I'm glad I missed the Paradelle session, but a little disturbed to have had the same hallucinations as David Mason and Paul Lake—is there something in that
Hopdevil beer that Mike Peich insists be served at the Alumni House?
Rambling on—Maura Stanton was not only funny in her reading, but ran a fabulous workshop on narrative; the dorm was a definite improvement; David Yezzi's new guitar is wonderful to play (and he plays it wonderfully); it was amazing to hear Frank Reeve tell stories of Robert Frost in Russia; Samuel Menashe and James Fenton knocked my socks off; the Holiday Inn is not too far to walk for a drink but the drinks are too expensive; Alfred Nicol is a fine suitemate and put together a fine anthology of the Powow Poets; I spent far too much money on books; I've listened to Catherine Tufariello read "Free Time" on my iPod about 500 times and it's fabulous to see the poem in her book
Keeping My Name and to meet her; I'm completely done in.
It will be a month before I recover.
[This message has been edited by Mike Snider (edited June 12, 2006).]