Well, perhaps a little bit of money
Albeit not for Poetry. Those very occasional checks run $10 to $50. This $100 one is for a story "Res Kid" in Crucible. But the point here is to introduce readers to Jessica Piazza and her wonderful blog experiment called "Poetry Has Value." It's easy to use and to participate. You may thank me! Press Poetry Has Value.Comment or Read Comments Here on any of the above or below. If you do not have a Google account, then log in by checking "Name/URL," (it's easy). Just the name (don't worry about the URL). Actual name is best, but use what you like. Or email me at edcoletti@sbcglobal.net, and I can post it.
Charles Bukowski "The Poetry Reading"
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The transaction that we call the experience of poetry always takes place between one being and another...adjacent souls with permeable boundaries...Poetry readings may be good advertising but they can't alter the monogamous character of the real event. I poetry, as in love, two is company, three is always a crowd. -- Sven Birkerts - The Poet and His Reader.
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Bukowski Makes Me Happy
Drop in
to Trehorn,
start to read
Bukowski who’s recalling
a rag man and
his exhausted horse
during the depression.
So I ask myself
Is this poetry?
Not
everyone else
thinks it is—
He makes me happy and
Black Sparrow grew out of him.
so of course
it must be
poetry.
Hookers nudie dancers
barrooms made him
happy just thinking
about them— this Charles
or Hank clobbering
that loudmouthed Irish barkeep
who the others cheered to win—
So it goes with drunks bums addicts,
saints pleasuring in memories
bathing in our own brief smile,
never again wanting
to kill after wanting to
kill that rag picker who was
possessing and whipping another
ancient mangy mare.
Published in Zombie Logic Review March 2014
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From F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8 comments:
Ed, I like the new look, well organized. I just recently remodeled my Table of Contents page at Ode To Sunset, and replaced the banner on my publishers site. Cyber maintenance. Pat
Thanks for this, Ed. I appreciate your support of Poetry Has Value!
thank you, Ed. Lot's of good info. a great service to North country. did you submit to MPC anthology by 3/15. Smiles, Julia
Ed, I listened to and enjoyed the little film, The Poetry Reading and then scanned the other stuff. Can't do too much reading at the moment, preparing myself for the onslaught as the next Lummox rolls into view and the call for submissions goes into effect on the first. So for now, I can listen to the Buk do his thing and as I do so a couple of things pop into my head: 1) he could hardly stand to face the day without his 'liquid courage' and yet I face each day down, sober. It takes guts to do battle with one's demons, hell, with everybody else's demons too and still not be lured into the easy trap of booze.
2) Buk talks about the blood money he makes from poetry, tho I'm not sure how true this is. At the apex of his career, when he could stop doing readings, he was making at least $500 (sometimes $1000) per. Not exactly chump change, yet he implies that what he does to raise the rent money is those damned poetry readings. Ha!
When I give a reading and I expect to sell $100 worth of books, if it doesn't work out that way, it's because I haven't done my job very well. It's not because it's some kind of embarrassment that at the age of 64 I still have to do this demeaning job (of course one can argue that it's demeaning to have to work at this age - but that's also my fault...long story). Most of the Lummox readers don't have a clue as to what goes into putting out this book or what the daily money shuffle is like.
I'm gonna stop now because this sounds like a whine and that was not my intention.
Take care, Ed.
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I read that the Fitzgerald quote is not a Fitzgerald quote but was added to the screenplay for "Benjamin Button"...
thanks
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The topic Fake Ad/Perhaps Just a Little Money explores the harsh realities of pursuing poetry. As Bukowski recites, the poetry reading, it reflects the struggle many artists face. Similar to how suits of america emphasizes the importance of presentation, these discussions remind us that passion often comes without financial reward.
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