it'll be my attending a poetry reading since last may when eileen tabios was in town. since the birth of nicholas i've been laying low and staying at home. but tonight david larsen and sean finney are making the drive east from the bay area, so i can't resist. also, jack hirschman will be reading here in a couple of weeks. a couple of years ago i heard him read the day after bush did his state of the union speech. city lights books had just published hirschman's selected poems front lines. it was one of the most powerful readings i'd ever heard. afterward, richard hansen, publisher of poems-for-all series and host of tonight's reading, declared for him hirschman's reading was his state of the union address.

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hopefully i'll have a few pics from tonight and post them in a day or two.