May 06, 2008

My Favorite Photo from the PEN World Voices Festival

 


ViewMaster presentation at Believer event
Originally uploaded by mtkr


All in all we had 38 posts on the PEN festival this year at MetaxuCafé. As soon as I can grab another moment, I’ll post a few more things and maybe my own thoughts on Friday’s Three Musketeers event, but in the meantime, I wanted to share my favorite photo from the Festival. Mary’s shot of the ViewMaster presentation at the Believer event.


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Oh, yes! I wish I’d been there, but Mary really captured something fun. A great photo.

My iPhone pic of the Three Musketeers is hilariously horrible, but I cannot bear to trash it….

    – Anne Fernald (05/08 04:41 PM)



There’s a picture from the fifties I’ve seen that this reminds me of, although the earlier picture was of people with 3-d glasses, I believe.

    – Bud Parr (05/09 07:52 AM)


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Last year Derrick Brown did living room readings. I don’t think anyone there had ever read his poetry; I had barely been introduced a few days before. http://vimeo.com/6013960

Compared to any staged, stacked or emceed poetry reading, well, it was kind of like learning you hadn’t ever had good sex.

Granted, he’s a more engaging poet than many, and he reads poems that should be read aloud, like they should sound.  I still think that a lot of the intimacy would have been lost in any a more austere setting.

As a listener, it had a profound and searing impact; if I could speak for the non-poetry-reading kind, I’d say they could not help but connect with this living poetry that was funny and sad and sweet and took you somewhere.

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Awesome! I always loved Sontag’s ‘Notes On Camp’. Lucid and concise.


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