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

Will Dockery <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:51:21 GMT
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:

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> In article <[email protected]>,
> Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >😏
> >
> 
> And get it off of drwho .

Apologies, Doctor, the trolls keep crosspoting it over.

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