[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, November 2, 1964] / Michael Hamburger.
Recorded at the YM-YWHA (92nd Street Y) in New York City for McGraw-Hill Sound Seminar series on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape. Digital reproduction for educational purposes only.
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[Poetry reading, Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y., June 1, 1995] / Simon Ortiz.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette at Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y. on June 1, 1995.
Recording of a poetry reading by Simon Ortiz.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape, probably in the 1960s.
Lecture by Charles Olson on the topic of modern poetry and the importance of the Black Mountain College.
[Poetry reading, Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y., October 26, 1995] / Gale Jackson.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette at Hallwalls on October 26, 1995.
Recording of a poetry reading by Gale Jackson.
[Poetry reading, December 14, 1976] / Russell Edson, Michael Rumaker.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette on December 14, 1976.
Recording of a poetry reading by Russell Edson and Michael Rumaker.
[Interview on The world of letters radio program] / George Butterick, Sherman Paul.
Recorded for George Butterick on a sound cassette probably in November 1982. Recorded for the University of Iowa radio program, The world of letters.
Interview of George Butterick and Sherman Paul on the topic of Charles Olson, poetics, and Black Mountain College. Event was recorded at the Charles Olson Festival (Nov. 5-11, 1982?).
Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch Audiotape reel-to-reel tape, probably in the 1960s.
Poetry read by Charles Olson and T.S. Eliot for George Butterick's classroom use.
[Lecture at Beloit College] / Charles Olson.
Lecture by Charles Olson on the topic of tropes, type and typos. The transcript of this lecture appears in Muthologies, vol. II, p. 33-43.
[Poetry reading, May 25, 1979] / Larry Fagin.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette on May 25, 1979.
[Poetry reading, St. John's Episcopal Church, Buffalo, N.Y., May 8, 1982] / Jerome Rothenberg.
Recorded on a sound cassette at St. John's Episcopal Church, Buffalo, N.Y. on May 8, 1982
[Discussion of Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore and Carl Sandburg on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Recorded at Oregon's School of Air on a 5 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape in the 1960s.
Sheldon Goldstein of the program Poetic Patterns reads and discusses Carl Sandburg, Archibald MacLeish and Marianne Moore.
[Discussion of Samuel Taylor Coleridge on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Sheldon Goldstein of the program Poetic Patterns reads and discusses Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
[Discussion of Robert Frost on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Sheldon Goldstein of the program Poetic Patterns reads and discusses Robert Frost.
[Discussion of T.S. Eliot on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Sheldon Goldstein of the program Poetic Patterns reads and discusses T.S. Eliot.
[Discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Duane Tucker of the program Poetic Patterns reads Shelley's poetry.
[Discussion of the poetry of Anthony Ostroff on WAER's spoken word program, November 6, 1992] /
Recorded at Syracuse University's WAER's spoken word program on a 5 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape in November 6, 1962.
Discussion and reading of the poetry of Anthony Ostroff.
[Discussion of Thomas Wyatt on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Recorded at Indiana University on a 7 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape in the 1960s.
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall, Newton P. Stallknecht, Faye Whitehall, and George C. Johnson on the poetry of Thomas Wyatt.
[Discussion of William Wordsworth on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Recorded at Indiana University on a 5 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape in the 1960s.
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall, James A. Work and George C. Johnson on the poetry of William Wordsworth.
[Discussion of Robert Frost on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall and George C. Johnson on the poetry of Robert Frost.
[Discussion of Matthew Arnold on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall, Newton P. Stallknecht, Robert Lowell, and George C. Johnson on the poetry of Matthew Arnold, specifically Dover Beach.
[Discussion of Stephen Spender on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall, Newton P. Stallknecht, Faye Whitehall and George C. Johnson on the poetry of Stephen Spender.
[Discussion of Edwin Arlington Robinson on Rhyme and reason over the coffee cups] /
Discussion of Indiana University faculty members Harold Whitehall, Newton P. Stallknecht, Faye Whitehall and George C. Johnson on the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson and his poem "Richard Cory."
