The benefactresses were stiff-faced, but the rest of us were laughing pretty hard. It's not this often that a poet is so present with her audience, present in a way that lets it all in: talking as if to her friends because half the time she was talking to her friends in the audience. Hear it all -- and some of her best poems, too -- here.
i just wanted to say THANK YOU for posting this mp3 because i have been trying to explain to my friends the phenomenon i experienced last night and it is well-nigh impossible..
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Kevin: Cool, I'm glad! And yeah, you don't see a reading like that every day (every year, etc.)!
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