A catalogue of who I got to see, talk to, drink with, grope, fondle, praise...
(Thursday-Sunday, in no particular order.)
Jessica Piazza, Reb Livingston, David McDonald, Amy Lemmon, Kim Addonizio, David Yezzi, Ernie Hilbert, Dan Nester, Jehanne DuBrow, Laura Van Prooyen, The Barrelhouse Boys (Dave Housely, Aaron Pease, Mike Ingram, Matt Kirkpatrick, Dan Brady), Tod Goldberg, Evie Shockley, Craig Arnold, Van Jordan, Bruce Snider, Josh Rivkin, Mark McKee, Alex Lemon, Lynn Domina, Mike Peich, Anne Bayse, Rebecca Wee, Bruce Covey, Ken Rumble, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Brent Goodman, Steven Schroeder, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Eric Bourland, Amy Guth, Carly Sachs, Lea Graham, James Arthur, Rauan Klassnik, PF Potvin, Susan Sommers-Willet, Ian Stanssel, Kyle Semmel, Tarfiah Faizullah, Allison Amend, Jane Hertenstein, Jill Baumgaertner, Sandra Beasley, Scott Cairns, Barbara Crooker, Paul Shepherd, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, TA Noonan, Danielle Pafunda, Lara Glernum, Ravi Shankar, Cody Todd, Nicky Schildkraut, Bill Coyle, Jill Rosser, and surely a hundred other people I am totally leaving off the list.
I slept for 25 hours straight when I got home.
For real.
It was a very good conference.
