Poetry reading may be declining, but the popularity of performance poetry, or “spoken word,” is on the rise. Every Friday night for almost 30 years, people have crowded into the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe on East 3rd Street in Manhattan. They stand in line, or they stand through the show. There is rarely enough room to seat everyone. Eleanor Boudreau braved January temperatures and sore feet to bring us this report.
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