Upcoming Readings

I haven't read anywhere in quite a few months, and then there are suddenly a bunch of things that have all been scheduled around the same time. I'm partly writing this down so that I don't forget where I'm supposed to be...

April 25th, Friday: Celebration of Writers at the International House. 4-6pm.
April 29th, Tuesday: Creative Writing Minors Reading in the Maude Fife Room in Wheeler. 4-6pm.
May 1st, Thursday: Lunch Poems in the Morrison Library. 12:10pm.

One other event of note: Achiote Press is having a Spring Issue release reading on Friday, April 25th in Stephens Hall from 6-8pm. They've been working hard to put out good local chapbooks, so it should be worth stopping by.

Jack Hirschman at Moe's, April 15th.

Very quickly, I want to post these pictures I took of Jack Hirschman at Moe's last week. As we were coming down the stairs to the basement, we could already hear the unusual grit in his voice, which he explained as resulting from some sort of medical procedure that had jangled his vocal chords a bit. At least, I think that’s what he said. We came in a few minutes late and only caught the very end of it.

His voice, if anything, added to his reading, which was equally characterized by his affectionate, careful enunciation and the kind of occasionally squinted eye that reminds one of a mischievous grandfather. The audience, likewise, arrived largely devoid of pretense, and the room had a feeling of warmth and camaraderie that one doesn’t always encounter at poetry readings.

Mr. Hirschman read primarily from his newest book, "All That's Left," about which he joked, "it's only a week old, and already it's a dollar off." We were fortunate to hear a preview of Mr. Hirschman’s May Day poem, which you should go watch him read at City Lights on May 1st.