1.   Some years ago, I was censured following a public reading of a play I had written because of the behaviour of a female character in it.

2.   Although poetry seems to be in some vogue, cropping up in movies and ever more popular public readings, Pinsky said it was still widely manhandled in schools.

3.   And the result is to mingle the demands of public reading and the rewards of private reading in a distasteful way.

4.   At bookstores, for instance, when she does public readings.

5.   A bookseller friend asked him to give a public reading and encouraged him to finish the book.

6.   Accordingly, in his public readings he tends to focus on his more recent poems.

7.   After his public reading, there was satisfied acknowledgment from the leaders, and Mitchell concluded that he was making progress.

8.   Critics of the prayer groups, including the Vaad in Queens, say it constitutes a public reading, permitted only for men in a minyan.

9.   Each year at this conference a dozen or more plays go through a period of brief but intensive rehearsal and then have public readings on the various stages.

10.   He and his friends attributed this to the effort of his public readings.