One of my students is a co-founder of this superduper organization here in Albany called the Capital District Federation of Ideas (CDFI). They were kind enough to invite me to their new
"non-boring" lecture series, the University of Ideas.

My talk is called "17 conspiracy theories in 38 years." I was going to do a proper lecture, but the process turned into my working on some new poems and making connections to older ones. To wit: I realize that out of, say, 250 pages of completed poetry, about 100 fits the bill as a "conspiracy theory." It could be a poem of complaint, paranoia, manifesto, bill of rights, royal we statement, or tall tale. They're all conspiracy theories. So as it turns out, I have plenty of material to choose from.

I'll post up the set list here soon, as long with some real, bona fide conspiracy theories. Meantime, if you live round yonder, I'll see you at school.

UPDATE: Here's the set list from tonight. The CDFI peops recorded it; maybe I'll put it up here.

Bildungsroman #3
Poem for The Evil Twin Episode of Knight Rider
On the Death of Owen "The Blue Blazer" Hart
Arraignment of a Beach Boy
Pay-Per-View Etude
Poem About Happy Days
Ending with a Line from Catullus
Effusive Letter to a Friend in Crisis
Amarcord
Just Call Me Beastmaster of the Morning
Falsetto Pops
Barbaric, Classical, Solemn
When will ballads be ballads again?
On Growing Old
Diamondlungen
It's Just That I'm Pretty
More Noise About Silence (for Thomas Carlyle) [dedication optional]
Pick of the Litter