[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 19, 1969] / William Everson (Brother Antoninus).
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on March 19, 1969 by Allen De Loach on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
Recording of the dramatic reading William Everson (Brother Antoninus) gave to the University at Buffalo audience. The poet reads selectins from the The rose of solitude (1967).
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[Poetry reading at the West End Cafe in New York, N.Y., February 24, 1974] / Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz.
Recorded at the West End Cafe in New York City, N.Y. on February 24, 1974 by Allen De Loach on 120 minute Tracs sound cassette. Wieners performance probably recorded on March 24, 1974 at the West End Cafe. Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
Poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg and Michael Horovitz also featured a mantra performance by Peter Orlovsky. Ginsberg sang poems from William Blake's The songs of innocence and of experience (1794), played harmonium, read his own early poems that were mostly published in the collections: Empty mirror, early poems (1961) and Gates of wrath: rhymed poems 1948-52 (1973). Ginsberg also sang his own poems from First blues (1975). Horovitz read and sang poems from Love poems (1971). The unidentified man who introduced Horovitz announced upcoming readings, one of which was a reading by John Wieners on March 24. On disc 2, track 7, the Ginsberg and Horovitz reading concludes and the recording cuts to a barely audible recording of a reading by Wieners. It is likely that the reading is the one that Wieners was scheduled to give at the West End Caf??. Most of the poems that Wieners read were from Behind the state capitol or Cincinnatti Pike (1975).
[USA poetry episodes featuring Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky] / Richard O. Moore, host.
Poetry Collection acquired this tape of Allen De Loach's recording of two USA: Poetry shows. Recording was made on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape. Details surrounding the original De Loach recording of these programs are unavailable.
This audio recording is of two episodes in the USA: poetry series. The first episode has profiles of Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, and the second episode has a profile of Louis Zukofsky, featuring interviews and readings. Koch was interviewed in March 1966. In addition to reading his own poetry, Zukofsky reads "Divination by a daffodil" by Robert Herrick.
[Poetry reading at the Hotel Albert, New York, N.Y, Spring 1968] / Robert Creeley.
Recorded at the Hotel Albert in New York City in the spring of 1968 on a 7 inch Capitol reel-to-reel tape.
Robert Creeley devoted most of this spring 1968 appearance at the Hotel Albert in New York City, N.Y. to reading excerpts from his correspondence with William Carlos Williams. Creeley also discusses the poetics of Williams, among many other topics, with Allen Ginsberg, who seems to have been speaking from the audience. Creeley also read two poems by Williams (The world contracted to a recognizable image and To be recited to Flossie on her birthday) and three poems of his own (The rose, Numbers, and The finger). With frequent contributions from Ginsberg, Creeley's discussion covers Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, "The new American poetry: 1945-1960" edited by Donald Allen, Kaddish and Howl by Ginsberg, Paterson by Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ezra Pound, Mitchell Goodman, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Robert Indiana, and what Creeley calls "the physical means of writing."
[Poetry reading on the radio show Anthology] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded in March 1968 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. De Loach recording acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Allen Ginsberg appeared on the radio program Anthology hosted by Harry Mannis in March 1968. Ginsberg opened by singing the "Hare Krishna" mantra, then read poems from Planet news (1968), and concluded by singing the "Maitreya" mantra. After reading "News of death," Ginsberg spoke of William Carlos Williams and his town of Paterson, N.J. Ginsberg introduced the poem "Waking in New York" by talking about New York Governor Rockefeller's drug laws. Before reading "Holy Ghost on the nod over the body of bliss" Ginsberg said: "This is like a poem which names all the different gods and says they are one."
[Poetry reading at Boston College, Boston, Mass., October 11, 1972] / Edward Dorn.
Recorded at Boston College in Boston, Mass. on October 11, 1972 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
Harvey Bialy introduces Edward Dorn. Dorn began by reading a poem that he co-wrote with his wife Jennifer Dunbar. Many of the poems that Dorn read were early versions or poems that were uncollected, including a group of six poems that were published in the first issue of Tens (July 1972). Disc 2 features the recorded dialogue betweem Robert Creeley and Bobbie Creeley titled Listen. Listen was written by Robert Creeley, published by Black Sparrow Press with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley in 1972, and later published in Robert Creeley's Collected prose (1984).
Recorded by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel. The date and the location of this reading by Edward Dorn are not specified, but it is thought to be in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1964. The title on the original container of the recording is "Private reading of new poems to be published as 'Hands up.'" Poetry Collection acquired recording from De Loach.
Dorn reads poems that are mostly from the book Hands up which was published in 1964 by Totem Press. One poem Dorn reads from this group is an early version of The sea corner, of the eye. The other poems are from The newly fallen (1961) and Geography (1965).
[Poetry reading at Rosary Hill College, Buffalo, N.Y., November 20, 1970] / Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso.
Recorded at Rosary Hill College in Amherst, N.Y. on November 20, 1970 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recording was acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Recording of a joint poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Ginsberg read early poems that had been gathered in the book Empty mirror. Ginsberg sang four poems from William Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience. Ginsberg introduced Corso by discussing and reading the poem "Gregory Corso's story." Corso read poems from the books Gasoline (1958), The happy birthday of death (1960), and Long live man (1962), including the long poem "Power," which Corso had dedicated to Ginsberg.
[Poetry reading at the Bisbee Poetry Festival, August 26, 1979] / Jerome Rothenberg.
Recorded at the Bisbee Poetry Festival in Bisbee, Arizona on August 26, 1979 by Allen De Loach on 120 minute Memorex sound cassette. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
This recording is of a poetry reading by Jerome Rothenberg and an unidentified second reader at the Bisbee Poetry Festival in Bisbee Arizona on August 26, 1979.
