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Tim Kahl shot some video of Jean reading at AWP in Denver in April of 2010.
He put up 8 poems at Youtube:

You Ask

Poem for Reginald Shepherd

On a Passenger Ferry

Hawkins Stable

Don't Silence Yourself, No Te Calles

I am fane a page in the court of space

At a hotel in another star

1943, the vision

 

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