This is not the first time that I've been at the Poetry Center,
but it's the first time I've been at this Poetry
Center, which is quite different from the old one,
though I have memories going back to the Sheltons
and LaVerne Clark and others, maybe even Tenney Nathanson.
[LAUGHTER]
So I'm going to do something rather retrospective,
reading poems that--
when you've written a lot and a number of years have passed,
it's hard to select out.
But I'm reading poems from this large book, Eye of Witness,
subtitled Jerome Rothenberg Reader, starting in the 1960s
and going decade by decade into the present
and maybe using these instruments.