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Posted: Jan 28, 2008 in Things to do, Culture
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Local poet and instructor Lylanne Musselman has announced a new monthly poetry event called Writers Speak Volumes! This open forum reading will meet on the fourth Thursday of every month, beginning Feb. 28, at Bookmama's, 9 S. Johnson Ave. (across from Lazy Daze Coffee House in Irvington). The open forum will be hosted by Lylanne and will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Participants can read their works, share a favorite poet or listen. For more information, e-mail lylanne22@yahoo.com.
By the way, this new event will coincide with a regularly scheduled reading across the street at Lazy Daze. The oh-so-inappropriately named An Evening With Shakespeare takes place every Thursday at about the same time and is run by Ian Rossman, who likes to read Gregory Corso. The Lazy Daze readings have been SRO in the tiny annex to the north of the coffeeshop.
Btw...the name "An Evening With Shakespeare" is named that because Shakespeare was a rebel at the time with thoughts and ideas outside of the social norm. It would be hard to argue that the poets and listeners of this event aren't like Shakespeare in that respect. An open mike is never named for one poet, but rather for how things are at the event. Another example is the name "Writers Speak Volumes," which obviously doesn't mean that writers read entire volumes of material.
Btw...the name "An Evening With Shakespeare" is named that because Shakespeare was a rebel at ...
I'm not arguing the idea behind the name. It's just that from a marketing point of view, it sounds like an evening of "Othello," when in reality it's more like a reading of Corso or Ginsberg. If you're an out-of-towner and saw only the name of the event, what would you think?
Oh, BTW, Bookmamas has started an open mic on the second Friday of every month in its Underground 9 studio. It begins at 7 p.m. this Friday, June 13.
I would expect readings or performances of Shakespeare's works, and if I was one to get excited about that and actually visit Lazy Daze on this night, I'd be very disappointed.