It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new 
medium like radio or TV. Radio and gramophone and tape 
recorder gave us back the poet’s voice as an important 
dimension of the poetic experience. Words became a kind of 
painting with light, again. But TV, with its deep-participation 
mode, caused young poets suddenly to present their poems in 
cafés, in public parks, anywhere. After TV, they suddenly felt 
the need for personal contact with their public. (In print-
oriented Toronto, poetry-reading in the public parks is a public 
offense. Religion and politics are permitted, but not poetry, as 
many young poets recently discovered.)

      John O’Hara , the novelist, wrote in The New York Times  
Book Review  of November 27, 1955:

          You get a great satisfaction from a book. You know