He also gave an emotional reading of the poem Their Voices Will Be Heard.

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Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959.

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Erdogan, who was jailed in the 1990s for reading a poem about Islam in public, sparred with military commanders during his first years in office.

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On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.

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Mr Erdogan himself, at the time the Welfare mayor of Istanbul, was caught in the judicial net when he was briefly jailed for reading an Islamist poem in public.

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