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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial";color:red;mso-no-proof:no'>Saturday, January 30, 7:30 PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>One week ago today there was a <a href="http://urchinpoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>guerrilla reading</span></a> of Gertrude Stein&#8217;s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, organized by the inimitable <a href="http://www.caconrad.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad</span></a>, Philly poetry&#8217;s modern day <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1511659842_ddf34f3580_o.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ben Franklin</span></a>. I got to it late but did get to read the following passage from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15600/15600-h/15600-h.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Long Gay Book</span></a>, </i>a work Stein began writing over 100 years ago<i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Beef yet, beef and beef and beef. Beef yet, beef yet.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Water crowd and sugar paint, water and the paint.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Wet weather, wet pen, a black old tiger skin, a shut in shout and a negro coin and the best behind and the sun to shine.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>A whole cow and a little piece of cheese, a whole cow openly. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>A cousin to a cow, a real cow has wheels, it has turns it has eruptions, it has the place to sit. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>A wedding glance is satisfactory. Was the little thing a goat. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>A, open, Open. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Leaves of hair which pretty prune makes a plate of care which sees seas leave perfect set. A politeness. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Call me ellis, call me it in a little speech and never say it is all polled, do not say so. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Does it does it weigh. Ten and then. Leave off grass. A little butter closer. Hopes hat. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Listen to say that tooth which narrow and lean makes it so best that dainty is delicate and least mouth is in between, what, sue sense. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Little beef, little beef sticking, hair please, hair please. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>No but no but butter. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Coo cow, coo coo coo. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Coo cow leaves of grips nicely. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>It is no change. It is ordinary. Not yesterday. Needless, needless to call extra. Coo Coo Coo Cow. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Leave love, leave love let. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>No no, not it a line not it tailing, tailing in, not it in. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Hear it, hear it, hear it. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Notes. Notes change hay, change hey day. Notes change a least apt apple, apt hill, all hill, a screen table, sofa, sophia. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Ba but, I promise, I promise that that what what is chased is chased big and cannily and little little is big too big best. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>No price list, no price list, a price-list, a price and list and so collected, so collected pipe, all one cooler, a little apple needs a hose a little nose is colored, a little apple and a chest, a pig is in the sneezing, no blotter, raised ahead. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>I promise that there is that. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>The hour when the seal up shows slobber. Does this mean goat. It does yes. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Be a cool purpose and a less collection and more smell more smell. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.6in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.6in'>Leave smell well. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>There was some concern as to whether the museum or, more importantly, its guards might object to a dozen people suddenly appearing in a gallery to read from the works of Ms. Stein, and I understand that negotiating did occur at the moment of the reading&#8217;s inception that resulted in the exchange of portions of a chocolate bar to sweeten the deal, the remainder of which was later divided among poets in compensation for our efforts. At the end of the reading &#8211; which turned out to be me, laggard that I was &#8211; we gathered at the rotunda that joins the modern &amp; European wings of the museum &amp; simultaneously tossed pennies into the fountain. </p>
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Nate Mackey<br>
Juliana Spahr<br>
Taylor Brady<br>
Lyn Hejinian<br>
Andrew <span class=SpellE>Joron</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Tisa</span> Bryant<br>
Adam <span class=SpellE>Cornford</span><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.uwindsor.ca/campusmap"><span style='color:black'>University of Windsor</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The audience at Mills was perfect, picking up on the humor from the very first line. This audience, tho, was filled with poets &amp; Mills itself has taken an interesting turn in recent years hiring several good poets (currently Leslie Scalapino, Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young &amp; Stephen Ratcliffe) to teach at the same time. In short, it was as well read an audience as one could ever hope to have. When I got to the end of the sixth paragraph/line of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ketjak </i>and  read<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ashland</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> the next night, with roughly the same texts, the audience let that line pass by in complete silence and I will concede to wondering if I was getting through. I actually started off reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ketjak </i>more slowly than I had in  </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oakland</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, where it had felt rushed to me out of my own nervousness at confronting a large crowd. By the time I got to the sixth paragraph/line in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ashland</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, tho, I felt that I was cooking as well as I ever do in a reading. