I attended a lively and unpredictable poetry reading/performance recently, No River Twice. The poets who participate in the group reading develop the concepts at each performance, endeavoring to find meaningful and entertaining ways to permit audience members to sense an active engagement with poets and to experience poems more vividly. It appears to be an evolving performance process, and I enjoyed myself!
Grant Clauser explains the idea on his blog. Most of the poets involved have at least some acting or performance background. They are also active as mentors, instructors, advocates for the arts, and “working poets,” by which I mean they get their work published and performed and are constantly writing, revising, and reading the work of other poets in the service of learning new things.
The poets who performed in Phoenixville, PA, on Friday evening are as follows, but I understand the line-up may change from event to event.
Kudos to these folks, who presented a varied and exciting performance. Let’s hope there are more to come.
South Whitley, IN. Eel River Bridge, 1978.
ann e michael 
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