[Rick Mullin]

I will be reading at 4:00 pm on Saturday, day three of a four-day event for New Jersey and Philly-area PA poets with recently-published books. The venue is The Open Space Gallery in Frenchtown, NJ.

Frenchtown, I hear, is a beautiful spot on the Delaware River where people get around mostly in kayaks. I'll read the Intermezzos of Huncke, which feature kayaking on the Delaware.

No one else reading is in our online community, though David Vincenti, who read at the now-defunct Poetry at Tasty Coco, reads before me at 3:00 p.m. I will read in front the actual Paul Weingarten painting that is on the cover of my book, and sing and play guitar when I get to the little song in Intermezzo, Part One.

It's potentially all too beautiful.

RM

[W.F. Lantry]

Rick,

Sounds like fun. Frenchtown is a little outside our range, but we're with you in spirit!

Thanks,

Bill

[Quincy Lehr]

By no means pointing a finger at Bill (whose purchasing habits are not my business in any case), but the best way to be at a launch "in spirit" is to buy the goddamn book.

Quincy

[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Bill.

And Quincy.

It was a beautiful venue on a beautiful day...I hooked up with my co-editor of Drew U.'s literary magazine, Plateau ('80), for the first time in 30 years! And an old band mate was there to see my guitar strap fail me in the less-than-one-minute stretch of guitar slinging in Huncke. Other than that, the reading went well.

Many readers came in, read, and left. Which is unfortunate, but so typical in this prima donna-heavy thing of ours.

Anthony Buccino read some very good poetry.

The readings veered a little too heavily toward 9-11 remembrances, but all in all, it was a nice opportunity.

I learned that the old hotel in town has a wonderful bar. And is haunted.

RM

[Rick Mullin]

I posted some YouTube clips of this and the previous reading at my Huncke blog. The top one is worth watching, perhaps, if only to see me "recover" from a rather loud wardrobe malfunction.

I have another New Jersey event planned for Wed., Sept. 22--this is billed as the New Jersey launch, despite my getting the spot in Frenchtown and a feature gig in Teaneck in July. There are still some people in New Jersey who have not been to "the show", so...7:00 pm, Monclair Public Library. Illustrator Paul Weingarten will be there to sign books as well.