Willie Sims

Autobiography by Willie Sims

I offer here, for the emergence of '03, two delightful takes on, or responses to, what some term "high culture".Beyond this, the January entries are as different in their focus and way of working as any two contemporary poems I could lay down side by side.

No, actually, there is another commonality; both Patricia Smith and Willie Sims have roots in the spoken word and performance scene.
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Willie Sims is an unemployed bill collector who has been published in pulp fiction magazines of minuscule circulation.He won the Who Cares Literary Prize awarded by the So What Arts Foundation, and is currently awaiting a callback on nis 1987 audition for KUNG FU MASTERS OF DISNEYLAND.He has performed at colleges, prisons, family festivals, flophouses, saloons, and churches.His house is two blocks from where the Rodney King beating occurred.Willie lives alone with his shiny automatic weapons and leather-bound books on non-violence.He has had twenty-four girlfriends and three best friends, but he is childless and has never owned a pet, so the children and furry animals on his street have formed a Neighborhood Watch Group to keep an eye on his treehouse when he is away.Willie repays their kindness by being extra careful when backing his Soap Box Derby pimp mobile out of his driveway, and is extremely generous giving out treats on Halloween, which is when kids gather around a campfire in Willie's backyard, and he scares them with the horror stories about the financial rewards of writing poetry.Willie is managed by the Forked Tongue Talent Agency, a division of The Snake Oil Arts Group, which is a subsidiary of Crocodile Tears Productions.For a free copy of his book BLANK PAGES, fax twenty dollars in small unmarked coins to Invisible Ink Press care of Fly By Night Publishers.Willie is the founder of Buffalo Chips, a think tank funded by CRAP (Committee to Recall Amoral Politicians).He is a passionately committed tie-dyed counter-culture conservative right-wing liberal.For a non-refundable fee paid in advance, Willie will perform at brown bag Peace & Freedom Party protest marches, or $10,000 per plate John Birch Society fund raisers.His new film SHOW ME DA MONEY CUZ I BE IN YO FACE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK will be released April 1st by Foul Mouth Flicks, a division of Family Entertainment, Inc.

Willie Sims won first prize in the Storytelling and Performance Poetry Contest at the Fullerton Museum, and was also a prizewinner in the annual poetry competition sponsored by the Pacificus Foundation.He has appeared on local TV and radio, and has released two audio recordings, "GOOD TALK" and "HOT STUFF".A third recording, "StoryYeller", was issued by New Alliance Records."Autobiography" appeared in the annual anthology "Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets," a publication from the Valley Contemporary Poetry Series in Los Angeles.Willie has served on the Coordinating Committee of the L.A. Poetry Festival, and was on the artistic staff at L.A. Theatre Works, where he conducted writing workshops for incarcerated juveniles.

Autobiography by Willie Sims

I offer here, for the emergence of '03, two delightful takes on, or responses to, what some term "high culture".Beyond this, the January entries are as different in their focus and way of working as any two contemporary poems I could lay down side by side.

No, actually, there is another commonality; both Patricia Smith and Willie Sims have roots in the spoken word and performance scene.
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On Willie Sims
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Willie Sims
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Willie Sims is an unemployed bill collector who has been published in pulp fiction magazines of minuscule circulation.He won the Who Cares Literary Prize awarded by the So What Arts Foundation, and is currently awaiting a callback on nis 1987 audition for KUNG FU MASTERS OF DISNEYLAND.He has performed at colleges, prisons, family festivals, flophouses, saloons, and churches.His house is two blocks from where the Rodney King beating occurred.Willie lives alone with his shiny automatic weapons and leather-bound books on non-violence.He has had twenty-four girlfriends and three best friends, but he is childless and has never owned a pet, so the children and furry animals on his street have formed a Neighborhood Watch Group to keep an eye on his treehouse when he is away.Willie repays their kindness by being extra careful when backing his Soap Box Derby pimp mobile out of his driveway, and is extremely generous giving out treats on Halloween, which is when kids gather around a campfire in Willie's backyard, and he scares them with the horror stories about the financial rewards of writing poetry.Willie is managed by the Forked Tongue Talent Agency, a division of The Snake Oil Arts Group, which is a subsidiary of Crocodile Tears Productions.For a free copy of his book BLANK PAGES, fax twenty dollars in small unmarked coins to Invisible Ink Press care of Fly By Night Publishers.Willie is the founder of Buffalo Chips, a think tank funded by CRAP (Committee to Recall Amoral Politicians).He is a passionately committed tie-dyed counter-culture conservative right-wing liberal.For a non-refundable fee paid in advance, Willie will perform at brown bag Peace & Freedom Party protest marches, or $10,000 per plate John Birch Society fund raisers.His new film SHOW ME DA MONEY CUZ I BE IN YO FACE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK will be released April 1st by Foul Mouth Flicks, a division of Family Entertainment, Inc.

Willie Sims won first prize in the Storytelling and Performance Poetry Contest at the Fullerton Museum, and was also a prizewinner in the annual poetry competition sponsored by the Pacificus Foundation.He has appeared on local TV and radio, and has released two audio recordings, "GOOD TALK" and "HOT STUFF".A third recording, "StoryYeller", was issued by New Alliance Records."Autobiography" appeared in the annual anthology "Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets," a publication from the Valley Contemporary Poetry Series in Los Angeles.Willie has served on the Coordinating Committee of the L.A. Poetry Festival, and was on the artistic staff at L.A. Theatre Works, where he conducted writing workshops for incarcerated juveniles.