Reposted from http://mikemcgee.livejournal.com:

Hey, all.

As some of you may know, I will be reading poetry for 24-hours this weekend at MACLA in downtown San José.

Get all your info at MACLA’s site: http://www.maclaarte.org/

As I get closer to the event, the more I realize how prepared and unprepared I am in certain aspects of this performance. I am none too worried, as it is an experiment, and the main goal is to put focus on poetry and spoken word for an entire 24-hour period. I am especially pleased to be doing this in San Jose

*The coffee will be supplied by Barefoot Coffee Roasters of Santa Clara. Yay!
*Many people have opted to attend the whole show with me, which I encourage. The more the merrier. I recommend that you bring pillows, sleeping bags, blankets, snacks and such. Like a sleepover, only weirder.
*I will not turn anyone away if they cannot pay the cover. The costs are merely a recommended donation, really.
*Those of you with children, I am scheduling a foul-free children’s stories reading around noon on Sunday, for two hours. That’s definite.
*The schedule program will be posted here within a couple of days.
*You too can hold your own 24-hour reading in your very own town on April 5-6, 2008! Take the Scott Woods’ Challenge! Click here for more info.

Big thanks to scottwoods for the inspiration to do this, and the help and info he’s given me.

I am in the process of scheduling the whole series and have concluded that it would be easier to have large sections of relatively random readings during the late night hours. Nothing will be set in stone for that time, just me, armed with loads of poetry.

I have well over 300+ chapbooks, but I’d love to have more to read.

tabor36, I am most certainly reading the retail poem of yours you gave me years ago. I still love it.

So if you have a poem you think I should read, please feel free to email it to me, text only, no attachments to mightymikemcgee at gmail

Don’t be afraid! I will probably read it.

Emails should include:

Subject: My Poem For McGee’s Show

Name of author
Year written
Background of poem (optional)
Title of poem
Poem

If you know of a poem by a poet I may not know of, please send them my way as well. Let them know you did so if they are within contact. Please be sure to send the name of the author and any pertinent info you deem necessary.

Please have your poems in my inbox by 7:00pm on Saturday, although, in theory, if I am able to check my email during the show, I will probably read anything that comes in during the set. Not guaranteed though.

I will not answer my phone during the show, but I may read text messages to the audience.

I am stoked!
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This entry was written by Mike McGee, posted on 19 December, 2007 at 10:10 PM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged barefoot coffee roasters, downtown, macla, performance, San-Jose-California, spoken word. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.