AWP Keeping the Sanity

Later today, once we are all packed and our work projects are complete, we'll start our long drive to Boston. It's my first AWP (Association of Writers & Writers Programs) Conference since Denver in 2010.  It's also my first AWP where I'll have the great pleasure of being accompanied by my man. I keep trying to warn him, but he has no idea what he's in for. I'm posting my schedule here for 3 reasons. 1. For my mother so she can see all the things that I'm doing--this way when I call her exhausted later at the beginning of next week, she'll understand. 2. For those of you who are coming to Boston and would like to meet up with me, here's where I'll be, please come. 3. So that I can view my blog on my phone and see my  schedule in case I forget where I have to be while lounging too long with bloody mary's in some Boston bar with the people I love.  Okay, here it goes!

Ada’s AWP Events

Wednesday: Bob’s house to drop off dog.

Thursday:

check in to conference

Milkweed Editions Party 5:30-7:30pm (convention center, they serve manhattans) 
Sheraton, unconfirmed room as of now.

Offsite Event: New America Anthology

Date: Thursday, March 7

Time: 8PM

Locaiton: Outpost 186

186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square

With: Connie Clegg Hales

John Hodgen

Burt Kimmelman

Ada Limón

Sheryl St. Germain

Evie Shockley

Hal Sirowitz

Patricia Smith

James Tolan

Sandy Tseng

Estha Weiner

Friday:

Event: FAWC keeping it real

Date: Friday, March 8

Time: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Location: Room 201

With:

Mark Wunderlich

Daisy Fried

A.J. Verdelle

Jill McDonough

Event: Book Fair Signing, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine 

Date: Friday, March 8

Time:  12-1pm

Location: at the University of Iowa Press tables (E1 and E2) at the AWP Bookfair

Event: Teaching (and Learning!) with First Books of Poetry 


Date: Friday, March 8


Time:  4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. 


Location: Room 201, Hynes Convention Center

Event: Reading Gulf Coast/Bat City Review

Date: Friday, March 8

Time: 8:30pm

Location: David Friend Recital Hall

With:

Jeffrey McDaniel

Ada Limón

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Jamaal May

Matt Hart

Darcie Dennigan

Timothy Donnelly

Saturday:

Event Title: Against Veils -- A Tribute to Alan Dugan


Date: Saturday, March 9


Time: 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.


Location: Room 202, Hynes Convention Center

(Reading Love Song I & Thou)

With:

“Love Song: I and Thou”

Ada Limón

“Elegy”

John Skoyles

“On a Seven-Day Diary”

Gail Mazur

“Last Statement For a Last Oracle”

David Wojahn

“Note: The Sea Grinds Things Up”

Michael Morse

“Takeoff on Armageddon

—For Ronald Reagan”

Nick Flynn

“On a Desolation of the Animals at Night”

Adrienne Su

“Suburban

Ada Limón

“On Flowers. On Negative Evolution”

Matthew Lippman

“On a Desolation of the Animals at Night”

Adrienne Su

“Suburban Exorcism”

David Rivard

“Spring Song for Symplocarpus

Foetida and Me”

Jill McDonough

“On a Myth. On a Conventional Wisdom”

Victoria Redel

“In Favor of a Free Public Library System”

Michael Collier

“Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli”

Alan Dugan

Event: PBQ at 40, An Anniversary Reading

Date: Saturday, March 9

Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Location: Room 309, Hynes Convention Center

With:

Jason Schneiderman

Gregory Pardlo

Keetje Kuipers

Leave Boston.