Klatch 0, Klatch 1

The first three Klatch meetings were held in Steve Willey's house (Openned Co-Editor). Klatch 0 was held on the 6th Dec 2008. This first meeting was a gathering of friends to share their poetry with one another. However, no magazine was put together. You can see photos of this meeting here. 

At the second meeting (21st Feb 2009) each poet that came brought 50 copies of one page of their poetry and over the course of the evening the Klatch 1 magazine was made up. You can see a scan of this magazine here. At least ten of these magazines were sent by Amy De'Ath to Sarah Dowling at UPenn in Philadelphia, many of the others were distributed at the Openned readings at the Foundry. 

This format was followed for the more recent Klatch magazine which has just been posted out. However at Klatch 2 each poet kept a copy for themselves and took one copy to distribute to whoever they wished. The remaining copies were then sent out for free to anyone who requested a copy by emailing Openned. 

At Klatch 2 (29th Jan 2010) a reading was also broadcast via Openned TV. Unfortunately no recordings exist of this performance. It is possible Mike Weller was our only audience member. 

We hope you enjoy Klatch 1. Klatch 2 will be posted at some point in the near future.

Comments

[Amy De'Ath]

20 copies to Philly, yep!

[Nat Raha]

I wish I could have offered you some photos from Klatch 2: unfortunately i had an incident of camera failure. alas.