The autumn equinox this year hit its mark this past Saturday, September 23, at 6:50am GMT. Although the five weeks leading up to that date have been more busy than usual, I have somehow managed to keep most of my projects on schedule. I recently made another trip, for instance, down to UCSD with boxes for my archive, which is now being processed; and the long-forestalled reading I gave with Fred Voss at Page Against the Machine bookstore was a delight. I’ve heard Fred read many times over the years, but this was the best I’ve ever seen him.
After several years of not giving face-to-face readings, I have two solo events coming up and one group reading:
October 16 — Sacramento Poetry Center
November 16 — Poetry Center at Davis
December 11 — Magra Press poetry reading (Downtown Los Angeles)
I will also being giving a paper at the PAMLA conference in Portland at the end of October.
My chapbook, DISPLACEMENTS, should be out from Magra Press by mid-November, at which point I am supposed to have my chapter for a multi-author volume on “Literary L.A.” turned in. I was tempted to start teaching only one semester a year starting in 2023-2024, and devoutly wish I could have done so. As usual, financial pressures controlled that choice, but this will indeed be my last full year of teaching.
I look forward to my upcoming partial retirement as a chance to be more regular in posting on this blog!
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