Freq of the Week

I had a great time reading with Shafer Hall this afternoon at the Liar. I posted some pics below -- brightened and contrasted, but still grainy due to the pleasantly dark coolness of the Liar. Shafer is an excellent poet, reader and host -- a trifecta that certainly deserves some kind of prize!

We had a very small, but very high quality audience. Who can complain when you get to meet Gina and Maureen. It's still a strange (in a good way) sensation for me to actually meet poets I know only via their poems and blogs. Rounding out the audience were my F. and our friend Angela, along with the shadows of three departing drinkers -- Shafer gave them fair warning that poetry would shortly ensue, and they hightailed it out to a sidewalk table.

Shafer read some of his May poems (conveniently available on his blog) and I read a couple poems from Subject to Change and a couple from my new manuscript, Like Luck. For those keeping score at home, we each read one recipe poem and one "motherf*cker" poem.

A little afterwards, I also got to see Shanna and meet Jennifer L. Knox (who I've heard read a couple times, but hadn't ever actually met) and snag a broadside of Jen's poem "Spring & Still Some Short."

What a day -- with paella at Tio Pepe, across the street, for a grand finale.