Final night time, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage…
Kate’s fourth e-book — How About Now — got here out as we speak, and tackles friendship, marriage, parenting, and getting old, with a pleasant dollop of existential dread. I do know it’s a daring assertion, however it could be my favourite of her books to this point.
“I’m an open e-book,” Kate instructed me (evidenced by the truth that she has a poem known as ‘At Pelvic Ground 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 a little bit snack earlier than the speak. How cute is that?
For those who’d like to observe the occasion, right here’s the video, under. I reduce 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 laborious to listen to at first, however will get higher about 30 seconds later, as soon as we discovered learn how to accurately maintain our microphones.
For those who’d prefer to skip round, listed below 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 youths
15:32 — we made Freddie arise hahahaha
17:22 — Kate reads the poem ‘One Day’
18:26 — Lily Allen album
20:09 — how Kate is an open e-book
21:08 — Kate’s favourite line within the e-book
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’ve Boston and Minneapolis on our checklist.
P.S. 9 ways in which Kate Baer is making her 40s her greatest decade but, and Kate’s poems about having infants and toddlers.
