[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 1974] / Joanne Kyger.

Recorded at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio in April 1974 on a 7 inch BASF reel-to-reel tape. Recorded by Robert J. Bertholf, while serving as Professor of English and organizer of the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University. Recording was donated to the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, where Bertholf subsequently served as Curator.

At her reading, Joanne Kyger read all of her long poem "Trip out & fall back." This was followed by a reading of a selection of short poems, most of which are uncollected, one of which is an early version, and some of which are in the 1968-1974 section of About now: collected poems (2007). Kyger mentioned that the one-line poem that reads "Reality is for those who can't cope with drugs" was "bathroom wall writing."

Joanne Kyger.

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1974

Sound recording

CUR054

Trip out & fall back --first line of poem:[A place is broad, wider than other locations] --first line of poem:[Trapped inside fabric of daily necessity ] --first line of poem:[Walking down the beach at low tide] --first line of poem:[It's a lot of fun having fun even if you don't enjoy it.] --first line of poem:[Reality is for those who can't cope with drugs] --first line of poem:[Wooden walls make us a nice little palace] --first line of poem:[Presented with so much] --The third one --first line of poem:[On a day like today] --first line of poem:[It's a great day] --first line of poem:[Don't hope to gain by what has preceded] --first line of poem:[Looking out to the garden fair] --first line of poem:[Of all things for you to go away mad on a tender morning like this] --first line of poem:[The apple tree burgeoning, this hot day after rain] (early version) --first line of poem:[It didn't bother me so much].

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