Comments on: CA Conrad’s and Frank Sherlock’s The City Real and Imagined http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: CAConrad http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28783 CAConrad Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:02:36 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28783 OH, Sassjemleon, I don't remember you at all, but am SO SAD that you've turned into such an old fuddy duddy! TRYING to hate on me, and hating on skateboarders now. Geeze, you really need a vacation dear fellow human. Or maybe you need to start writing poems again and stop living in the sour taste of the bohemian past. STOP HATING AND START LIVING, CAConrad p.s. I'm reading in Philly later this week, maybe you can come and see if I'm still just mildly amusing: http://CAConradevents.blogspot.com OH, Sassjemleon, I don’t remember you at all, but am SO SAD that you’ve turned into such an old fuddy duddy!

TRYING to hate on me, and hating on skateboarders now. Geeze, you really need a vacation dear fellow human. Or maybe you need to start writing poems again and stop living in the sour taste of the bohemian past.

STOP HATING AND START LIVING,
CAConrad

p.s. I’m reading in Philly later this week, maybe you can come and see if I’m still just mildly amusing: http://CAConradevents.blogspot.com
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]]> By: sassjemleon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28760 sassjemleon Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:04:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28760 caconrad, like i said, love park would have to have been closed for a pretty good reason. skaters were a nuisance and would have eventually ruined the park, in addition to dilworth plaza, which are both looking and sounding pretty good these days minus all the clackety-clack of dangerous and destructive skateboarders. you can, however, still see all the wear-and-tear the skaters left behind, the scars, so to speak. think i'm going to pass on your voodoo suggestion to soothe my bitter soul, which is, quite frankly, one of my finest assets. caconrad, like i said, love park would have to have been closed for a pretty good reason. skaters were a nuisance and would have eventually ruined the park, in addition to dilworth plaza, which are both looking and sounding pretty good these days minus all the clackety-clack of dangerous and destructive skateboarders. you can, however, still see all the wear-and-tear the skaters left behind, the scars, so to speak. think i’m going to pass on your voodoo suggestion to soothe my bitter soul, which is, quite frankly, one of my finest assets.
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]]> By: CAConrad http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28754 CAConrad Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:56:32 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28754 Thanks so much Thom Donovan! Thanks everyone! Hater Sassjemleon, if you burn a photograph of me and rub the ashes to your bare chest it may help soothe your bitter soul. I honestly don't remember you. But LOVE Park was in fact closed for a long period of time for reconstruction at that particular part of our writing experiment, see this: http://www.ushistory.org/lovepark/petitionarc06.htm Ah, bitterness has no sway over me from poor sad poets who can only remember their bohemian days and have nothing left to say. No, not when I'm in love with making poems in the city I love. Cheer up, life's too short for bitterness, CAConrad Thanks so much Thom Donovan! Thanks everyone!

Hater Sassjemleon, if you burn a photograph of me and rub the ashes to your bare chest it may help soothe your bitter soul.

I honestly don’t remember you. But LOVE Park was in fact closed for a long period of time for reconstruction at that particular part of our writing experiment, see this: http://www.ushistory.org/lovepark/petitionarc06.htm

Ah, bitterness has no sway over me from poor sad poets who can only remember their bohemian days and have nothing left to say. No, not when I’m in love with making poems in the city I love.

Cheer up, life’s too short for bitterness,
CAConrad
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]]> By: Sabrina Calle http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28707 Sabrina Calle Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:38:45 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28707 Congrats to these two beautiful wizards. Philly cheesesteaks, cry yourselves to sleep. Poets have reinvented delicious in that chilly city. Congrats to these two beautiful wizards. Philly cheesesteaks, cry yourselves to sleep. Poets have reinvented delicious in that chilly city.
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]]> By: Jill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28666 Jill Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:04:17 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28666 If I think of Philadelphia as made up of utopias such as the one created between the minds and imaginations of Frank and Conrad, I think of it as an ideal city. If I think of Philadelphia as made up of utopias such as the one created between the minds and imaginations of Frank and Conrad, I think of it as an ideal city.
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]]> By: sassjemleon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28664 sassjemleon Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:48:07 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28664 i've lived in/near or worked in philly most of my life. i would never consider it a "failed project." i consider philadelphia to be one of the finest cities on the planet, and i've been to many. as many of the cities i've been to, philadelphia seems to always be in work in progress, rather than ever having made any false claims about being finished--or abandoned--like a poem. also, if love park was closed, i'm sure park services had a pretty good reason for it. it's rarely ever closed. i walk through or past it 5 days a week. i don't wear a suit, but i'm not really sure what that matters.... furthermore, having seen him read several times way back in my full-on bohemian days, i would never consider ca conrad as an accurate presenter of information about philly. he is mildly amusing. i might have chuckled a few times during his readings. that's about it. i’ve lived in/near or worked in philly most of my life. i would never consider it a “failed project.” i consider philadelphia to be one of the finest cities on the planet, and i’ve been to many. as many of the cities i’ve been to, philadelphia seems to always be in work in progress, rather than ever having made any false claims about being finished–or abandoned–like a poem.

also, if love park was closed, i’m sure park services had a pretty good reason for it. it’s rarely ever closed. i walk through or past it 5 days a week. i don’t wear a suit, but i’m not really sure what that matters….

furthermore, having seen him read several times way back in my full-on bohemian days, i would never consider ca conrad as an accurate presenter of information about philly. he is mildly amusing. i might have chuckled a few times during his readings. that’s about it.
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]]> By: Chris Hosea http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/ca-conrads-and-frank-sherlocks-the-city-real-and-imagined/#comment-28654 Chris Hosea Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:24:37 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=8646#comment-28654 Thanks for this, Thom! I was at this reading and enjoyed Conrad and Sherlock's energetic give and take, the humor and anger (and sometimes angry humor) of this warm-hearted and tender and beautiful poem. In October, I visited Philly for the first time in many years, and though, as you say, the city of "Brotherly Love" may be a "failed project" in significant ways, I want to say how pleasant and generous my hosts were. There was such a spirit of sharing and care and lively interest amongst poetry folk we met there. I met Conrad there, and he was extraordinarily generous in his perceptive comments on a reading I gave at the Chapterhouse cafe. It's a delight to have since read his amazing BOOK OF FRANK, SOMATIC MIDGE, and now to have heard this terrific new project. Go Phillies! Thanks for this, Thom! I was at this reading and enjoyed Conrad and Sherlock’s energetic give and take, the humor and anger (and sometimes angry humor) of this warm-hearted and tender and beautiful poem. In October, I visited Philly for the first time in many years, and though, as you say, the city of “Brotherly Love” may be a “failed project” in significant ways, I want to say how pleasant and generous my hosts were. There was such a spirit of sharing and care and lively interest amongst poetry folk we met there. I met Conrad there, and he was extraordinarily generous in his perceptive comments on a reading I gave at the Chapterhouse cafe. It’s a delight to have since read his amazing BOOK OF FRANK, SOMATIC MIDGE, and now to have heard this terrific new project. Go Phillies!
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