Last night, the living room leg of the Tiny Tour went off spectacularly (despite the heat). Frank Sherlock and Dan Machlin both gave amazing readings and Christopher Roberti broke my heart with his beautiful introductions and jokes. In addition, I would be remiss not to mention the delicious chocolate cakes we enjoyed from Caked Cakes. Caked Cakes will hopefully be a staple of many legs of the Tiny Tour, as they are baked lovingly by two gorgeous women in Brooklyn who support poetry to no end. As well as poetry, they support all happy occasions with their cakes, so I urge you to check them out the next time you are in New York. They have free delivery in the New York area.
Videos of this leg and the kitchen leg will be up soon! Technical difficulties abound, but please check back soon as I will soon have the technical difficulties in check.
Hello!
Many of you are probably a little familiar with this website, but might be unsure of its purpose. The main purpose of this site is to house the Tiny Tour, a very small book tour in support of my new poetry book, AWE. What is a Tiny Tour, you might ask? Let me take this opportunity to tell you. Due to the practical limitations of trying to put on a full scale national poetry tour at this time, I have decided to call back to a long intellectual tradition of holding salons, happenings, lectures, and readings within one’s home through something I am going to call a Tiny Tour. I am going to squeeze a book tour into my Philadelphia apartment, and invite guests to experience the readings by joining me there and here on this website. Guest readers, musicians, dancers and other performers will join me for a series of readings in the kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom, fire escape, and hallway. It is my big hope to both gain agency over the event of a poetry reading, as well as demystify the experience for a larger poetry-hungry audience, by providing easy access to my readings over the internet.
The Tiny Tour began in October and will continue through the next few months. Keep checking here for more information on upcoming tour dates and locations, as well as video from the readings as they occur.