The Morgantown Poets society has posted video excerpts from my Halloween season poetry reading in Morgantown, West Virginia last month. It was a goofy gory night of the bizarre, which I titled “Food, Folks and Fun with Zombies.”
I read three courses of horror: a batch of gory “food” poems from a variety of sources (including crazy twitter poems and pieces from The Goreletter e-edition), a “folksy” ghost story (from the just-released collection, Legends of the Mountain State IV — not appearing on the vid), and then I ended with a “fun” batch of zombie poems from my book, Rigormarole. The lighting is dark, the sound is hit-and-miss, but the video captures the jist of what my readings are like. It was fun to read in an art gallery to a very indulgent audience, who was enormously generous with their time, patience, and laughter.
Look for “Endless Shrimp” — delivered in the 2nd of the 3 short video clips — to appear in an upcoming issue of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, edited by John Skipp.
[In other, totally unrelated news: I’ve posted two new artpieces to the gorelets’ “scrawl” gallery: “Graveyard Study III” and “Fallen Lamp.”]
It was a fun night, Mike, and now it’s memorialized forever!
~Heidi
RT @MikeArnzen: Food Folks and Fun with Zombies at the Morgantown Poets http://bit.ly/9FMkZ1
For some reason I gag a little now when we pass a Red Lobster.