After all the years I’ve been in the slam scene, at last I rate: this is one of the first certified David Huang photographs of me reading a poem at an NPS.

Since I only read one this time around…it’s obviously “The Last Word” at the Erotic Reading.

http://www.poeticdream.com/photo.php?gid=298&pid=05081101025445

Where’m I gonna be?

Sept. 11, afternoon: Middleboro MA arts festival. Feature.

Sept. 11, evening: Java Hut, Worcester. Home venue feature — the worst kind. 😀

Sept. 28: evening: Brooklyn, NY. Feature with Patrick Rosal and Barbara Newsome at Words of Wisdom , in the Spoken words Cafe in Park Slope.

November 19: A gig in So. Jersey, near Philly. Again, details later.

Dec. 11: Nantucket, Ma — feature at the Nantucket Poetry Slam.

Full detail as each event approaches.

Of course, there’s the Hut most Sundays and SPEAK on the alternate Wednesdays.

October is empty. Anyone want to offer suggestions?

was terrific —

loved the interactive cheese grilling, the filmstrip poem…brilliant.

it reminded me of the old adventurous WAG Open Stage days. (Inside reference, sorry. A lamented performance space a lot of us in this scene cut our teeth on in the late Eighties/early Nineties. It had a Wednesday night open stage that included everything from performance art to hardcore to classical guitar to poetry to acappella improvisation to hostage taking and live shotgun blasts. Those were the days.)

After ward, I cruised Worcester a bit, had a coffee at the Hut, and came home. I’m a sad loser of a hipster, I guess.

Later…