[Robert Frost on the Listen America radio program] /
Recorded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (possibly in 1961) for the program Listen America, produced by John Ely and directed by John Clayton. Recorded on a 5 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape.
Frost's informal talk was the importance of separateness.
[Lecture and poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 4, 1970] / Robert Bly.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape by Allen De Loach.
Lecture by Robert Bly on Mother Goddess.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, December 1967] / Edward Dahlberg.
Poetry reading and discussion held at the YM-YWHA. Dahlberg is introduced by Frank McShane.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, March 1967] / John Hollander.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, February 1967] / Richard Weber
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, March 1967] / John Ashbery.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Ashbery is introduced by Richard Howard.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, April 1964] / Dannie Abse.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Abse is introduced by James Scully.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, April 1964] / Jack Marshall.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, January 1965] / Galway Kinnell.
[Poetry reading, University at Buffalo, November 5, 1999] / Robert Creeley.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette on November 5, 1999 at the University at Buffalo's Allen Hall, broadcast live on WBFO radio.
Recording of a poetry reading by Robert Creeley. Disc 1 should be listened to after disc 2.
[Poetry reading, November 23, 1985] / Jane Creighton and Margaret Randall.
Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. possibly on November 23, 1985 by Paul Hogan, who donated a copy of the recording made on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette.
Jane Creighton and Margaret Randall perform poetry in Buffalo, N.Y.
Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. possibly in 1985 by Paul Hogan, who donated a copy of the recording made on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette.
Jane Creighton performs poetry in Buffalo, N.Y.
[Poetry reading] / Margaret Randall and Elaine Chamberlain.
Margaret Randall and Elaine Chamberlain perform poetry in Buffalo, N.Y.
Margaret Randall and Elaine Chamberlain.
[Poetry reading, March 1974] / Diane Christian, Carl Dennis.
Recorded on a 90 minute Realistic sound cassette in March 1974 and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of a poetry reading by Diane Christian and Carl Dennis.
[Reading and interview in Mays Landing, N.J. on March 24, 1965] / Walter Lowenfels and Allen De Loach.
Recorded Peekskill, N.Y. in Mays Landing, N.J. on March 24, 1965 by Allen De Loach on a reel-to-reel tape.
Walter Lowenfels and Allen De Loach read their poems and discuss poetry very informally. The sound quality is poor.
Recorded on a two 90 minute Realistic sound cassettes in the 1980s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of a lecture about literature given by Leslie Fielder and another unidentified person, possibly with the last name Fletcher. Disc 3 and one half of disc 2 contain a French language lesson.
[Poetry reading and interview] / Manny Fried [et al.].
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on September 20, 1987.
Recording of Paul Hogan's program on Western New York writers featuring the work of Manny Fried, Joy Walsh, Gary Earl Ross and Tom Putillo. Walsh reads from her Mary Magdelene series of poems and discusses Jack Kerouac. Ross reads his sotry "How Granny B came North and why she hates peanut butter. Fried reads from Big Ben Hood and Putillo reads from his Patriarch series.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute Ampex sound cassette in possibly in January 1973.
Poetry reading by Ed Dorn. Robert Creeley introduces Dorn
[Poetry reading and interview, Buffalo, N.Y., December 20, 1987] / Sherry Robbins and other writers.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on December 20, 1987.
Recording of Sherry (Sheryl) Robbins' poetry reading. She read from her manuscript Queen of the dead lakes. This is followed by an interview. The following program features young Western New York writers such as: Colette Battaglia, Mark Norris, Susan Dix, Samantha Summers, Jason Gusmann, and Willow.
[Interview, October 26, 2001] / Joan Murray.
Recorded on a sound cassette October 26, 2001.
Recording of interview with Joan Murray about her work Queen of the Mist on Book Club of the Air on WBFO with Bert Gambini.
[Poetry reading, Nietzsches, Buffalo, N.Y., December 11, 1983] / Robert Creeley, William Corbett.
Recorded on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette December 11, 1983.
Recording of poetry reading by Robert Creeley and William Corbett.
[Poetry reading, Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., June 14, 1985] / Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on June 14, 1985 at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
Poetry reading by Amiri and Amina Baraka.
