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“Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.”

Poet Performances Best Performance

Author:Utah Phillips

“I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.”

Poet Performances Wire Theatrical Stuntman

Author:Philippe Petit

“When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.”

Way Giving Writing Art Actors Audience Poet Performances Singers Not Interested Readership

Author:James Arthur

“When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.”

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

Men Said Humor Poet Creating Performances Blind Ridiculous Driving Reasonable Sense Of Humor Craving Posture Sinister

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

Black Rocks Students Poet Friends My Friends Performances Feminist Active Professors Punk Mistaken Punk Rock Marxist Anti-american Leather Jackets Dreams From My Father

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father