Ram, can you backchannel me re: your plans for LA United Nations readings, or somehow
include me (& other LA/Ventura County-area poetryetc list members, I know there are some
lurking out there)? There are some San Diego folk as well. Who is in San Francisco?
I had not volunteered the LA Knitting Factory, since a series I intended to run with
them is still up in the air (the building's not finished), but it would have fabulous
av.
If, if, if, I would want to run the poetryetc reading there.
I understand your desire to schedule the un reading in one of the more established
venues. PSA at the Getty would give you an "upper east side" un feel.
It still seems like the knit might be a likely spot for a "downtown" poetryetc nyc
reading. I don't know the person scheduling poetry there, but could find out, or you
could.
As you can imagine, large American cities are divided between alternative venues/younger
artists and established ones. While the same club is "alternative" to the UN upper east
side area in NY, it is "corporate" to Midnight Special and Beyond Baroque (which both do
some political programming).
There is a considerable rivalry between coasts as well. As a poet from New York four
years ago, I hardly felt welcomed by Los Angeles; it seems to be the nature of the
scattered urban area, though, and the poets here are quite wonderful, once you live here
and find them.
Rgds,
Catherine Daly
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