In this segment, Ed Dorn reads poems from Rolling Stock, The North Atlantic Turbine, and recent Houston-related work, discusses railroads, travel, geography, and irritation, and is interviewed by Allen DeLoach, who is introduced as poet and multimedia artist.
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In this video, Emanuel Fried is introduced as a labor-focused playwright and reads an extended excerpt from The Dodo Bird, depicting Dodo, an unemployed union worker confronting alcoholism, family loss, and dignity, followed by discussion of Fried’s writing process, labor politics, and experience as a union organizer.
Just Buffalo Literary Center; Market Arcade Building, 617 Main Street, Suite 202A Buffalo, New York 14203 ; donation. Digitized as part of the Migrating Media case study August 2011.
Leslie Fiedler: What used to be called dead.
Leslie Fiedler reads his short story “What Used To Be Called Dead,” depicting an old man in a future without death, memories of a city fire before his fifteenth birthday, ritualized existence, a viper turning black, and a red-and-black butterfly, followed by discussion of the story’s composition.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads the poems “The Gunfather” and the newly completed “Endless Life,” accompanied by Goya’s Disasters of War illustrations, and discusses poetic influence, appropriation, anarchism, and political responsibility in conversation with interviewer Allen DeLoach.
Simon Ortiz reads selections from Fight Back, including songs, prayers, and narratives addressing Acoma history, land, uranium mining, labor conditions, and colonialism, and discusses Pueblo oral tradition, ritual timing, and integrating storytelling, song, and writing with life and land in conversation with Allen DeLoach.
Gary Snyder reads new poems from Ax Handles, explains the collection’s metaphor, place-based ecology, family life, travel to Japan and Alaska, and labor communities, and discusses poetic craft, tradition, and accessibility in a recording constructed from slides and audio with Allen DeLoach.
Allen DeLoach presents selections from Schizothymia, performing spoken texts drawn from psychiatric interviews and monologues, and discusses the series’ development, themes of disorientation, and integration of poetry with photography, slides, audio, and live performance in conversation with James Sylvia.
Joel Oppenheimer reads extended selections from At 50, a long poem organized in four sections combining autobiographical memory, news items, love, aging, baseball, and mortality, and discusses his discursive style, poetics, and influences in a recording with Allen DeLoach.
Michael Morgulis: New Graphics and Poetry
Morgulis, Michael [artist] Barnes, Susan [poet] Keller, Craig [poet] Pluto, Anne E. [poet] Robbins, Sherry [poet] Rossi-Script, Dolores [poet]
This recording features graphic artist Michael Margulis discussing his Buffalo-based silkscreen, poster, and billboard processes, alongside poetry readings by Susan Barnes, Craig Keller, Ann E. Pluto, Sherry Robbins, and Dolores Rossi-Script, with commentary on public art, symbolism, and artistic transformation.
Ted Berrigan reads poems from Buffalo Days, including “Farewell Address,” “I Remember,” city and travel poems, and elegies, reflecting on Buffalo, Providence, memory, friendship, and daily life, and discusses his poetic tradition, influences, and approach in conversation with Allen DeLoach.
Fielding Dawson reads previously unpublished prose from Four Penny Lane, presenting fragmented narrative scenes, screenplay passages, and autobiographical moments, then discusses storytelling, visual art, language, and creative process, emphasizing attention, actuality, and the writer’s role as medium in conversation with Allen DeLoach.
Michael McClure reads extended passages from Rare Angel: Bio-Alchemical Investigations, presenting expansive, incantatory poems exploring ecology, biology, perception, and interconnectedness, then discusses poetic form, environmental awareness, and “bio-alchemical” process with Allen DeLoach.
Allen De Loach: poetry and visual inter-media.
Allen De Loach performing two video art poetry works and interviewed by Jim Silvia.
This recording presents two visual and intermedia poetry pieces by Allen DeLoach, followed by an interview with Jim Sylvia discussing DeLoach’s development from written poetry to multimedia work, influences including Beat and Black Mountain poets, sound poetry, metaphor, transformation, and integrating visual, verbal, and sensory experience.
Robert Creeley reads poems from Later Sequencies, including works on West Acton, family history, and elegies for his mother and aunt, and discusses occasion, memory, accuracy of feeling, poetic rhythm, and influences in an extended conversation with Allen DeLoach.
Allen Ginsberg: ecologue (cherry valley)
Allen Ginsberg reads his 1970 poem “Eclogue,” composed during communal farm life in Cherry Valley, New York, interweaving daily rural labor, political events, friends’ imprisonments, and ecological detail, then discusses montage structure, diary composition, attention, meditation, and improvised poetics with Allen DeLoach.