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Hey all you poet-types. I'm starting a new reading series, ADULT ENTERTAINMENT!
Now I need your help, to create a blogroll of amazing reading series around this great nation.
If you oblige me by placing a link to your fave series in the comment box, we'll compile the ULTIMATE poet-book-tour together. I'll link all the wonderful bookstores, bars and coffeeshops on the ADULT ENTERTAINMENT site, and everyone will be off and running on a whirlwind tour, sure to bring fame and fortune to you and me.
So please take a sec to enter your best-ever reading spot/venue/experience in my comments. Kay?
Now I need your help, to create a blogroll of amazing reading series around this great nation.
If you oblige me by placing a link to your fave series in the comment box, we'll compile the ULTIMATE poet-book-tour together. I'll link all the wonderful bookstores, bars and coffeeshops on the ADULT ENTERTAINMENT site, and everyone will be off and running on a whirlwind tour, sure to bring fame and fortune to you and me.
So please take a sec to enter your best-ever reading spot/venue/experience in my comments. Kay?
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For NYC, Frequency, of course: http://www.shannacompton.com/frequency.html (note, I am the former cocurator, now just the webmaster).
And the Bowery Poetry Club: http://www.bowerypoetry.com
Much Denver information is here: www.denverpoetry.org, including announcements about readings held at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Denver, Colorado Center for the Book, and others, as it becomes available. We also have a Denver area open mic directory.Hope that helps. For whatever reasons, most sponsors of such readings in Denver don't keep up their own sites.
Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC and ALL Gallery (Art + Literature Laboratory) in New Haven, CT.
We're with Shanna and Jake -- any venue that gets us an opportunity to meet willing cheater judges for book contests is where the 'best' readings happen.
The two year old readings@the contemporary series has had a few good readings: Cole Swenson, Nick Twemlow, Robyn Schiff, Tony Robinson, Gabe Gudding, me, Arielle Greenberg, kari edwards and many others.
http://www.belz.net/readings/
Dear Foetry,
You got us. There's no reason to go to a poetry reading other than to meet the judges. Who needs anything approaching literary sublime? You've be surprised how often the poet halts the reading and looks down into the audience and says to a young poet, "Send your book to my contest: I'll make your career." It just makes your heart flutter to think that you could be next, if you just keep showing up. The eight occasions on which I've heard Bin Ramke read really seem to have helped me out at Georgia....
Foetry never said everyone who sucks up to Bin Ramke gets a win. He does have some taste, you know.
Luvya,
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Here are some good reading series for Washington State:
Poulsbohemian Armchair Poetry Reading Series, Poulsbo, WA
First Saturday of the month at 7 pm.
http://homepages.donobi.net/pbch/armchair.htm
Peninsula College Foothills Writers Series, Port Angeles, WA
Port Angeles Community College
http://www.pc.ctc.edu/news/foothills.asp
Jewel Box Reading Series, Third Sunday of the Month at 3 p.m.
(no website)
NYU Reading Series:
http://www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu/object/cwp_prs_spr05.html
New York is lousy with reading series, innit?
Here's a couple more...
Pete's Big SalmonThe Ear Inn Reading Series
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