[Poetry reading at Buffalo State College, May 6, 1969] / Jonathan Williams.
Recorded at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York on May 6, 1969 by Allen De Loach on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired recording from De Loach.
Poetry reading by Jonathan Williams. Poet reads works from the collection An ear in Bartram's tree (1969).
[Poetry reading in Bisbee, Arizona, August 25, 1979] / Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hadley Drummond.
Recorded at the Bisbee Poetry Festival in Bisbee, Arizona on August 25, 1979 by Allen De Loach on 120 minute Memorex sound cassette. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
This poetry reading by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Drummond Hadley was held at the Bisbee Poetry Festival in Bisbee, Arizona on August 25, 1979. Most of the poems Ferlinghetti read would be collected in Wild dreams of a new beginning (1988) and most of the poems Hadley read would be collected in Voice of the borderlands (2005). Rather than dividing the reading in half, Ferlinghetti and Hadley took turns, mostly alternating every other poem. Before reading "Mountain mule dreams," Ferlinghetti said the next several poems were "Bisbee poems, written about the last couple days." "Mountain mule dreams" would serve as the title for a Ferlinghetti collection published by Bisbee Press Collective in 1980. Before singing "Alma de mi alma," Hadley said "Translated, it would be 'The willow and the palm tree gently touch each other, alma de me alma, alma of my soul, or soul of my soul, how beautiful you were.' This poem begins with those first four lines that Carlos [Yslava] sung."
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, December 7, 1967] / Jack Micheline.
Recorded at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, New York on December 7, 1967 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
Poetry reading by Jack Micheline. Micheline read works from: I kiss angels (1963), Poems of Dr. Innisfree (1975), Street of lost fools (1975), North of Manhattan, Collected poems, ballads, and songs:1954-1975 (1976), and Sixty-seven poems for downtrodden saints (1999).
[Poetry reading and lecture, University at Buffalo, October 11, 1967] / Michael C. Flanigan.
Recorded in the Norton Conference Theatre in Norton Hall at the University at Buffalo on October 11, 1967 at 4 p.m. on a 7 inch Concert reel-to-reel tape. Recorded by De Loach and then acquire by the Poetry Collection.
This recording is of Mike Flanigan reading all of The lady trilogy (1967) and a short poem titled "Student address." Flanigan lectures on "American poetry and the American poet," which includes reminiscences of Olson, Robert Creeley, and other poets who taught and studied at the University at Buffalo in the sixties. Reading was part of the Fall Literature Series.
Recorded by Allen De Loach on a Scotch 7 inch reel-to-reel tape, possibly in the 1960s at the University at Buffalo. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
This recording is of Harry Monroe reading the long poem "Angelophany in Veracruz."
[Poetry reading at the Rhymers Club in Berkeley, California, October 12, 1966] / Robert Duncan.
Recorded at the Rhymers Club in Berkeley, California on October 12, 1966 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry reading by Robert Duncan featured works from: The opening of the field (1960), Roots and branches (1964), The years as catches: first poems, 1939-1946 (1966), and Bending the bow (1968).
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 17, 1969] / Michael Hamburger.
Recorded in 231 Norton at the State University of New York at Buffalo on March 17, 1969 on two 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
Poet Michael Hamburger reads to the University community. "Well, I'm going to begin with a poem about a poetry reading," Hamburger said, "to get rid of all the negative things about poetry readings which I feel, because I've been thinking a lot about poetry readings, after attending a good many of them, and I'm certainly one of the poets who writes to be read, rather than to be listened to, and this is a poem called 'In Philistia.' Hamburger provides commentary throughout the reading. Introduction by Max Wickert.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, June 21, 1973] / Charles Reznikoff.
Recorded on June 21, 1973 by Allen De Loach on two 60 minute Ampex sound cassettes. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
Charles Reznikoff reads selections from his works: Inscriptions: 1944-1956, Jerusalem the golden, Going to and fro and walking up and down, Poems (1920), Rhythms II, By the well of living and seeing, Testimony, and A fifth group of verse. The first two poems, Reznikoff says, "illustrate my platform as a writer of verse." Reznikoff then says of the next group, "Now I'm going to read material which I would call urban or city. As you know, for a long time, much of the verse of the last century and even this century has been nature poetry, so called, and the last great poet for that group is Robert Frost, who has just died, but for us who were born and brought up in the city, there is a kind of verse which might be called city verse, and I'll begin with some of these." In track six, Reznikoff discusses Testimony: "Law cases, recorded in the law books, not only include the legal decisions but, at times, the facts on which the decisions are based and, of course, what I was looking for were the facts." There is a brief lapse in the audio near the end of Testimony (II) in track six, after which the audio resumes at the beginning of Domestic scenes (I), and continues without interruption to the end of the reading.
[Poetry reading at University at Buffalo, November 14, 1966] / Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 14, 1966 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Leslie Fiedler gave the introduction to this poetry reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the University at Buffalo on November 14, 1966. Yevtushenko read six poems and then devoted the last thirty minutes of the reading to answering questions from the audience.
[Poetry reading in Buffalo, N.Y., March 1968] / Louis Zukofsky.
Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. in March 1968 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. De Loach recording was acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Poetry reading by Louis Zukofsky. Zukofsky reads from "A," translations translations Catullus, and several short poems. The introduction was made by Robert Creeley. Zukofsky ended the reading by reading the eleventh movement of "A," upon request from Creeley.
