Julia Cohen writes about, and posts images from, our Friday reading at East Coast Aliens, which drew a very good crowd (where do all these people hide during the other poetry readings?). It was difficult for me to go after Jim Behrle's reading that he did in that giant styrofoam troll mask, so I took the tone way down to a quieter level. Matt Henriksen said he had hoped that I would be in drag, but it turned out to be Brenda Iijima who was really in drag. Was fascinated by Dottie Lasky's flat insistence in her poems that she is "both a modernist and a romantic." An anti-irony or anti-anti-irony theme throughout the evening provoked mention of a friend's neologism: "confrontessional." Also observed some unexpected socio-cultural sympathies between my reading, Jim's, and Brenda's. It was a pleasant surprise to see Mark Horosky from Arizona days -- he is now a teacher here in Brooklyn and I'm excited that he's publishing my work in his position as guest-editor for the next issue of CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry.