Launching my Heartbreak into Re-Verberations and Falling Out of the Loft

None of that makes sense. I'm a featured artist on 11/30; also, there's a book launch and some open mics.

Next Wednesday (November 15th), there’s a book launch for a first-ever-of-its-kind anthology: American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. From the website:

Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Michael Torres, Alice Paige, Inara Verzemnieks, Sarith Peou, Kristin Collier, Angela Pelster, Lauren Markham, Lacy M. Johnson, Steve Almond, TM "Redd" Warren, Kao Kalia Yang, Kiese Laymon, and Valeria Luiselli, with a foreword by Zeke Caligiuri and an introduction by Eula Biss.

I’m a little salty that I was so excited I preordered my copy, which it turns out was a much slower way to get it than if I’d been slightly more patient. But that more-patient me is a myth, so I will live with the me that I am.

"'C'est la vie ça va passer' (paris mai 2013)" by Itmostt is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

The American Precariat book launch is Wednesday, November 15, 2023, at the Hook and Ladder Theater (also livestreamed via YouTube). I’ll be there …