[A. E. Stallings]

I'll be Stateside from the 8th to the 26th of October, with some readings at various venues--Chicago, Indiana, Kentucky, West Chester PA. More details:

Schedule

It would be nice to see any familiar names or faces!

Somehow I'm supposed to keep up the Harriet blogging through all this... Postcards from America?

[Terese Coe]

Excellent news, Alicia. But the link you posted is defective.

Terese

[Maryann Corbett]

Fixed now! A little matter of a slash instead of a dot.

Thanks, Alicia. Maybe, maybe, Chicago is possible....

[Chris Childers]

It's very possible that I could catch you at West Chester. I might even be able to bring more than just myself! I'll investigate.

Chris

[Wendy Sloan]

What a whirlwind tour! How could we ever hope to lure you to New York? Maybe someday ...

[Chris Childers]

I had the pleasure of hearing Alicia read at West Chester yesterday evening; it was actually quite an experience to come home from that wonderful event, a little tipsy after an invite to Mike's, to find myself accused on the Met board of lying and devilment. But no worries, I had all kinds of fun. The best readings -- in which I count Alicia's -- clearly all include humor of some sort. Richard Wilbur was hilarious at Newburyport, Pete Fairchild, Sam Gwynn & Joe Kennedy all have great comic timing, & Alicia was also extremely funny, including some prose on the Anti-Muses (daughters of Amnesia, whose ranks include Typo and the one whose seat of worship is in Porlock) and her classical Lymaeryx, coyly introduced as a "series unified by the presence of amphibrachs." (I really love the one on Nero.) She read a number of favorite poems from Hapax (including First Love, which I read to my AP Vergil class, Aftershocks, & Antiblurb) as well as some newer ones -- the amazing poems about Peter & the Wolf & the country house in Arcadia, which writing this out has reminded me to go look up in Poetry. She also read the invocation to Venus from the prooemium to Lucretius, and, at the request of some dude in the front row, The Empty Icon Frame, Glykophilousa (a new favorite of mine, thanks to the reading). During the question period we learned that she was a music major at one point in college, that she failed at it (every poet has to fail at something), but still has that rich well of vocabulary to draw on in poems like the Prokofiev. ("The wolf is in the music.") Really a wonderful time; I'm very lucky to be in such close range of West Chester University.

Chris

[Robert J. Clawson]

Chris,

Thanks for the review. She just gets betterer and betterer.

Bob