Too much good news!
In celebration of spring I am going to post so much amazing stuff that there needs to be an LJ cut to contain it all!! This has all happened in the last couple of weeks and a few of you may know bits and pieces about it but I wanted to finally sit down and tell everyone at once ::bounces::
A few months ago one of my friends and I went out to dinner to discuss an idea he had about staging his own poetry reading with a group of our friends. We've all met through the Writer's Club here at school and there are some incredibly talented people there. I only started going two semesters ago and most of them are much older than me (this particular friend is a grad student) but they've been really wonderful and we've become great friends. One of the things that continues to astound me is the different vocal styles each of us employ when reading our work to each other. Poetry has really become an auditory art and we have not only amazingly talented writers but really diverse readers. To that end, my friend wrote a poem last year meant to be read for five voices with me, himself and three of our friends in mind, crafting each line for one of our voices in particular. He had me read it over, and we started talking about staging a reading together off campus, it was just a matter of finding a venue and getting the money
Anyway, a few weeks ago, one of my other writer friends and I were hanging out in my room when my friend who'd written this poem comes over and says he has something to tell us. He showed us a website to buy tickets for a show in an off-off-broadway theater for a show called "Words" which was the title of the five voice poem.
"I'd love for you both to be involved," he said.
Turns out, over the last few weeks he's been collaborating with a director friend of his and "Words" has developed into much more than a reading. She liked the idea so much she bought my friend a theater and has been developing an entire show with him. He is going to play a poet struggling to craft a poem, me and my friends will be playing different aspects of the muse, showing how we war against and meld with each other as well as reading our own work inside the perameter of the plot. Let me sum up: Come the end of July there will be a show in a theatre in Manhattan that seats a hundred people and will be starring me in a role that my friend wrote for me and my work especially.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I already made sure there will be cameras so naturally all you guys will get to see it. Can you imagine what this is going to look like on a resume?? Holy shit!!
And as all this wasn't enough, in the same week I found out from a reliable source that an older guy in my poetry class may admire me. My professor, who's become my mentor, well she makes everyone in the class keep journals and once during the semester she looks at them to see what kind of things we've written down. One of the best poets we have in our class had my name written all over his in the margins. So my teacher asks him, "So ye fancy Liv, huh?" (You have to imagine the thick Irish accent.) and he got all red in the face and muttered something about me being very talented and then said "and anyway, I'm sure she has a boyfriend."
I have to admit I've never given this guy a lot of thought other than being a really exceptional writer, but he seems really nice. Now I just need to figure out the next step
A few months ago one of my friends and I went out to dinner to discuss an idea he had about staging his own poetry reading with a group of our friends. We've all met through the Writer's Club here at school and there are some incredibly talented people there. I only started going two semesters ago and most of them are much older than me (this particular friend is a grad student) but they've been really wonderful and we've become great friends. One of the things that continues to astound me is the different vocal styles each of us employ when reading our work to each other. Poetry has really become an auditory art and we have not only amazingly talented writers but really diverse readers. To that end, my friend wrote a poem last year meant to be read for five voices with me, himself and three of our friends in mind, crafting each line for one of our voices in particular. He had me read it over, and we started talking about staging a reading together off campus, it was just a matter of finding a venue and getting the money
Anyway, a few weeks ago, one of my other writer friends and I were hanging out in my room when my friend who'd written this poem comes over and says he has something to tell us. He showed us a website to buy tickets for a show in an off-off-broadway theater for a show called "Words" which was the title of the five voice poem.
"I'd love for you both to be involved," he said.
Turns out, over the last few weeks he's been collaborating with a director friend of his and "Words" has developed into much more than a reading. She liked the idea so much she bought my friend a theater and has been developing an entire show with him. He is going to play a poet struggling to craft a poem, me and my friends will be playing different aspects of the muse, showing how we war against and meld with each other as well as reading our own work inside the perameter of the plot. Let me sum up: Come the end of July there will be a show in a theatre in Manhattan that seats a hundred people and will be starring me in a role that my friend wrote for me and my work especially.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I already made sure there will be cameras so naturally all you guys will get to see it. Can you imagine what this is going to look like on a resume?? Holy shit!!
And as all this wasn't enough, in the same week I found out from a reliable source that an older guy in my poetry class may admire me. My professor, who's become my mentor, well she makes everyone in the class keep journals and once during the semester she looks at them to see what kind of things we've written down. One of the best poets we have in our class had my name written all over his in the margins. So my teacher asks him, "So ye fancy Liv, huh?" (You have to imagine the thick Irish accent.) and he got all red in the face and muttered something about me being very talented and then said "and anyway, I'm sure she has a boyfriend."
I have to admit I've never given this guy a lot of thought other than being a really exceptional writer, but he seems really nice. Now I just need to figure out the next step