[Poetry reading, July 28, 1998] / Kenneth Carroll.
Recorded on a TDK sound cassette on July 28, 1998.
[Poetry reading, Wilson College, March 1969] / Anselm Hollo.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 5 inch Sony reel-to-reel tape at Wilson College in March 1969.
Poetry reading by Anselm Hollo. Hollo reads from The coherences and Maya.
Recorded on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette November 14, 2001.
Recording of Bert Gambini's interview with Witold Rybczynski on WBFO's Book Club of the Air radio program.
Recorded on a 60 minute Maxell sound cassette October 16, 1995.
Recording of Betty Henderson's interview with Lorna C. Hill on Womanspeak on WBFO radio.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on November 11, 1995.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with Kimiko Hahn on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Interviews] / Martin Pops, Grace Paley, R.D. Pohl
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on June 19 and 26, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Martin Pops, Grace Paley, R.D. Pohl on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Interviews] / Jerome Barber, Geraldine Wilson, Ed Smith
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on February 14, 21, 28, 1989.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Jerome Barber, Geraldine Wilson, Ed Smith on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Jerome Barber, Geraldine Wilson, Ed Smith
[Interviews] / Mary Jane Augh, Joy Walsh, David Henderson
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on October 10, 17, 24 1989.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Mary Jane Augh, Joy Walsh, David Henderson on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Mary Jane Augh, Joy Walsh, David Henderson
[Interviews] / Ann Baumgarden, Kastle Brill, Loss Pequeno Glazier
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on September 19, 26, and October 3, 1989.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Ann Baumgarden, Kastle Brill, Loss Pequeno Glazier on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Ann Baumgarden, Kastle Brill, Loss Pequeno Glazier
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette on June 27, July 4 and 11 1989.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Ann Blask, Scott Shane, Mac Hammond, Bobbie Louise Hawkins on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Interview] / Sally Fiedler, Gale Jackson and Kathy Engle
Recorded on January 31 and February 6, 1988 on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette by Paul Hogan for Spoken Arts Radio.
Paul Hogan interviews Sally Fiedler, Gale Jackson and Kathy Engle.
Sally Fiedler, Gale Jackson and Kathy Engle
[Interview] / Irving Feldman, Alan Goldsmith
Recorded on June 28, 1987 and November 29, 1987 on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette by Paul Hogan for Spoken Arts Radio.
Paul Hogan interviews Irving Feldman and Alan Goldsmith.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette May 4, 1990.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with Victor Hern?
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette September 9, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with Lucille Clifton. This is the whole interview which would eventually be used on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute Ampex sound cassette in January 1973. .
Lecture by Ed Dorn. Robert Creeley introduces Dorn
[Ramon Guthrie interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast December 13, 1959 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.
Recording of an interview with Dartmouth French professor Ramon Guthrie features discussion on the paradox of poetry. Guthrie and Lennon also read poetry.
[Langston Hughes interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast January 18, 1959 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.
Recording of an interview with Hughes features a discussion on the theme of love in poetry. Hughes also reads poetry from his Selected poems and also some traditional blues poetry.
[Jean Garrigue interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast Feb. 21, 1960 on the radio program Enjoyment of poetry on WEVD, New York, N.Y. Digitized from the Poetry Collection's 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel donated copy of the original program.
Recording of an interview with Garrigue features discussion on poetry and dreams. Garrigue also reads original poetry.
[Poetry reading, Chicago, March 1983] / Denise Levertov.
Recorded March 1983 by Allen De Loach on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
This recording is of a poetry reading by Denise Levertov held in Chicago, Illinois. Levertov reads from the collections: Candles in Babylon (1982) and Oblique prayers (1984).
[Lecture at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 18, 1988] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 18, 1988 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
This recording is of the third of three of Allen Ginsberg's Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, delivered on March 18, 1988, titled "Poetry reality and market realities". Ginsberg lectures and reads poems by Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, David Cope, Walt Whitman, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalen, James Schuyler, Gregory Corso, Ted Berrigan, and William Carlos Williams and the passage from Visions of Cody (1959) by Jack Kerouac that begins "I went to Hector's, the glorious cafeteria of Cody's first New York vision." Ginsberg is introduced by Robert Creeley. The first and second lectures are on discs PCF094 and PCF089.
