He's alive!

It's a strange irony of literary studies that I don't read a lot. That is to say, I don't read a lot of authors who are still living (in fact, I do little else but read). Loyola's English Department hosted poet Desmond Egan recently, which gave me the chance to discover someone living and worth listening to. He's won a number of awards, but it's kinda hard to find his books. Here's an excerpt from one of 'em, which doesn't include the best of what I heard him read, but what are you gonna do. This guy happens also to be a major organizer for this Hopkins festival that happens for a week every summer in Ireland. At the mention of Ireland Katie started to think maybe there was some point to all this literature stuff after all.