Dear Mairéad Byrne,
I read with great interest and appreciation your series of Reports from Orono. If you ever follow through on your desire to visit South - or North - Dakota, as you described in your second Report, and if there would be enough forewarning of such a journey, please let me know. It might then be possible to arrange for you to give one or two poetry-readings in Minnesota [as you must travel through Minnesota to reach either South or North Dakota].
In November of 2002, I did a reading at Colby College in Maine. That day, I traveled by car from Saint John, New Brunswick where I had also given a reading the previous day. There was a snow storm and sleet storm as we drove. It was a wild - but beautiful - drive to Colby. We traveled up and down many steep forested hills. Going-up the hills was not bad. However, going-down the winding and slippery hill-roads in the storm was an amazing - and empowering - experience.
Several years before, I gave a performance at the old Art Museum [since demolished] on the Orono campus. So, I read your Reports with fond memories of my own.
Bestwishes,
Séamas Cain
<http://seamascain.writernetwork.com>
P.S., I hope you will continue to write such Reports for the Brit-Ir-Po list in the future!
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