The Convenience Store and the Poetry Tour

Finished the edits on Tag's episode of FROM OUT OF THE CITY to be released on the 24th.

It came out well, and I had a blast. We discuss everything from therapeutic catharsis via poetry to the influences of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on our works, and Dan gets to read about a half dozen of his works.

Me? I get to do "the garden of souls" about the 1997 Southern Poets Reading Tour, where Cliabourne Schley Walsh hosted a dozen of the most gifted wordsmiths I will ever have the honor to share a stage with, including Loki, Ruth Solomon and Robin Travis (now Robin C. Travis-Murphree, the editor of Poetic Voices)...I slept in the upstairs hall, on a pallet of blankets, with my assistant...some girl named Ann who was going to play a role in my next few years of life.

And no, I did not sleep with all the women on the tour. Just a few. Actually, just the blondes. So sue me.

I gave one of the best reads of my life, at the Fairhope Arts Center...Loki had chewed my ass for an indifferent performance the previous day, so I brought it. Damn near killed me, turning myself inside out for the audience. But the troops were dazzled.