finally

close to feeling back to normal.

What’s up? Plenty.

1. Patricia Smith KILLED last night at the Cantab. Killed. Highlights — the Katrina poem, the Lysol poem…damnation and hell fire!

2. I’m in final negotiations to join the faculty at the Online School of Poetry ( http://www.onlineschoolofpoetry.com ), teaching a workshop I’m calling “To Voice Through Craft.” The class will be focused on moving from straight, raw emotion on the page — be it personal or political — to a more skilled and ultimately more powerful expression of voice. I’m actively soliciting 6-8 students at 200 dollars for a six week session. (Yes, that means you.)

3. Still working on a couple of major breakthroughs on the consulting front. There’s a great opportunity to join a consulting practice of executive coaches; that may go down sometime over the next two weeks or so, which is very exciting.

4. Gotpoetry Live in Providence continues to do well. The feature this past Tuesday, Teresa Noelle Roberts, was quiet and intensely imagist. I really enjoyed her set. I do wish more people would come out for features they don’t know…

5. Ken Hunt Prize news to follow shortly.

6. New poems a-brewin’ which is nice indeed.

How are you all?