[Lecture at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 10, 1988] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 10, 1988 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
This recording is of the first of three of Allen Ginsberg's Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, delivered on March 10, 1988, titled "Open form prosody". Ginsberg lectures and reads "Respondez!" by Walt Whitman. Ginsberg is introduced by Robert Creeley. The second and third lectures are on discs PCF089 and PCF090 of the audio collection.
[Lecture at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 11, 1988] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 11, 1988 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
This recording is of the second of three of Allen Ginsberg's Charles Olson Memorial Lectures delivered on March 11, 1988, titled "Fiest thought, best thought:poetry and meditation". Ginsberg lectures and reads poems by Charles Reznikoff and Jack Kerouac, and then translations by R.H. Blyth of haiku by Issa Kobayashi, Yaha, Shiki, Tairo, Buson, and Furukuni. Ginsberg discusses meditation and meditates with the audience. Ginsberg is introduced by Robert Creeley. The first and third lectures are on discs PCF094 and PCF090.
[Poetry reading at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 11, 1984] / Philip Whalen.
Recorded at the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 11, 1984 on a 120 minute Memorex sound cassette.
This recording is of a poetry reading by Philip Whalen for the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, held at one of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 11, 1984. Most of the poems that Whalen reads are from Enough said (1980). Several of the poems that Whalen reads are early versions. The introduction is by Robert Creeley.
[Poetry readings at the University at Buffalo and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery] / Robert Duncan.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. on January 8, 1962, May 1, 1967, and March 6, 1968 by Allen De Loach on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recordings from De Loach.
This recording is of three separate poetry readings by Robert Duncan, two of which were held at the University at Buffalo and the other at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, also in Buffalo, N.Y. The dates of the readings were January 8, 1962, May 1, 1967, and March 6, 1968. In the first reading, Duncan was introduced by Robert Creeley, and the two poets then had a discussion about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Robert Browning, H.D., D.H. Lawrence, imagism, Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, New Criticism, paganism, Mohammed, The Cantos, Carl Jung, Thomas Carlyle, Dale Carnegie, William Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot, among other subjects. Duncan then read the eighteenth and the seventeenth poems from his long poem "Structure of rime." In the second reading, in which Creeley again gave the introduction, Duncan read thirty of the thirty-two total poems that make up his long poem "Passages." In the middle of reading "Shadows, Passages 11," a baby could be heard crying in the audience, prompting Duncan to say "The reason a child is going to be distressed during these poems is that a child does not understand the words to get fully the emotional undercurrent of them, and frankly this section distresses me and if I were a baby I'd howl. I mean, I really think you've got to remember this in relation to a poem because the human voice changes in a poem." In the third reading, Duncan reads the last two poems, the thirty-first and thirty-third, of "Passages." The three readings are not divided by the three discs. The first reading runs from tracks one to six of disc one, the second reading runs from track six of disc one to track eleven of disc three, and the third reading runs from tracks twelve to thirteen of disc three.
[Lectures at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 9, 13, 15, 1983] / Ed Sanders.
Recorded at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at the University at Buffalo on March 9, 13, 15, 1983 on three 90 minute TDK and BASF sound cassettes.
This recording is of the three lectures given by Edward Sanders at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures. Sanders reads from Tales of Beatnik glory (1975) and The Maximus poems: volume three (1975) and sings his own poem, "Refuse to be burnt-out," and the last poem of The Maximus poems IV, V, VI (1968), which begins "I set out now" with the accompaniment of the bardic pulse lyre. Sanders reads from The special view of history (1970), and sings the mantra that was written by Olson upon request from Sanders and was supposed to be performed by the Fugs during the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Sanders is introduced by Jack Clarke
[Lecture and poetry reading at Buffalo State College, April 24, 1970] / Le Roi Jones (Amiri Baraka).
Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. on April 24, 1970 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of a lecture and poetry reading by Baraka. Baraka lectures about African American culture in the United States. He ends the event by reading three poems.
