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agnusde2017's avatar

Yes, public reading can be as much an art as it's the writing. I tend to be an exasperating over punctuation. I try to use punctuation to indicate sens breaks, meter, rhetorical effects, etc., but sometimes I wonder whether this clarifies or obscures.

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

I actually enjoy reading my poetry aloud, which is weird because I hated reading parts of my book out loud. Or maybe it’s because I’m older and less self conscious, have less fucks to give, you know, all that jazz. I do need to do it more, it’s just a matter of not being disturbed while recording them, which is not always simple. I’ve yet to do a public poetry reading, as I don’t live in an anglophone country there is not much opportunity.

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