Ken,  You should come listen to me.  I don't write the stuff, just read it,
but I think I'm pretty fair.  Many years ago I read a story from one of
those "True Romance" magazines and the bunch of women listening darned near
wet their pants laughing.

I read a poem out of a book of poetry by Oliver Wendell HOLMES this summer
to my MIL and her sisters and they gave me a standing ovation--all 3 of
them.  That doesn't really count EXCEPT one of them WAS my MOTHER-IN-LAW
who doesn't think I ever do anything right.

When I was in school I was alway the "reader" in any school production.  Ruth



At 1:21 PM -0500 12/31/07, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

>Extremely admirable. You have my good thoughts on that project.
>
>You point out an obvious issue w/ the ability of the reader to read
>aloud that I had forgot about. I thank you for that. It reminds me that
>I have been to plenty of 'authors' readings that I cannot remember any
>of them. Though I do seem to remember one where the author raised his
>arm. Other than that I do not remember their name or their story. Poets,
>though, on the other hand, them I remember. My favorite was a very small
>gathering with Robert Bly on the night of a blizzard where we had to
>drive a long distance to be with him. Not by any means a warm snuggle,
>but close enough. Another, more of a failed reading, was with Gary
>Snyder who was drunk and falling out of his chair. I was irritated
>enough at that one to ask him why if he was going to read and drink beer
>at the same time he did not offer to share.... at least we would get
>something out of driving such a long distance. And my mention of
>Borges... after another long drive to see him at NYU our associate
>wanted to go eat pizza first so when we finally got there to the
>presentation we had to stand in the lobby and listen over a loud
>speaker. I stopped driving long distances to hear authors quite a while ago.
>
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