My friend Krista and I saw Alice Sebold from the second row of Zellerbach Hall tonight. What a treat! There's a lot I'd like to recount -- but since I'm dog tired and it's late, I'll make one observation here in the hope that I'll be able to say more later:

Alice Sebold extolled the excellencies of poetry in her own writing process. Though she is a prose writer, she draws inspiration, energy, and new vision from meditating on poetry. Sebold read several poems during the course of the evening. When asked whether she herself writes poetry, she replied that although she writes some decent poems, she is not currently attempting to getting any of them published.