Up into the 1970s, Baltimoreans could tune in on their radios to station WCAO at midnight and listen to—poetry! It was an hour of readings, to the accompaniment soft organ music, originating from the Parkway Theater on North Avenue.
“The last reading of the last night of the poetry hour read here comes a time to say the song is through.”
And for Baltimore’s first lat and only poetry hour it was.