Jake Adam, Noah Eli, and Joshua Marie came in Friday night and we shared some pizza and beer at Yia Yia's. Soy cheese pizza. A bread popsicle. Later some good scotch at Mathias'. Black metal. Book talk. On Saturday we hit Kuhl's, the epicenter of Lincoln poetry, where all Lincoln poets (visiting or residing) get their ribeye and eggs and hashbrowns and pancakes. Sheldon Art Museum. A quick nap for Z. We were all a bit disappointed Clean Part fan and former reader Adam couldn't make it up. His absensce was heavy on all our shoulders. But we'll always have Austin. The reading went very well.
All three Clean Part poets were expert readers, polished and exuberant. About 45 people showed, and it seems our lack of space/seating turned away a handful more. Alas!
Noah Eli Gordon, everybody, holding a chunk of bread on a straw.
Jake reading from Murder Ballads in front of the Nebraska map beside the pink door. A Clean Part tee hangs in the distance.
Mathias and Z. Z holding the mysterious pie. Mathias holding a bowl of hope.
Noah. Mathias. Ashley.
Joshua looked the wrong way.
Denny rocking the No You Didn't again. And a clean part button.
Noah rocking the Noah Eli Gordon Book Jacket photo.
Noah and Joshua listening to me introduce Noah, I think.
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"whet"
(the appetite)
Thank you, Anon. The correct usage of that verb has always alluded me (<---joke).
Those pictures actually do wet my appetite.
Lincoln rawks.
that's totally going to be my official photo from now on. even when I'm like... 80 or something. At my funeral, that picture will be looking back at everyone from those big easles at the front of the room.
and by papergardenrecords... I mean Denny.
What??? no Bread Straw pic???!!!
Ok then, Noah. The bread straw pic has been unleashed.
my black metal name is Mathias Svalina
I'm getting an MFA in Black Sabbath.
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