Often you’ll hear that a poetry reading should never run for more than 40 minutes, otherwise people start to go batty. Good advice, sure. But others disagree. These crazy people think poetry reading should be non-stop endeavors — lasting up to nine hours. Holy smokes, nine hours? That’s right, in the near future the Bay Area Poetry Marathon will explode like a word minefield, from 12-9 on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
Yes, poets be crazy.
So crazy they go to jail! If you ever get convicted of murder, and then escape prison, we suggest you not pose as an activist and a poet for the next twenty years. Just think of how many poems you could read in twenty years!
By God…
Ready to get started? Here’s a list put together by the Huff Post. It’s full of mouth-watering poetry books that will slur down your throat before you can say an-tic-i-pate. And finally, just how bad would it be if you if you got a poem accepted and then de-accepted by the Paris Review? There’s been some healthy debate about this for a couple weeks now. But still, um, hello, Paris Review?
We turn red just thinking about it.
– Lori Huskey
