#roggenbuck

[literarystarbucks]

Steve Roggenbuck

“Fuck the counter!” yells Steve Roggenbuck.  “Fuck!” “Um,” says the barista, “would you like to order anything?” “Yes!  YOLO!” He is still shouting. “I’ll take one of everything!” He turns and looks directly into the camera.  “It’s all so beautiful,” he whispers. The barista decides that he probably doesn’t actually want one of everything, and instead sells him a scone from the display case.  He is disproportionately grateful.

[desperanseaux-blog]

When you're dead, I think, you will miss your problems.

Steve Roggenbuck

[siobhanfeddendegree-blog-blog]

jonchius said: we need to each, as Roggenbuck once said, become a Person (and not an Expert, when trying to engage)

What exactly do you mean by this? Can you develop upon it as a statement? (I am not disagreeing with you, just interested in how you would elaborate upon this). Also by Roggenbuck, are you refering to Steve Roggenbuck? 

[wallacebarker]

2 Fast 2 Boosted: A Collection of Verse About Being Drunk in the Presence of Steve Roggenbuck

Justin Ryan Fyfe

SCREW TOP RED WINE AT STEVE ROGGENBUCK READING IN OMAHA

i am weak i was writing a poem in pauls car  abt how i was crying & getting blazed & i couldn't stop crying & i was listening to third eye blind but then i started to write i have stopped crying  but then paul came out to his car  & asked if i was ok  & asked if i needed a hug & i started crying & that lasted awhile until i made a joke & then i stopped crying & paul & i talked  & paul said the reading was abt to start so we went inside & todd robinson came up to me & asked if i was sick or sad & i said both & i laugh

DRUNK

there is red wine in my beard i like being around fuckups i love all of you  but some more than others for some reason my red mustache is on my face i am drinking wine out of a plastic cup listening to steve roggenbuck talk abt jumping & he is reading walt whitman & i almost started crying but stopped listening to end this poem {applause}

Wallace Barker

Beauty is Unknown

We had a garden party with vegan appetizers lots of poets showed up to read about psychosexual love internet absurdity and the death of art.

As it got late I was drunk and smoking cigarettes the younger poets sipped club sodas they seemed brave and self-aware

I heard darkness as the sun set insufficient light felt as though I were facedown in mud but when I looked toward the fenceline I saw

the wisteria yet dropt its blooms!

[usernamefailure-blog]

Lately, boosting has really interested me. Lately, YOLO has really interested me. And that has made the past couple of days better.

I have realized that a concept that Steve Roggenbuck has spoke a lot about is very true: do what you want to do with your life. That is, don't disregard rules and order, but if there is some thing you love, pursue it. This really boosts me.

When I boost, I change. When I boost, I become optimistic. I encourage, I think, I socialize, I pray, and I have fun when I boost. I want that all the time. I want to reach a state of personal love, and happiness, and ultimately boost, that doesn't stop. I want to move into an upward spiral.

So I'm going to try to do all of the things that boost means me everyday, all day. I want to make something beautiful before I am dead. Like a friend said to me "if you don't make something good before your 19, you're dead." That's what I will do.

"If anyone shows us the ceiling, we show them sky" - Steve Roggenbuck

[banangolit]

BOOST BY BOOSTWEST 2013

The second annual BXBW was held in Austin, Texas during SXSW in March 2013. For those of you who aren't familiar with BXBW, it's the climax of SXSW Lit and the most significant literary event of the SXSW festival.  The lineup for the event included:

Steve Roggenbuck Timothy Willis Sanders Elaine Sun Chris Dankland Mike Archibald No Glykon Paul Hanson Clark

Here is a photo recap.

Guests began their BXBW experience with a special greeting at the door from the BXBW event team. 

Vegan apps and seltzer water were enjoyed by all.

The air was charged with nervous anticipation as everyone waited for the  celebrity guest to arrive.

Steve prepared for his dramatic entrance.

Timothy Willis Sanders held court in the VIP section.

Chris Dankland smoked on the deck.

Mike Archibald prepared for his reading.

Paul Hanson Clark kicked things off as the reading began in "reverse Facebook order." Paul read in a emphatic, declamatory manner. He rocked back and forth and emphasized each word with hand gestures. Beach Sloth did a pretty good writeup on Paul where you can find links to his work.

No Glykon read next. No reads in a more or less 'deadpan' manner but his writing is funny, so the effect is dryly comical. He seems to write mostly short prose pieces (prose poetry?). No runs an independent publishing company out of which he publishes his literary magazine "Reality Hands." No also published "Trill," a poetry collection by Banango editor Justin Carter. No fronts a three piece spazz blast band called IBN UBO.

Mike Archibald was next up and his friend made this sweet video of Mike at SXSW. Mike read some longer poems that remind me of Allen Ginsberg. He has published a couple of ebooks: "Call the Sun" and "Make a Home of My Heart."

Chris Dankland read next. Chris runs the popular website The Neato Mosquito Alt Lit Fireworks Show. I feel like Chris works so hard to promote other writers online that people may not realize he is actually a fantastic poet himself. Everyone should check out his ebook "please please please don't get your goddamn heart broken."

The stunningly beautiful brilliant and funny Elaine Sun read after Chris. It was getting dark by this point so the pics didn't come out so well. Elaine is an twitter poet online content creator and she has  published some longer form poetry that is really excellent, including an ebook titled "Above Average."

Timothy Willis Sanders followed Elaine. TWS is the author of a short story collection titled Orange Juice. His Twitter is pretty awesome although he rarely tweets, which I think is the best kind of twitter account to follow. I highly recommend checking out his blog.

Then it was time for Steve Roggenbuck to take the stage. If you haven't seen Steve read live, you need to check out his tour schedule and get to one of his readings however you can. Steve's readings are an event-- really they are more of a performance than a 'reading.' The highlight of Steve's reading for me was "somewhere in the bottom of the rain." Steve recreated his famous video of the poem, with the same music playing. It was a phenomenally moving performance of what I consider to be one of the best poems written in my lifetime by any poet anywhere.

After that, we all drank waaaaay too much seltzer water and partied late into the night. BXBW is an annual event so go ahead and mark your calendar for next March. 

[bewithoutbewithout]

i used to write love poems. so many love poems i drowned in them

our love is the 

     little plastic light-

-sabers, the very kind with the piddlingplasticpeg-

                          allowing your

          heroes

to deactivate their

                                   weapons.

              now, 

the drawback of this wonderfulworkmanship

(this science)

                       was that the picayunepiddlingplasticpeg

              would one day decide not to be so picayune

and              snap          off

leaving itself permanently wedged inside the hilt,

leaving you alone

                                   in a room

with a very

                        angry hero (or occasional villain).

Our love is the snap of japanese plastic giving way to a life of solidarity 

inside another piece of japanese plastic.

[basedpoetry]