Kathleen Rooney

This past weekend in Champaign…

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…Illinois, I got to participate in the Pygmalion Literary Festival, first on behalf of Rose Metal Press at the small press book fair… 007

..and then in the segment of the Lit Crawl that took place at Exile on Main Street and featured John Dudek…018

…Lindsey Gates-Markel…020

…Sean Karns (not pictured), and me…024

And then on Sunday, in Springfield, Illinois, I got to read in the Vachel Lindsay House…048

….for this lovely audience…053

…in the Poets in the Parlor Series. I read partly from Robinson Alone, hence the ‘stache: 057Thanks to Pygmalion Lit Fest and the Vachel Lindsay House Association for having me, and to everyone who came out to support independent literature on an early Fall weekend in Central Illinois.