Re: Poetry collaboration between M.H. Benders & Will Dockery
Will Dockery <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:20:52 GMT
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[email protected] (The Doctor) posted: > /ERROR "unexpected byte sequence starting at index 2129: '\xF0'" while decoding/: > > In article <[email protected]>, > Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote: > >Bruce <[email protected]> posted: > > >> Benders xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx > > > >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: > > > >---------------------------------------------- > > > >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 > > > >------------------------------------------ > > > >(Original text restored.) > > drwho is not interested. Sorry, Doctor, I thought I had removed that crosspost, Bruce probably added it back. -- Poetry and songs of Will Dockery: https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery