The format was a 10 minute time limit for performers, with a 2 poem/10 minute time-limit for poets (so, poets, bring 2 long poems). With only a few performers the night moved right along. Rob also announced that there was a sheet for an "exquisite corpse" on the counter, that folks were encouraged to join in & the finished product would be read at the end of the night. When I looked at the sheet there was already a long entry by someone, but they hadn't folded over the sheet to hide the entry, so I wasn't sure what was going on.
Rob began with a poem by one of Baudelaire's contemporaries as an invocation, written on the back of an advertising poster for absinthe. The first open mic person seemed to have left the building, so the next was Danielle Moreau, who sang unaccompanied a couple songs she had written for a band she is in; I think they would have worked just fine read. I followed with my 2 new "Coyote" poems.
R.M. Engelhardt read "Procession," a somber, serious poem, that he said was in response to a poem Thom Francis had read here last month about papier mache poets (i.e., "Paper Messiah" I think), then a couple of older pieces, "Dedication" & "Evening."
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Dan Wilcox may write about the Voorheesville open mic but he won't write about how awesome he was as the feature and how everyone really enjoyed him, but really, he was. He read naughty poems too. and he read a poem with two ladies joining him. i think he wrote that poem ONLY so he could pick two ladies of his choice to stand next to him. because thats Danny Wilcox. - Tim Verhaegen
I hope to have something good for you in the future =) Having never preformed at an open mic, much less in front of an audience outside of highschool band, I was a bit less prepared than I'd have preferred.
Also having equipment fail during setup also meant I had to borrow equipment which I had never practiced on. (mic preamp and mic)
Check out the recorded tracks for what I wanted to come out:
http://soundcloud.com/barbieclaus
Without Rob, something like this wuldn't be happening in Albany. Everyone who was brave nough to get on that stage was amazing, and Rob's reading was beautiful. And to call Broken Glass and Cigarettes a poseur band...Really? The singer was awesome and the music was hypnotic. And BArbie Claus was inventive. Just because you didn't get what people were trying to express doesn't mean you should make comments like the ones you have. And no one cares about coyote's.
to VR/BC --
thanks for the link, it's much clearer. Keep at it.
DWx
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