Presence: Live Poets' 30 Years at Don Bank

by Danny Gardner

Welcome to Live Poets' 30 Years at Don Bank, focusing particularly on the years 2015 to the present. We look back to our first decade in publishing. There are special chapters on the Live Poets Players and other events where music and art have featured. We salute the icons of Live Poets past. We look at how the Live Poets interview was initiated. We track our monthly meetings with our annual competitions and atmosphere features like 'Literary Cities', cultural and travel eye-witness responses, historical testaments, and so on. Of course we have poems and stories from many of our guests and our regulars and new found friends in the Open Section or providing conversations over supper in the courtyard. But, as much as individuals have directed traffic with their idiosyncrasies in verse, story and song, our group efforts too have made their mark. We've been louder and more collective more often, it seems. May that continue the more the future and the fortunes of our heir

342 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2022

About the author

Beginning with HBO's Def Comedy Jam (Season 3,) Danny Gardner has enjoyed careers in acting, stand-up comedy, and filmmaking. His debut novel, A Negro and an Ofay, was nominated for several awards, including the Shamus Award for Best First Novel (2018.) He lives and works in Los Angeles by way of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Ace Boon Coon is his second novel.