Dear Michael, here are just a few favorite things of 2011....random list of what's in memory and attention at this point (caveat: need to catch up on a lot of poetry books.)
Here's to the pleasures of 2012!
New Year's Day Poetry marathon @ St. Mark's
Fireworks in Prospect Park, over snowy banks and under the August moon
Swimming under eucalyptus trees at Golden Bear pool in Berkeley
Claire Denis's film L'Intrus, inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy's essay
Having Peter Trachtenberg as a neighbor in Berkeley for spring, and his generosity in talking with my students about his Book of Calamities and research in Rwanda
Qi Gong at Lake Merritt in Oakland with Margit Galanter
Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, Yunte in the NYT, the New Yorker, on screen, everywhere...plus Yunte's visits to SF, drinks and high-rise glass elevator rides
Stacy Doris reading and Pindaric dances at Sara Larsen and David Brazil's A Muse Meant series
Movement, Somatics, and Writing Symposium at the University of Michigan, led and gathered by Petra Kuppers - communing, moving, sounding and incubating writing with some of my favorite poets and people
Will Alexander and Maria Damon visit to SF and readings at The Poetry Center
The music (more like cosmological engineering) of Cloud Shepherd (Andrew Joron, Brian Lucas, Joe Noble, Mark Pino) - even more so when joined by the likes of Will Alexander on piano and India Cooke on violin
Handel's Xerxes at SF Opera
Subterranean Arthouse in Berkeley
Bhanu Kapil and David Buuck reading at the Condensery
Thom Donovan's The Hole
Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon with Linda Russo
Visiting with David Wolach and Elizabeth Williamson, reading and talking to the wonderful, engaged students of Evergreen State College
Teaching in the Summer Writing program at Naropa, joining for a bit this amazing community Anne Waldman and many others sustain
Laura Mullen's performances at the SWP, including her romance novel sampling parody ("he buried himself within her") and garbage bridal dress
Meeting Melissa Buzzeo
Meeting Tyrone Williams
Meeting George Quasha
Meeting Amy Sara Carroll again after more than 20 years
Talking and learning with super smart younger (mostly) women writers working on the political and somatic, ecopoetics, healing, performance...including Liz Latty, Sarah Heady, Aisha Sasha John, Aurora Prelevic, Kimberly Alidio, Ari Braverman, Kristen Park, and many others, some of them students: thank you
Reading with David Wolach in Philly in the c/c reading series (thanks Jamie Townsend and Nicholas DeBoer!) with great audience including Carlos Soto Román, CA Conrad, Asher Lewis, and more. Add to that: staying up all night at Bard College eating sandwiches and writing an essay on empathy, workers' comp and pain management, Silvia Federici, Kafka, Frans de Waal, Antigone, and red foxes...with David popping into the kitchen to visit and encourage me
Robin Coste Lewis, "Fable" in Encyclopedia Volume 2, F-K: amazing piece of writing I want to read and re-read
Stephen Cope's Conference of the Birds
the full moon
& eclipsed eclipses
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