Random Acts of Poetry
Forget busses. Canadians really know how to take poetry to the streets. Thanks, Pearl.
Forget busses. Canadians really know how to take poetry to the streets. Thanks, Pearl.
Thanks to my recent trip to the library, I discovered an anthology called Rivertalk that seems to have included many Ojai-area poets. The anthology looks like it ran annually for several years until 2004. A little Googling turned up this site, which got me excited at the prospect of a local poetry workshop. I emailed …
Jim has been posting blow-by-blow derision of Best American Poetry 2006 since it came out. Now he is accusing Lehman’s (secret) wife of sock-puppeting to bolser the book’s Amazon reviews. Unfortunately, everything about his posts indicate the reaction of a hurt child. Is sock-puppeting unscrupulous? Definitely. Are poets often oversensitive? You betcha. Does throwing a …
I made my way back in to Los Angeles tonight to hear Suzanne Lummis and Lynn Emanuel read at The Ruskin Art Club. Suzanne is always endearingly self-effacing and charming. She also really knows how to engage with an audience. Strangely, many have labeled her a performance poet for this reason when, in fact, I …
“I’m glad to be here. At my age, I’m glad to be anywhere.” So Doris, at 83, opened her featured reading at the Bell Arts Factory in Ventura with all the fire and energy of a sixteen year old. In addition to delightful, and often (refreshingly) funny poems she brought cookies that were out of …
Just a quick note on the subject of poetry readings to say there’s a provocative piece on the subject over at Robert Archambeau’s blog. It’s a shame he doesn’t have comments enabled, as I’m sure from the comments my own post gathered that this is a topic of interest to the community, and Robert raises …