Final evening, I spent an hour laughing with poet Kate Baer on stage…
Kate’s fourth ebook — How About Now — got here out right now, 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 may be my favourite of her books to this point.
“I’m an open ebook,” Kate advised me (evidenced by the truth that she has a poem referred to 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?
When you’d like to observe the occasion, right here’s the video, under. I minimize 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 first, however will get higher about 30 seconds later, as soon as we found out the best way to accurately maintain our microphones.
When you’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 discuss 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 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’ve got Boston and Minneapolis on our record.
P.S. Nine ways that Kate Baer is making her 40s her best decade yet, and Kate’s poems about having babies and toddlers.
