Poster Run

This was to be my final poster run before leaving the USA on my way back to New Zealand.  I'm writing this some months afterwards and so I can't even remember which poem posters I was carrying, but there would have been about ten different Kiwi poets involved and two or three Americans.

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When Jim Wilson asked if I’d put a few posters up locally, I’m sure he thought I’d go to bookstores, the library, coffeeshops, the usual intellectual stuff. Well, here in Gainesboro, Tennessee, there is a bookstore… sort of. A used book store, but apparently it’s a used book museum because it’s never open. So, as usual in such an out-of-the-mainstream area, we did things a little differently.

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Having seen some of the pictures and blurbs about putting Phantom Poetry Billstickers up in places like Paris, Sydney, and of course Christchurch, Auckland, as well as those Jim Wilson has put up in New York city, Lowell, Mass. and Cambridge and Boston, Mass., I asked Jim if he wanted my to put up some poem posters in England while I was there.

My first stop in England was a conference entitled "Peripheral Visions: Suburbs, Representation and Innovation" and it was at Kingston University in Kingston June 17-18 (see pictures).

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Lambertville, New Jersey and New Hope, Pennsylvania. June 4th - 10th 2011.

How To Put Up a Poster.

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Phantom Billstickers, Washington DC and Baltimore Poetry Poster Run, November 13th and 14th 2010 by Jim Wilson.

There might be lots of good reasons for going to these two cities to do a poster run of Kiwi Poets. A person has to have clear intentions and I always try not to get sidetracked. My job is to try and make people feel better and not to spit and moan all day about what is going wrong. There's lots of spitting and moaning in these places.

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This weekend I am away to Washington DC, on active service, to put up poetry posters and there'll be a side trip to Baltimore, Maryland, as well. I've postered Baltimore previously. This city is important, in a sense, to at least one of our poets. Of course it's also very important to a lot of people because of the television show, 'The Wire.'. It's very rarely these days that you see the truth told like that. The truth now has to be put into fiction because otherwise no one would believe it and they'd be frightened of it. But I think everyone believes "The Wire."

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