[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 7, 1971] / Richard Grossinger, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.

Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 7, 1971 on a 120 minute Scotch sound cassette. Recorded by Robert J. Bertholf. 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.

Poetry reading by Richard Grossinger, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Duncan at the Creative Arts Festival.

Richard Grossinger, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.

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

1971

Sound recording

CUR010

Disc 1.Robert Duncan reading:The songs of Maximus (Song 6) --Richard Grossinger speaking. --Disc 2.Allen Ginsberg reading:A Western ballad --Stanzas, written at night in Radio City --The bricklayer's lunch hour --In society --The voice of the ancient bard --A poem on America --Duncan and Ginsberg dialogue --Ginbserg reading:Poem (Kruschev is coming on the right day!) --The instruction manual (written by John Ashbery).

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