IN THE News Feb. 19, we posed the question:
Joseph Emanuel ---- poet or marketing oppor-
tunist?

By lan Noble

News Reporter

Well. he's both,

Emanuel, who was in Saskatchewan when die story
ran, told the News he has been selling his poetry door-
to-door through sun. rain and loons with screwdrivers
since the end of August.

And after knocking on about
Vancouver doors, he's duing quite well.

Emanuel has sold about 1.000 of cach of his two
poems for an average of $5 each — pulling in about
$10,000 in the process.

Eighty per cent of people receive him well. the

8.000 North

North Vancouver resident said, although a few people
are leery of hint going door-to-door,

“Pee cud into. to put it mildly, a ceuple af nuts.”

One gentlemen, arins raised and hands clutehing
what Emanuel thought was ic blunt object. followed
hin, Others witnessing the proceedings said the blunt
object was a screwdriver, Emanuel said.

“Gedida’t turn around.”

Another fellow: pushed Emanuel off the railing of
his porch. But for every person like those two, hun
dreds have been Triendly, he said.

Daring his rounds, Hianuel has sipped tea with
elderly people, eaten dinner, played piano, been com-
Inissiored to write poco, and invited to reside and
wrile poviry at a house aecupied by teo elderly peo-
ple.

Emanuel, a University of Toronto arts graduate,

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

JOSEPH EMANUEL has been successfully selling his poetry
door-to-door in local neighborhoods since August 1994. The
North Vancouver entrepreneur also pens and sells songs.

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