Re: M. H. Benders on Will Dockery: "A real coffeehouse poet..."

Will Dockery <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:21:12 GMT
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.drwho
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Cujo DeSockpuppet <[email protected]> posted:
> Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]
>
> > Here's the full story of my poetry collaboration with M.H.Benders:
> > 
> > M. H. Benders on Will Dockery - "One of the most authentic American
> > poets...." -M.H. Benders, from his Dutch website.
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > https://web.archive.org/web/20080124124833/http://www.kannibaal.nl/shad
> > owville.htm 
> > 
> > M. H. Benders: "That's great. It sounds like a really interesting
> > project. I will promote the video over my website which has about
> > 80.000 visitors a year, enough to give your name a decent boost into
> > recognition by Dutch people. It's nice that these sort of
> > cross-cultural initiatives can develop over the internet. So much
> > negativity floating around that it's good sometimes something positive
> > happens." 
> > 
> > M. H. Benders: "Thanks for showing an interest in the cross cultural
> > project I am planning. You can arrange the reading events in everyway 
> > that you see fit, I trust your artistic vision. When you have taped
> > the events you can send the tape. It would be nice, I think, to have
> > some real American elements mixed with it like Country Music (I have 
> > always been a great country music fan) but you can also use jazz if
> > you want. I will make sure the video is digitalised and shown on
> > different locations on the Dutch internet. Then, in the future, we can
> > also try it the other way around."
> > 
> > And, again, the original quote seems just fine with me:
> > 
> > "In my opinion Will Dockery is easily one of the most authentic
> > American poets around. A real coffeehouse poet who is not scared of
> > mingling some real American elements such as country music into his 
> > poetry..." -M.H. Benders
> > 
> > https://web.archive.org/web/20080124124833/http://www.kannibaal.nl/shad
> > owville.htm 
> > 
> > ***
> > [Original text restored, troll content removed.]
> 
> Nope! 

I didn't expect you to agree, Cujo.

😏

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