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92Y Podcast: From the Poetry Center Archive: Leonard Cohen in 1966

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http://www.92y.org/shop/category.asp?catalog=92y_catalog&category=Tisch+Center+for+the+Arts&category=Unterberg+Poetry+Center&ev_ads=YouTube_poetrycenter The video podcast above features Leonard Cohen reading at 92Y on February 14, 1966. He read several poems and performed one song that would become an all-time classic. In the excerpt above, Cohen reads two poems -- "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" -- and performs "The Stranger Song," which became popular in 1967 with the release of Cohen's debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen.