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A wonderful time was had by all last night in Hickory at the Taste Full Beans coffee house where Mule poets read their work and shared the caffeine buzz with each other. Thanks to Scott Owens for all his preparations, thanks to Poetry Hickory and thanks be to Helen Losse for her hard work and determination.

Two YouTube videos, made by Jess Carty, are available. In the first video, Helen Losse reads her work, followed by Scott Owens reading a piece of creative non-fiction that I wrote years ago — it’s a description of my paralegal days when I worked for Michael Fox in Greenville NC. It begins at 3:52, if you want to skip ahead for my genius… ahem…
Video #1

Video # 2

Poet Losse has a marvelous interview published today on Very Like a Whale.  It is a wonderful thing, having a poet as one of your best friends. I would wish such a fate upon everyone.

I plan to keep publishing as many and as diverse a group of poets from the south as I can until we decide we’re ready to archive the present Mule. I’m not sure when that will be. I think when our ten years are up, we may decide to put the Mule out to pasture. I’d like our April 2017 Dead Mule to kick butt like a donkey, jackass and a mule combined. But that’s just dreaming. In other words, I want to go out with a bang! I want it to make the Washington Post. Big Washington. Not Little Washington. At least Silliman’s Blog.