Yesterday’s entry involved discussing published friends of mine and pushing spoken word virgins to make poetry events a reliable form of weekly entertainment for themselves.
Best argument for supporting spoken word: A night at a poetry event costs less than just about any other type of entertainment. Could make a great date night. In most venues, you could get in, eat a meal, and take home a chapbook or CD for less than dinner and a movie. And you get local culture and a likely well-traveled visiting poet to boot.
PUBLISHED FRIENDS
On my recent trip to Portland, Oregon, I visited the world famous Powell’s Books where I took these pictures of Lea Deschenes’s Constant Velocity of Trains and Victor Infante’s City of Insomnia, both through Write Bloody Publishing.
Lea Deschenes's The Constant Velocity of Trains
Victor Infante's City of Insomnia
If you see publications by people we know, post an image of it. I think it would make their day.
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Word to the nerd.
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