Off the map at AWP Minneapolis

If you followed any of my Twitter or Facebook updates during AWP Minneapolis, you'll have noticed that there was quite a bit going on within the confines of the Convention Center and hotel and the sheltering skyways in between:
There was The Rose O'Neill Literary House table in the Bookfair, #1724! Poet Matt Rasmussen signed the entire edition of Literary House Press's 2015 AWP Commemorative Broadside, a collaboration with Water~Stone Review which featured his poem "Outgoing."I attended fantastic and absorbing panel discussions about "New Trends in Literary Publishing,""The Rise of the Chapbook,""The Bigness of the Small Poem," and "Fascinated or Haunted: Why We Continue to Write & Rewrite Fairy Tales." All topics that are important and exciting to me. And I took lots of notes! And probably most exciting of all was our official Cherry Tree Launch Party at the Hyatt Regency! What a fabulous evening that was. That was all …
There was The Rose O'Neill Literary House table in the Bookfair, #1724! Poet Matt Rasmussen signed the entire edition of Literary House Press's 2015 AWP Commemorative Broadside, a collaboration with Water~Stone Review which featured his poem "Outgoing."I attended fantastic and absorbing panel discussions about "New Trends in Literary Publishing,""The Rise of the Chapbook,""The Bigness of the Small Poem," and "Fascinated or Haunted: Why We Continue to Write & Rewrite Fairy Tales." All topics that are important and exciting to me. And I took lots of notes! And probably most exciting of all was our official Cherry Tree Launch Party at the Hyatt Regency! What a fabulous evening that was. That was all …