[Maryann Corbett]

Discuss (if you feel like it):

An article from The Reader.

[W.F. Lantry]

"That was followed by an uncomfortable moment of silence, he recalls, and then Dunn—whose performance practice includes belly dances with a live python—began "doing her own person-to-person disruption," shedding clothing and demonstrating a sudden passion for him. Over the protests of Poetry Foundation staff, he reciprocated. "We began making out in an exaggerated, comical manner," Johnson says. When a security guard warned emphatically that "PDAs are not allowed in the Poetry Foundation" and said that the police would be called, they stepped it up, testing the foundation's "stodgy rules of decorum" and the $300,000 floor by "rolling around" on it, "laughing and groping" in a show of "sexual slapstick" that included a plastic pig nose Dunn stuffed into Johnson's mouth."

Belly dances! Live pythons! A plastic pig nose as public sex toy!

C'est sans commentaire!

Thanks,

Bill

[Jayne Osborn]

Dunn will be reading and performing as part of Open Studios Chicago on Friday, October 21, at 2030 W. Hubbard; the event starts at 7:30 PM. She says the Poetry Foundation is invited: "They can come and get their poetic justice, drink free wine and blow off some steam, and go home when the sun comes up. I encourage their heckling and their nudity."

This young lady is an exhibitionist. She's making sure that her reading attracts those who'll enjoy blowing off steam, heckling and taking their clothes off.
(Heck - none of that happens at my readings! )

Will anyone even be listening to her poetry, I wonder, with all that nudity going on? And is it any good, anyway?

Another thought: Duncan's thread has this quote: The singer, under all circumstances, must be more interesting than the song he sings.

Do you think that "The poet, under all circumstances, must be more interesting than the poem she reads"?
Hmmm... Dunn seems to think so!

PS. If anyone goes to her event, please report back to us!

[Catherine Chandler]

. . . and I thought the thread title meant Poetry was actually going to clamp down on pseudo-poets . Anyway, I think the prank was delicious.

[Quincy Lehr]

Wow, looking at the YouTube clips, the staff of Poetry Foundation seems a shower of officious b*****ds.

[Roger Slater]

Buzzards? Barmaids?

[Jayne Osborn]

Officious barmaids.
Like it. Heehee.

(Quincy, how do you find those YouTube links, please?)

[John Whitworth]

bollards? bandaids?

[Quincy Lehr]

Jayne--

The link was embedded in the article, but this should get you started:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssotf..._order&list=UL

The other noteworthy thing is the way that the Poetry Foundation's h.q. looks like the unnatural offspring of a three-way between a university library, a corporate headquarters, and your local Barnes & Noble.

[Jayne Osborn]

Thanks, Quincy.

I watched it but it's all rather civilised, isn't it? If that had been here there would have been a punch-up!

I had to smile at the bit where the girl says, "It's OK, let's just go and have some wine." Yeah, that's probably what I'd have said.