Final night time, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage…
Kate’s fourth guide — How About Now — got here out right now, and tackles friendship, marriage, parenting, and growing older, with a pleasant dollop of existential dread. I do know it’s a daring assertion, however it is perhaps my favourite of her books thus far.
“I’m an open guide,” Kate instructed me (evidenced by the truth that she has a poem known as ‘At Pelvic Flooring Remedy’). “Everytime you inform the reality, you at all times hear, ‘Me, too.’”
The viewers was electrical — and requested such good questions, too.
Williamsburg Pizza even despatched a bit snack earlier than the speak. How cute is that?
For those who’d like to look at the occasion, right here’s the video, beneath. 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 onerous to listen to initially, however will get higher about 30 seconds later, as soon as we found out methods to appropriately maintain our microphones.
For those who’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 guide
21:08 — Kate’s favourite line within the guide
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 now have Boston and Minneapolis on our checklist.
P.S. 9 ways in which Kate Baer is making her 40s her greatest decade butand Kate’s poems about having infants and toddlers.
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