Folks! Sweet Sisters and bros too: I need your help: I am invited to read my stuff in

[serge gurkski]

public.

and I am scared shitless. You'd never have thought, right?
But I must do that. I can't let that chance pass by.



Has anyone experience with reading his/her poetry in public?

the reading is on Friday. haha: and I have , so tells me my fellow poet Ofterdingen, 10 full minutes!
I know what I am going to read.

But what if they think it is bs. ;-) dammit.

I ll read a fun love poem first
then pose (tempelmusik)
and or: Maeterlinck revisited

and Ecke Schiller.

blech ;-)

[Heartafire]

public.

and I am scared shitless. You'd never have thought, right?
But I must do that. I can't let that chance pass by.



Has anyone experience with reading his/her poetry in public?

the reading is on Friday. haha: and I have , so tells me my fellow poet Ofterdingen, 10 full minutes!
I know what I am going to read.

But what if they think it is bs. ;-) dammit.

I ll read a fun love poem first
then pose (tempelmusik)
and or: Maeterlinck revisited

and Ecke Schiller.

blech ;-)

I hope you will go for it, bebe. Even Bukowski took a puke bucket on
stage with him which he used twice during one recital...could have been the booze. He doesn't look like the nervous type. My best to you love.
Heart

[tectak]

public.

and I am scared shitless. You'd never have thought, right?
But I must do that. I can't let that chance pass by.



Has anyone experience with reading his/her poetry in public?

the reading is on Friday. haha: and I have , so tells me my fellow poet Ofterdingen, 10 full minutes!
I know what I am going to read.

But what if they think it is bs. ;-) dammit.

I ll read a fun love poem first
then pose (tempelmusik)
and or: Maeterlinck revisited

and Ecke Schiller.

blech ;-)

I hope you will go for it, bebe. Even Bukowski took a puke bucket on
stage with him which he used twice during one recital...could have been the booze. He doesn't look like the nervous type. My best to you love.
Heart

I have, serge. Here's a tip. You have to make sure your audience is uncomfortable before you start. Stand on the podium and look staringly at the poor receptive bastards...wait for it....say nothing...stare around some more...but with confidence. Soon, they will start to get shifty....uncomfortable FOR you....but you are perfectly at ease...you are in charge. As soon as someone in the audience mutters concern, LAUNCH INTO YOUR PIECE as if reprimanding the mutterer for daring to speak. It NEVER fails. After that, they will be putty in your hands...though they may be slow to applaud. If you have another poem handy, start reading it on the VERY FIRST hand-clap.
Or don't do it.
Best,
tectak
PS Here's another tip. Read it twice as slowly as you think you should because it will come out twice as fast as you think you are reading it!

[serge gurkski]

-------

[serge gurkski]

tom that is pricelessly important information for me_

yes, I can do that.

i just return from a prolonged drinking session open air at our local Agora. bc you dream Greek fluently i don't have to translate.

ok,I rehearsed : I did get up from my parlk bench
and was there!
I stared huffily at he fucked up audience
and ...

You know why I was so pissed:
Because these bastards
really think that superbest entertainment like me reciting my beautiful stuff for them in my beautiful voice comes for free!
Appalled I ll stare into their fucking faces and then after
a deep teutonic heroic tenored sigh
will address them thusly:

und sonst geht's?

(so: you're ok?)

evening good so far?


then in German:

Freut mich.

id est: Nice!

Was soll's! (= what the fuck)

So I sit down on a chair hopefully there
open a bottle of Weißbier, light me a cig and

will read Another Piece of Fahrstuhl-Jazz to them-

and bc this describes me and a beautiful female colleague in an elevator
softly sinking downstairs. ;-)

I will let my voice sink down to.

--
Ok, and then depending on their reaction. I mean: if theywant more,
I will read

my rhythmic prose piece (Maeterlinck redivivus (updated only today)

I assume by then they will throw rotten tomatoes.

If still not ;-)

I ll get serious and sing

Dunkles Rot to them.

And finihsh of with:

Blues for Bakenfalter.


Tom, I really don't know if that will happen at all.

[cidermaid]

Serge how did the reading go? ( Or have I missed this report somewhere else)

I had to do a thing once (this yr) - had been asked to do a poem for a mother's day service (about 500 +). I was completly bricking about it.
I've only just found this thread but i thought Tom's advise to read twice as slow as you think you should is really good and about right.
Anyway just wondered how it went.

[billy]

have i missed it, am i too late

not that i could give you any pointers. i've heard you speak, just be yourself, pick the language you're audience will be best with and project

[serge gurkski]

too late. but what hurts most is this : so, i was simply too bloddy hungover to make irt (at lol 7:30 pm2! ;-)
now te poet who invited me: mean mean creature, told me this:

yo meaning me, lol, would have won. (there wre 4 other felloow slam poets) and he said it in a awway
that sent me right to the floor laighing, very elegant phrase in German but for now bc I must run:

re the 4other contesters: the auditory signaled disapproval. ;-))))

I really hate him now.

He knows my German writing. He even once wrote a parody on a text (rhymtic prose) that
did! get ! published"

CHEERS

serge

I am drnk so pls exculpate me typowise

---

I messed up, my friends ;-)

whst else didcha expect but!!!!!
I ll do two readings on youtube: one in german. in what lanuasge do you want me to do the other recital?
Tell me! I insist (;-))
cheers


serge

---

lo
my text, not his shabby psrody lol
I was soo pissed first and then he invites me, so... ;-)