Hey ME, I was hoping you'd drop by this
thread!
"Slideshow in words" is a very good term for what she did. The projector was running much too fast: four, five words per slide, not enough time to catch what was on most of them, and I suspect some of the slides were upside down or jammed, because you couldn't see anything at all. I heard that NPR piece too, and the finished product wasn't a surprise. I frankly think she choked.
I am not an expert in any sense, but every morning Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" comes on my clock radio, and the contemporary poems he reads are almost always more thought-provoking, more creative, and more memorable.