Painting
Saturday, February 6
6-10, with George Mitchell & Dan Schulte
The Allison Inn
Newberg, Oregon
Wedneday, March 17
7-10, with George Mitchell & Fred Hard
Heathman Hotel
Saturday, March 20
10-12, with Mike Pardew
Nel Centro
Wedneday, March 24
7-10, with Mike Pardew & Fred Hard
Heathman Hotel
Saturday, May 8
Silverton Wine & Jazz Festival
Kalashnikov In The Sun, my two-years-in-the-works project on Sierra Leonean poets, is sent to the publisher, one week following the death of Tom, one of the voices included in the anthology, a friend. I dedicate the book to him, I hear the cadence of his voice, still.
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It’s been my first week teaching at the university level. It’s been my first week of classes myself, graduate school at my age, I don’t know… but a teaching fellowship and tremendous grant covering full tuition, a chance at more stability as a writer, a chance that this two-decade long plan in the works to build the days writing, painting, singing, could actually work…so I jumped. I am tired. I have not stopped moving. Not so much because of school, but because of everything that kept cascading in the in between hours. I drove over the Morrison Bridge last week, about 9 pm, after the last class of the day, an early October moon, the kind that is buffered in part by night clouds, the sky a movie set, the sky not sky, but a mood instead. this whole week has been a mood.
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