I love knowing about this. there seems to be a big helpful wave of facilitating / providing facilities for connection. spaces to ask variations of “what’s going on?”

I hope this model lasts a good while, because it’s ambitious and friendly. long enough to prove important

I will, with my whole heart, help anyone who needs help applying, writing this grant. anyone who qualifies. which eliminates almost everyone I know.

true of any good artist I guess but you get up close to his paintings and you’re like “this is insane”

fun to think about these circles, these poetries, especially because they don’t really compete just coincide. probably break them up in a number of ways: poetry schools (new narrative, spoken word, ecopoetry), school-schools (stegner fellows), or venue (bar reading, house reading, bookstores …)

that’s the truth