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Why Is Reading Poetry Aloud So Scary (For The Performer *And* The Audience)?

WORDS Posted: July 13, 2014 5:00 pm

“As poets with performance backgrounds rise through the ranks of poetry print culture, American poetry appears caught between a fear of performance and a celebration of it. As these page + stage poets become more prominent in universities, journals, and reading series, are they helping to renew conversations about performance as an aspect of making poems?”

WORDS Published: 07.09.14

Read the story in The Millions Published: 07.09.14

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