[Allen Ginsberg teaching mantras at the University at Buffalo, March 8, 1968] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded in the Millard Fillmore Room at the University at Buffalo on March 8, 1968 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
On March 8, 1968, Allen Ginsberg taught mantras to students at the State University of New York at Buffalo, with the aid of an unidentified student from the Radha-Krishna Temple in New York City. The sheet on which the mantras were listed that Ginsberg used to indicate the transitions from one mantra to the next, was included in The works of Allen Ginsberg 1941-1994: a descriptive bibliography by Bill Morgan. The single sheet (28 x 21.6 cm.) is titled: Mantras as Taught by Allen Ginsberg. Buffalo, NY: Incense Press, SUNYAB LEMAR, March 8, 1968. It contains the texts and translations of eleven chants compiled by the poet. Ginsberg mentioned that he had been introduced to the first mantra ("Om Raksha Hum Hum Hum Phat Svah") by Gary Snyder.
[Four lectures at the University at Buffalo, 1966] / Basil Bunting.
Recorded in 1966 at the University at Buffalo by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two 120 minute Compact sound cassettes.
This recording is of Basil Bunting delivering four lectures on poetry. Throughout the lectures, Bunting reads poems by Marianne Moore, Thomas Campion, Robert Herrick, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Ezra Pound, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Philip Sidney. Bunting indicates that he is going to conclude the last lecture by reading from "The shepheardes calendar" by Edmund Spenser, but the end of the lecture seems not to have been recorded.
[Poetry reading at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, March 4, 1968] / Louis Zukofsky.
Recorded at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 4, 1968 by Allen De Loach on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. De Loach recording acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Recording of Louis Zukofsky being interviewed by Robert Creeley. Zukofsky's poetry performance at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo follows. Zukofsky reads from translations of Catullus and the eleventh and twelfth movements of "A".
Recorded at the COSMEP Midwest Conference in Ann Arbor, Mich. on June 13, 1969 by Allen De Loach on an Overture 5 inch reel-to-reel tape. The Poetry Collection acquired the recording from De Loach.
This recording is of the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) Midwest conference held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 13, 1969. The recording begins with a lecture by Felix Pollak, followed by lectures and readings by Len Fulton, Richard Morris, Don Dorrance, Michael Phillips, and George Thompson. Other participants included Jerry Burns, Morris Edelson, Tim Hildeband, Rich Mangelsdorff, Kimber Merker, Ron Bodnar, Richard Morris, and Harry Smith. "Anthology 2: of poems read at the Midwest COSMEP conference held at Ann Arbor June, 1969" was published by COSMEP in 1969.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo on November 19, 1970] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 19, 1970 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Reading acquired by the Poetry Collection from De Loach. This CD contains seventy-two minutes of the appearance. The remaining two hours are on discs from the Intrepid Collection, numbered INT182A.
Allen Ginsberg made this appearance at the University at Buffalo on November 19, 1970. In this appearance, Ginsberg sang from William Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience, with the accompaniment of a harmonium. Ginsberg commenced by discussing how he began setting Blake's poetry to music: "I started after the Chicago convention, as a sort of visionary relief from the visionary horror of that scene. Coming back from San Francisco after taking a look at Neal Cassady's ashes, one of the Blake songs kept running through my head, one not in Innocence and Experience, 'The grey monk,' and from that I began listening to the tones of each word in the Songs." Ginsberg spent several minutes introducing "The little black boy" by discussing Gnosticism as presented in the book The gnostic religion (1958) by Hans Jonas.
[Poetry reading for Just Buffalo Literary Center at the Hilton Hotel, Buffalo, N.Y., November 22, 1980] / Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan.
Recorded at the Buffalo Hilton hotel in Buffalo, New York on November 22, 1980 by Allen De Loach on a 120 minute Memorex sound cassette. Recording acquired by the Poetry Collection from De Loach.
This joint poetry reading by Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan was sponsored by Just Buffalo Literary Center. Creeley and Duncan were introduced by Harvey Brown and John Clarke, respectively. In addition, John Daly read a poem beginning "Sit down / Listen to the sound a poet makes " as a prologue and homage to Duncan. "Characteristically, when I'm reading in this kind of situation," Creeley said, "I tend not to make a particular selection and sort of, quote, 'play it by ear,' but for this evening and the interests here collected, I thought more appropriate indeed to read poems that seem to have part of this common responsibility as to how imaginations of the world and our understandings of them and how imaginations of being human have contexts, continuity, information beyond our own presumptions." Creeley also mentioned that Tom Clark was being paid fifteen dollars per blurb by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press and that the poem "Kore" came from a reading of Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion by Jane Harrison. Robert Duncan said: "Ground work is literally going back to the ground work, and ground in the sense of ground and figure, too, preparatory to the poetry of my senility" He continued: "The volume that follows Ground work I and volume II I can now announce is called 'Early senilities' and after that it's called 'Later senilities,' and if I really do it, like it was announced--you heard it there--I still want to get up and give you the works when I am a hundred, and I hope you're all still with me. It'll be wonderful. I'll have a totally senile audience, and it will be called 'Still later senilities.' That 'Still' is so marvelous. You know, I mean, boy, 'Barely moving later senilities.'" Before reading "A lammas tiding" and "My mother would be a falconress," Duncan said "This is my entire homage to reading in a psychoanalytic setting, and you'll see how straightline Freudian I am."
