Quote from Susan Millar DuMars'
essay about the first ten years of Over The Edge:
"Our audiences were recently taken to task in a national newspaper for being gauche enough to clap after every poem. Such unbridled enthusiasm makes some people nervous. These people should feel free to stay at home. O[ver]T[he]E[dge] is not for them."
"Our audiences were recently taken to task in a national newspaper for being gauche enough to clap after every poem. Such unbridled enthusiasm makes some people nervous. These people should feel free to stay at home. O[ver]T[he]E[dge] is not for them."
You can read Susan's essay in full in the just published special Irish issue
of the Portland, Oregon
based online literary magazine Penduline,
guest edited by Dave Lordan.
http://www.pendulinepress.com/contributors/susan-millar-dumars-kevin-higgins
http://www.pendulinepress.com/contributors/susan-millar-dumars-kevin-higgins