21.   He appeared frequently at poetry readings on college campuses, as well as at anti-war demonstrations during the Vietnam War.

22.   His father took a writing post at the University of South Carolina and hit the road doing poetry readings around the country.

23.   His father is a cant-spouting former Black Panther who begins poetry readings by firing shotgun shells into the auditorium ceiling.

24.   How do we value poetry reading?

25.   In those years he toured the South, giving poetry readings in poor communities and visiting the Scottsboro Boys, as they were known, in their Alabama prison.

26.   Inmates have published poetry journals, entered a national writing contest and held a poetry reading.

27.   Its collapse averted, the foundation was renamed the Dia Center for the Arts and a program of poetry readings, performances, lectures and publications was begun.

28.   Kaplan, who features poetry readings at the restaurant on Tuesday nights, also holds annual tributes to Brodsky.

29.   Later that night at a poetry reading in Central Square, those bubbles popped joyously, left and right.

30.   Ma is not unaware of the public relations value of the poetry readings.