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 9, 1969] / Ron Loewinsohn.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. on April 9, 1969 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry reading by Ron Loewinsohn contains frequent commentary and anecdotes. Loewinsohn read poems that had been or would later be published in the books L'autre (1963), The step (1968), Book of Ayres (1970), and Goat dances (1976). Loewinsohn said that the title of the poem "The burden of loveliness" was taken from a short story by William Carlos Williams, and added, "If you know that story, this poem places 'The burden of loveliness' someplace else." Loewinsohn discussed the psychologist Frieda Fromme-Reichman, to whom the poem "L'autre" is dedicated. Loewinsohn also said that "3 backyard dramas, with mamas" is "a series I sort of stole, sort of--did steal from Joanne Kyger." The series is dedicated to Kyger. Of Book of Ayres Loewinsohn said, "It comes out of an Emily Dickinson poem which I ran into in a final exam, so that final exams are good for something..." He mentioned that the poem "K. 282" refers to Mozart's piano sonata in E flat major. Loewinsohn also said that the penultimate poem of the reading ("There, of course") was a month old, and that the last poem ("Goat dance 'In the middle of the park'") was a few days old. Both poems would be printed in Goat dances.
Recorded on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
This recording is of a poetry reading by Edward Dorn for which there is no information on the location or date, but it is thought to be in Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1970s. Dorn reads early versions of the sections of Gunslinger (1975) titled "The cycle" and Book IIII.
[Poetry reading at Baldy Hall, University at Buffalo, December 17, 1978] / Edward Dorn.
Recorded in Baldy Hall, University at Buffalo on December 17, 1978 on a 60 minute Ampex sound cassette.
Poet Ed Dorn is introduced by University at Buffalo professor Robert Creeley. Dorn begins by saying "I'm still reading pretty much what I've been reading, in fact, some of it I read the last time I was in Buffalo, in the Presbyterian Church. In the mean time, it's become a book [Hello, La Jolla (June 1978)], but because of it's nature, it just keeps going on, so I've added to it and I've come to see that it's not really final at all." Dorn then reads "arbitrarily selected further ideas which would have gone into the book had I had them at that time." This includes thirty-one uncollected poems and quotations from Richard Porson, Charles James Fox, Ben Jonson, Baron Macaulay, Brooks Adams, Tom Clark, Thomas Hobbes, and John Milton, which compliment the six quotations that are included in Hello, La Jolla with titles and line breaks ( "The Russian quote," "The Sanders quote," "The Broughton quote," "The Cobett quote," "The Baron Macaulay quote," and "The Burr quote" ). Dorn then reads almost all of the poems printed in Hello, La Jolla.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, June 22, 1967] / Edward Dorn.
Recorded on June 22, 1967 at the University at Buffalo on a 3M 7 inch reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry reading by Edward Dorn. Dorn reads from what he calls his iconic notebook, which includes excerpts from letters, "pictures of my favorite entrepreneurial capitalists and people like that," quotations, and what Dorn calls "the flux of the language, walking down the street." Dorn also reads "The kulchural exchange," "Idling with observation and song," and Book III of Gunslinger.
[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., December 12, 1974] / Fielding Dawson.
Recorded at the Allentown Community Center in Buffalo, New York on December 12, 1974 by Allen De Loach on a 120 minute Tracs sound cassette. Recording was acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Reading opens with an introduction by Robert Creeley, who discusses Ludwig Wittgenstein: a memoir by Norman Malcolm and Street & Smith magazines. Fielding Dawson then reads the essay "On writing jokes, the short stories The Messiah and The Messiah (2)", and closes by reading excerpts from the memoir Tiger lilies. Among the subjects Dawson discusses throughout the reading are Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, the essay "Fielding Dawson's 'Certain overflow willingness' " by Charlotte Gafford in the July 1974 issue of The Iowa review, autobiographical writing, fiction as a more egotistical form than memoir, Mabel: a story by Creeley, An emotional memoir of Franz Kline, The Black Mountain book, the suggestion from Ted Berrigan to "write a book about Charles Olson", You & me by Seymour Krim, The master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson, A coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler, Wittgenstein, The house of the dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, and Ed Sanders.
[Poetry reading at the Lockwood Memorial Library, University at Buffalo, February 5, 1965 / Kenneth Koch.
Recorded at the Lockwood Memorial Library at the University at Buffalo on February 5, 1965 on a 7 inch Sarkes reel-to-reel tape.
Kenneth Koch read poems and three short plays: "The return of the yellowmay," "The revolt of the giant animals," and "The building of Florence." Before reading the plays, Koch said that the costumes and sets by the painter Red Grooms for the American Theatre for Poets in New York production of the earlier play "Guinevere, or the death of the kangaroo" had inspired him to write the three sequels. Koch also mentioned that the title for the poem "Aus Einer Kindheit" (Scenes from a Childhood) came from Rilke, "but nothing else."
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 30, 1965] / John Logan.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 30, 1965 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry Collection Curator David Posner introduced John Logan for his poetry reading. Logan read poems from the books: Ghosts of the heart, Spring of the thief, and The zigzag walk. Throughout the reading, Logan discusses the circumstances under which the poems were written, as when he recounts the near-drowning that inspired him to write "The rescue."
[Poetry reading at the Buffalo Festival of Arts, Rockwell Auditorium, Buffalo State College, March 5, 1968] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded in the Rockwell Auditorium at Buffalo State College at the Buffalo Festival of the Arts in Buffalo, New York on March 5, 1968 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape. Recording acquired by the Poetry Collection.
Poet Allen Ginsberg performed as part of the Buffalo Festival of the Arts. Robert Creeley provided the introduction noting that "Ginsberg makes possibilty the way one might make bread, clothing." Ginsberg began the reading chanting the mantra "Hare Krishna." Ginsberg read early versions of poems that would all be included in the collection Planet news, published in November 1968 by City Lights Books. He concluded the reading by chanting the "Maitreya" mantra.
