[New-Poetry] Biker Poetry

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Biker poets ready to ride between book covers      
Written by Joe Gouveia     
March 14, 2008  

>From the halls of academia to the shores of coffeehouse tables, poets find difficulty in being taken seriously.

It helps a little when they have a book out.


It seems that the two decades-plus genre of biker poets can now be taken a little more seriously, with a new biker poets anthology – not that any biker poet worth his salt that I know would care what someone else says about them. Still, this is a case of a very rich literary history finally coming to fruition.

Last week, Archer Books of San Francisco agreed to publish the biker poets anthology Rubber Side Down. There is a saying among bikers as they ready to ride, “Keep the rubber side down, shiny side up!” In other words, don’t tip over, fool.

 

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