A good weekend for poetry so far. On Friday I went to Rapp Saloon, which rocked. I really thought the night was going to suck, because at the beginning of the reading there were about 10 people in the room. People kept trickling in though the night, and by the …
Just got back from open mike at Psychobabble Cafe on Vermont. They've got a new host (at least, new since the last time I was there) and it's a damn good night of poetry. The highlight was the feature, Gina Loring, who I've seen several times at the Green reading …
Just got back from open mike at Psychobabble Cafe on Vermont. They've got a new host (at least, new since the last time I was there) and it's a damn good night of poetry. The highlight was the feature, Gina Loring, who I've seen several times at the Green reading …
I hope to God "Mia" has come into its own and last night wasn't some kind of a fluke because last night was one of the rockin'est nights of poetry I've heard. Anyone who wasn't there missed a damn good reading.
I came in about 40 minutes late to a …
Just got back from Larry Jaffe's "Another West: Poets from Our Community" at the Well's Fargo Theater in the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. The night was a blast! Some people might have been there for the "11-11 for 9-11" reading that Larry hosted there on November 11 as a …
So I was sitting on the beach in Playa Del Carmen with these three German girls me and Paul met there and we were passing a joint back and forth and when Anna was dragging deep these two undercover narcs came up to us and shined flashlights in our faces …
Went to the reading at Midnight Special Bookstore yesterday. It's interesting how each reading has a different character, even when some of the same people attend. The MS has has a generally older crowd of readers -- with the average age in the 50's or higher -- with a surprisingly young crowd …
Went to "Green" at Tanner's Culver City last night -- was somewhat disappointed. This is the third time I've been to Green, and the first two were absolutely incandescent, fiery nights of rockin' poetry. Last night's was good, no doubt about it -- the equal to many other readings in the city …
I received a very interesting e-mail from someone today taking me to task for "sitting in judgment" on other poets and "saying such negative things about them."
She also said, quite memorably, that "The thing I find most disturbing is that you were paid for your performance and you still …
Just got back from the reading at "Mia." This was my first feature in almost four years -- my first feature since rejoining the poetry world for real in November 2001 -- and it felt great to be back in the saddle. I did 20 minutes of material -- at least I was …