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>At both events, I followed my excerpt from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ketjak </i>by jumping around in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Chinese Notebook. </i>One paragraph that I read in both locales (there was maybe only 50 percent overlap) was<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I was really pleased in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ashland</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> to find that by the time I reached this passage, the laughter was every bit as loud as it had been the day before at Mills. Had a constant barrage of puns finally loosened their tongues, was I finally giving as good a reading as I had the day before (even if, in my mind, Ashland was the better of the two readings), does it just take an audience unfamiliar with &#8220;my kind&#8221; of writing a little longer to get with it, had the panda&#8217;s presence finally swayed them? I have no way really of knowing. Tho I&#8217;m glad the panda was there. Not only did my driver and I follow it to the reading (where else would a panda be going?), it brought the right energy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Humor is not the only thing going on in my poetry, but it is the one aspect for which there is a clear verbal cue from an audience that it gets it. I have no way of knowing that an audience that either doesn&#8217;t get my humor (or doesn&#8217;t find it funny) gets anything else either. So   I tend to think that a laughing audience is a more serious one. Thus when I read a response, such as the <a href="http://jubilatedrain.blogspot.com/2007/10/ron-silliman-reading.html"><span style='color:black'>collaboration</span></a> between SOU students Lacey Hunter &amp; Nichole <span class=SpellE>Hermance</span>, that itself has some humor, I take this as a good sign indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I&#8217;ve been thinking about poetry readings &amp; their importance, especially to poets from my own generation. It&#8217;s not an accident, for example, that the collective autobiography in which I&#8217;m currently participating is called <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Grand Piano, </i>since that reading series proved the catalyst to what became known as language poetry on the West Coast. Nor is it an accident that Charles Bernstein has put such energy into preserving the sound of so many readings, from his early <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ear Inn </i>CD &#8211; functionally the New York counterpart to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Grand Piano </i>&#8211; to the volume <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Close Listening, </i>the various radio shows with which he&#8217;s been associated or the monumental <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/"><span style='color:black'>PENNsound</span></a>, the largest archive of poetry MP3s on the web. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In 1977, when Tom Mandel &amp; I took over <span class=GramE>curating<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(</span>nobody used that word for coordinating a reading series back then) the Grand Piano on </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Haight Street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, we tried very hard not to let the series become too closely identified with just our kind of poetry. For one thing, both of us read more broadly than that, and both of us understood that an important part of the argument for &#8220;our&#8221; take on poetry was not only our poems themselves &#8211; tho we&#8217;ll happily stand behind them &#8211; but also how they reflected on a wide range of other kinds of writing. In a sense, our broader mission was not so far removed from that of this blog, to shed light on a lot of interesting kinds of work, to see how they fit together and, at times, how they might clash as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Our very first reading featured David Melnick and Morgan Wines. I&#8217;d known Melnick&#8217;s work for a decade at that point, had had a hand in helping him finalize some of the poems in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eclogs, </i>and love (to this day) everything he&#8217;s written. <span class=GramE>Wines was</span> the young poet of the moment at UC Berkeley. But our second reading went to Eugene Wildman, the innovative fiction writer who had edited the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chicago Review </i>in the late 1960s. Mandel, like Melnick, had gone to the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &amp; the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Review </i>had been the first &#8220;major&#8221; magazine to take my work seriously, to use it on multiple occasions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The following month we devoted two of the evenings to individuals in greater depth, Simon Ortiz &amp; David <span class=GramE>Gitin,</span> and we did the same again in March with Steve McCaffery &amp; Mary Oppen. We had Richard Tillinghast &amp; Robert Dawson, two former students of Robert Lowell (both of whom had, at that point, &#8220;abandoned&#8221; writing&#185;, tho Tillinghast took it up again later). We had readings by Actualists (Darrell Gray &amp; Cary Gunn in one reading, G.P. Skratz, Victoria Rathbun &amp; Michael-Sean <span class=SpellE>Lazarchuk</span> in another), Latino activists (Luis <span class=SpellE>Talamantez</span> &amp; <span class=SpellE>Dorinda</span> Moreno), <span class=GramE>feminists</span> (Judy Grahn &amp; Paula Gunn Allen, the latter subbing for Pat Parker who was too sick to read). These were sometimes frustrating readings, in that I wanted the Piano&#8217;s regular audience to hear these poets, but if we strayed  too far from the post-avant our audience stayed home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A much better model was mixing poets from different, but compatible, aesthetics. Michael Palmer read with Lorenzo Thomas. We got Ted Berrigan to read with George Stanley, still the single most exciting reading with which I&#8217;ve ever been involved. Each seemed to bring their own audience of roughly 55 people &#8211; the Piano held maybe 80 people &amp; this one was way over the fire code I&#8217;m sure. Many in each audience, it seemed, had never even heard of the other poet. Both gave great readings, but followed this later on with two very separate parties.