Spoken Word

Feature

Saturday, July 12, 2003

It used to be that poetry was an entirely spoken form. But then, thanks to the printing press, poetry became a mostly silent literary form. Sara Fishko discovers how disconcerting it can be to hear the words you're used to only seeing on the page.

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Sara Fishko

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