>Here's a link to the Youtube rendition of Poetic Fictions at the
>Sidewalk Cafe the night of Sunday, Aug. 4th, 2013. The saintly David
>Kirschenbaum did the cinematography, poet Robert Thompson was the
>moderator, poet Joe Eliot did a great Philip Whalen, the poet/roustabout
>Magnus Magnus was the vatic Lew Welch and Mark Tobin of Unnameable Books
>played a stand-up Gary Snyder. I stepped in as my perpetually
>jet-lagged self.
>
>Variations of the text of Poetic Fictions can be found in TWO, a chapbook
>from The KNIVESFORKSANDSPOONSPRESS, UK, and in Golden Handcuffs Review
>No. 15. Many thanks to everyone who made this happen--Boog City's Dave
>Kirschenbaum,The Sidewalk Cafe, The Hotel Pennsylvania, the Tic-Tock 24
>hour diner, the Empire State Building at 3 a.m., Madison Square Garden
>at 3 a.m., Robert Thompson and Joe Eliot at 3 a.m., and peace to the
>shade of Lew Welch who shook my world at 19 when he said that writing is
>speech, David Meltzer who brought that information to me in his great
>interview in his great anthology of San Fran poets, Philip Whalen's
>shadow walking in spectral shoes with Taoist holes pecked in them by Zen
>birds, and Gary Snyder young and old and in-between.
>
>Here's the link:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1th7Cp6IBo
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Jess
>
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