Found a computer in Sykes Hall and a nice young man logged me in.
What a great start to the conference last evening! Couldn't believe it only took me one hour to get from Montreal to Philadelphia. I met Julie Kane and Susan McLean at the airport. Also lots of other new poet friends.
We took the shuttle to West Chester and arrived just in time to drop our bags in our dorm rooms and walk down to the Faunbrook B&B for the welcoming reception.
What a lovely venue! What great wine and food! Most of all, what wonderful poets everywhere! Met Kim Bridgford, David Landrum and Alicia Stallings, and many others. Was glad to see so many very young poets here
; had a lovely conversation with Rhina.
Registration will begin here soon, so I'll log off. Am a bit nervous about my reading this afternoon, but the atmosphere is so warm and friendly, I guess I really needn't be worried.
Other events on today's schedule "Poetry as the Global Art" with Rhina as Chair and Bill Coyle and Micheal O'Siadhail on the panel. Then there's "The Formal Poetry Press: Niche or Ghetto" panel with Anna Evans chairing and Deborah Ager, Gerry Cambridge, Allison Joseph and David Yezzi on the panel.
Then the First Books panel with Len Krisak chairing, and readings by Andrew Sofer, Brett Foster, Michael Cantor reading from M A Griffiths' work, and myself. Then this evening the keynote reading by Robert Pinsky.
Cheers,
Cathy