Final evening, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage…
Kate’s fourth ebook — How About Now — got here out as we speak, and tackles friendship, marriage, parenting, and growing old, with a pleasant dollop of existential dread. I do know it’s a daring assertion, however it is perhaps my favourite of her books up to now.
“I’m an open ebook,” Kate instructed me (evidenced by the truth that she has a poem referred to as ‘At Pelvic Flooring Remedy’). “Everytime you inform the reality, you all the time hear, ‘Me, too.’”
The viewers was electrical — and requested such good questions, too.
Williamsburg Pizza even despatched somewhat snack earlier than the speak. How cute is that?
Should you’d like to observe the occasion, right here’s the video, under. I lower to our precise dialogue, skipping the half the place I attempted to heat up the viewers by asking them to do the wave lol. It’s barely exhausting to listen to at the start, however will get higher about 30 seconds later, as soon as we discovered learn how to appropriately maintain our microphones.
Should you’d prefer to skip round, listed here are some timestamps:
12:16 — speaking about turning 40
13:52 — Kate reads the poem ‘Frog Queen’
14:33 — we speak about humorous preteens and teenagers
15:32 — we made Freddie rise up hahahaha
17:22 — Kate reads the poem ‘One Day’
18:26 — Lily Allen album
20:09 — how Kate is an open ebook
21:08 — Kate’s favourite line within the ebook
22:22 — lighting spherical with questions on her pets’ names and her intercourse playlist
27:45 — Kate on planning trivia nights and themed events
The place ought to we come subsequent? We have now Boston and Minneapolis on our checklist.
P.S. 9 ways in which Kate Baer is making her 40s her finest decade but, and Kate’s poems about having infants and toddlers.