[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, February 23, 1994] / Dennis Tedlock, Barbara Tedlock.
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on February 23, 1994 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Recording of a poetry reading by Dennis and Barbara Tedlock. Dennis Tedlock reads poems inspired by Mayan culture. Introduction is by Bruce Jackson. This reading was part of the "Wednesday at 4 series" poetry reading.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, May 3, 1979] / Robert Hass.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on May 3, 1979 on a 60 minute Audiomagnetics sound cassette.
Recording of poetry reading by Robert Hass.
[Panel discussion at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 18, 1973] / Fielding Dawson ... [et al.].
Recorded in U.C. room 206 at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 18, 1973 on a 7 inch Scotch 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.
Harvey Brown, Fielding Dawson, Stan Brakhage, Robert J. Bertholf and Edward Dorn led this panel discussion on small presses, corporate publishers, and distributors as part of the Kent State University's Creative Arts Festival.
[Maxim Mazumdar interview and reading] /
Recorded on November 30, 1986 on Spoken Arts Radio. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette.
Paul Hogan interviews Shakespearean actor and playwright, Maxim Mazumdar about society, theater and communication.
[Lecture at the University at Buffalo, Spring 1976] / Irving Feldman.
Recorded in Spring 1976 at the University at Buffalo on two 90 minute Concertape sound cassettes.
Recording of Irving Feldman's English class at the University at Buffalo on the last day of classes in the Spring 1976. Recording has very poor sound quality.
[Tape experiments, March 1968] / Allen De Loach, Carl Weissner.
Recorded in March 1968 by Allen De Loach on a 5 inch Soundcraft reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of experimental poems of Allen De Loach and Carl Weissner.
[Michael McClure and Joanna McClure interview on December 31, 1975] / Robert Bertholf.
Recorded in Kent, Ohio on December 31, 1975 on a 90 minute Scotch sound cassette. 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.
Interview with Michael McClure and Joanna McClure conducted by Robert J. Bertholf focuses on American poetry and the poetry of Robert Duncan and Beat poets.
[Michael McClure and Joanna McClure interview on December 16, 1975] / Robert Bertholf.
Recorded in Kent, Ohio, December 16, 1975 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette. 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.
Interview with Michael and Joanna McClure conducted by Robert J. Bertholf.
[Reading and panel discussion at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, November 9, 1989] / John Yau, Norman Bluhm, Bill Corbett.
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on November 9, 1989 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Reading and discussion of the collaboration between painters and poets.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 25, 1987] / Irving Feldman.
Recorded at Baird Music Hall at the University at Buffalo on March 25, 1987 on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette.
Poet and University at Buffalo professor Irving Feldman reads his new and old poetry, including his work All of us here (1986) about people and statues in an art gallery. Feldman provides ample explanatory introductions to each poem.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Margaret Avison.
Recorded at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. from July 24 to August 16, 1963 by Fred Wah on a 7 inch, 4 track, Sarkes reel-to-reel tape.
On PCF005, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov, and Robert Creeley give seperate poetry readings, answer questions from audience members, Duncan speaks with Ginsberg and Creeley between Levertov's and Creeley's readings, and Creeley, Ginsberg, and Duncan speak together after Creeley's reading.
Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, Margaret Avison.
[Reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 19, 1973] / Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson.
Recorded at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 19, 1973 on a 7 inch Scotch 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.
Reading by Robert Creeley and Fielding Dawson held at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University on April 19, 1973. Creeley read passages from the third section of Mabel: a story (1976), and Dawson read two short stories, "The accident" and "The singing man," which were both published in The man who changed vvernight (1976). "Fielding is without question the greatest prose writer of my time," Creeley said. Before reading the passage of Mabel that begins "Voices fading fast." Creeley said "This should be dedicated to Sam Abrams, who wrote a great book called Barbara, which is the multiple situation of physical event." "For my part of this reading," Dawson said, "I would like to dedicate the following two stories, short pieces that I've written that do go along with the stories that I read on Tuesday night, that they're part of a larger future collection, will be under the title Mary Lou, and these two stories will to me represent the end of this arts festival which for me has been an incredible experience, and I know George Kimball and Bob Creeley and Stan Brakhage, and Stan spoke to me personally how deeply moved he was by the whole thing and Harvey Bialy, we have all felt this way. And Will Petersen and Michael McClure and Arthur Okamura. This has been a unique experience for us, being here, each of us. I haven't seen Ed Dorn in ten years, and only then it was under the most chance kind of meeting, and I've met several of these people who have been here, and what I'm trying to say is that those of us who have been invited to be here have really enjoyed it and it's been very rewarding and we think that the students here have been absolutely fantastic, and this has been an original dialogue between those of us who have been invited here to lecture and to read and to give you our work."
