New Orleans!
Mar. 18th, 2004 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanstinsonYay! The full schedule and bios are up for the Saints and Sinners queer writers conference!
It's May 7,8. 9, I'm on a panel, giving a reading, and I've never been to New Orleans, so I'm excited. Lots of great folks will be there, including Jewelle Gomez, Michelle Tea, Mark Doty, Paul Lisicky and Kristie Helms, who just brought out a book with Firebrand, my publisher, so I'm looking forward to meeting her. I really love Mark Doty's work, and the last time I heard him speak -- he was the keynote at OutWrite, a writers conference that used to be based in Boston, and he spoke in such a gentle, direct, luminous, stirring way about writing and politics -- oh, it made me cry to listen him. I love it when folks get to the heart of things. I'm very sorry that I'm in a reading opposite the time when he's going to be publicly interviewed at the conference -- hate to miss that -- but I'm reading with Christopher Rice (and also Rob Stephenson, Jim Tushinski, Greg Wharton, and Katherine V. Forrest) -- can't complain about doing that in New Orleans...
I've got a free day Monday (had to stay one more day to get a cheap plane ticket.) Any tips on what I should do or see while I'm there?
It's May 7,8. 9, I'm on a panel, giving a reading, and I've never been to New Orleans, so I'm excited. Lots of great folks will be there, including Jewelle Gomez, Michelle Tea, Mark Doty, Paul Lisicky and Kristie Helms, who just brought out a book with Firebrand, my publisher, so I'm looking forward to meeting her. I really love Mark Doty's work, and the last time I heard him speak -- he was the keynote at OutWrite, a writers conference that used to be based in Boston, and he spoke in such a gentle, direct, luminous, stirring way about writing and politics -- oh, it made me cry to listen him. I love it when folks get to the heart of things. I'm very sorry that I'm in a reading opposite the time when he's going to be publicly interviewed at the conference -- hate to miss that -- but I'm reading with Christopher Rice (and also Rob Stephenson, Jim Tushinski, Greg Wharton, and Katherine V. Forrest) -- can't complain about doing that in New Orleans...
I've got a free day Monday (had to stay one more day to get a cheap plane ticket.) Any tips on what I should do or see while I'm there?
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Date: 2004-03-18 03:41 pm (UTC)