New Writing in 2018
My attention will soon have to turn to all of the exciting Foundlings publications and other projects popping up and popping off in this first half of 2018. I have had a few small publications of my own worth mentioning, though.The most noteworthy, and the most fun to write, was an essay on Buffalo's Silo City and some of the men and women who've shaped the place over the years. In "The Next Gyration" I profiled Rick Smith, Swannie Jim, members of ELAB and Torn Space, and Harry R. Wait, the engineer whose slipform technique first allowed the silos to rise. Find it in the latest issue of Traffic East.Speaking of Torn Space, I got to review that company's exceptional production of Caryl Churchill's Far Away. Read it in Buffalo Theatre Guide.On Valentine's Day, a Twitter-project called The Napkin Letter featured a new poem of mine, "dry january." (Expect more work in this vein.)
“Dry January,” a poem by Aidan Ryan (@aidanryan) pic.twitter.com/3val15vyhu
— The Napkin (@thenapkinletter) February 14, 2018