This year, AWP is in Boston, a short bus ride away from NYC, which gives me and Sona absolutely no reason not to go. I’ve never been to Boston, and the bits and pieces I do know of the City have made me want to go check it out: it has loads of bookshops (even one just for poetry), a subway system. Yep, that pretty much sums up the extent of my knowledge of the City. My instructor, Melinda Lopez, who I took an intensive playwriting workshop with at the Fine Arts Work Center last summer is from there and constantly raves about it, especially the Boston Play Marathon (come on, New York!). And my former creative writing professor, Steve Yarbrough, moved there a few years…