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I got back shortly before dinner, and after dinner we had a presentation by poet John Wesley Horton and biographer Joshua Kendall (whose biography of Noah Webster is coming out in April). I was tired from the driving and examining so, although I went back out to my studio after the presentations I didn’t get much done.
I did get a fair amount done on Tuesday. At lunch, one of the visual artists, Scott Finch opened his studio and it was fun to take a look at his work (yo-yo’s, hula hoops, death). (I forgot to mention earlier that last week Alexandra Rozenman had done the same. A group open-studio session is planned for next Monday.) Tuesday evening we had another reading. This time we heard from poet Laura Apol, who read a number of very moving poems about some work she’s been doing in Rwanda, and prose-writer Daniel Meltzer who read a couple of funny pieces.
A couple of people are leaving today, but a few more arrive . . . which is the nature of such colonies.