Lately, I've been working on some poetry. One of them I feel really needs an audience. It's about the porn industry. There's a story in the poem that I don't want to give away, but once you hear it, you'll get the story and the bottom line about the porn industry. And it may or may not be contrary to all the sexiness seen in my on-screen life in the gay porn industry shown in the collage below.
I'm writing this post to ask of you readers, if you know of some places in New York City that holds "Open Mic Nights" for poets, to please inform me of them so that I may get in contact with them. I want to present this piece to a live audience. And please keeps some things in mind with the places you suggest:(1) No language restrictions: This poem does have very graphic language, and I need a space that will allow me to not sugar-coat the subject matter.
(2) Video-recording allowed: I want my reading recorded, because I plan to debut the poem to the internet audience via this blog, and video websites.
The latest I want to debut the video is within a week before September 23, 2010, because on September 23rd of last year, I posted the blog entry announcing my official retirement from the gay porn industry, "R.I.P. Tre Xavier - Porn Actor". So this poem is a part of the reflecting I will be doing about what I've learned this past year since my retiring from gay porn on the who and what I was when I got in the gay porn industry, and who and what I've become since retiring from it.
With all that in mind, you can respond with some names either by comments here, or by my email address: TreXavier@rocketmail.com.
I will GREATLY appreciate it. Thank you.
I don't live in New York, wish I did, would love to hear it!
ReplyDeleteBut I found this. Don't know if this will help or not.
http://folkmusic.about.com/od/tipsforpros/qt/NYC_OpenMic.htm
Good luck, can't wait to see it on video.
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt actually does help. And even if it didn't I would be thanking you for your time and effort.