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Duncan.
Duncan reads poems from The opening of the field (1960), Roots and branches (1964), and Bending the bow (1968) and lectures intermittently.
[Poetry reading at Nietzsche's, Buffalo, N.Y., November 16, 1986] / Jack Clarke.
Recorded at Nietzsche's in Buffalo, N.Y. on November 16, 1986 on a sound cassette by Paul Hogan, who donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.
Jack Clarke read selections from Charles Olson's poetry and prose at Nietzsche's in Buffalo, N.Y. Clarke had been Olson's friend and colleague when they were both teachers at the University at Buffalo. Three of the poems Clarke read, "for my friend," "The drum world," and "Golden Venetian light from back of Agamenticus height falling fike Zeus' dust all over the river & marsh as night falling Saturday June 28th 1969 on Gloucester ripping Red River" were related to himsel. The first poem was written for Clarke, the second contains a reference to Clarke, and the third was written in the form of a letter to Clarke. In addition to reading from The Maximus poems, Clarke also read uncollected poetry and prose from Olson: The Journal of the Charles Olson Archives, edited by his University at Buffalo colleague, George F. Butterick. Perhaps the most accurate description of the appearance is that it was a lecture by Clarke on The Maximus poems, as Clarke devoted much of the time to discussing the origins of Olson's long poem and to making exegeses of the selections. Among the works and authors Clarke cited as influences on The Maximus poems were Ezra Pound, The art of the logos by J.A.K. Thomson, The histories of Herodotus, Hesiod, Jane Harrison, The Greek myths by Robert Graves, and ?
[Lectures at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, University at Buffalo, March 14, 17, 19, 1986] / Tom Clark.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 14, 17 and 19, 1986 on four 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
This is the recording of the three lectures Tom Clark delivered during the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures. During the first lecture (PCF104), Clark reads and discusses what were, at the time of the lectures, unpublished poems by Olson. These works would later be published in The collected poems of Charles Olson (1987) and A nation of nothing but poetry (1989), both edited by University at Buffalo professor, George F. Butterick. Clark also reads from Olson's essays and lectures "Experience and measurement" (1966), "Review of Eric A. Havelock's preface to Plato" (1963), Poetry and truth (1968), and "Under the mushroom: The Gratwick Highlands tape" (1963). In addition, Clark reads from the marginalia in Olson's copy of Process and reality (1929) by Alfred North Whitehead. Clark quotes from and discusses Minima moralia (1951) and Aesthetic theory (1970) by Theodor Adorno and "Cyclical time in Mazdaism and Ismailism" (1951) by Henri Corbin. The second lecture (PCF105) features a question and answer session. During the third lecture (PCF106), Clark continues to read and discuss poems by Olson that were unpublished at the time of the lectures, including one poem beginning "You need never fear" which appears to have never been published. Clark focuses on the influence of Henri Corbin on Olson and quotes Corbin, Nasir Tusi, and John Smith. Clark concludes by reading two of his own poems, "Belief" and "After Dante." Due to recording technology, the remainder of the first and second lectures are on PCF107. Clark is introduced by the Poetry Collection's Curator, Robert J. Bertholf.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 29, 1966] / Basil Bunting.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo, July 29, 1966 on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape.
In this performance, Basil Bunting reads all six sections of the long poem "Briggflatts," with the accompaniment of music played between the sections of the poem. The climactic exception to this pattern was during section IV, when Bunting read while the music played. Bunting made no comments during the reading except to thank the audience when he was finished.
[Poetry reading and an interview, December 7, 1975] / William Bronk.
