Guest house-band Sasha Frere-Jones sings "A Million Poems," the alternate theme song to The Million Poems Show, Jordan Davis, host. Filmed live at the Bowery Poetry Club, April 12, 2006.
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Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sasha Frere-Jones filling in as house band, Joshua Clover, guest poet. Poetry in the News: Dance protest? Rioting works; Do people here like politics that work? Schokobananen; Pennies worth more than $0.01; Staves; Sadly, NY first to go; You guys read the New Yorker, don't you.
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Jordan Davis's poetry talk show, live at the Bowery Poetry Club, Sasha Frere-Jones filling in as house band, Joshua Clover, guest poet. Joshua Clover adapts Kenneth Koch's "Fresh Air," then reads the index to The Totality for Kids, "The Other Atelier," "Whiteread Walk," "Whiteread Walk," "Galang" by Ben Friedlander, and "Poem" (about capital) by himself.
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