Ben Koppel came and read portions of VICTORY through H_NGM_N press.
Though Koppel's work is so very different from my own (very excited, a manic sort of depression, not naive but embracing of the shit we trudge through) his reading was inspiring.
And how young they all are! This whole clique of wonderful Louisianian writers. Kristin Sanders and Ben Koppel and Carolyn Mikulencak.
And then the other writers that I've connected with/met/fallen obsessively in love with through Kristin: Kate Durbin, Jennifer Tamayo, Kate Zambreno, Ariana Reines, Richard Siken, Arielle Greenberg, Paul Legault, Marie Calloway.
It's weird looking back to just one year ago. How I was anointing the feet of Anne Sexton and Sharon Olds.
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