Kenneth Rexroth and Radio Reading (Critical Essay‪)‬

In San Francisco also began the now fabulously successful oral presentation of poetry. For years, in fact from long before the war, there have been more poetry readings every week in San Francisco than I for one have ever been able to keep track of.... Poetry is an art of speech, and it can only be helped by its restoration to immediate contact with a living audience. Kenneth Rexroth "The New Poetry," 1961