Neil Gaiman in Cleveland!

As if my life wasn't crazy enough (visiting writers Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky coming to NEOMFA, midterm papers, China Week at UA, end of Eik's & Runa's reign in theMidrealm ... ) guess who is coming to Cleveland this weekend? Oh yeah. Now I gotta go stand in line to get in and hope there is room to get a seat down front. And does my Blackberry have enough juice to record him? Crap! Can I bring my books to be signed? Or do I have to buy new ones. Hell! I'll buy new ones if I have to ... how many Neil Gaiman books are too many? The answer is there is no answer to that one.

Neil Gaiman, the British winner of the 2009 Newbery Medial for The Graveyard kicks off Cleveland Public Library’s 2009-2010 Writers & Readers series. At the Cleveland Public Library’s Lake Shore Facility (behind the Memorial-Nottingham Branch) at 17109 Lake Shore Boulevard in Cleveland. Call 216.623.2800 for more information. All Writers & Readers events are FREE and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. Books will be available for sale by A Cultural Exchange at all Writers and Readers events. Start: Oct 4 2009 - 2:00pm

NEOMFA after Orientation gathering

A happy bunch of writers and friends at the NEOMFA back-to-school picnic. (From left to right and top to bottom: Anna French, Maggie Anderson, Kristina von Held and Diana Wayand. In the background more NEOMFA students, faculty, and friends.)

why I haven't blogged in ages . . .

So life is crazy. I'm teaching 10 load hours per week at one University, working as an administrative assistant 20 hours per week at a 2nd , taking 2 grad classes toward an MFA (do I really need a fourth degree?), maintaining webpages for 2 departments, for the NEOMFA, as well as trying to keep up with my own personal and class pages (Liam, honey, I'm so sory I haven't updated your pages!), and through all that I'm trying to stay on top of my own poetry and writing. Got papers to grade and papers to write, and all I want to do is curl up with a good Terry Pratchett disc world novel.

Sigh. Time to go find something useful to do.

BTW: see my recent poem in Poetry Midwest online. Also got an article on Beomeosa coming out in the Vindicator next week.