In a cramped corner of Bull's Head Bookshop, about 35 people gathered to hear Beat poetry writers Anne Waldman and Ed Sanders read some of this avant-garde style of poetry.
Several people closed their eyes and listened to the singsong-like voices of the readers while others doodled words from the poems in beaten books.
Waldman wrote her poem "Manatee Humanity" after President George W. Bush took the manatee off the endangered species list.
"The manatee has more gray matter in the brain than the man," she read.
Sanders also read his own poetry, which covered topics as diverse as Hurricane Katrina and Robert Kennedy's response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
He also sang a song in support of Barack Obama.
"Like the oak tree of Lincoln and the forever of America," he sang. "Someone has come like a giant of promise, his name is Barack Obama."
Several people closed their eyes and listened to the singsong-like voices of the readers while others doodled words from the poems in beaten books.
Waldman wrote her poem "Manatee Humanity" after President George W. Bush took the manatee off the endangered species list.
"The manatee has more gray matter in the brain than the man," she read.
Sanders also read his own poetry, which covered topics as diverse as Hurricane Katrina and Robert Kennedy's response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
He also sang a song in support of Barack Obama.
"Like the oak tree of Lincoln and the forever of America," he sang. "Someone has come like a giant of promise, his name is Barack Obama."
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