[Last year, at lunch with Tom Lisk, at Porters, I was required, being stricken with laryngitis, to communicate via writing on napkins. I found the napkins tonight; here is the transcription of what I wrote for that conversation.]
She's waiting
to start her new
job at
UNC
She's starting
something new
next week--I
think it'll be
mostly nights
Ginsberg
teaching
classes
I used a dictionary
20 words at
random
Would you
like to
read there
?
I'll e-mail
possible
dates
late
1960s
country music
"Olives" in
Unpleasant Event
Schedule
ed.
Dan
Nester
I graded 120
papers
For this one, she picked
words she liked, not
random
art gallery
antiques
café
he was
Halpern's student
He's considered,
like, the next
R. Jarrell
he's mentioned w/
Vendler as a top critic
his poetry's good
People send in
emotions and he
has to act
them out for his camera
(still photos)
Like..."How you feel
when you forget to
lock the door"
they have a magazine
called Word Wrights
No
DC
shell
Ve
Argonne
Daniel Johnston--
he's this
manic-
depressive
singer
like an
"outsider
artist"
He's really
talented--
has weird
songs
He wri
I like her
store, so I
wanted to
promote it
I thought
it'd be funny to
say
for my
poetry
readings
"Visi
Tony said
my work reminds
him of Creeley--
very
"precise"
The Lonedale
Operator
"Visiting"
in castagraf
People cdn't figure
out what the setting was.
Was it a bar,
etc.
Belle & Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe
Waitress
If You're Feeling
Sinister
Have you
seen Nick
Halpern?
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