Beauty is a Verb:
a reading by
Jennifer Bartlett, Ellen McGrath Smith & Norma Cole
at the Poetry Project
September 26, 2012

Frank O’Hara
in Richard Moore’s
USA Poetry (1966)
(the best TV series on poetry ever)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Tony Lopez
reading at
The Poetry Project
November 7, 2012

Donato Mancini*
reading
You Must Work Harder

Weldon Kees

reading in Berkeley, 1952

bill bissett:
Rush: What Fuckan Theory

Tisa Bryant

reading in the Belladonna Series in NYC, 2009

Thanks to PennSound

Alan Dugan

reading in New York, 1962

Evie Shockley

reading at Penn State, April 2012

Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Robinson Jeffers

reading at the Library of Congress, 1941

Tyrone Williams

reading in the POG series in Tucson, 2007

Thanks to POG & PennSound

Lorine Niedecker

reading at home, 1970

Lewis Warsh
reading at Open Books
Seattle, November 2010
Part 2 below

Rae Armantrout
reading @ Penn State
September 2012
Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Ezra Berkley Nepon & Dan Fishback
New Queer Jewish Writing

Kenneth Patchen
reading
at the Poetry Center
San Francisco State
December 6, 1957

Jeramy Dodds
reading
in the Tree Reading Series
May 2011

Marianne Moore
reading
October 10 and October 17, 1957
at the Poetry Center
San Francisco State

Photo: Richard Avedon

Robert Lowell
reading
at the Poetry Center,
San Francisco State University
March 27, 1957

Photo by Jonathan Williams

Denise Levertov
reading
@ the Poetry Center
San Francisco State
February 10, 1958

Opening remarks by Robert Duncan
Closing remarks by Ruth Witt-Diamant