poetry reading
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoetryandreading
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poetry
noun[U]
uk/ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tri/us/ˈpoʊ.ə.tri/
poems in general as a form ...
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reading
noun
uk/ˈriː.dɪŋ/us/ˈriː.dɪŋ/
the skill or activity of getting information ...
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(Definition ofpoetryandreadingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpoetry reading
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I did also interview people days later who had been at apoetryreading.
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The task ofpoetryreadingand second language learning.
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After giving a very successfulpoetryreadingearlier in the day he later addressed a large meeting attended by between 400 and 500 people, about half of whom were students.
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The most common form of teaching was throughpoetryreading.
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He would take a collection of poems, photos,poetryreadingfliers, or his own collages to a copy shop and make twenty or thirty copies.
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First was thepoetryreading, at which poems that had been written for the page were read to an audience, usually by the author.
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The opening nightpoetryreadingwas reassigned to a remote conference room.
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A short memorized introduction precedes the prose orpoetryreading.
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By the late 1980s much of the district had found use as galleries, studio space,poetryreadingspace, and woodworking shop.
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Judges were selected by women on the basis of apoetryreading.
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He was a firm believer in livepoetryreading, and read his poetry at many and varied venues as well as holding poetry workshops at schools and colleges.
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Her lastpoetryreadingwas in 1962.
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He then leads her to an open mikepoetryreadingwhere he gets up in front of the crowd and reads some of his own poetry.
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The museum comprises six galleries, the courtyard and a multi-purpose room where ongoing events of a wide variety take place, ranging from rock concerts topoetryreading.
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The play comprises a series of monologues, in which each character takes the stage during apoetryreadingand ends up talking about his or her life.
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The celebration consists of events such as heritage walks (including a tree walk), public talks, exhibitions,poetryreadingsessions, public performances, food festivals and special programs on local radio.
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Besides acting, he has written and directed several plays, translated a few and also branched out topoetryreadingin recent decades.
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This was onepoetryreadingthat could not wait to happen.
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