Author: LAPB

For its 5th edition, the Poetry Downtown Festival shines a spotlight on American Indian poetry—celebrating the rich traditions, vibrant voices, and visionary perspectives Indigenous poets bring to our stages!

Join the #poetrytrain

Hi poets, on december 7 I will take at 3:40 p.m. the poetrytrain to Chicago. Please jump on the train in New York or one of the 19 stops till Chicago. I would like if there is always one poet at my side. Travel with us, talk with us and write with us. Just do…
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November 19, 2021 0

Funhouse

by Charles Bukowski I drive to the beach at nightin the winterand sit and look at the burned-down amusement pierwonder why they just let it sit therein the water.I want it out of there,blown up,vanishedwith madmen sleeping insidethe burned-out guts of the funhouse . . .it’s awful, I say, blow the damn thing up,get it…
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November 18, 2021 0

This is the final version

Finally the L.A. Poetry Beach entrance tickets are ready. It’s a free festival but for the first 50 visitors we will have a ticket with on the back the signatures of the 12 poets on the festival.


November 18, 2021 0

What do you think of our LAPB Festival postcard?

The text in the top I will replace tomorrow with my own handwritting. Now time to go to bed!


November 17, 2021 0

Buy the LA Times

From November 21st we will have 4 tiny advertisements to get poems for L.A. Poetry Beach 2021. Hereby the advertisement but please buy the LA Times and cut the originals they original advertisment will bring you fortune.


November 16, 2021 0

The birthplace of pulp poetry

In Bill Buford Journal: Granta 8: Dirty Realism, Writings from New America – May 1, 1983 he coined the term Dirty realism to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realism are said to depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language. We prefer to…
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November 15, 2021 0

LA Times

Today, we made the Poetry Beach ad in LA Times.


November 13, 2021 0