13 Comments

1. October 26th, 2010 / 6:04 pm Mike Meginnis—

   Agreed re: introductions, but I do like a little banter between poems sometimes. Not a TON — we had somebody at NMSU recently who killed her work dead with talking — but sometimes it’s nice and charming and funny.

2. October 26th, 2010 / 6:46 pm drewkalbach—

   to the poet: stop reading your fucking poems. i can do that myself. you aren’t interesting, your poems are.

3. October 26th, 2010 / 7:06 pm Jordan Gillespie—

   There are readings @ NMSU?

4. October 26th, 2010 / 7:07 pm stephen—

   i think poets are interesting.

5. October 26th, 2010 / 7:08 pm Mike Meginnis—

   Yep! They aren’t very well advertised outside the English department, though. Keep an eye on the department blog (clarabellenmsu.blogspot.com) and you should be able to spot them coming.

6. October 26th, 2010 / 7:16 pm Hannah Miet—

   Yeah. Agreed.

   I like when the poet says something short in between poems. A half a sentence, so it’s not so stiff. So it’s human.

7. October 26th, 2010 / 7:18 pm Hannah Miet—

   I think they are too. I like how they shift slightly, the way you hear the words in your head.

8. October 27th, 2010 / 12:53 am shaun gannon—

   Does this apply to short fiction as well?

9. October 26th, 2010 / 10:01 pm alexisorgera—

   God, if I have to listen to another poetically self-satisfied poet intro, I will throw up all over everyone’s shoes.

10. October 27th, 2010 / 12:53 am efferny jomes—

    Does this apply to short fiction as well?

11. October 27th, 2010 / 1:29 am MM—

    don’t we endure these pervasive frivolities everywhere? show me one forum or open plaza where we don’t say to ourselves “why so many dummies?”! it always comes to a choice: sit still and swallow it, or else stay at home. (yet it seems this silly “mean week” is an encouragement to get out your gong, or irascible laserpointer to shine in their eyes from inside your sleeve.) okay i’ll compromise: i have occasionally slipped people notes with sweet complaints, afterwards, an activism that won’t give me Agita like this ceaseless fistshaking.

12. October 27th, 2010 / 2:26 am zusya—

    clap. clap. clap.

    worst thing i ever saw: a semi-lengthy introduction given for an introducer who then introduced (at length) two writers, only it was patently obvious the introducer wasn’t so fond of the second writer, so the introduction given for her was like two sentences, while the first writer being introduced was like five minutes and ridiculously effusive. “thanks for the introduction,” the second writer said through her teeth upon getting on stage. seriously, witnessing that whole thing i think turned me off public readings forever.

    1st writer introduced = stuart dybeck. 2nd = zadie smith. introducer = howard norman. guy who gave introduction for introducer = some PEN/Faulkner administration guy.

13. October 27th, 2010 / 3:50 pm christopher.—

    NB: Sean delivered an at least 5-minute long intro at a reading last night.

    Busted!