Meanings
nounpoetry reading (plural poetry readings)
plural poetry readings
- A public oral recitation or performance of poetry.
I pass one of our dumb beautiful old tags, pink and silver still peeking from the mashed, dismembered pinafore of car-sales, club dates, WORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, Big Cash Now, and lonely people signs wanting to start poetry readings and something so sublimely mental like sex in a hooka.
1999, Jennifer Robin, Bouzi, page 9
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