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Would the readers get travel expenses? joanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. Beatles )) >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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