Day 1 Book Tour

At 5am this morning, I awoke. It will take me several days to adjust to the change in time, but it is always easier going this way.

In about a half hour, I'll pick up DeLana at the Newark Penn Station and then we will be off to my first reading at Webster's Bookstore, 6pm, Allen Street, Penn State University-University Park/State College. I am thrilled to be doing this reading as I used to go to Webster's all the time, spending my refund checks and spare cash from work there, sometimes forgetting the food in favor of books. It was back then, as a college student, that I came to my love of sushi and books, preferably at the same time. By my last year at Penn State, the local sushi restaurants and Webster's saw much of my money. Webster's also allowed me to sell some of my first chapbooks there. I think that very few copies of those first books exist these days, but I think it is a lovely return for me to bring my first book of poetry there as well.

After the reading, I'm scheduled to meet up with friends from way back who stayed or Penn State or returned for graduate studies. I'm really looking forward to that exchange.

Also, one of the stops I really want to make is to the Penn State library. It's one of the settings of my novel and I'd like to get a more recent impression of it.

Should be a good day!