Tag Archive: Poetry Readings

The Poetry Madam Invites You To Come To Poetry Brothel

What would you expect to find at a poetry brothel? What would you expect to pay? If $15 sounds like a good deal then you might want to head to New York and talk to the Poetry Madam. Because that’s a damn good deal. I once paid $20 for a “special massage” but that was [...]

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Poetry Readings: When It's Right, It Feels Right

Had another successful reading tonight.
There are times when I’m on and I know I’m on and there are times when I am too self-conscious to make it work. Tonight was a night that I was on and I knew it.
I was the featured reader at Ragged Edge, a coffee house in Gettysburg. Dana Larkin Sauers, [...]

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The Poetry Reading Blues

Have you ever sat in a poetry reading after signing up to read and deciding mid-way through that you just didn’t feel like reading? That happened to me tonight. I don’t know why. It could have been the heat or it could have just been a fickle feeling of gloom. But I waited and waited [...]

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