Recorded on December 7, 1975 by Robert J. Bertholf on three Scotch sound cassettes. Bertholf donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.
This recording is of William Bronk being interviewed by Robert J. Bertholf. Bronk discusses his publishing of poems in Origin. Bronk then reads poems from The world, the worldless (1964), The empty hands (1969), and Finding losses (1976).
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 19, 1973] / Harvey Bialy.
Recorded at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 19, 1973 on a 7 inch Scotch 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
Ed Dorn introduces the poetry reading by Harvey Bialy at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival. Bialy began by reading "Song for a cool departure" by Paul Blackburn, which, as Bialy pointed out, was published in the Evergreen review. Bialy then read from the long poem "The feast" and a selection of short poems.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 4, 1971 on a 7 inch Scotch 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. This piece was broadcast on the Robert Bertholf Poetry Show.
This recording is of one episode of the Kent State University radio program titled The Robert Bertholf Poetry Show. The subtitle of the show for this episode was "featuring the poetry of William Blake." An unidentified host, who interviewed Bertholf at the end of the program, introduced and played a recording of Allen Ginsberg's performance at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University on April 4, 1971. At that performance, Ginsberg sang a selection from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and one poem, "The Grey monk," from The Pickering Manuscript. Ginsberg was joined by at least one back-up singer (unidentified), with the accompaniment of a flute, horn, and other instruments. The radio host then introduced and played the studio versions of "Hare Krishna," sung by Ginsberg on the Fugs' album Tenderness Junction, and "Ah! Sun-Flower" and "Song (How sweet I roam'd from field to field" (the latter two poems by Blake), sung by the Fugs' frontman Ed Sanders and featured on The Fugs first album. The episode concludes with a brief interview with Bertholf about Blake. The audio then cuts to an unidentified woman testifying in a court case or a commission hearing. There is questioning about a break-in of a campus building, protests, and Bob Pickett. It is unclear whether the case is connected with the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. At the time of the shootings and the Creative Arts Festival, Bertholf was a professor at the university.
[Poetry reading at the Castellani Gallery, Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y., March 29, 1992] / Michael Basinski ... [et al].
Recorded at the Castellani Gallery, Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y. on March 29, 1992 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of sound poetry pieces by Michael Basinski, Andrew Topolski, James E. Perone and Don Metz.
[Poetry reading at First Night in the Hallwalls Vault, Buffalo, N.Y., December 31, 1992] / Michael Basinski, Don Metz.
Recorded at the New Year's Eve celebration "First Night" at the Hallwalls Vault in Buffalo, N.Y. on December 31, 1992 on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette.
Performance of Conversations by University at Buffalo Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski and Don Metz, the Associate Director of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College.
Magnetic reversal[poetry reading at Ward 10/10 Artists] / / Michael Basinski.
Recorded live at Ward 10/10 Artists on a 60 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of original poetic composition by U.B. Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski.
[Radical poetries and critical address, Charles Olson symposium at the University at Buffalo, April 12, 1988] / Jack Clarke, Don Byrd, Susan Howe.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on April 12, 1988 on two 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
This recording is of three lectures on Charles Olson by Jack Clarke, Don Byrd, and Susan Howe, delivered at SUNY Buffalo on April 12, 1988. Clarke delivers a lecture titled "The metaphysics of survival," then Byrd delivers a lecture titled "A sequence of events measurable in time," and Howe delivers a response to Clarke and Byrd, titled "Since a dialogue we are." Clarke, Byrd, and Howe are introduced by Robert J. Bertholf. Robert Creeley speaks from the audience during the question and answer session after Howe's lecture.
[Poetry reading for Bangladesh at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y., 1971] /
Recorded at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y. in 1971 by Allen De Loach on three 60 minute Pacific Stereo sound cassettes. The Poetry Collection acquired the recordings from De Loach.
This recording is of a poetry reading held at St. George's Church in New York City in 1971 as a benefit for Bangladesh. Featured poets include: Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Gregory Corso, Andrei Voznesensky, Peter Orlovsky, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Kenneth Koch. Highlights of the performances include: Voznesesnky read in Russian and Ginsberg translated, Ginsberg chanted "September on Jessore Road" and "La Ilaha Allahu" while playing harmonium, David Shapiro performed a song by Joseph Joachim on violin, and Kenneth Koch read poems by children in Swaziland.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.
