Next Wednesday, I travel back to the Bay Area for five days. It's going back "home" in many, many ways (lived there longer than anywhere else in my life -- 14 furious years). One of the most pleasurable things is to pick the reading: novels for the lines in the airports and for in-flight time (can't read poetry on a plane; I'm too busy flying the plane from my seat), poetry for any free time I can wrest from the conference I'm attending, and a pile of manuscripts to consider for SCORE 19.
Novels: Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac, Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban (a re-read, a novel I use in my young adult lit class), Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (whose Speak is gobbled up by both my male and female students at the high school and university). This reading, then, is professional -- books I use or will use in my classes.
Poetry: "...But I could Not Speak..." by Jono Schneider, Response by Juliana Spahr, Letters by Ray Dipalma. This list will be fattened by many hours browsing SPD, my first trip there in nine years.
There's also electronic chatter picked up the P. I. A. that Miekal And has a new book -- his first in ten years -- in collaboration with Maria Damon. I hope to get a copy of that before I go.
Ah! No papers to assess. This reader is going to spend sometime re-creating himself.
Posted by: LBS | November 13, 2003 at 12:02 PM