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Lindsay Reads Poetry Behind New York Library
Mayor John V. Lindsay led a Bryant Park poetry reading sponsored by the Parks Department, echoing Fiorello LaGuardia as a youthful crowd welcomed the event. Readings included Hart Crane’s Brooklyn Bridge and Langston Hughes works amid a gala atmosphere.
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New York
John V. Lindsay
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Lindsay
Bryant Park
New York Public Library
City’ Parks Department
Hart Crane
Ogaen Nash
Mary
E. G. Cummings
Pennsylvania
Langston Hughes
Archibald MacLeish