If you are in New Orleans

Reading at Gold Room this Friday

Hello friends, dears, readers, people from a lost world:

I am relieved to see that in my last post, April 2021, I confessed that I did not feel much like writing. That is, it’s reassuring that my silence was likely expected. I’m sheepish, a bit, coming here, seeing an abandoned project, even if I had good reasons to abandon it.

I’m here today to let you know that I am reading in New Orleans this Friday at the Gold Room reading series. The event starts at 8 p.m. at the Zeitgeist, 6621 St. Claude Avenue. I’ll be reading with Karisma Price, Té V. Smith, and Daniel W.K. Lee.

It’ll be my first time reading prose in a few years. I have a new essay I’ve been working on about not wanting to write anymore. And grief.

I hope this interruption was welcome, or at least, not too annoying. I will include a poem as payment for your time. It’s by the new U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón. It’s called “The Raincoat.”

Love,

Cate