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06/05/2006 Archived Entry: Friday seems like a long time ago
Here's the set list from my feature on Friday:
Mom, Stand Here (haiku)
Dance of My Forefathers
The Ugly One
Harvest Moon Voice
Terri Schiavo's Heaven
Old Men
The Shore of an Island
Donating Blood
After the Collapse of a Building
Speed Poetry
Alligators
(assorted haikus)
12 Years
Nostalgia, Part II
David
Woodsman
Hello Pen
Penelope to Her Loom (30 Years Later)
Kettle Whistle (with massive on the spot hand written revisions)
Helen to the Sea
Can you tell it was a half-hour? I was careful to be family friendly, so I had to use a lot of my short poems. But I didn't go over time dispite what looks to be a huge poem list.
Lots of good people came out to catch my feature -- it meant a lot to have that support. It always does.
Saturday I spent a lot of time at the doctor's office for a particularly bad episode of Andrew's asthma. It was a scary session too, when the doctor asks about hospitalization and strep and tonsils. I had my tonsils and adenoids out at age seven and I remember how awful that was. I really don't want my kids to have to go through that and certainly not at age 3. (The tonsils and adenoids problems led to a period of deafness for me, not asthma. I was 80% deaf for a while.)
Sunday by the time I finally gave up trying to find the right parking lot and parked illegally and got to the Arts Festival to staff the poetry booth, Joanna Schroeder was at the rescue. (After touching base with her, I moved my car to the legal parking lot.) The booth went really great. It was a fantastic booth designed by Scott Woods on the eve of the event. I had it to myself for most of the day and kept thinking I benefitted more than anyone. We had brainstormed and gotten many poets to generate the material for everything, but Scott made it happen and set it up to look fantastic, painting backgrounds, hanging quotes. And he came the next day to make sure it was set up for me. Joanna came back at the last half hour and hung out, ran a few rounds of Mortal Kombat Poetry Slam (an interactive tourney game where famous poets are lined up against each other -- picture to the left). We broke down the set -- and it did feel like a set -- she showed me a Scrabble purse (made out of a Scrabble board, wow) -- and she kept me company while I grabbed some dinner to take home.
What I missed: I missed the features of so many people who are important to me. To name a few: I missed Shaun Barber's feature, Donielle Johnson's feature, Joanna's feature, the Writers' Block slam -- everything on Saturday. Guys, I would have been there if I could.
Today, Monday, has been insane! So was last week for that matter. The rest of this week should be better. There's a conference here at work it's been a blur of work and worry. I don't want to say much just know I've lost sleep over it.
Replies: 4 comments
http://www.mercer.edu/gpc/kimaddonizio.html
I know you've probably already read this, and I hope the link doesn't steal tons of your bandwidth, but when you mentioned lost sleep, it made me think of Addonizio's "The Numbers," which I read recently, after learning about her from your livejournal.
Posted by Joanna @ 06/06/2006 10:52 AM ET
No, I hadn't read that one. I'm just discovering Addonizio myself. Thank you for the link.
Posted by Louise @ 06/06/2006 03:15 PM ET
You rocked!
Posted by Scott @ 06/06/2006 07:41 PM ET
Thanks!
Posted by Louise @ 06/07/2006 09:16 AM ET