[Eye, ear and mind][a conference on the poetry of Ronald Johnson at the University at Buffalo, March 17, 2000.] /
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 17, 2000 on eight 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
Recording of the Ronald Johnson conference held at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo. Conference was sponsored by the English Department and the Poetry Collection.
Recorded in February 1981 on a 90 minute Radio Shack sound cassette.
Performance by poet and UB Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski.
[Poetry reading in Washington, D.C., November 11, 1995] / E.B.M.A.
Recorded in Washington, D.C on November 11, 1995 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of sound poetry by E.B.M.A. (East Buffalo Media Association).
[Mark Van Doren interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast June 1, 1958 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 Van Doren features a discussion on the theme of love in poetry. Van Doren also reads poetry from his Selected poems.
[George Garrett interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast November 8, 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 George Garrett features a discussion on the theme of clarity in poetry. Garrett also reads poetry.
[Poetry reading] / Mark Sonnenfeld, Joseph Verrilli, Gyorgy Kostritsky.
Recorded on a 60 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Poetry reading by Sonnenfeld, Verrilli, and Kostritsky.
Mark Sonnenfeld, Joseph Verrilli, Gyorgy Kostritsky.
[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."
[Poetry reading in Vancouver, B.C., 1971] / J.H. Prynne.
Recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 30, 1971 and August 1, 1971 on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
These two poetry readings by J.H. Prynne were held in Vancouver, B.C. on July 30 and August 1, 1971. Prynne provides commentary throughout the readings. Among the subjects discussed are Resurrection by Tolstoy, Aristeas, The consolation of philosophy by Boethius, Paul Celan, P.B. Shelley, and inventor Charles Babbage. Among the most insightful comments were those Prynne made about his own first book, Kitchen poems (1968): "The first thing I thought I'd read you is a poem from a series of poems, which I call Kitchen poems, basically because they were all composed in other people's kitchens, which is a good place to write poems, firstly because one is free of certain kinds of distractions like the Oxford English Dictionary in fifteen volumes ..." Also notable are Prynne's comments on Celan.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Duncan ... [et al.]
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 PCF004, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Margaret Avison have an open-forum discussion, and then, beginning on disc 2 of PCF004, Creeley, Duncan, and Ginsberg read poems by Hart Crane. Next, Creeley, Duncan, and Levertov read poems by William Carlos Williams. Levertov reads a brief quotation from Federico Garc?
[Lecture at Kent State University, April 19, 1973] / Fielding Dawson.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 19, 1973 on a 60 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
This recording is of a lecture by Fielding Dawson, held at Kent State University. Dawson discussed the mutual influence of poets and fiction writers, and the particular poets who influenced him, with a focus on Charles Olson and Robert Creeley at Black Mountain College.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Charles Olson.
On PCF006, Charles Olson reads an early version of Maximus poems IV, V, VI (the second volume of The Maximus poems), which would not be published until 1968, and also read poems from the first volume of The Maximus poems and several short poems. In "Charles Olson: the allegory of a poet's life," Tom Clark described the reading as follows: "The August 16 event, a four-hour marathon finally shut down by the arrival of janitors to clean the hall, was a total triumph--the best reading, he later told Betty [Olson], that he'd ever done."
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Allen Ginsberg.
On PCF007, Ginsberg reads early poems, collected in Empty mirror (1961) and The gates of wrath (1972), poems from Howl and other poems (1956), Kaddish and other poems (1961), Reality sandwiches (1963). He also reads poems that would be published in Planet news (1968) and journal entries that would be published in Indian journals (1970), Journals early fifties early sixties (1977), and Journals mid-fifties (1995).
[Charles Reznikoff interview, University at Buffalo, September 19, 1974] / Reinhold Schiffer.
Recorded on September 19, 1974 on two 60 minute TDK sound cassettes.
Charles Reznikoff is interviewed by Reinhold Schiffer. Topics discussed include: Ezra Pound, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, Virgil, the Bible, the Brownings.
[Poetry reading at SUNY Brockport] / W.D. Snodgrass.
Recorded at SUNY Brockport in Brockport, N.Y. by Robert J. Bertholf on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
This poetry reading by W.D. Snodgrass was held at SUNY Brockport in Brockport, New York. The date is unidentified, but the man who introduced Snodgrass referred to After experience (1968) as Snodgrass' "latest book." Snodgrass read poems from After experience and Heart's needle (1959), and then read a large selection from Gallows songs (1967), a book of poems by Christian Morgenstern that Snodgrass and Lore Segal co-translated from the German.
[Poetry reading] / Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen.
Recorded on a 7 inch Audiotape 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.
The location and date of this poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg and George Oppen are unidentified. Ginsberg mentioned that the poem "Chances 'R,' " which is dated February 1966 in the book Planet news, published in 1968, was written "from Kansas to Lincoln, Nebraska a few weeks ago." Oppen said "This is a manuscript of the next book" before reading all of Of being numerous, published in 1968.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 17, 1970] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 17, 1970 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
This poetry reading by Allen Ginsberg was held at the University at Buffalo on November 17, 1970. Gregory Corso provided the introduction: "How fitting it is for me to introduce to you our poet tonight. We first met twenty years ago in a tiny Greenwich Village Bar called the Pony Stable." Ginsberg sang a selection from William Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience while playing harmonium, read his own poems, chanted mantras, and played an audio message from Timothy Leary, who was a fugitive at the time. When Ginsberg sang Blake's "Spring," he changed the last word of the refrain "Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year" to the words "Apocalypse," "End of Earth," "the phantom," and other replacements.
