[Poetry reading on KPFA radio program] / Jack Spicer.

Recording of reading at the KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California, perhaps in 1963, on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.

This poetry reading by Jack Spicer was aired on the Berkeley, California radio station KPFA. Most of the poems Spicer read would be published in the posthumous collection of early and uncollected poems, One night stand & other poems, published by Grey Fox Press in 1980, edited by Donald Allen. According to the biography Poet be like God by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian, Spicer hosted a weekly radio show on KPFA in 1949: "Spicer's show was nominally about folk music, though he sometimes presented poetry readings, and Herndon and Fredrickson were his frequent guests--his backup band, as it were. . . After forty weeks KPFA unceremoniously dropped the show, after listener complaints about the uncensored bawdiness of some of the improvised 'folk music' Spicer & Co. presented."

Jack Spicer.

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1963?

Sound recording

PCR372A

Ars poetica --first line of poem:[We find the body difficult to speak] --Orpheus after Eurydice --Orpheus' song to Apollo --An arcadia for Dick Brown --A heron for Mrs. Altrocchi --Sonnet for the beginning of winter --Babel 3 --Song for the great mother --Imaginary elegies --first line of poem:[All the way down past the skull] --In an African hut --first line of poem:[How they will be bored by my love for you, biographers] --first line of poem: [Every afternoon in Granada] --Friday, the 13th --Afternoon.

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