June 18, 2006

Looking over my employing institute of higher learning's stash of videos from their poetry reading series, and man alive! the Anne Tardos/Jackson MacLow tape from October 28, 2003 delivers what a poetry reading should be. Tardos read from her multi-lingual repetoire, then MacLow read from his store of decades worth of material. His readings of the texts breathed a life into them that might be missed if reading them in text form only. His poems are very far from cold & formulaic. The reading ends with Anne & Jackson doing two of Jackson's Free Gathas. Hopefully, we'll be making some of this available soon. It was a good moment in poetry readings.