Olds Country
It's friday! It's friday! It's friday! I feel like this last five days has been a month. I've had migraines for two days straight--yippeee---and as a result the sleeplessness has kicked in. Which came first, the sleeplessness or the migraines? Since one feeds the other, who knows?
ANYWAY, I am looking forward to the weekend, starting with this evening. Graham and I are going to see a night of writers, brought to CUNY by one of my favorite writers, Sharon Olds. It's called An RSVP to Laura Bush. Recently, Sharon Olds was asked to join a literature event, hosted by first lady Laura Bush. Her powerful response was recently published in The Nation (link via Kai).I gather she has brought together other writers, like Mary Karr and Katha Pollit, in response to this invitation. It's been a ten year dream to see Sharon Olds read, and I am really excited to be in the same room with this amazing poet, among so many others tonight.
In anticipation, I've been re-reading her work. She has the uncanny affect of making everything around you seem like poetry. I rode the subway this morning reading her, only to look up and see titles of poems everywhere. Among them, "The Woman Who Sits on her Hair," and "The Man with the Stained Pants."
Poems may be the best subway riding material--short and to the quick. The end of poems seemed always to be punctuated by the stops. I found myself welling up in tears just as we reached Times Square and 72nd street respectively.
As it is, I am happy to wake up tomorrow and get a break from such discoveries. I am looking forward to the slow waking up and the savoring of morning time in my own bed.
Have a great weekend.
ANYWAY, I am looking forward to the weekend, starting with this evening. Graham and I are going to see a night of writers, brought to CUNY by one of my favorite writers, Sharon Olds. It's called An RSVP to Laura Bush. Recently, Sharon Olds was asked to join a literature event, hosted by first lady Laura Bush. Her powerful response was recently published in The Nation (link via Kai).I gather she has brought together other writers, like Mary Karr and Katha Pollit, in response to this invitation. It's been a ten year dream to see Sharon Olds read, and I am really excited to be in the same room with this amazing poet, among so many others tonight.
In anticipation, I've been re-reading her work. She has the uncanny affect of making everything around you seem like poetry. I rode the subway this morning reading her, only to look up and see titles of poems everywhere. Among them, "The Woman Who Sits on her Hair," and "The Man with the Stained Pants."
Poems may be the best subway riding material--short and to the quick. The end of poems seemed always to be punctuated by the stops. I found myself welling up in tears just as we reached Times Square and 72nd street respectively.
As it is, I am happy to wake up tomorrow and get a break from such discoveries. I am looking forward to the slow waking up and the savoring of morning time in my own bed.
Have a great weekend.
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