Re: Morning Perceptions / Will Dockery

[email protected] (HarryLime) posted:

> Will Dockery wrote:
> [email protected] (HarryLime) wrote:
> Will Dockery <user3274> wrote in news:1765028000-
> [email protected]:
> 
> Morning Perceptions
> 
> To awaken on the morning of the journey
> cross out the front lawn
> to the pass.
> 
> It was a crisp blue Spring morning in Atlanta
> the sky was a rich cobalt color
> the skyline
> seemed melancholy and sparse.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Pendragon: There's that Perky again!
> 
> Dockery: That's correct, I was voted poet of the year in 1998 by the people of Columbus Georgia.
> 
> It was an  entertaining evening when I won the Perky Award, good memories.
> 
> And so it goes.
> 
> Pendragon: it's not a real award.
> 
> Dockery: No, it was real.
> 
> Again, it was voted on by the people of Columbus Georgia.
> 
> It's real.
> 
> Pendragon: It was an ad campaign in a local newspaper.  There were 100s (more likely 1,000s) of categories for every job/business that they could think of (including such non-literary categories as Best Hair Stylist, Best Coffee, Best Diner, etc.).
> 
> Dockery: No, that's not true.
> 
> There were probably 10-15 categories, mostly in the entertainment or arts, best artist, best musicians (including vocalist), best actor and actress,  as well as best venue, best waitress, bartender and finally best poet, which one on the award for in 1998.
> 
> Pendragon: At one point, you had posted scans of your copies of Playgrounds (a free, local listings newspaper consisting predominantly  of ads for local businesses), including at least one of the Perky issues.
> 
> Instead of saying, "No, that's not true," why don't you just repost the link to it?
> 
> This is a response to the post seen at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?pi9207490#699207490
> 
> Dockery: I do intend to locate those scans of the Playgrounds Magazine issues with the Perky Awards ballot in them, but that's been a couple of years since our last discussion of this topic so it'll take a while, when time permits, and so on.
> 
> Until then, this is the truth about the Perky Awards ballot, with scans showing this to follow in the near future:
> 
> There were 10-15 categories in arts and entertainment on the Perky Awards ballot.
> 
> Best songwriter, guitar player, vocalist, band, artist, actor and so on, finally coming to best poet, which the people of Columbus Georgia voted me as in 1998.
> 
> I'll add, since someone will probably stalk all these details up soon, that I didn't win the Perky Award for best poet in 1997. Sandra Pollock was the winner that year, which she deserved.
> 
> Other local poets on the Perky Awards ballot included:
> 
> Joseph McClure
> Lisa Scarborough
> Frank Saunders
> Nita Gale
> Karen Keller
> 
> There were others but it was almost 30 years ago so if need to actually see the ballot myself to remember all the details.
> 
> More to come.
> 
> Pendragon: Be sure to include the ballots for Best Bowling Alley, Best Bagel, Best Plumber, and Best 5-for-a-dollar Taco.
> 



Dockery: Again, those were not on the ballot, Pendragon.

Why do you lie and misrepresent so much?

😏 


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