writer (Claire Guyton) and a poet (Linda Aldrich, poet laureate of Portland) — all around the theme of Hard Exits. Saturday @ 3 p.m. (ET) It will be live on their Facebook page. This is always a lively venue, with conversation afterward about the work and writing.
Come to one or two or three, or none at all. But I just wanted to let you know I’m at it. And you are always in my heart.
