I'm still in the city. I'm sitting in an internet cafe right now.
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On Thursday I swear I sat across from Christian from Project Runway on th F-Train! I know it was him. He was wearing a hat so his trademark crazy hair was underwraps. I smiled at him and he smiled back. I know he knew that a fellow queen recognized him.
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So far I've bought these books:
Cecily Parks, Field Folly Snow
Ciaran Berry, The Sphere of Birds
Reginald Shepherd, Otherhood
Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf
Juan Felipe Herrera, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007
and the latest issue of American Poetr Review
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I love walking in the city. I like to sit in cafes and sip my coffee. I like to guy watch. I like to scribble in my notebook.
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I flipped through Mark Doty's new and selected Fire to Fire and was shocked to see that he only included TWO poems from his first book in the book. Wow.
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About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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You may already know: but you can find new hardcover poetry books (review copies)in the basement of the Strand half price...don't tell...
Great to see you today, my friend. Glad you're enjoying the city.
Doty was at Split This Rock this weekend here in DC. He read a few of his poems including "Charlie Howard's Descent" from that first book. I got some footage and put it on YouTube. The lighting's not the best, but the sound's okay.
It's at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28AYjytJHvE
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