Shafer just read a bunch of his May poems, including my favorite, "Big Plans Small Apartment," and now I'm reading "If I Keep A Green Bough in My Chest, A Singing Bird will Alight," and thinking how great it is to do a reading sitting down.
I'm the author of a book of poems, Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004), and a chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain (Parlor City Press, 2009). My second book manuscript is currently making the rounds. My work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a BRIO Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts. A native of Michigan, I’ve spent the past ten years living and working in New York City.
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"If I Keep A Green Bough in My Chest, A Singing Bird will Alight"
What a title! Very jealous here. Heck, I might even take that title.
By the way, what's even cooler than sitting down to read is standing behind the bar to read, as Shafer did.
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