More details as I have them, but I'll be at the very excellent Seabury School for a couple of hours.

In all my years in the state, all my time driving up and down the Parks Highway, this will be my first time in the community of Big Lake. I'm really looking forward to it. I'll read a bit from the new novel, will share poems, will play fiddle, and with luck we'll have a guest musician or two. It's my Alaska Book Week finale!

On the short list of events I've always wanted to do was to come through UAF, where I got my Creative Writing MFA in the late 80's, and do an event of some kind. So, finally, and I'm coming with my 20 books, including Now Entering Alaska Time, a novel partially set in Fairbanks, and for which I now have a new CD. This is also an Alaska Book Week event.

This is the culmination of 4-day residency from October 3-6 which will include visits to four schools, writing workshops in schools and in the community, and more. The show is also part of Alaska Book Week, so in addition to poems, and something with my new novel, I'll definitely be playing fiddle, including the Talkeetna Waltz, where I bet I'm joined by local fiddler and Conscious Coffee House co-owner, Kim Hutchings.

Ken's only Anchorage appearance for Alaska Book Week will be at the Akela Space, 320 6th Street, downtown Anchorage. He's featuring his 2022 novel, Now Entering Alaska Time, plus the new CD that goes with it. Lots of work from his other books too. Expect surprises, and maybe a guest musician or two.

Looking forward to being in NW Ohio and seeing lots of long-time friends and making new ones. I'll be breezing in from Illinois, and an event the day before.

I'll be solo, and it gives me an excuse to share my Carl Sandburg poem, my Robin Metz poem (long-time Knox College professor who passed away a couple of years ago and who wrote the foreword to my Are You Famous? memoir), something or other from my September 11 suite of poems, and of course take out the fiddle and mandolin. Looking forward to being back in Galesburg. I think it's the first time in a decade.

WAA in Calgary? Sure! Looking forward to the conference.

Postponed in 2020 and 2021, we'll see how it goes for 2022. I made it through the lottery, so we'll see! Dates are August 11-21. My show: Portrait of an Artist as Santa Claus (the Post-Trump Edition). Originally I was going to do my Trump Sonnets or How I've Taken on Donald Trump (and Won), but times have changed. I sure look forward to spending time in Edmonton, where I've never been.

Back to Zoom. I'm part of a way-cool anthology and will be reading for about 10 minutes with several other fantastic writers. More news about this as I have it. You can check it out from anywhere!

This is not just any Happy Hour gig. I'll be playing with wonderful guitarist and mandolin player, Steve Hodges, who I last joined forces with at 2021 Word of South Festival. We'll play tunes, probably bust out a twin mandolin piece at some point, and otherwise kick off the long holiday weekend. I'll have my new novel too! Really looking forward to being back in Tallahassee.

Downtown Lafayette, I'll be in the very cool Beausoleil Books bookstore--and folks can bring in beverage and food from the next door Whisper Room. My first public event in Acadiana in awhile. There's not only Now Entering Alaska Time to have on hand, but I'll have The Writing Party, which was almost totally written in Breaux Bridge, and Sports Page, and more. Of course there will be some fiddling. Perhaps a few special musical guests. We'll see!

I'll be joining forces with Jim LaVilla-Havelin; we'll both be celebrating new books. Of course there will be music, stories, and poems.

I'll be joined by Houston banjo player, Hannah Underwood. We'll be keeping it moving and making sure everybody has lots of fun. More information is right here: https://www.brazosport.edu/business-community/clarion/events/2022/Ken-Waldman.html

What's between Moab and Houston? A whole lot of great places, including Salida. I'll be cruising through with the new book and fiddle amid the big FIBArk weekend activities. (I was passing through Salida mid April after my CSU-Pueblo date--enough time to set this up and stop by community radio station KHEN where I left a few CDs for airplay, and a bunch of books for their spring pledge drive). A Salida music friend, Andrea Earley Coen, will be joining me for some twin fiddling and more. I expect to be doing bookstore events in Salida on Friday and Saturday both--kids' show, general show, and more.

Really looking forward to this--I last did a public event in Moab almost 20 years ago in Star Hall. Time sure flies.

Happy to return to the Western Folklife Center, this time with the new book. Stories, poems, fiddle tunes, and I'm hopeful it'll be like last time so Ken Harriman can join me on guitar. (Just stopped in Elko in mid April where I learned this show will also be livestreamed--anybody with an internet connection can attend.) https://www.westernfolklife.org/event-calendar/2022/6/14/ken-waldman

My friends, April and Eliana, mother and daughter, are hosting me at their house in Tacoma: bring instruments and a dish to share. Information? Drop a note, and I'll pass on contact information.

This will be a fundraiser for Anchorage Folk Festival, the sponsor. We'll see who all will be joining me. Expect another round of high-energy string-band music with stories and poems. And it's all because of that Now Entering Alaska Time novel. More? Check out the link here: https://myalaskatix.com/events/ken-waldman-alaskas-fiddling-poet-at-the-anchorage-museum-6-5-2022

Thrilled to do a program at the Denali Education Center in the Sheldon Center there. Fiddle tunes, stories, poems, and more.