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I Match What I Read: transitioning from BAP 2017 to Tony Hoagland’s REAL SOFISTIKASHUN: Essays on Poetry & Craft (2006). • • • #americanpoetry #poetry #bestamericanpoetry2017 #tonyhoagland (at City Heights, San Diego)

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Cap off the weekend w/ downtown hangout w/ @jennferrada. Those are frog legs ur looking at. • • • #pendrysandiego #pendryhotels #fifthandrose #froglegs #food #waterislife (at Fifth & Rose)

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The presence of Jesus everywhere. • • • #lasrocas (at Las Rocas Resort & Spa Rosarito)

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Had a full, fun weekend. On Saturday, I accompanied Viktor to Baja California. No, not TJ but a bit further south to several hamlets. One of which was Las Rocas, a nice, quiet small town with beautiful views of the ocean & cheap food & drinks. • • • #bajacalifornia #lasrocas #lasrocasresort (at Las Rocas Resort & Spa Rosarito)

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My review of THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH, a play running till the end of this week at Divisionary Theatre. • • • #diversionarytheatre #thehappiestplaceonearth #disneyland #theatre #theater #theaterreviews (at Diversionary Theatre)

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To reward myself for testing Negative on my once-every-three month HIV testing, I stopped by Footnote Books in Hillcrest for some new reads. Clint, don’t be mad that I spent $20-some on these four books; I was able to get sandwich bread, too. It’s a Nguyen-Nguyen situation. • • • #bookstagram #bookworm #hillcrest #garrisonkeillor #philiproth #shortshorts #shortshortstories #theatre #smartman (at Footnote Books)

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I Match What I Consume: yeah. • • • #imatchwhatiread #bestamericanpoetry2017 (at City Heights, San Diego)

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This is Ilya Kaminsky, the 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. & this is Ilya’s stunning one-&-a-half line poem serving as the opener to this month’s issue of POETRY Mag. • • • #ilyakaminsky #poetry #poetrymagazine #guggenheimfellowship #sdsumfa

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My two housemates. Traditional Vietnamese treatment for getting the “bad wind” out of your body when ur down w/ a cold. (at City Heights, San Diego)

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Done w/ April issue of POETRY. This foto was taken last night when I was down w/ a cold. Poetry warms me. (at City Heights, San Diego)

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I Match What I Read: nonmatching but complimentary: colorful pj’s & socks along w/ April Issue of POETRY Magazine. • • • #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrymagazine (at City Heights, San Diego)

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I Match What I Read: Chino in light-brown chinos & yeller T-shirt & Flannery O’Connor’s COMPLETE STORIES, which took me abt one month to read. • • • #fiction #americanfiction #shortstory #literature #flanneryoconnor #agoodmanishardtofind #ahardmanisgoodtofind (at City Heights, San Diego)

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I Match What I Read: pj’s & cover of GREAT AMERICAN PROSE POEMS (2003), which I finished today, Tues. 4/3/18 @ 6:26 am. • • • #prosepoetry #prosepoem #literature #poetry #davidlehman (at City Heights, San Diego)

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Ethiopian for dindin. (at Awash ethiopian restaurant & market)

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GREAT AMERICAN PROSE POEMS & oysters. (at Two Paddles Fish & Grill)

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Completed Larry Levis. Slow-going at first until the title poem—a mini-epic. • • • #poetry #poet #larrylevis (at City Heights, San Diego)

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Working on these three reads in tandem. Can u c the titles? Flannery O’Connor ~ American Prose Poems ~ Larry Levis. • • • #larrylevis #davidlehman #flanneryoconnor #shortstory #shortfiction #poetry #prosepoetry #prosepoem #poem #literature #literati #bookstagram #bookworm (at City Heights, San Diego)