Pig in a poke poetry reading /

Recorded in 1987 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on four 90 minute Memorex sound cassettes.

Recording of the poetry reading titled "Pig in a Poke" organized by Harry Calhoun in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Readers include: Stan Morgan, Bob Gregory, Don Wentworth, Harry Calhoun, Bart Solarczak, Pat McKinnon, Lonnie Sherman, Ron Androla, John lsberg, Rick Peabody, Sue Elton, Lynne Barrett, Louis McKee, Michael Basinski, Joannie Marinelli, David Beck.

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

1987

Sound recording

CUR143-146

Disc CUR143, disc 1.Stan Morgan reading:The poet in residence --The bartender in Dayton --Questions never asked --So you're burned out huh? --My balls are falling out of my underwear --The wino with the steel plate in his head --Hell of a dream --Annie hasn't called recently --Maturity --Civil war summer --Tell me you love me Jean Paul Sartre --Searching for the pony --Posthumous poem for William Holden --On Dante and food --Salamander stew --No poem --The tomato is a fruit. --Bob Gregory reading:Someone close --Sometime --Is it in the body? Where is it? --What the flutes do --The idea of fall --Einstein --Boy picked up the wind. --Disc 2.Don Wentworth reading:How to meet the voice inside your head --The necrophiliac's new lover --Drifting --The garden of the universe --Counting grains at nostalgia beach --Nobody forgets the south of France --Tuning sparks --Tight ass white boy wheat --Aunt Rose at the nursing home afternoons --After safe sex --Freud and Jung letters --The annullment --Rudy and the green gimps --A finger pattern --Art and the zen of nostalgia. --Harry Calhoun reading:Penguins on fire --Fleeing your pain --Breaking up --Death in downtown Pittsburgh --Academic poet --The good news and the bad news --Evening rainstorm over still life in attic --Mundane --Exile in bed --Bad luck --At the old folks home visiting my grandmother aged 88 --Another waking dream --Lake Erie Beach, August 1984 --Payment. --Disc CUR144, disc 1.Bart Solarczyk reading:Confession in progress --Quasimodo's insolence --Sofie --Writing more, caring less --Mad Eddie --Jimmy --For Richard temporarily --Learning intolerance --Used cars --Marijuana daydreams --Autumn twilight blues --Scraping for a last hit --Near the end --Standing eight count --Homecoming. --Pat McKinnon reading:I used to get stoned --Third grace --Debby is dying -Last will and testament. --Lonnie Sherman reading:Ravaged tavern. --Disc 2. dt Saturday night and Sunday morning at the Astor Hotel --Raising the dead --A poem I write about Gus' Saloon --Hero's blues --Red hot restaurant. --Ron Androla reading:Hot wet new sex and other things --It's a brown pipe --My place in historical literature --Write a simple poem --It wouldn't totally surprise me --Special visits. --Disc CUR145, disc 1.Ron Androla reading concluded:[Good ole Duke University]. --Sue Elton reading:Scanner --A language I don't understand --Silence --A new creation --Lady in bed, 2 --Sister alone at 84 --Legacy --Before Roshashana --Come to me --Dinosaurs and grandparents - -Camps --My dream bores into bone marrow --Yum hashoa day of remembrance --1939 --Warsaw ghetto --Kristallnacht --Prisoner --No hiding plac --After learning of the latest bus bombing --After viewing Shoa. --John Elsberg reading:Item --Professionalism --Adopting a southern attitude --The light and the dark --Fragment --Torn up (by Todd Moore) --Silver --News report analysis --After prom --Publication party --The immediacy of the American past --The North Sea. --Disc 2.Exiles --Homestyle cooking on 3rd Street --The administrator --The final appeal --After attending a Bly workshop --Love poem. --Rick Peabody reading:Amnesia --Audrey in the rain --Bedroom --Reflex action --The fourth stooge --Chimichanga --Introducing snakes to Ireland --Cointreau --Seque. --Disc 146, disc 1.Lynne Barrett reading:Testosterone --The scene. --Lewis McKee reading:Considerations --The world on the hill --Girls from Scranton --Summer neighbors --Dandelions --Lust --Soft peanuts --In morning --In a yellow state --Reaching the gods --Conversing --No matter --The man walking his dog --The bargain --Last call. --Michael Basinski reading:Three --Writing with two titles (Inspired by a line in a poem by Keats, or, Death mask) --The drake --Love song of the mountains of the moon, for Dian Fossey --The poetry workshop --The yearbook. --Joannie Marinelli reading:On January woman --Traded in. --David Beck reading:Walking --All alone --I met a lady --The skin.

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