Poetry reading

A poetry reading typically takes place on a small stage in a café or bookstore where multiple poets recite their own work.

Modern poetry readings only became popular in the last half of the twentieth century, at least in the United States, with stars like Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost.

[2] As poetry is a vocal art, the speaker brings their own experience to it, changing it according to their own sensibilities,[3] intonation, the matter of sound making sense; controlled through pitch and stress, poems are full of invisible italicized contrasts.

[5] Even after three millennia of writing, poetry retains its appeal to the ear, the silent reading eye thereof, thereafter, hears what it is seeing.

(But see rhapsode) American poet Donald Hall described the increase in emphasis on public readings of poetry in the United States in a 2012 New Yorker magazine blog post where he recounted it a phenomenon that grew in the last half of the twentieth century.

[6] Hall, who speculates that the change may have been due to the star power of Dylan Thomas(1914-1953),[9] wrote, "It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public.

Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson recorded poetry reggae album "Bass Culture" in 1980.