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oh! oh! and don't forget to ignore the features. hell, why even show up before you're scheduled to go on?
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05-17-2005 12:41 PM ET (US)
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"Mr. Hendrix, who helps choose many of the featured texts, said organizing the event has been harder than he expected. "To pick something that's bad and bad enough to be entertaining is really a lot of work.""
Have no fear, Mr. Hendrix! I'm donating my latest manuscript to the event. My poems should only be read at closing time. Guaranteed to clear the room!
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05-17-2005 01:01 PM ET (US)
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Stop it, Dungie. Go listen to the birds.
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06-08-2005 07:10 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 06-08-2005 07:11 AM
Summary of Griffin readingsThe Star offers a, albeit poorly written, summary of the pre-gala Griffin readings at UofT. (Word on the street has it that Rohrer, whose been given curiously short shrift at every turn in this proceedings, including a one line mention in this article, was without books at this reading because the bookstore "couldn't get them" from the distributor... the problem? The bookstore knew this a long while in advance, yet didn't tell publisher Verse so they could bring books with them from New York. Imagine: you're with a small press and your book is shortlisted for the world's biggest poetry award, and there are no copies to sell at what might be the biggest reading of your life thus far...) Home
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06-18-2005 12:03 PM ET (US)
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I noticed on one of the other threads someone advertising a reading for four very different authors. Some might call them incompatible. Why do series coordinators do that? The Art Bar in Toronto, for example, often does this. They put some lyrical poet next to a dub poet next to a concrete poet. It seems like it should be an interesting, educational experience for everyone, but it isn't. It's just painful.
Wouldn't it be better for everyone (the readers and the audience) to at least give some thought to the literary continuity of an event? It's been so bad at the Art Bar before that I've seen people leave for the bar downstairs and return when "their" featured reader is up. It's either that or eye-rolling and snickering through the readings of others.
Not saying this is mature or excusable, just that this is how it is. I wonder whether curators should consider what they're trying to do: give the audience an education or make a pleasant evening.
Anyone have an opinion on this?
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Hi Milk.
Interesting question. I assume you're talking about the Trower, Jarmai, Rose, LoveGrove reading at the IV Lounge in Toronto next week. I don't know Kristen Rose's work at all, but the other three...that's not such an odd mix, is it? Sure, they have different styles, but all are lyrical poets, and a LoveGrove poem about botched plastic surgery might go very nicely with a Trower poem about an industrial accident.
Granted, sometimes the mix of readers at a reading can seem a bit odd, even off. I'm sure different organizers have different opinions about how they like to book their readings. I'm also sure that, sometimes, you get an off night just through the luck of the draw or unfortunate logistics.
As for walking out on a reading... what's the problem, really? Does an audience member owe it to the reader to sit there and pretend to be enjoying himself. I've walked out on readings before (and I generally enjoy readings), but if I'm not enjoying it, why should I sit there, smiling and clapping, for something I don't like?
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06-18-2005 06:55 PM ET (US)
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hi. interesting subject. i think it boils down to availability. three experimentalists are not always going to be available to read on the same night.
as for the art bar. i'm glad they mix genres. i'm often exposed to new readers and styles. however, if the reading is awful, i have no problem leaving.
game on.
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06-19-2007 06:22 AM ET (US)
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Hellonkq - this is just a testing, dont worry about it
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I had enjoyed staying at your site, buy my home page is cooler
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