On any given night, it's likely there are more people listening to poetry in the United States than in the rest of the world combined. They come dressed in masks, they chant and wear costumes.
Younger poets read in pairs, or with a well-established poet.
Sometimes a poet reads his own work, the work of another poet, or poetry in translation. He has given thirty or forty readings in community colleges and universities in upstate New York, where he lives, and in a few art galleries in New York. He read first in an open reading in a local coffee house. Nepo believes the poetry reading is a two-way experience. The reading enables me to see people.