[Poetry reading in Lawrence, Kansas] / Edward Dorn.
Recorded in Lawrence, Kansas by Robert J. Bertholf on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape. The date is unknown, but it is thought to be in 1971.
Poetry reading by Edward Dorn was held in Lawrence, Kansas. Dorn read from 24 love songs (1969) and Songs: set two: a short count (1970).
[Poetry reading at Kent State University, July 1973] / Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio In July 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 Fielding Dawson held at Kent State University in July 1973. Dawson mostly read early versions of vignettes from Tiger lilies (1984), stories from The man who changed overnight (1976), and several uncollected pieces, including three vignettes ("Three great dogs," "In memory," and "The '57 series) as they appeared in the sixth issue of the Bill Berkson's literary magazine Big sky (1973). In track nine of disc two, the audio cuts to a reading by Allen Ginsberg, in which Ginsberg mostly read poems from The fall of America (1972) and Gary Snyder read one poem, "The bath," from Turtle Island (1974).
Fielding Dawson, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder
[Poetry reading at the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto Italy, July 9, 1967] / Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Guiseppe Ungaretti.
Recorded originally at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy on July 9, 1967 on a 5 inch Lafayette reel-to-reel tape.
This recording is of Ezra Pound reading from The cantos and of Guiseppe Ungaretti and Allen Ginsberg reading poetry in Italian and in English translation alternately at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, held from June 30 to July 16, 1967. The official album of the reading was published by Applause Productions in 1968 as "Ezra Pound reading his Cantos", for the series The World's Great Poets Reading at the Festival of Two Worlds. The reading by Ungaretti and Ginsberg was held on July 9.
Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Guiseppe Ungaretti.
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 1974] / Joanne Kyger.
Recorded at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio in April 1974 on a 7 inch BASF 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.
At her reading, Joanne Kyger read all of her long poem "Trip out & fall back." This was followed by a reading of a selection of short poems, most of which are uncollected, one of which is an early version, and some of which are in the 1968-1974 section of About now: collected poems (2007). Kyger mentioned that the one-line poem that reads "Reality is for those who can't cope with drugs" was "bathroom wall writing."
[Mantra chanting at the Spring Arts Festival, University at Buffalo, 1966] / Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo in 1966 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky singing prayers at the Spring Arts Festival at the University at Buffalo in 1966. The first of the three prayers could not be identified, but it is a Zen Buddhist prayer, with a title that translates to "Magic formula song to remove all disasters," which was taught to Ginsberg "by an American poet, Gary Snyder, who's been studying Zen Buddhism." Ginsberg and Orlovsky sang the third prayer in Japanese and in English translation.
[Lecture at Kent State University, April 5, 1971] / Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 5, 1971 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.
This recording is of an English department class titled "Visionary poetry", taught by Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg at Kent State University on April 5, 1971. Duncan is the main lecturer, while Ginsberg acts as a kind of interviewer. The main subject, as the title of the class indicates, is poets' perception. Among the poets, novelists, psychologists, scientists, composers, and historic figures discussed are Arthur Rimbaud, Sigmund Freud, Antonin Artaud, Laura Riding, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, James Joyce, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, William Empson, St??phane Mallarm??, Charles Olson, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Shakespeare, Jack Spicer, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Francis Crick, John Milton, Harun ar-Rashid, Charlemagne, J.S. Bach, Georg Frederic Handel, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Erik Satie, William Carlos Williams, John Cage, Georg B??chner, James Dickey, Richard Wilbur, Amy Lowell, D.H. Lawrence, and H.D. Ginsberg concludes the class by chanting mantras.
[Lecture and poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, October 20, 1970] / Edward Dorn.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York on October 20, 1970 by Allen De Loach on 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
In this lecture and poetry reading, held at the University at Buffalo on October 20, 1970, Edward Dorn devoted most of the time to discussing Gunslinger, but also to making comments about The job by William S. Burroughs, Parmenides, The teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, John Wieners, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tom Raworth, Lee Harwood, the tongue versus the mind, Las Vegas, New York City, and Paolo Soleri. "Parmenides is certainly a poet," Dorn said. "Wittgenstein is a poet, too. Anybody who's interesting is a poet. I wouldn't read anybody who wasn't a poet. It's impossible, anyway, because that's the only voice, isn't it? It's the only voice we have." In the middle of the lecture, in tracks two and three of disc two, Dorn reads four poems by Tom Raworth, one of which is titled "Going away poem for Lee Harwood," which Dorn followed up by saying, "I read the one to Lee Harwood because I think he's going to be reading here, too, as well as Tom Raworth. . . . If you're around when they come to read you should certainly catch them, because there is a kind of new articulation they've got that needs to be heard. That's like an ad." Dorn concluded by reading the section of Gunslinger titled The cycle and the short book of poems titled Songs: set two: a short count.
[Poetry reading at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 5 and December 11, 1972] / Charley Shively, Charles Stein, and John Wieners,
Recorded at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative in Cambridge, Mass. on November 5 and December 11, 1972 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry readings by Charles Shively, Charles Stein, John Wieners, and an unidentified female poet held at the Cambridge Artists Cooperative in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 5 and December 11, 1972. The initial poem read by Wieners was "For Huncke." Before reading the poem, Wieners said "I'm going to read two poems in this book that the first one I'm in doubt about. It's called 'For Huncke' and the only reason I chose it today is that I read it to him last night. He was in a semi-coma, but the impetus of writing the poem at least came home when I was able to show it to him at St. Mark's Church where there was a monster inspirational poetry competition yesterday with everyone from R'lene Dahlberg reading, to Kenneth Koch, and Robert Creeley making animal sounds and rolling on the floor afterwards, so it was not a bad afternoon. We came in this morning to be here, and we had gone up to R'lene Dahlberg's afterwards and I read this to Huncke in the kitchen."
