asakiyume | Intoxicating fun

Well the reading yesterday was tremendous fun for me, the reader--I think in very large part because I was reading with Claire, who can come to a thing so alight with joy and energy it's impossible not to respond. I fall in love every time I'm around her.

The other very large part of the joy was all the friends I got to see, and who I got to introduce--sort of, as best you can with Zoom--to one another. I got to hear the voices of people I've only ever known through text before! And I got to see people I haven't seen for years. And people whom I became friends with in the most crazy ways! The spider that weaves the web of my friendships does so in a wonderful, unexpected way--it's a true blessing.

Claire's husband Carlos made a recording, which I'm now in possession of, so when I get a chance, I will see about uploading it to Youtube. Once it's up, I'll share the link.

Meanwhile I did promise people who attended that information that was shared in the chat I'd also share here, so I shall put it under the cut. Folks who are just dropping by, click on the "Info Under Here" link below!

1. Discount code--if you need help with the discount code for Annorlunda Books, email me at forrestfm@gmail.com

2. Books the students I taught at the jail especially liked. ... I didn't actually talk about this during the talk, but in case people want to know! A lot was poetry:

Questions for Ada, by Ijeoma Umebinyuo
The Rose That Grew from Concrete, by Tupak Shakur
Haiku to Nurse by, by Melanie Lewis

They also liked The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, which is a novel in verse, and the memoir Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah.

So I think... now I can return you to your regularly scheduled (which is to say, irregularly updating) Asakiyume Mita blogging!