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awp III
I ended up skipping the two main things that I had planned to do during the AWP conference: namely, last night's Lorrie Moore reading and Friday night's Bridge / ACM party. Instead both nights, craving something more intimate, I went to AWP-related Discrete Series readings, at the Elastic Revolution space, which is right in my neighborhood.
These events were "headlined" by well-established poets (Maxine Chernoff, Cole Swensen, Pierre Jouris, and Paul Hoover) but I also enjoyed listening to the younger "opening acts," whose work I had not been familiar with previously.
Here are a few of them, and some samples of their work:
Chuck Stebelton (in Shampoo, in Diagram)
Kaia Sand (Five poems on the D.C. Poetry site)
Dan Machlin (Seven poems on the St. Mark's Poetry Project site)
Ray Bianchi (who runs a blog and The Chicago Postmodern Poetry Calendar)
Related: the two folks who run the Discrete Series, Kerri Sonnenberg and Jesse Seldess, each edit experimental journals: they are (repsectively) Conundrum and Antennae, which appears to have no web presence.
Tomorrow I get back to my real life, such as it is.
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
9:24 PM
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