Fulcrum

I went to a reading tonight sponsored by the New England Poetry Club at the Yenching Library at Harvard. It was Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, the editors of Fulcrum magazine. They're Russian, married to each other and live in Cambridge. Both very good poets and so easy to talk to, which is a rare delight. Philip was sure he recognized me from somewhere, and I get the feeling we have met, but I can't remember where. He also went to Harvard, so I'm sure our circles overlapped at some point.

Even though I'm fully in temp-slavery, I couldn't resist buying both their books. Gogol in Rome, by Katia Kapovich, and Monkey Time, by Philip Nikolayev. I can't wait to read them.