my reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe yesterday evening

The good news is that everyone said I read very well; that the fellow who organized the reading is dating a rabbi who may be able to organize a reading for me at her very large congregation; and a member of the audience who works at Poets House said he will recommend that his employer buy "Little Promises" for the collection (he apologized that he didn't bring cash & couldn't buy a copy then & there).

The bad news is that I only sold one book. So I'll view it as a good dress rehearsal. Only one of the several friends who had emailed me saying they would come actually showed up, but she brought her straight-laced mother, and when I left the stage they had already left. She obviously missed the adjective "erotic" in the description of the poems.

my reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe yesterday evening

The good news is that everyone said I read very well; that the fellow who organized the reading is dating a rabbi who may be able to organize a reading for me at her very large congregation; and a member of the audience who works at Poets House said he will recommend that his employer buy "Little Promises" for the collection (he apologized that he didn't bring cash & couldn't buy a copy then & there).

The bad news is that I only sold one book. So I'll view it as a good dress rehearsal. Only one of the several friends who had emailed me saying they would come actually showed up, but she brought her straight-laced mother, and when I left the stage they had already left. She obviously missed the adjective "erotic" in the description of the poems.