http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com Poetry Like You've Never Heard It Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:35:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Open Skies Bar & Bar offers a unique reading tonight for about two hours before sunset: all the poems will be read by birds. In addition to a budgie reading Stalin, a mourning dove that has kept its speech a secret will read Emily Dickinson, while red-tailed hawk will perform ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/06/28/poetry-from-the-birds/ Tonight, all fifty two and a half branches of Coffees R Belong To Us across the United States and Tokyo will be hosting the first of what promises to be a monthly series of opt-out open mics. Those wishing to remain in the audience without being forced to take the ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/06/18/opt-out-open-mic/ Amy Winehouse will perform poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt tonight at 7ish at the Noli Me Rehab Cafe. Note: audience members will be tested afterwards. Notetaking is highly encouraged; group work will not be accepted despite the collaborative nature of the artistic project. http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/29/amy-winehouse-sings-sir-thomas-wyatt/ Tonight being just another night, ten poets you’ve never heard of will gather at a cafe of no special significance despite the claims on their special drinks blackboard. At the usual time, after dinner but before the bar down the street brings in a band, they will begin to read. ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/25/forgotten-poets-speak/ Tonight, the Bushel Light Cafe will host a group reading honoring the life and work of William McGonagall. Works read will include the poems of William himself as well as works inspired by him. Expected readers include yet-to-be-named neosurrealists who will at long last admit that they were inspired by ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/17/the-poets-honor-william-mcgonagall/ Tonight, in art museums across the country, patrons able to elude security guards by hiding in the bathroom at closing time, will witness a remarkable experiment in innovation. Paintings and sculptures from across the ages will recite their own poetry during the first annual ArtSpeaks! Slam! Organizers intend to make ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/15/pictures-speak-louder-than-words/ Organizers admit that last month’s zombie poetry reading was an absolute disgrace. Not only did the readers devour their audience before the promised open mic even began (instead of slipping out quietly before the end as featured readers, and a good portion of the audience, are wont to do at ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/11/zombie-poetry-tonight-at-the-graveyard/ Tonight, starting at 7 PM, two poets who have not been heard from in decades, Lew Welch and Weldon Kees will read for an hour or two. The only catch is that interested audience members will have to find them first (and buy them drinks). http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/vanishing-poets/ Reports are surfacing today of an open mic in which multiple poets performed without a single warmed-over Ginsberg tribute being read. Conflicting reports on the location of this reading put its reality into question, but its significance if it is true is such that even unfounded rumors cannot and should ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/miraculous-open-mics/ Friedrich Schiller’s skull will read from the works belonging to the once whole being tomorrow night at an as-yet undisclosed location. Reading will be followed by an open mic with the two skulls suspected, until recently, of being Schiller’s as hosts. http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/06/friedrich-schillers-skull/ Tonight or tomorrow or one of these nights, Jorie Graham will read from her new collection, Sea Change. The cracks in time represented in this book will allow her to invite a coterie of guests to read along with her. Appearances by Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot are confirmed. There are ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/03/jorie-graham-guests-at-the-coral-reef-cafe/ Taking his recent Ruth Lilly Prize not as an honor for his poetry alone but, rather, as a sign of his responsibility to the poetry community, Gary Snyder has arranged a series of Friday-night readings at the Firewatch Cafe. He believes that, by headlining a group of otherwise unknown poets, ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/02/group-reading-featuring-gary-snyder/ After years of efforts to persuade her, Elizabeth Bishop will read from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box in a Newfoundland park (comment with your email for directions) tomorrow evening at 6:36 PM. Please note that she has only agreed to this so that she can explain exactly why she ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/05/01/elizabeth-bishop-reads-from-edgar-allan-poe-the-juke-box/ On Thursday, April 31 at 10 PM, the curtains will go up on a reading that is centuries in the making. If you miss this one, your father’s ghost will demand that you seek vengeance against yourself! William Shakespeare and James Joyce will be reading dramatic monologues written exclusively ... http://imaginaryreadings.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/william-shakespeare-james-joyce-at-the-cafe-de-la-paix/