and now I am in Iowa
Ames, Iowa. Drank at a place called Baudelaire with Molly Jo Rose and Jim Coppoc, who just wrote a paper on slam poetry culture. Soft Skull is doing an oral history of slam, so a connection was made. Everyone is friendly here -- which reminds me of what people tell me about midwesterners -- if they are nice all the time, how do I know when they want to kill me?
