New Hampshire & Vermont Poster Run
15 December, 2009
New Hampshire & Vermont Poster Run
Thanksgiving Week November 23-27 2009
I'm from New Zealand so it's possible I'll get some of the towns and city names wrong that were covered on this Poster Run for NZ Poet Posters.
We stayed in Perkinsville, Vermont and travelled out to:
- Chester Vt. (where there is a great bookstore called Misty Valley books the owner of which put us on to a fine local Poet called Michael Palma whose work we will be Postering for soon).
- Weston Vt.
- Ludlow Vt.
- Windsor Vt (where I came accross a general store selling NZ Swandri Bush Shirts and a bloke who had actually heard the names 'Dan Carter' and 'Richie McCaw' - Kiwis abroad speak those names often)
- Bellows Falls Vt
- Andover Vt
- Springfield Vt
- in New Hampshire:
- Cornish
- White River Junction
- Hanover
- Lebanon
It was my sheer and extreme pleasure to be carrying with me Ben Brown Poetry Posters (The Door). I wouldn't do this if I didn't think Ben of Lyttelton had spadeloads of raw talent. Everytime I put a Poem Poster on a lamp-post or a noticeboard, I am aware that I am having at least three affects: On the Poet himself (I believe in him), on a Potential Audience (so nice to be reading a Poem in the streets) and on Myself (my blood flows).
The week following this Poster Run we had a great meeting with Alice Quinn from the Poetry Society of America. Whilst in Manhattan for that meeting, I managed to get a few Brian Turner and Sam Hunt Poem Posters up. These are very fine NZ Poets. Let's take this to the world, eh? Or do what we can.;
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I was inclined to tell the Jim Wilson story to a fellow juicer recently, This guy is an inspiring character and I see his inpirees all over the place. That he is returning to NZ is a great benefit to the nation.
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