Why, at the Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic & Slam @ the Newark Arts Alliance! It's back up and running under the care of the Bello sisters. The room has great acoustics and the new NAA is pretty. You should come back. The new NAA is in Market East plaza next to the Chinese grocery. The feature schedule is fairly wide open, if you're a touring poet ( Read more... )

Nothing makes me want to crack my pen open, drink the ink and then cut my hands to ribbons than 'Screenwriter's Blues' by Soul Coughing coming on the radio when I'm trying to write poetry. God, I suck, I suck, I suck.

Just stopping by lj, making sure i didn't tipsy-post last night. It looks like I'm in the clear. I went to a reading last night for the first time in a long, long time. I'm glad I did. A few years ago Jeff White said of the Newark reading 'it's like church. It's what you do on Tuesdays.' Last night I was thinking about how reading space is sacred ( Read more... )

I have an lj friend in Boston who wants to check out a reading. Could you post dates and or linkies to the good readings here so he can see it?

Thank you!

CHARLES SIMIC IS THE NEW POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES ( Read more... )

I don't know much about prose poetry. Can someone kindly recommend some prose poets to me? Mmmmmaybe post some of your own?

I just looked at the wikipedia entry for prose poetry. I wasn't aware that Charles Simic played with the form; is that true or is that a piece of wikipedia truthiness?

Thanks, my talented lj brothers and sisters.

Performance Poet Rites of Passage ( Read more... )

But anonymously4 has 2! One is a poetry myspace and I am now on it ( Read more... )

( things I'm looking forward to )

So. Albuquerque. Huh. Like, Whoa.

**For the few people on my friends list who don't know what that means:
Delaware is sending it's first ever team to the national poetry slam championship.I'm on the team ( Read more... )