Re: M. H. Benders and Will Dockery poetry collaboration

[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
> Bruce  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >NancyGene wrote:
>>> Bruce <[email protected]> posted:
>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>> Cujo DeSockpuppet <cujo> posted:
>
> ALL HAIL BENDERS!!!!

Again, to set the record straight;

P.D. Wilson and I have been friends for over 40 years, that 2007 flame war aside.

M.H. Benders is a friend, pretty cool guy, after our flame war we collaborated on a poem set to music.

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.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20080124124833/http://www.kannibaal.nl/shadowville.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/shadowville.htm

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[Original text restored, troll content removed.]

> >>> Benders really hated you Dockery, 

Not at all, in fact we became friends and collaborated on poetry later.

> >>> in order to hope someone
> >>> will shoot you!

Again, Benders was really just carried away in the heat of the moment, a somewhat intense flame war at the time.

> >>> GUFFAW!
> >> 
> >> That's easy to understand, and any jury would agree.

Obviously I don't agree with that.

> >Yep, and that's at least two posters that wanted xxxxx dead.
> 
> Evil Bruce for you.

Bruce does seem to focus on the more negative side of things, although in his own goofy way.

😏

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Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery