Re: Poetry collaboration between M.H. Benders & Will Dockery

Bruce <[email protected]> posted:
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> Benders suckered you into wearing clown shoes and a Zorro mask.

Again, no, that's a misrepresentation of what happened.

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...."

Here's more of exactly what M.H. Benders thinks or thought of me, 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.)

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