Charley Shively, Charles Stein, and John Wieners,
[Poetry reading, Buffalo, N.Y.] / Michael Basinski.
Recording of a practice session by Basinski on a Sony 60 minute sound cassette.
Performance of original poetry by poet and U.B. Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski.
[Poetry reading] / Michael Basinski, Don Metz.
Performance of original sound poem creations 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.
[Karl Shapiro interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast August 8, 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 Karl Shapiro features a discussion on poetry and he reads poems from his books.
[Poetry reading at Kent State University, Spring 1973] / Tom Raworth.
Recorded in the spring of 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.
The period provided for this poetry reading by Tom Raworth is spring 1973. The exact date and location are unknown. Raworth reads poems from the books Logbook, Act, Heavy light, and Lazy left hand. Raworth makes no comments during the reading, except to thank the audience when he is finished.
[Poetry reading at the Cornershop Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., October 31, 1997] / Michael Basinski, William Howe, John M. Bennett.
Recorded on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of sound poetry installation by Michael Basinski, William Howe, John M. Bennett.
Michael Basinski, William Howe, John M. Bennett.
Venedian beseechers[poetry performance at the North American New Music Festival 1992] / / Michael Basinski, John Bacon.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette.
Performance by Michael Basinski and John Bacon.
[Prose acts at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, October 18, 2001] /
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, October 18, 2001 on three 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
Recording of the conference focusing on experimental prose poetry writing. After an introduction by Christopher Alexander and Brandon Stosuy, the panel discussed the past and future of prose writing around the theme of "Flail the narrative: subverting and reinventing narrative expectations." The event was moderated by Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski. Panelists included: Lawrence Braithwaite, Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, Robert Gl??ck, Eileen Myles.
[Stanley Kunitz interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Originally broadcast in 1958[?] 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 Stanley Kunitz features a discussion on poetry and he reads poems from his Selected poems, 1928-1958.
[Harold G. Henderson interview on Enjoyment of poetry] / Florence Becker Lennon.
Recording of an interview with Columbia University's professor of Japanese Harold G. Henderson features a discussion on haiku and Japanese poetry.
Recorded by Allen De Loach on a 5 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
[Poetry reading, Buffalo, N.Y., September 21, 1986] / Elizabeth Willis.
Recorded in Buffalo, N.Y. on September 21, 1986 by Paul Hogan. Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette to the Poetry Collection.
Elizabeth Willis reads her poetry as the Just Buffalo writer in residency. She reads poetry inspired by her time spent in Indonesia.
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, May 8, 1971] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on May 8, 1971 on 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 recording of Allen Ginsberg chanting mantras, reading poetry, and talking at Kent State University on May 8, 1971 begins in medias res. The audio begins as Ginsberg finishes chanting an unidentified mantra and then cuts to Ginsberg reading an early version of the poem "Spring 1971 anti-war games" which would be printed as part of the transcription "War and peace: Vietnam and Kent State (War and Peace Class: Kent State, April 6, 1971)" in the collection Allen verbatim: lectures on poetry, politics, consciousness (1974), edited by Gordon Ball. Ginsberg also discussed the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, read an early version of "Ecologue" from The fall of America: 1965-1971, and concluded by chanting the "Om Namo Shivaye" mantra, while playing a harmonium.
[Robert Creeley interview on Mark Weber's KUNM radio program, February 2, 2000] /
Recorded in Albuquerque, N.Y. on February 2, 2000 by Mark Weber on KUNM on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Recording of Mark Weber's radio show on KUNM FM in Albuquerque, N.M. features jazz music and an interview with Robert Creeley.
The North Atlantic turbine / Edward Dorn.
Recorded by Robert J. Bertholf on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
The location and date of this poetry reading by Edward Dorn are unidentified. The recording comes from the collection of Robert J. Bertholf and was likely recorded by Bertholf himself. All of the poems Dorn read came from the book The North Atlantic turbine (1967), five of which were early or revised versions. There is no introduction, and no commentary was made by Dorn.
[The equinox of the gods] / Kenneth Anger.
Recorded on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 25, 1974] of / Ed Dorn.
Recorded at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 25, 1974 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 poetry reading by Edward Dorn was held at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University on April 25, 1974. Dorn read "The contract," "I dreamt my childhood in Kent" by his wife Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, and then all of Recollections of Gran Apacher?
[New Fiction Festival at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, April 15-16, 1994] /
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, April 15-16, 1994 on three 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
Recording of the conference focusing on experimental prose fiction writing. Raymond Federman commented that "When fiction becomes a product that can be bought in a supermarket next to the tomatoes, then it no longer deserves to be called literature or even created." This meeting focused on the commercialization of new prose writing and experimentation in fiction. An extensive question and answer session is included.
Little Bighorn blues[performance at the Shuper House, Buffalo, N.Y., April 12, 1982] / / Michael Basinski, Jeff Filipski, Don Metz.
Recorded live April 12, 1982 at the Shuper House in Buffalo, N.Y. on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of original composition by Michael Basinski, Jeff Filipski and Don Metz.
Michael Basinski, Jeff Filipski, Don Metz.
Gort[poetry reading at Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y., March 1, 1995] / / Michael Basinski.
Recorded live at Hallwalls in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 1, 1995 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of original poetic composition titled "Gort" by U.B. Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, March 22, 1965] / John Wain.
