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What a life.

I hope You have a great day.
Edward

progression

I'm going to be the Featured Poet next month at Under the Umbrella. The reading is the last Saturday of the month and there is an opportunity for a sort 'open-mike' or 'round-robin'. The format is greatly dependant on who shows up.

It would be great to see new faces and I hope that all the regulars can be there also.

I've been doing some reading (in general You can find an up-to-date list of reading on my Facebook page) and been listening to some loaned records.

The records started with a couple that I found in a store in historic Golden (Fleetwood Mac & Styx). Then a friend helped Me to find a record player and loaned Me a number of other records to listen to.

Exciting stuff, but winter approaches and I prefer to walk/run/skateboard/bicycle or bus (when available), so I'm looking for some changes or warm clothes, though I don't intend to leave the Denver area until the Antarctica position (or the general time for it -there are some people I've been talking with about visiting).

There is a philosophy group that has been mentioned a few times and if I do decide to visit it I may begin to post discussion style topics.
-either way I appreciate the replies and comments.

:)
Edward

to call this one

So, there is a link, to the right under own this, to my most recent book available.
It's an interesting thing I hope is enjoyed immensely.

Paper work is almost done for Antarctica.

I'm working on a something to release maybe by the end of the month or the beginning of next month.

There are a number of things going on that I'm not certain of details on.
Seth (an interesting individual I've heard read and perform, percussion & vocal) is to be reading at a museum in Loveland, CO. Also, around the same time I'll finally get to meet Stewart. I've read some of his poetry and am looking forward to it.

I'll be returning to the Greenhouse Gas study in some capacity in September and I'm excited about that.

I still don't have a full-capacity publisher yet. My thoughts to-date are that finding a compatible would be mostly beneficial. I'm still hoping to slip into the list of Writers inside the shelter of Soft Skull Press. I'll probably send something next month.

I'm working with a local Performance Poet (Kit) to secure future consideration(s) that may allow Me to tour (readings, etc.) after I return from Antarctica or at least around that time (February 2009).

I hope You have a great day.
Edward

things

To do, to do, to do.

Unfortunately I don't have internet access in the room where I'm staying, so I haven't been posting as often as I'd hoped to.

The poetry (writing) community here in Denver has continued to be very welcoming and inspiring in a number of ways. (One of my poems received publications recently and the link can be found to the right with others.)

I also was hired for the position I applied for in Antarctica. It is an alternate position, so I may not get to go, but then again -

There is a work with fiction by Me that was released on 08/08/08. I hope to post links soon.

I hope to post more soon and I hope that I will begin to receive contact from readers.

I hope You have a great day.
Edward

quite quickly

So, things have happened since my last post and always do. But, for Me a number of very interesting things happened that I was privileged to take part in.

I went to a poetry reading featuring two young woman Poets. One of which I'd met briefly before and another I'd heard at a different venue earlier. It was interesting and very special. I'm not certain how those two Poets would relate themselves to entirety of contemporary female poets, but, as individuals, I found Them to be revealing.

I also attended a Poet night (that was coincidentally accompanied by a live folk duo) at Under the Umbrella. A small but stately establishment toward the edge of Denver. A number of Poets read and shared spoken word. A Poet named Ed played a new flute. Afterward there was a sharing of emails and adding to mailing-lists by individuals involved in publications. In all, the night really seemed to cement a sense of cooperative community in some ways. While presenting convincing hints of the subtleties of these individuals.

I hope to hear and see more of the same Poets and new ones.
Here's a link to something that was shared : http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com/

variety

Denver has many people (over 500,000 according to a 2006 US government census).
I'm not surprised at the diversity I encounter at poetry readings. I am surprised a bit by the lack sometimes -though it isn't always a total negative.

I'm going to a Poetry Meet-up tonight and I'm quite interested to see what it will be like.

I've enjoyed the readings, for the most. It's interesting to experience individuals from different generations, backgrounds, interests participating together. I'm not completely certain what to think of the total (in a community sense) or the each of the Poets, but who knows...

I knew before I began reading that some of my work wasn't verbal material. There is intentional multiplicity in some of it that seems eliminated or lost in reading out loud and sometimes the actual writing is nonsensical in that it is combinations or words or sounds that when looked at each possibility may be identified, but to pronounce it is ... difficult and possibly confusing. Some of the writing has been enjoyable to read though and the idea of immediate feedback is very pleasing.

It's also providing a social aspect that I haven't really enjoyed in writing, before now. I'm meeting other writers and there is an exchange of ideas and conversations and a sense of 'writing is something' in varying degrees.

now, if I can find a companion...

:)

:)

I got the job and my first day is scheduled for next Tuesday (orientation) and I went to the poetry reading and I'm going to another tonight. :)

Also, I'm beginning to receive poems for the collection I am working on of poems by Poets who read regularly at the Mercury Cafe.

I hope You have a great night.