View from Writing Window December 19

Started new novel, on new moon. Here is the view from my writing window today….

Some Upcoming Appearances 2010

Mon Feb 22 :  Tallahassee FL: Florida State University. 8p.m. Reading with Q & A.

Tues Feb 23:   Atlanta, Georgia: Savannah College of Art and Design- Atlanta Campus. SCAD Events Space. Part of Ivy Hall Writers’ Series. 6:30p.m. Lecture with Q & A.

Thurs Feb 25:   Davidson College in Davidson, NC: 2009/2010 Conarroe Distinguished Lecture. 8p.m. Lecture with Q & A.

Tues March 2:   Reading and interview with Leonard Lopate at Queens College in Flushing, NY. 7p.m.

Wed March 3:  University of Buffalo: 2009/2010 UB Visiting Speaker Series. Alumni Arena. 8p.m. Lecture with Q & A.

Thurs March 4: Hamilton College in Clinton, NY: Winton Tolles Lecture.

Wed March 17:  To Germany

Fri March 19:  Reading at the Cologne Literary Festival. http://litcolony.de/festival

Sun March 21:   Nelly Sachs Prize in Dortmund, Germany. Held in Citizens Hall of Dortmund’s Town Hall.

Wed Apr 14:  Richmond, VA. Randolph-Macon College. http://www.rmc.edu/

Wed Apr 21:  Fourth Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference at University of Wisconsin in Madison.  11a.m. Lecture with Q & A.

May 8&9:  Pelee SpringSong. Pelee Island, ON, Canada- www.pelee.org/i

Wed June 9: Rochester Institute of Technology. Conference on The Future of Reading. 7p.m. Lecture with Q & A.

June 16-19: 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English: The Border as Fiction. York University, Toronto. www.yorku.ca/shortcon/

Fri July 16: Lakefield Literary Festival, Lakefield, ON- www.lakefieldliteraryfestival.com/index.html

Aug 13- Aug 15:  Winterset Literary Festival in Eastport, NFLD (Bonavista Bay). www.wintersetinsummer.ca

Aug. 28—Sept. 12:  Adventure Canada trip to Arctic. www.adventurecanada.com

Sept 26-31: International PEN congress in Japan. “Literature and the Environment”. Keynote speaker. www.japanpen.or.jp/en/convention2010

Oct 24-26:  Ellman Lectures at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. www.emory.edu/home/index.html

Oct 27-29: Nashville, Tennessee – Belmont University. Lecture/Reading with Q & A. http://www.belmont.edu/

Nov 30:  Read for the Cure event in Toronto. www.readforthecure.ca