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+ Ellyn’s Band! PondWater Society event July 10, 2010 Ellyn Maybe & Tommy Jordan I’ve seen Ellyn Maybe & her band at a number of events and also when they had their residency at 212 in Santa Monica. Every single time, I find myself grinning like a maniac, I just get so excited by the music and [...] by Jamey Hecht Picking out which of the limes in the grocer’s basket is the greenest, the ripest, the worthiest, you finish off the thousands of man-hours that went into making them all identical. Agribusiness has taken the three stages of planting, harvest, and distribution and added a fourth, the preliminary genetic erasure [...] June 12, 2010 PondWater Society event Kate Durbin signing my copy of "The Ravenous Audience" Kate Durbin is a performance poet so elegant and refined that she seems other-worldly. For every performance, she invents a costume and makeup to entrance the audience and enhance the poems. Each one [...] + Jamey Hecht as an added bonus! These poets, who I have admittedly invited in, are smashing me. I cannot tell you how much joy that brings to me. They come in all nice and polite. They mingle and converse and banter and fraternize. And then the next thing you know, they have taken over the room! [...] Timothy Green reading at the December PondWater Society event. I don’t know how or why I’m getting away with this but I’ll tell you, it does feel like I’m getting away with something. Jamey Hecht, Jenny Noa, Brendan Constantine, Timothy Green and next month Douglas Kearney. Really? I need someone to punch me in the head [...] Funny things can happen when you turn your living room into a Poetry Salon. Initially its a very simple transformation; remove the furniture, replace it with a roomful of folding chairs and little tables with cloths and candles. Add a table for literature and a music stand for a podium and there you have [...] October 10, 2009 Event Jamey Hecht I didn’t take one photograph. I was so enjoying the company and the readings that at one point I thought “oh forget it, I’m just going to live this and not document it”. Does that make sense? In order to take good photographs you have to be involved [...] Timothy Green and Jamey Hecht at the Barnes & Noble in Santa Monica The Barnes & Noble on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica looks like a nice enough place when you first enter. Seems quite civilized. Unless you are a human being with bodily functions that need to be addressed. No bathrooms for the [...] |
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