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04/15/2005 Archived Entry: Reading in Lancaster to Promote Fetters' Run, Recap
Last night found me in Lancaster at the Campus Cup for a poetry / open mic night to promote the forthcoming issue of Fetters' Run the OU-L literary magazine. They published my "I. Waves" (pronounced "aye waves" or "first waves" or simply "waves"), an outline poem. I read:
Teaching My Daughter My Language
Not the Day for the World's Best Poem
Ok, Fuckers (by request as a reprise)
I am starting to feel wildly ambivalent about the so far well-liked "Ok, Fuckers" -- it's very much a performance piece and although requested by the well-read Zelda, I didn't think it went over well with that crowd -- there just didn't seem to be enough office workers and there seemed to be an over-abundance of college students and (if I recall correctly) the time-place-opportunities for sex aren't difficult to find in college.
I met John Faulkner (a professor at OU-L of whom I have heard so much) and heard Scott Minar read. I am humbled by the mastery with which Minar weilds an image. (I'm going to have to use this Scott's last name to deferentiate him.) That's what it was all about for me at one time and it shows how much my aestetic has drifted.
Now if I can only create the hybrid -- the ultimate fusion of communication via images and communiciation through compelling, immediately connecting work. That is my new goal. Wish me luck in my quest for perfection.
Must ... get ... book .. from ... which ... Minar ... read.
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Don't you dare buy that book! I so have this. "Ode to Pocket," by the way, is fantastic.
I'm really glad you came, and I think everyone really liked you.
Posted by Zelda @ 04/15/2005 09:07 AM ET