Photo Credit: Jennifer Leigh Pendarvis - KS - 2012
ABOUT ME
Antony Vincent Plocido
Currently:
History:
I am originally from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. I started writing when I was in 4th Grade. How old is that? ...add 5 years to the grade...so I was 9. I didn't actually have a lot of friends then and I would walk everywhere alone. Hey, it was a different time. Anyway, while walking, I would make up songs to entertain myself. They are, in fact, horrible songs. My poor mother, she would have to hear them all. The first of which was called "Noises". This song mentions the word "noises" about 50 times. However, at nine, I thought it profound.
This later morphed into more of a poetry slant. Although I continued to write song lyrics throughout my teen years, poetry was definitely the focus. Being the avid Nine Inch Nails fan that I was then, my poems from that time are all angsty BS that is pretty laughable. I am not saying "teen pain" isn't real, but it's all so myopic considering what the world is really going to put you through. I mean the highs and the lows.
Poetry, to me, was anywhere from a personal shrink to just something to do for most of my adult life until 2007 when I attended a writer's retreat in Missouri. There, I met a friend of mine named Lola Nation (pen name). She eventually moved from Los Angeles to Kansas City, MO. There is a book store (Prospero's) on 39th and Bell in KC that had the Poetry Filibuster. This was a 5 and half day event. Its goal was to break the record for the world's longest poetry reading. I attended this event and met a ton of poets who became friends. Suddenly performing poetry became important to me. It became something I wanted to do. So in 2011, I was finally given the opportunity to transfer with my job to Kansas City. I have lived here since and I am performing poetry on the local scene, every chance I can get. (by the way we did break the record at that event and then some d-bag group decided to go and break our record).
***UPDATE Dec 2012 - I am being transferred back to Minneapolis, MN. I will be there starting February 2nd, 2013. Farewell to Kansas City. Thanks for letting me feel at home. I won't forget you and I will miss you.
So this is my work. Photos are mine. The poetry is mine and it's all copywritten so don't steal it...you *bastards.
*Note "bastards" are only those who would steal, not everyone reading this blurb.
- Poet
- Photographer (some times)
- Host/Curator - Poets & Pints Minneapolis (www.crackedwalnut.com/poetsandpints)
- Curator - Writers Read
- Host - Mainstreet Open Mic in Hopkins, MN
- Cracked Walnut Board Member (www.crackedwalnut.com)
- Performance Committee Chair for Cracked Walnut
- Author: Sucker Punch Wisdom (2012), Aging and Other Side Projects (2016), and Felt This so Many Times (2018)
- Published: Martin Lake Journal (2019), Talking Stick #28 (2019), Started by Joy (2019), and Errata Zine #41 (2019)
History:
I am originally from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. I started writing when I was in 4th Grade. How old is that? ...add 5 years to the grade...so I was 9. I didn't actually have a lot of friends then and I would walk everywhere alone. Hey, it was a different time. Anyway, while walking, I would make up songs to entertain myself. They are, in fact, horrible songs. My poor mother, she would have to hear them all. The first of which was called "Noises". This song mentions the word "noises" about 50 times. However, at nine, I thought it profound.
This later morphed into more of a poetry slant. Although I continued to write song lyrics throughout my teen years, poetry was definitely the focus. Being the avid Nine Inch Nails fan that I was then, my poems from that time are all angsty BS that is pretty laughable. I am not saying "teen pain" isn't real, but it's all so myopic considering what the world is really going to put you through. I mean the highs and the lows.
Poetry, to me, was anywhere from a personal shrink to just something to do for most of my adult life until 2007 when I attended a writer's retreat in Missouri. There, I met a friend of mine named Lola Nation (pen name). She eventually moved from Los Angeles to Kansas City, MO. There is a book store (Prospero's) on 39th and Bell in KC that had the Poetry Filibuster. This was a 5 and half day event. Its goal was to break the record for the world's longest poetry reading. I attended this event and met a ton of poets who became friends. Suddenly performing poetry became important to me. It became something I wanted to do. So in 2011, I was finally given the opportunity to transfer with my job to Kansas City. I have lived here since and I am performing poetry on the local scene, every chance I can get. (by the way we did break the record at that event and then some d-bag group decided to go and break our record).
***UPDATE Dec 2012 - I am being transferred back to Minneapolis, MN. I will be there starting February 2nd, 2013. Farewell to Kansas City. Thanks for letting me feel at home. I won't forget you and I will miss you.
So this is my work. Photos are mine. The poetry is mine and it's all copywritten so don't steal it...you *bastards.
*Note "bastards" are only those who would steal, not everyone reading this blurb.
