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hallawayjoe Andyland 2002-12-29 12:57 AM Vegas Poets 2 Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) |
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In 1993, Penina Finger decided to commit a lot of time and energy into putting together another anthology of Poetry Alive poets. Gary Hoffman, a pediatrician and poet put one together the prior year... but Penina spent a lot of time and energy. I was her assistant. I inputted a third of the poems. Half the poets did not have computers at the time. The result was a nice little anthology that was a keepsake for many. Also in 1993, Greg Crosby reentered the Vegas community and he along with Geoff Carter and a few other writers started writing for Scope. Scope was Las Vegas's first regular alt monthly, which became a weekly after New Times came in. Scope became the Las Vegas Weekly after being purchased by Greenspun Communications which owns the Las Vegas Sun. New Times, owned by Wick became CityLife... Not that any of this really matters to most... But the alt weeklies are not independent of the corporate media. Crosby joined up with Doug Jablin and Tony Bondi and Jeff Morris to form Club Virtual, a performance art/multi media/poetry-spoken word/music extravaganza held weekly at this little hole in the wall cafe called Cafe Rainbow. Rainbow lasted the better part of 7 months. Also at this time Cafe Copioh opened up just south of Cafe Espresso Roma. Copioh lasted for 7 years catering to the art crowd, then the Goth crowd. It was the place for teenagers to go and smoke or runaway from home. It also gave birth to a weekly poetry reading in the mid 90s. John Emmons was pushed out of the Roma throne in late 94, and poetry at Roma was continued by C.G. Reynolds, Dave Anson, and then Harry Fagel (a metro police officer) and then Trish Martin before landing in the current arms of Andy Kenyon and Bryan Guzman. Cafe Enigma became a poetry center which I will cover in a future entry |
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