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
> > >--
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
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