On Friday, September 12, 2014 at 7:08:04 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Friday, September 12, 2014 6:25:19 PM UTC-4,
gen...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> exactly zero "pub creds"
> >
> > Yes, it's a well known fact that willie douchebag has exactly zero pub
> > creds.
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> Well, just for starters, my 16 years of monthly publication in the local arts paper Playgrounds Magazine ups that number, since that's over 200 poems and columns (since you're counting) published just there, circulation of 10,000 monthly:
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http://www.playgroundsmag.com
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> Here's the September column and poem, if you're that interested in my "pub creds":
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> To The Magic Store by Will Dockery (September issue)
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> *** Junk Fest Season is with us! ***
>
> JunkFest,Held in the pasture behind Gina's Junk Thrift & Antique Store -Bands (Will Dockery's Shadowville All-Stars, Sean Rox, Bibb City Ramblers, Jimmy Hall & many more), BBQ, Craft Vendors & Vintage Resale. Directions: I-185 North - Exit Buena Vista Rd.-turn Right- go 2.5 miles
> I-185 South -Exit Buena Vista rd.-turn Left-go 2.5 miles
> 6020 Buena Vista Road.
> Columbus Ga.,31907
>
> *** Columbus Georgia performance poet on national television ***
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> Congratulations to local poet Chiara Richardson, a Columbus native and 1999 Shaw High School graduate, deliver one of those messages when she appears this
> fall on an episode of "Verses and Flow" on TV One. Richardson is among the 24 poets selected for the show's fourth season. "Verses and Flow" is a 30-minute variety show, not a contest. Richardson's episode was filmed in front of a live audience at Siren Studios on Sunset
> Boulevard in Hollywood. She said she will be in one of this season's eight episodes, starting this fall, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.
>
> And poetry being in the air, many poets I know have been making their 10, 50 or 100 favorite poets of the last 100 years... and here's part one of mine, covering about 50 so far.
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> 1.) E.E. Cummings
> 2.) Robert Frost
> 3.) Dylan Thomas
> 4.) T.S. Eliot
> 5.) Ezra Pound
> 6.) Jim Morrison
> 7.) Patti Smith
> 8.) Allen Ginsberg
> 9.) Jack Kerouac
> 10.) John Berryman
>
> Well, that's ten, in no real order, love all those poets. Seems I can go possibly to 20 without a big wait:
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> 11.) Frank O'Hara
> 12.) Gregory Corso
> 13.) Pablo Neruda
> 14.) Charles Bukowski
> 15.) Lawrence Ferlinghetti
> 16.) Rod McKuen
> 17.) Carl Sandberg
> 18.) Anne Waldmann
> 19.) Bob Dylan
> 20.) Anne Sexton
> 21.) Leonard Cohen
> 22.) Sylvia Plath
> 23.) Carson McCullers
> 24.) William B. Yeats
> 25.) Edna St. Vincent Millay (newest poet on the list to me!)
> 26.) Rudyard Kipling
> 27.) Robert W. Service
> 28.) Leroi Jones aka Amiri Baraka
> 29.) Dale Houstman
> 30.) Phil Ochs
> 31.) Tom Snelling
> 32.) Stuart Leichter
> 33.) Seaborn Jones
> 34.) Gary Snyder
> 35.) Richard Brautigan
> 36.) Ken Nordine
> 37.) Shel Silverstein
> 38.) Dennis M. Hammes
> 39.) Ayn Rand
> 40.) Delmore Schwartz
> 41.) Lou Reed
> 42.) Robert Creeley
> 43.) Charles Olson
> 44.) Diane diPrima
> 45.) Robinson Jeffers
> 46.) Langston Hughes
> 47.) James Whitcomb Riley
> 48.) Robert Bly
> 49.) William Carlos Williams
> 50.) James Dickey
> 51.) Pete Matthiessen
>
> Okay, that's getting about it for right off the top shelf poets. There's probably a dozen more at least I'm not remembering right off hand, locals and Usenet writers would fill 20-30 spots easy, and they do count. And here's one of my poems, although I don't make my own list for the obvious reasons... heh...
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> Beltane Cruelties
>
> So if it is not for me to speak to her Iconic Wayward Muse who smiles by
> Alabama campfire South of town by a number of miles.
> Shaken by her ragged beauty painted up with long time no see. She sings rock
> and roll now out of sight fresh rolled in deep country.
> She's in love now he wishes her the best and him besides no reason for
> forgiveness no reason to cry.
> So he can smoke another cigar Stuffed with something green and fine Riding
> the white elephant shotgun Catching darkness, memory weavers.
> Rock and Roll heaven welcomed the new members One said stop the bomb one
> cuts across shortly while the other touches herself quietly.
> Let them say more in the creation of art although bottom line's purpose is
> to sell. The ornament rings like a chime and the little child smiles.
> At the country fair and with his fair cold judgement A truly vicious Mister
> Freeze taking what has become his by trickery
> Derailed the couplement what happened next couldn't be compared to the sun
> and moon or even the earth and sea's rich greens.
> Julie came prepared with a loaded pistol and all things rare she needed it
> Like a Lady in the movie she reminds me of she doesn't blow on some other
> guy's dice.
> Mulberry has cottonmouth troubles Rock and roll heaven's air of mundane good
> cheer is broken at last in this huge arrival to the halls.
> Oh let me take your hand again true in love though in lame duck doldrums
> truly write you a rock poem valentine. And then you might believe me, my
> love is as clear as Lucky's tenor.
> As any motherless child, or any Major dude though not so bright as either
> might claim Gold candles in the ranchero window fixed for the Lady, the
> founder now departed to a level in heaven's air.
>
> -Will Dockery
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> Music & poetry from Will Dockery & Friends:
>
http://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery
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