&#178; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Solo evenings, an opportunity to hear somebody in some <span class=GramE>depth,</span> went to Norman Fischer, Johanna Drucker, Joanne Kyger, Clark Coolidge, Ronald Johnson, Robert Duncan, Andrei Codrescu, Larry Eigner, Kenneth Irby. Bob Perelman&#8217;s production of Louis Zukofsky&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8220;A&#8221;-</i>24 (voices by Steve Benson, Barrett Watten, Kit Robinson, <span class=GramE>Lyn</span> Hejinian &amp; Carla Harryman) was one night&#8217;s event. Another night &#8211; the summer solstice of 1977 &#8211; was a reunion of poets active in the Haight during the Summer of Love a decade before. Still another was devoted to poets reading their &#8220;first&#8221; (or at least first saved) poems, which was honestly advertised as a &#8220;wonderful night of terrible poetry.&#8221; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My sense at the time was that  I had a pretty good handle on what was going on in poetry around the Bay Area &amp; whatever I didn&#8217;t know firsthand Tom seemed to have been reading for years. For one thing, I&#8217;d been going to two readings a week for the previous five years I&#8217;d been in San Francisco &#8211; something I did pretty much without fail from, say, 1970 (when the readings I got to were mostly in Berkeley) right through to about 1990. In retrospect, that&#8217;s maybe 2,000 readings. If the internet is one thing that makes the lives of poets today different from what existed when I was in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>my </i>twenties &amp; thirties, readings separated my age cohort from earlier generations of poets. How many readings did William Carlos Williams give over the course of his very long career? <span class=GramE>Or Ezra Pound?</span> <span class=GramE>Or Gertrude Stein?</span> <span class=GramE>Or Louis Zukofsky?</span> Even the New Americans &#8211; the poets who made the reading the center of poetic activity in the 1950s, both in New York (where the key figure was Paul Blackburn whose events turned eventually into the series that begat the Poetry Project) &amp; in San Francisco (where the reading at The Six Gallery in 1956 had proven pivotal) &#8211; never had the opportunity to go to as many decent readings as were available to poets from the late 1960s onward. Still, in all the years I lived in the Bay Area I saw Phil Whalen give a solo reading just once, in a bookstore on the occasion of the publication of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>On Bear&#8217;s Head.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Actually, when I returned to San Francisco in 1972 (I&#8217;d lived in the Haight in 1966 &amp; &#8217;67), there were just two regular long-lasting series in town, the mid-day readings out at San Francisco State &amp; the series at Intersection, which was then on Union Street in North Beach, just down from the San Francisco Art Institute. By the early 1980s, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry Flash </i>was regularly listing five readings a night in the Bay Area, a number that proceeded to grow. I may have been more diligent (or at least more obsessive) about it than others, but poetry readings <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>were </i>my education as a poet, much more so than college had been. I felt ready to publish almost the instant I began writing &#8211; which meant in practice that I would be making all my mistakes in public &#8211; but I went through several stages of relating to readings before I felt ready to put one on or to coordinate a series.<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My first readings were part of an open <span class=SpellE>mic</span> affair that was held every Sunday afternoon at what was then <span class=SpellE>Rambam</span> Books on </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Telegraph  Avenue</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, now Shakespeare &amp; Company. Some of the other readers there at the time included Pat Parker, Richard <span class=SpellE>Krech</span>, John Oliver Simon, <span class=GramE>Gerard</span> van <span class=SpellE>der</span> <span class=SpellE>Luen</span>. It was when &#8220;our&#8221; open <span class=SpellE>mic</span> series was pre-empted for a &#8220;birthday&#8221; memorial reading of the work of Jack Spicer that I first heard Robin Blaser &amp; first discovered Spicer&#8217;s work. My own first &#8220;featured&#8221; reading was on a bill with radical right gadfly Stephen Schwartz at the Coffee Gallery on </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Grant Street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in  </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beach</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. That was sometime in late 1965 or &#8217;66. I read around as much as I could in those days, <span class=GramE>then</span> stopped pretty much cold sometime in 1968 or early 1969. I was concerned that people were enjoying the humor in my poetry too much and I was watching other poets turn into literary standup comics (tho hardly to the degree I would see a decade later with the Actualists). I started reading again as part of the antiwar readings around UC Berkeley in the summer of 1970, where I found myself on bills with David Bromige &amp; Peter Dale Scott, Ken Irby &amp; Harvey Bialy. When I moved back to the City two years later, I was able to get a reading at Intersection because the organizers there were really interested in my proposed co-reader, Irby. For the next three years or so, I would read once a year with Barrett Watten, but it was not what you would call a regular process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The first reading I ever put on was a benefit for the prison movement group with which I was working at the time. They&#8217;d held a benefit in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>San Rafael</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> with the Tubes as headliners, thinking that the fact that the Tubes had a number one record that year ensured that they would rake in the cash. But the band was not well organized &amp; the event, which they controlled, wasn&#8217;t controlled at all. They gave away so many free tickets to this rented nightclub that it was impossible to recoup even the small outlay the group had put forward. Afterwards, disgusted with rock culture &#8211; I was not a Tubes fan to begin with &#8211; I said something like, &#8220;I could raise more money with a poetry reading.