Posts tagged "Jim Behrle"

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]

Jim Behrle – from “Ruthless Careerism: How You Can Become The Most Important Poet In America *Overnight*

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Ruthless 24/7 Careerism: How You Can Become The Most Important Poet In America *Overnight* (A Talk By Jim Behrle)

[ Monday, January 25, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Monday
The poet is a social animal above all else: the poet’s art comes second to the types of important connections the poet can make not just with readers and an audience, but with editors, curators and people in positions of institutional power. The poet owes it to the art and to themselves to look out [...]