I was privileged to take part in three fantastic poetry events this past week: Friday the 16th at the Morgan Conservatory, Saturday the 17th at Visible Voice Books, and Tuesday the 20th's Lix and Kix 1-year anniversary free-for-all (featuring interweaves by legendary Cincinnati poet Ralph La Charity and musical accompaniment by 10-string guitar master JJ Haaz) at Bela Dubby.  The first two of these events were hosted by Burning River to celebrate their publication of New York poet Jane Rosenberg LaForge's chapbook After Voices.  All three were very special to me in different ways, and I plan to write more about them when I have an opportunity — but for now I'll quickly draw your attention to a few relevant items:

Jane Rosenberg LaForge's After Voices is now available both as a pdf download and in a very nice printed version (which I always prefer).  You can get both here: http://burningriver.info/?page_id=205.

I took photos at all three events, and have just posted Saturday's in a Facebook album.  I'll try to post Friday's and Tuesday's in the next day or so.

I also filmed Friday's and Tuesday's gigs and will try to post highlights online as soon as humanly possible (bear in mind I'm way behind and still have footage from as far back as April that I want to post, but I'm gonna get busy on it).  In the meantime, however, I'm pleased to report that our friend Ken Kitt also filmed Tuesday's Lix and Kix and has begun posting clips on his PoetryVidz You Tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/poetryvidz.  Here's a clip he posted of me reading a new poem called "Peacing It Together" accompanied by JJ Haaz:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvN3dkOwJ4