Poet Plant Press

About me:

THE PRESENT:

HEART POUR OPEN MICROPHONE SERIES (2009 to present)
Ancient City Poets present
Last Sunday of every month
at City Coffee Company, St. Augustine, Florida
3 to 5:00 p.m.
Rotating hosts:
Chris Bodor from the Outsider Writers Collective,
Kimmy Van Kooten from Jane's Stories Press Foundation



THE PAST:

THE ALT DOT OPEN MICROPHONE SERIES (1995-1996)
Chris Bodor was a natural on the microphone thanks to his college radio experience (WNHU, West Haven). All his rock journalism, film script experience, and communication skills melted into his new found writing outlet of poetry and spoken word performing. The open mic series ran its course after a year and a half. That period was Bodor's most prolific time. He was constantly writing and rewriting and polishing and fine tuning each word with each reading. He developed an ear and his writing without a doubt began to take on an audio component. He became aware of how a word sounded rather than how it a word looked on the printed page. During the '90's Bukowski died, Kurt Cobain died, and Bodor did not. Chris Bodor documented the spoken word scene that developed at his brother’s place in his first anthology, simply titled “Alt Dot Spoken Word” (Poetnoise Press, 1997).

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ANTHOLOGY PROJECTS BY CHRIS BODOR / Poet Plant Press

After releasing "Alt Dot Spoken Word" (Poetnoise Press, 1997) to document the poems presented during the Alt Dot Spoken Word series Chris self-published his second and best known anthology “Poetnoise 2000”. Words emailed to Chris Bodor and Poetnoise Press.


And now: The Anthology Trilogy:
MY TIME - THE LUNCH BREAK BOOK (Poet Plant Press, 2007)
In 2007 Poetnoise Press was reborn as Poet Plant Press finding Bodor derailed from his train of thought and living in St. Augustine, Florida.
http://www.myspace.com/lunchthebook

EMPLOYEES ONLY - THE WORK BOOK (Poet Plant Press, 2009)
In 2009 Bodor broadened the theme of the lunch break to include musings on work in general. "Employees Only - The Work Book" features poems and images that relate to work and the work experience. The ups and the downs. Pay raises and rat race mazes. This project is a milestone because for the first time Bodor has reached out to others for assistance. Michael Henry Lee from Bodor's day job came on board as assistant editor and Chris' wife Mary Beth handled all the office related tasks (Office Manager, if you will).
Highlights of this amazing print book project include three paper cut images by Jad Fair from band Half Japanese. Forward by labor poet Wayne Mason. The featured poet is factory cog Karl Koweski. Cover art by Henry Denander. A gritty photo by Linda Kay Lund. Written contributions by Mike Watt from the legendary band The Minutemen and fIREHOSE, RD Armstrong, t. kilgore splake, Mike Daily, and St. Augustine based opera singer Roger Geronimo, and more than 25 others.
http://www.myspace.com/theworkbook


MOVING FORWARD...
(like a traveling Commuter Train)

This year (2010) Chris Bodor will be collecting poems and images (black ink line art and photos) on the subject of love and relationships. Submissions were reviewed from January 01 to September 01, 2010. Release date for this Poet Plant Press anthology will be November of 2010.

http://www.myspace.com/thelovebook