José F.A. Oliver is a poet and the founder and artistic director of the literary festival in Hausach, Germany: “Leselenz".
This morning I gave a reading at a high school in Hausach. The kids were fairly interested and rather amused.
After the reading José F.A. Oliver told me about poems he had written in and about Amsterdam. He started reading them.
We were sitting at the outdoor café at Hotel Löwen. Another author mentioned “comforting melancholy”.