It’s officially our last week in Spartanburg (at least, as the inaugural artists-in-residence, that is). The past three evenings have been filled with good music, good friends, and sadly, more than a few goodbyes.

This isn’t my final post, but do I want to say THANK YOU to all of our Sparkle City friends who have shared the past eleven months with us. I don’t know where to begin expressing how very much this experience has meant, the ways in which it has positively impacted me as an individual and as an artist.

I popped into Leah’s apartment today and nearly wept when I saw the piles of boxes. Please stop by the Showroom this week (poetry - Monday night, music - Thursday, and the Leah Brown/Wofford College dynamic duo is back F-SA with 365 Days/365 Plays). We’d love to see you before we all go our separate ways.

(Liz, Leah, and I are starting a band called Seth Kauffman, after our favorite Showroom musicians).

Hey guys, come see 365 Days/365 Plays in the Showroom tonight at 8 pm. It’s free and open to the public. Wofford students have been rehearsing downstairs all week, and Leah has the installation looking cooler than ever. Read more about the plays on her blog. (Also, Friday night at 8 pm)

Unfortunately, Casey will not be making a cameo this time.

Thanks to Kim Kimzey from the Herald-Journal for coming over and talking with us about our experiences in Spartanburg and developments in our artwork over the past eleven months.

You can read her article here.

We’ve come a long way, baby.

If you haven’t visited Fishouse before, be sure to check it out. The free online audio archive showcases emerging poets (poets with fewer than two published books at the time of submission) reading their own poems, as well as answering questions about poetry and the writing process. What a great resource!