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A poetryetc reading would be cool - maybe Sydney? Androo On 23/03/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Yeah, the wine was less available after that. I have a feeling that it > was someone's first time running the readings - I think they get the > MA students to run a series of readings every year. The guest readers > tend to be from the gene-pool, but with the occasional interesting one > thrown in - Tom Paulin, an American-Korean poet who was very > interesting but whose name I forget. It depends who's visiting the UK > as well. > > That sounds like a good reading there. > > Roger > > On 3/22/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > they never made a table groan with free wine again? it all went down > hill? > > > > i do go to quite a few readings here in Oz - and free wine is not the > norm - > > but there was a rather excellent Xmas party at Sapphos reading in Sydney > I > > went to last year - free wine and free food and dvds handed out to all > the > > readers (I got a Kurosawa) - but the fall out from that night was > > extraordinary. I introduced two people and I got up early this morning > to > > try and finally ring one of them and deal with the fall out. It wasn't a > > simple love thing - a third person did the love thing - but as I sit > here > > with my cup of tea and build my strength to ring and sort - I can't help > but > > think it would have been better to simply not have gone to the reading. > > > > cheers - jen > > > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > > From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> > > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. > Beatles > > )) > > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:17:47 +0000 > > > > I enjoyed that story the first and I enjoyed re-reading it, thankyou. > > > > the free wine reminded me of a Cambridge University reading. We, the > > listeners, sat round this huge table, the readers at the head. At the > > back of the room was this huge table groaning under the weight of > > *free* wine. Lots of it. I remember thinking then that this set a high > > standard for drinks at readings, and that I should attend uni readings > > more often. I think I stopped before I became too incoherent. I had a > > very bad head the next day. alas, it wasn't repeated. > > > > Roger > > > > On 3/20/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >may i give you guys a link to my story about meeting lou reed in genoa? > > > > > >http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/031.htm > > > > > >plus photo > > > > > > > > > > > >----Original Message Follows---- > > >From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> > > >Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> > > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. > Beatles > > >)) > > >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:08:35 -0400 > > > > > >Wojhan's sequence of poems about rock & blues, _Mystery Train_ is well > > >worth > > >taking a look at. It's in a book b y the same name. > > > > > >jd > > > > > >On 3/20/07, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > > >Another Jedi Mind Trick on me, via Roger. The Velvet Underground > > > >encompasses the late Sixties/early Seventies for me--decadence, a > smelly > > > >brilliance. Lou Reed at least survived his excesses. At the very > least, > > > >the album "New York" is a treasure. Of what? You tell me. And of > > >course > > > >HIS version of "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" made Jim Stafford's > cover > > > >truly pathetic. But that's AM radio for ya: you can't talk about > giving > > > >head on the radio when the impressionable teenagers are > > > >listening. Ha. On > > > >the first VU album Reed performed "Heroin," perhaps the holy of > holies if > > > >you like horror songs, and let's just say it's more than borderline > > > >accurate > > > >in terms of words and their connection to the music. Reed has a face > > >like > > > >10 miles of bad road now, and he traveled every inch of it to get > that > > > >way. > > > > > > > >There's a wonderful poem by David Wojahn, a monologue on the subway > by > > > >Reed > > > >back in 1966, returning from Delmore Schwartz's viewing. That's how > I > > > >learned Reed was Schwartz's student at Syracuse University. Small > wonder > > > >one of them survived. > > > > > > > >Ken > > > >-- > > > >No virus found in this outgoing message. > > > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: > > >3/17/2007 > > > >12:33 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Joseph Duemer > > >Professor of Humanities > > >Clarkson University > > >[sharpsand.net] > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > > >Join the millions of Australians using Live Search. 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