public reading
Spoken word event
A public reading is a live performance where someone reads aloud to an audience, typically from literary or religious texts.
Authors give public readings of their work at bookstores and festivals.
Poetry readings are a common form.
The term also covers formal recitations of documents: a public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- microphoneAudio input device
live audience · author · book tour · poetry · poetry slam · lecture · aloud · voice · library · book club · story time · stage · bookstore · applause · passage · performance · spoken · crowd
- readings
- oral readingrecitation, fluency, expression, phrasing, decoding
- recitationrecitation, poetry recitation, dramatic readings, recital, recitals
- Pastoral EpistlesTitus, Paul, godliness, church leadership, false teachers
privacy/setting
public readingfireside reading
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