The final stop of the first AA was Toi's reading at the New School. I was supposed to go with a group of students from the UII, but as one dropped out the rest fell off like dominoes. Except for Tyree. So Tyree and I headed out to take the PATH into the Village. We stopped as he bought a father and daughter two servings of chicken and rice and gave the father the change for bus fare. On the way home, he bought Charlie, one of our country's homeless vets, two gyros and invited him to come to a meeting at ECC on Saturday at 9:30am. The American Legion is going to report on the services available to veterans.
The reading was beautiful. It felt like being home.
Toi said that diversity of form in her book, The Undertaker's Daughter, is a type of resistance. Diversity as resistance. Multiplicity as resistance. The book is about transformation. It is possible.
Monica Hand was selling the books but also had some out the trunk copies of her book. She gave me one. With a Nina Simone collage by Krista Franklin on the cover. Turns out Monica is from Newark, so we are going to try to organize a reading with her at ECC and her alma mater Arts High School. I also want to try to organize a taping of City of Poets with her and maybe also have an interview. It would be good to have Patch or the Star Ledger cover her visit. And to work with the Humanities Division to organize the event. Maybe I will see if some of the area colleges would like to cosponsor the event.
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