17 Comments

1. June 23rd, 2014 / 12:24 am Brooks Sterritt—

   kidney stones

2. June 23rd, 2014 / 12:27 am bartleby_taco—

   staying at home

3. June 23rd, 2014 / 12:30 am bartleby_taco—

   wishing i had gone but secretly happy that i’m lying in bed making very hot beats

4. June 23rd, 2014 / 11:42 am Rauan Klassnik—

   yes, Poetry Readings are best Long Distance

5. June 23rd, 2014 / 1:38 pm Daniel Bailey—

   i was at a poetry reading last night that was in an art gallery. i could not stop staring at a mounted photograph of a severed buck head on the floor of a wooden shed.

6. June 23rd, 2014 / 1:56 pm Josh Goodchild—

   I can’t do purely social things because I get panic attacks. It has to be a business scenario, which puts me at ease, so I recite poetry at Microsoft’s software architecture talks.

7. June 23rd, 2014 / 2:51 pm deadgod—

   having started while driving there, continue texting on what to do later

8. June 23rd, 2014 / 6:41 pm Rauan Klassnik—

   a couple of weeks ago I was bailed out by a black and white photo of a large bride in a wedding dress, her breasts bared. I imagined I was this large, bear-breasted bride. and well the time and Poetry flew right by.

9. June 23rd, 2014 / 6:42 pm Rauan Klassnik—

   I have mixed feelings about hipsters, poets and even people texting at poetry readers. I mean it seems so rude. but then again they just seem so happy. and poetry spared. I dunno.

10. June 23rd, 2014 / 6:44 pm Rauan Klassnik—

    can you give us an example ???

11. June 23rd, 2014 / 7:04 pm Josh Goodchild—

    I’m joking about the business poetry readings, but it’s a cool idea. The attacks are real, it’s more likely I’ll get them under the following conditions: 1) event mostly social 2) there are people I don’t know there. For some unknown reason I can still attend networking events and the like which contain some sort of exchange of economic value whether implicit or explicit.

    So I can’t go to parties or readings, but tech talks are no problem apparently.

    This is a recent thing since moving to SF and I don’t know why it happens and will probably remain a hermit while I’m here.

12. June 23rd, 2014 / 7:23 pm Rauan Klassnik—

    maybe try going to one of Janey Smith’s 851 “events” ?? … Janey’s really welcoming to all and it’s a good space….

    or stick with being a hermit for a while… probably better for the writing :)

13. June 23rd, 2014 / 7:55 pm Josh Goodchild—

    Seems disappeareds

14. June 23rd, 2014 / 7:56 pm deadgod—

    what ‘rude’

    these texts are impor’in’

15. June 23rd, 2014 / 8:00 pm Rauan Klassnik—

    you’re right! it’s the poetry that’s rude!

16. June 23rd, 2014 / 11:33 pm deadgod—

    there is not one poet who reads this site who wouldn’t love being called ‘rude’ by the right doofus

    but yes interrupting texting with poems is douche-y

17. June 25th, 2014 / 7:00 pm Gabriel—

    I wonder how many of us are thinking the word ‘hipster’ at the same time.