Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Twenty-Five

> Will-Dockery wrote:
> Cujo DeSockpuppet <cujo> posted:
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>> 
>> ALL HAIL BENDERS!!!!
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> 
> Yes, Benders is a friend, pretty cool guy
> 
> 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
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> 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:
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> "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
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> https://web.archive.org/web/20080124124833/http://www.kannibaal.nl/shadowville.htm
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> [Original text restored, troll content removed.]




The Donkey got played.  Big time. 


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