Ori Livneh
toronto, ontario, canada
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"Ori is 17 & he writes & he loves & he lives in Toronto but not for long. He was born in Israel & lived in Chicago & therefore has a gigantic identity crisis. He lurks inactively in his basement for awfully long periods of time." |
• What do you do for a living?
i'm a poet. • Who are your favorite artists?
umm. ts elliot, bukowski, rimbaud, androla, hunter s thomspon, radiohead, li po, rumi, kafka, burroughs, marquez.. favorite emerging writers is sarah lombardo & n.r. morgan, pressure press people.. • What influences you to write about/how you do?
envy & desire that burn like a bad case of ulcers. • Where do you see the underground writing scene in 25 years?
well, nothing ever changes, right? it has been the definitive launching pad for great writers for ages. a launching pad not necessarily into commercial success or even extensive readership, but rather into a position of influence to progress poetry a small step. i don't think it'll change much really. The internet is in the process of drowning the dedicated underground 'scene' with a bunch of hacks who take writing half-seriously. you have shitty teenage journal 'writers' that write flower poetry who consider themselves 'underground' because they don't get readers. publishing your poetry on paper and getting yourself out there is a process that takes dedication, and the internet has eliminated this filtering process. maybe in the future the underground will operate in small, isolated, self-sufficient cells that float lazily in a sandbox of garbage. • from cait - what are your pets peeve and do you throw up or down - ?meaning whatever this question meant to you the split second you read it..
i i hate it when people use my computer or, specifically: when people touch my keyboard. also academic elitism, fakers & uppercase letters.i throw up and i throw hard but gravity always nabs it back. |
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