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Momus says…

February 3, 2012 by Kathleen Rooney

…that on the web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people. There were way more than fifteen people…

….at the DePaul Poets reading at the DePaul Art Museum last night…

…and perhaps by posting their pictures here, their internet fame will grow and grow. Dan Stolar emceed the event…

…and Chris Green went first, reading a poem about a brush with fame called “In the Locker Room, I Introduce Myself to a Naked Mickey Rourke”…

…and then I read a bunch of poems, co-written with EG, about Paris Hilton:

David Welch read next…

…and Mark Turcotte batted clean-up:

Thanks to Miles Harvey for putting the reading together, to Eric Plattner for all the photos of the readers, and to everyone for coming and letting me take your photographs–you looked great.

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