I extend an Open Invitation

to the following poets/people for a night of dinner, drinking, dancing, dithyrambing or any other debauchery of their choice if they ever find themselves in the vicinity of Austin or any other city in which I might live. I have whittled this list down to peeps who I do not know personally. Those of you I do know are always welcome to join me in whatever tacky behavior tickles our temperments. You know that.

1. Simon Armitage
2. Amy Gerstler
3. A.E. Stallings
4. Daniel Mark Epstein
5. Neil Astley
6. Mattea Harvey
7. Alessandra Lynch
8. Michael Ryan

Dears, note: This IS NOT a Come-On (except in your case, Simon, Darling. But even then, it's on the harmlessly mild side of playfully intended.. not quite a come on, exactly... maybe a c'mon?). Rather, I have things I would like to talk with each of you about the work you do. I've learned something either instrumental or bad-ass or irrelevantly irreverent from each of you.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just what comes to my immediate mind.

Jill