Who else has a busy week?
- Tuesday February 9th, I’ll be reading as part of the Open Mike at Poetry Hickory. Open Mike starts at 6:30 (this is an open mike where you sign up to be a reader a month before) with featured readers to follow. Taste Full Beans Coffee House. Usually lasts till about 8. Before the event you can meet up with other writers at 5pm in the coffee house for networking and sometimes sharing writing. Lasts till about 6. Sponsorship of readings in part by Main Street Rag and the writer’s night by NCWN.
- Thursday February 11th, I hope to read as part of the Open Mike at Jackson’s Java in North Charlotte near UNCC. We usually get started at about 8 and are done by about 10. Sign up should really be in by about 7:45. Sponsored by Iodine Poetry Journal.
- Bryan Borland is hosting a poetry contest for his (and ML’s) FAG/HAG series. Stop by and take a look.
- Can’t recall if I had given a shout out to Tell Before but he certainly deserves one at his blog Geography of Life. Poetry and discussion of poetics is always a treat for me.
- Cati Porter is a poet and low-res MFA student who is finishing up her degree. Check out her blogs and then consider picking up some of her books! Links on her site.
Hoping everyone has a terrific week! I’m doing a final run through of my 2nd manuscript (well final for now) and I hope to send it out to a publisher or contest this week. Busy week but I am game for you! Even though I’m trying to give up eating meat again. Why did I stop before? Because it is hard to be around other people and avoid meat but since I’m by myself most of the time, I think I can do it 
Why Jessie Carty, it’s not true what they say about you! You ARE nice.
When I am famous you can be my man slave
Ha! I like the sound of that, can I watch…oh behave Chef! Okay says the poet
Hi Jessie
Yes, you do have a busy week ahead of you but as you said you are game for it
Good luck at the open mike at Poetry Hickory
Wish I was there to hear you
I have a busy week ahead of me taking down kitchen cabinets with hubby, not much fun but hubby is a big help, LOL!
Good luck on giving up the red meat.
Margie
I’m hoping to post a clip of me reading next week, Margie, so you can virtually be with me!
OMG, let me know how the cabinets go! K and I think in about 2-3 years we might start thinking about that ourselves
Arigato gozaimasu, Jessie-san! *blows kiss*
i wish i knew thank you in japanese! i don’t remember it. all i remember is sumimasen because i said that a lot *wink*
How I long for open mics with other poets. Yes, a few come hither, but so few hither… musicians are plenty, musicians are poets, but my epiphone guitar lay cold in its casing grave…so far, only to the pen and pad am I the slave…
Patiently waiting am thee…
these are specific open mikes for poets and i love them!!! wish you could be there, think you’d have a good time
Neat!
Happy Tuesday!
thanks Jingle
That’s so funny b/c I used sumimasen a lot, too, when I first got to Japan. Being a properly raised Southerner, I said excuse me every time I bumped into someone. Finally, a very nice old lady told me that it wasn’t necessary because people bump into people all day long in Japan, especially in Kyoto. I don’t think I ever said it again after that.
it is definitely a southern impulse isn’t it! the longer we were in kyoto the less i think we used it, except for trying to get off buses!!