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DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING: Joe Pachinko Airs His Dirty Laundry in the Urinals of Hell  
   SANTA CRUZ, CA… “Forget the academics. If you want to read a 
 near-perfect portrait of what real life is like, of what real human need 
 and deprivation is all about, then hunt this title down,” says Seth Flynn 
 in a review of Joe Pachinko’s “The Urinals of Hell “ (Superstition 
 Street Press, 2003) for Las Vegas City Life. Pachinko will be reading from 
 “The Urinals of Hell” and other poems while making his debut at the 
 Wired Wash Café at 7:00 p.m. on December 10th.   The Oakland based writer 
 has been referred to as “the love-child of Charles Bukowski” combining 
 the dark urban surrealism of the streets, satirical attacks on the current 
 state of literature, wistful drug- and alcohol-induced fantasies, hopeful 
 words of love and lust, and hilarious, bizarre combinations of images 
 guaranteed to make any reader, listener, or passer-by feel something, 
 whether they be amused, inspired, or offended.  You don’t have to be a 
 poet to appreciate the works of Joe Pachinko, in fact he would rather not 
 adhere to the label of “poet.” Over a cup of Joe, he emphasizes, “I 
 don't consider myself a poet, I believe it’s up to the reader/listener to 
 decide whether something is poetry or not.” His affiliation to the poem 
 is similar to the late Charles Bukowski, one of the most widely read 
 contemporary American poets of the century; he would rather not compromise 
 his art into a bland classification. Joe begins to unravel that 
 “bestowing the title on yourself is suspect-like somebody walking around 
 shouting ‘I’m a genius!’ If someone else calls you one, that’s 
 their business. I’d describe my poems as being anti-poem-fauxetry.”  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/12/02/53253.php
SUMMARY:JOE PACHINKO POETRY READING
LOCATION:135 Laurel Street  - right off Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz between 
 the Saturn Cafe and Kinkos.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/12/02/53253.php
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