On PCF001, Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg lecture and speak with audience members. On the July 26 lecture, which begins on disc 3 of PCF001, Creeley and Ginsberg are joined by Duncan.
Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963][panel discussion] / / Charles Olson ... [et al.].
On PCF002, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Philip Whalen have an open-forum discussion, during which Olson reads "Monday morning, July twenty-ninth," "Place
& Names," and "Book II, chapter 37." The poets also respond to questions and comments from the audience.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963][panel discussion] / / Robert Creeley ... [et al.].
On PCF003, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and Margaret Avison have an open-forum discussion, during which they answer occasional questions from audience members.
[Panel discussion, Kent State University, April 16, 1973] / Michael McClure ... [et al].
Recorded April 15, 1973 at Kent State University on a 120 minute Scotch sound cassette. 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.
Panel discussion on American poetry held at Jake Leed's course at Kent State University. Panelist included: Michael McClure, Harvey Bialy, Will Petersen, Ed Dorn
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 6- April 7, 1971] / Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Grossinger.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 6-7, 1971 on four 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tapes. 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
This reading by Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Grossinger was held as part of the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 6-7, 1971. Disc CUR028 features the April 6, 1971 event at which Robert Duncan read an early version of "Passages 35, before the judgment." No introduction, commentary, or closing remarks were made. Discs CUR030 and CUR027 feature a reading by Duncan, Ginsberg and Grossinger.^On disc CUR030, Ginsberg began by chanting a mantra, Duncan then introduced Grossinger, who read short prose pieces from The continents (1973) and Book of the Cranberry Islands (1974), and then Duncan read "The fire, passages 13." The recording ends in the middle of "The fire, passages 13" and resumes on disc CUR027 at the line "The Christ closes His eyes, bearing the Cross." Duncan read "The light, passages 28" and "Achilles' song" and sang Medea's song at the end of act one of Medea at Kolchis, the play Duncan wrote and published at Black Mountain College in 1956. The song begins "Ah, knave, knave that my heart sees." Before reading the final poem, Duncan said "Now I'm going to close by reading two sections of a poem that I'm going to work on, which is called 'Santa Cruz Propositions.' It's a mystery poem, so I'm not amazed that all of it hasn't arrived, and I do not know what's going to happen in it because only as it arrives do I know what's going on.^^In between, I pray that it will arrive again and I also pray that it won't, because events come along with it, the only kind that would be near magic. However, this is not in my hands. I put it in the hands of divine powers, so it's not really magic." Disc CUR029 features a recording of Grossinger talking, then Ginsberg reading his own poems and singing "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" by William Blake and reading "Poem ('Khrushchev is coming on the right day!') by Frank O'Hara and "The instruction manual" by John Ashbery, followed by Robert Duncan talking and reading "The Songs of Maximus (song 6)" by Charles Olson, and Grossinger having the closing words of the discussion.
Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Grossinger.
[Lecture at the University at Buffalo, summer course 1968. / Robert Duncan.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on June 28 and July 1, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
In the third and fourth sessions, Duncan read from Canto XCI of The Cantos of Ezra Pound and from "The delineaments of the giants," the opening section of Paterson by William Carlos Williams. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the third and fourth sessions were Blake, Rubens, Rembrandt, Michael McClure, Renoir, Finnegans Wake, The Maximus poems, Freud, The golden bough, Hesiod, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Process and Reality, Metaphysics, Jung, Ernest Jones, James Joyce, Jarrell, Stravinsky, Odysseus, Homer, Robert Browning, Gertrude Stein, Andreas Divus' translation of Homer, Keats, Levertov, Brancusi, George Berkeley, Samuel Johnson, Aphrodite, Minerva, Athena, Dionysus, Chronos, Gaia, Sartre, Piaget, Norman Brown, Goethe, Plato, and Yeats. During the third and fourth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Gentlemen prefer blondes and but gentlemen marry brunettes by Anita Loos.