[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.

Harvey Bialy.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1973

Sound recording

CUR059A

Song for a cool departure (Paul Blackburn) --The feast --Post-Homeric hymn to Venus --first line of poem:[Walking to the market, I am smiling at the sudden explosion of faces] --Reception --first line of poem:[What was revealed was a woman] --first line of poem:[Simple the old and the new] --first line of poem:[That dress is diamonds].

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