Chris Bodor

About me:

HEART POUR OPEN MICROPHONE SERIES (2009 to present)
Ancient City Poets present
Last Sunday of every month (except December) at Coffee Creations, St. Augustine, Florida
Hosted by Outsider writers member Chris Bodor

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).

ANTHOLOGY PROJECTS BY CHRIS BODOR / Poet Plant Press

Three years later Chris self-published his second and best known anthology “Poetnoise 2000”. Words emailed to Chris Bodor and Poetnoise Press.

THE LUNCH BREAK BOOK
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

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

This year (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 fIRHOSE, RD Armstrong, t. kilgore splake, Mike Daily, and St. Augustine based opera singer Roger Geronimo, and more than 25 others. Buy your copy today and read it on your lunch break.

http://www.myspace.com/theworkbook

UPCOMING POET PLANT PRESS projects

2010 - THE LOVE BOOk
January of 2010 Poet Plant Press will be collecting poems, prose, and artwork for their fifth anthology: Working Title - The Love Book. Go to the Myspace profile for "The Love Book" for more info on this 3P print book project.

http://www.myspace.com/thelovebook



Bodornoise - reverbnation

Chris Bodor from Poet Plant Press has audio spoken word pieces posted on reverbnation.com

REMINDER - NO Bodor reading TODAY (DEC 27)

Wishing everyone a great New Year! 2 dates 4 January. Kaspar's open mic (1st Tue of the month) and mine (Last Sun of the month). Please note that a last Sunday of the month reading HAS NOT been scheduled today so that we can get ready for the new year. The feature list looks great for Heart Pour '10. Stay tuned. With Respect/C.Bodor