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.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Poet reads the long poem Wildtrack.
[Lecture on Hart Crane at the YM-YWHA, New York City, January 1963] / Robert Pack.
Poetry reading and lecture on the topic of Hart Crane held at the YM-YWHA. He reads from Voyages and The bridge.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, November 1964] / Anne Sexton.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Sexton is introduced by George Starbuck.
[Reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, January 1966] / Dan Jacobson.
Fiction reading held at the YM-YWHA. Jacobson is introduced by Richard Ellmann.
[Poetry reading, March 14, 1991] / Joy Walsh.
Recorded by Joy Walsh on a 90 minute Sony sound cassette on March 14, 1991.
Recording of Joy Walsh reading poems from her Mary Magdalene series.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, October 24, 1966] / Robert Creeley.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Creeley is introduced by John Wieners.
[Poetry reading with jazz music, Portland State University, August 12, 1976] / Kenneth Rexroth.
Recorded by Kenneth Rexroth on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape on August 12, 1976 at a Portland State University poetry and jazz concert.
Recording of Kenneth Rexroth reading poetry with jazz music. The recording's sound quality is poor.
[Poetry reading at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 29, 1984, and a September 17, 1981 panel discussion] / William Bronk ... [et al.].
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on March 29, 1984 on a 90 minute AVC sound cassette.
Two events recorded on one cassette: Part one is a poetry reading by WIlliam Bronk on March 29, 1984. Part two is a celebration of the two millionth volume added to the UB Libraries on September 17, 1981, at which Robert J. Bertholf introduces a panel composed of Robert Nikurk, Harrison Hayford, Richard Landon and Samuel Strike to discuss poetics.
[Poetry reading at Cornershop, Buffalo, N.Y., October 25, 1997] / Steve McCaffery, Cris Cheek, William Howe.
Recorded at the Cornershop in Buffalo, N.Y. on October 25, 1997 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Sound poetry reading by Steve McCaffery, Cris Cheek and William Howe.
Steve McCaffery, Cris Cheek, William Howe.
Recorded by Joy Walsh on two 60 minute Deltone sound cassettes possibly in the 1970s.
Recording of Joy Walsh interviewing unidentified people about Jack Kerouac and poetry.
[Poetry reading with jazz music, Cabrillo Music Festival] / Kenneth Rexroth, Lou Harrison.
Recorded by Kenneth Rexroth on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape in 1972 at the Cabrillo Music Festival.
Recording of Kenneth Rexroth reading poetry with jazz music. The recording's sound quality is poor at times.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute Scotch sound cassette.
Recording of a poetry reading by Edward Kaplan reading from Pancratium and Zero station.
[Poetry reading, Harvard University October 14, 1976] / Michael Rumaker.
Recorded on October 14, 1976 at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and given to the Poetry Collection by George Butterick on a 60 minute Tracs sound cassette.
Recording of a poetry reading by Michael Rumaker.
[Poetry reading, November 1972] / George Butterick.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute Scotch sound cassette in November 1972. The location is unidentified.
Recording of a poetry reading by George Butterick reading from The Norse.
[Poetry reading and lecture, June 1962] / Charles Olson.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of a poetry reading by Charles Olson. Part of the reading is a private reading made in Gloucester, Massachusetts for Robert Creeley for Christmas.
[Program on Charles Olson] / John Zigler.
Recorded in June 1984 for the program The Inner Ear and donated to the Poetry Collection by George Butterick on a sound cassette.
Recording of a program on the work of Charles Olson conducted by John Zigler for the radio program, The Inner Ear. Participants included William Wilson and William Tech.
[Lecture and poetry reading] / Charles Olson.
Recorded by George Butterick on a sound cassette. The location and date of the recording are unknown, but it is possibly 1974.
Recording of a lecture and poetry reading conducted by Charles Olson. Olson discusses America, fishing in New York, poetry, the English people, culture, subjectivity, LSD, mushrooms, and about the circumstances of his youth and upbringing.
[Interview] / Jonathan Kozol, Alicia Collins, Abraham Twerski
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette January 3, 1989, December 27, 1988 and January 10, 1989.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with Jonathan Kozol and Abraham Twerski and Alicia Collins' reading on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Jonathan Kozol, Alicia Collins, Abraham Twerski
[Poetry reading] / John Montague and Ruth Stone, Ann Haskell
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette May 15, 1988.
Recording of reading by John Montague, Ruth Stone and Ann Haskell presented on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
John Montague and Ruth Stone, Ann Haskell
presented by Paul T. Hogan and Mary Van Vorst.
Recorded by Helen Adam on a sound cassette possibly in the 1970s.
Recording of Helen Adam reading San Francisco's burning.
Recorded by Helen Adam on a 7 inch High Tone reel-to-reel tape possibly in the 1970s.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 1969] / Robert Kelly.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo in April 1969 on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
[Poetry reading at University of Connecticut at Storrs, April 25, 1972] / Robert Duncan.
Recording of Duncan at the University of Connecticut at Storrs by Robert J. Bertholf on a 7 inch BASF reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of a poetry reading by Robert Duncan held in Storrs, Connecticut at the annual Wallace Stevens Program.
[Interview] / Gerard Malanga, Charles Olson and George Butterick.
Recorded by George Butterick on two 90 minute Realistic sound cassette. Specific information on the date and place are unknown, but the interview was probably conducted in the 1969.
Recording of an interview with poet Gerard Malanga and Charles Olson conducted by George Butterick.
Gerard Malanga, Charles Olson and George Butterick.