&#8221; And was challenged to do <span class=GramE>so on</span> the spot. I got Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger &amp; Edward Dorn to read together at the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>San  Francisco</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Unitarian</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Church</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, sold 400 tickets at $4 each (a very high ticket price for 1973) and we ended up making over $1,000 net for the organization. You can still hear Edward Dorn&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_28_dorn.mp3"><span style='color:black'>Recollections of <span class=SpellE>Gran</span> Apachería</span></a></i>&#179; and Robert Creeley&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/disconnected/Disconnected_11_creeley.mp3"><span style='color:black'>The Name</span></a>&#8221; from that very reading, thanks first to John <span class=SpellE>Giorno&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Disconnected </i>&amp; now Kenny Goldsmith&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ubu.com/"><span style='color:black'>Ubuweb</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So it&#8217;s worth noting that when Tom &amp; I ran the Piano series, I looked around as best I could to see if I could find any &#8220;new&#8221; poets to introduce to our audience. Even with the Piano every Tuesday night, I had time to get to at least one, if not two, other readings around town and I made a conscious effort to attend readings where I did <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not </i>already know the work of the readers. There was just one reading that I attended, really over the two years that Tom &amp; I were co-coordinating the series, where I came back and said to Tom, &#8220;We <span class=SpellE>gotta</span> book these guys.&#8221; It was a reading that <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/QLnYFOcuDuH1FyvA6VekGg"><span style='color:black'>David <span class=SpellE>Highsmith</span></span></a> put on at Third Floor Books, his attempt at an art book store up in a loft space just South of Market. Most of the floor was given over to an art gallery run by Carl <span class=SpellE>Loeffler</span> &#8211; there were quite a few similar spaces in the South of Market area during those years as businesses emptied out in advance on the forthcoming &#8220;urban renewal&#8221; that turned into the Moscone Convention Center &amp; all the surrounding venues, from the new art museum to the Marriott Jukebox. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Highsmith</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> had told me of these poets, neither of whom as new to the Bay Area, tho new to me. Just as Rachel Loden &amp; I can tell that we were around the same scenes in the region from the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, which we both attended, thru at least the 1970s, but ultimately met over the web, I somehow had been in the same circles as both <a href="http://tinyurl.com/339cdz"><span style='color:black'>Keith <span class=SpellE>Shein</span></span></a> &amp; <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/pearson/"><span style='color:black'>Ted Pearson</span></a> for years, but somehow had not bumped into either before. <span class=SpellE>Shein</span> was understandable &#8211; he was working as the tennis pro at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dominican</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>College</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in Marin and living in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Novato</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, sort of the anti-Bolinas of that county, the sort of bedroom suburb where lots of the residents worked in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> as police or firemen. I never did figure out how Ted &amp; I managed not to run into each other. We knew the same people at SF State &amp; his interest in the Objectivists &amp; the rigorous side of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Black</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mountain</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> thing was obvious the instant you heard him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So we booked Keith with Steve <span class=SpellE>LaVoie</span>, a lanky young poet who had some aspects of Actualism &amp; some of what would come to be called langpo about him, but who seemed to be steering his own way. The next week, we booked Ted with Alan Bernheimer, which got him introduced to a new audience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#185; We talked with them about this as we set the event up, since we didn&#8217;t want either to feel uncomfortable. Basically, the story as we got it was that the terms in which they&#8217;d learned writing &#8211; pure School of Quietude &#8211; proved not to apply in the &#8220;real&#8221; (read &#8220;off-campus&#8221;) world. Tillinghast was working with a Sufi orchestra at the time, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dawson</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> had become a photographer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#178; I</span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> attended both, tho they were in different parts of the city. When some of the Actualist poets started telling Berrigan how great he was in comparison &#8220;with that other guy,<span class=GramE>&#8221; <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>he</span> stopped them cold &amp; gave a great, and fairly lengthy, lecture on all the wonderful things there were to hear in the poetry of George Stanley, things he had heard that very evening, and of the whole importance of the Spicer Circle &amp; in the poets in that Circle beyond just Spicer. I had never heard Berrigan &#8220;lecture&#8221; before, but it was a terrific &#8211; and totally honorable &#8211; moment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#179; Comment <span class=GramE>readers</span> who imagine that I&#8217;m out to &#8220;get&#8221; Ed Dorn, please note. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">MEMOIRS &amp; COLLABORATIONS</span><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Leningrad-American-Writers-Soviet-Union/dp/1562790056">Leningrad</a><br /><a href="http://www.thegrandpiano.org/">The Grand Piano</a><br /><a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/under-albany-9781844710515">Under Albany</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CRITICISM</span><br /><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/0937804207/the-new-sentence.aspx">The New Sentence</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ANTHOLOGY</span><br /><a href="https://secure.touchnet.com/C22921_ustores/web/classic/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=327&SINGLESTORE=true">In The American Tree</a><br /><br /><br /><br />
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