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Not Your Grandmother’s Poetry Reading
How to build an audience for poetry: combine words with song, with percussion, with a delivery that goes beyond the traditional solitary poet at the mic reading original work. Stir in familiar and fresh music. Read interpretively, dare to be political, personal, confrontational and/or confessional. Last night a performance group called The Readers’ Lab did just…
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Poetry, Music & Theater, Oh, My
Poet and critic Dana Gioia advised in Can Poetry Matter that poets share the stage with musicians and offer the audience work by other poets, more than the single focus drone of a conventional reading. Last evening the Denver Puppet Theater hosted a significant event featuring live poetry and music. The poets performed original material, as well as selections from…
Karen Douglass, Author 