Re: M. H. Benders on Will Dockery: "A real coffeehouse poet..."
Will Dockery <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:21:12 GMT
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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. 😏 -- Poetry and songs of Will Dockery: https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery