Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Great Regulars: That people stopped to hear [Marian] Anderson's

performance "everywhere" is not mere hyperbole: The performance was broadcast to a large, attentive radio audience. [Kevin] Young's poem is partly about broadcast media: Radio, with its "bouquet of microphones," enabled this historic event that still blooms along some central avenue of our national imagination.

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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