the reading was so great.

gosh, i mean... just lyrically intense and beautiful and... so... happiness inducing.

we are really lucky to live in this triangle of arts and have people visit us that are so awesome.

laynie is just, so good. she really has an amazing command of vocabulary... and the way she experiences the world, or--- the way the poems she writes experience the world...  

what is the word?

so perceptive. so smart. so... word-based... but, sound really...

ah, i mean...

all her senses seem to be attuned to poetry.

and joe, i mean. joe's work is filled with these moments and turns that are so unexpected but comfortable because his reading is so seductive... 

and dianne's debut was stellar. especially when she read her longer piece, history of fire. she's such a good reader and her language is so compelling -- part modern story-teller, part parable...

and then on the page... all... removals//erasures// turns

happy happy happy days

now, poetry at home & Duke basketball!