Projects/News
News
- My new play Hamlet in Love will open October 21, 2010, in the new Black Box Theatre at Silverton High School. Rehearsals begin in earnest on September 20.
- The Silverton Poetry Festival presented nine events April 10-18, 2010. As part of the festival, I collaborated with baritone Christopher Wicks in a performance of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin at the Christian Science Society, 110 S. Third St., Silverton, Oregon, on April 11. We repeated it on June 13 at the Christian Science Church in Salem.
- My play Summer Lightning played June 12-28, 2009, at Brush Creek Playhouse, Silverton, Oregon. The text is available on Robert Patrick’s Caffè Cino website. A slideshow of my production by William Naiditch is on YouTube.
Current activities
- Seeking publisher for my biography of John P. Dodd (1941-1991)
- Seeking publisher for my novel, First, the Shipwreck—a Cat’s Tale.
- Silverton Poetry Association (treasurer)
- Ongoing blog (michaeltownsendsmith.blogspot.com)
News from Fast Books (fastbookspress.com)
- Jesse & Elvis, novel by Vere McCarty, available at Powell’s, from Amazon, or from P. O. Box 1268, Silverton OR 97381 for $10 (special publisher’s price) plus $3.50 shipping. Bookstores can order it from Ingram.