[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 16, 1973] / Michael McClure.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 16, 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
Recording of a poetry reading by Michael McClure. McClure is introduced by an unnamed man. Reading was part of the Kent State Creative Arts Festival.
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Recorded on October 19 by John Logan on two 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes. The place and the year of the recording is unknown, but it was probably made in the 1970s.
Poetry reading by Milton Kessler recorded by John Logan.
[Lecture and poetry reading at the Westminster Church in Buffalo, N.Y., February 4-5, 1982] / Robert Duncan.
Recorded at Westminster Church's Parish Hall in Buffalo, N.Y. on February 4, 1982 at 8 p.m. by Allen De Loach on three sixty minute sound cassettes.
This lecture and poetry reading by Robert Duncan were held in the Parish Hall of Westminster Church in Buffalo, New York on February 4 and 5, 1982. The title of the lecture was "The continuity of Christian myth in poetry," and it was meant to complement the sermon that Duncan delivered in the same church on February 7. The sermon, titled "Crisis of spirit in the word," was transcribed and published by Robert J. Bertholf in the magazine Credences (Buffalo, NY: New series, volume 2, number 1, summer 1983), and then in the book Copy book entries (Buffalo, N.Y, 1996), but "The continuity of Christian myth in poetry" is uncollected. As part of the lecture, Duncan read "The Thanksgiving" by George Herbert and an early version of his own poem "Ancient reveries and declamations, Passages 32 (Tribunals)." For the poetry reading after the lecture, Duncan read eight poems from the "Regulators" section of Passages and concluded by reading "Structure of rime: of the five songs."
[Interview, Peekskill, January 15 and 16, 1969] / Walter Lowenfels.
Recorded in Peekskill, N.Y. on January 15 and 16, 1969 by Allen De Loach on three ninety minute Pure-Tone sound cassettes.
This recording is of Walter Lowenfels being interviewed by Allen De Loach in Peekskill, N.Y. on January 15 and 16, 1969. Complementary to this recording is an interview with Lowenfels in Peekskill, N.Y. on December 15, 1971, also conducted by De Loach, available on Poetry Collection Audio Archive disc INT069.
Recorded by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape. The location and date of the reading are unavailable, but it is probably in the 1960s in London.
Recording of Allen Ginsberg poetry reading featuring mantras and harmonium. Ginsberg gives ample information about the conditions surrounding and inspiring his poems.
[Poetry reading at Fredonia State College, Fredonia, N.Y., October 18, 1974] / Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded by Michael Basinski on a 90 minute Audio Magnetics sound cassette at Fredonia State College on October 18, 1974.
Recording of Allen Ginsberg poetry reading featuring mantras and the performance of collected, popular poems.
[Poetry reading at Central Park Grill, Buffalo, N.Y., September 11, 1986] / Michael Boughn, Gwen Ashbaugh.
Recorded at the Central Park Grill in Buffalo, N.Y. on September 11, 1986 by Paul Hogan on a 60 minute Memorex sound cassette.
Poetry readings by Michael Boughn and Gwen Ashbaugh.
[Interview, November 11, 1972] / Edward Dorn, Harvey Bialy. [Poetry reading at Emerson College, October 5, 1973] / Robert Kelly.
Interview recorded on November 11, 1972 and Kelly poetry reading recorded at Emerson College on October 5, 1973 on a single 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
On disc 1, Harvey Bialy and Edward Dorn discuss contemporary poetics. Edward Dorn speaks with Harvey Bialy about Jean Genet, Vermont, Black Mountain poets. Bialy discusses Charles Olson, Fielding Dawson, John Cage, Jerome Rothenberg, Cy Trombly, Franz Kafka, John Wieners, Marshall McLuhan. Disc 2 feature Robert Kelly performing his long poetic work "The loom" at Emerson College.
Edward Dorn, Harvey Bialy. [Poetry reading at Emerson College, October 5, 1973] / Robert Kelly.
The pink guitar / Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on April 17, 1991 by Poetry Collection on a Maxell 90 minute sound cassette.
American poet, essayist, feminist critic and scholar Rachel Blau DuPlessis reads from two paragraphs from the acknowledgments and then the chapter "The pink guitar" from the book The pink guitar.
[Poetry reading, Shuper House, Buffalo, N.Y., July 21, 1979] / Joy Walsh, Marion Perry.
Recorded by Joy Walsh on a 60 minute Realistic sound cassette at the Shuper House in Buffalo, N.Y. on July 21, 1979.
Recording of a poetry reading by Joy Walsh and Marion Perry. The sound quality is very poor.
[Writers' Festival, University at Buffalo, April 17, 1986] /
Recorded by Joy Walsh on a 90 minute Realistic sound cassette at the University at Buffalo on April 17, 1986
Recording of poetry reading during the second day of the 3rd Writers' Festival at the University at Buffalo. Readers included: Joanne Warick, Steve Griffith, Randy Prus, Carl Dennis and E.R. Baxter.
Originally recorded commercially, but re-recorded on two 90 minute TDK sound cassette and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of a commercially recorded performance of Jack Kerouac reading poetry and being interviewed. This is followed by professional recording of Henry Miller, Steve Allen and Lenny Bruce.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 13, 1970] / Robert Creeley ... [et al.].
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on April 13, 1970 on a 7 inch Maxell reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry reading of English Department faculty in support of colleagues arrested during anti-war protesting in Buffalo, N.Y. Readers included: Leslie Fielder, Robert Hass, Robert Creeley, Max Wickert, John Logan and Irving Feldman.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, October 1966] / Babette Deutsch.
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. Deutsch lectures on Thomas Hardy and Walter De La Mare and reads their poetry..
[Interview] / Tom Fontana, Gloria Naylor
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette July 17 and 24, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview of Tom Fontana and Gloria Naylor on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Memorial reading for Alex Smith, April 15, 1988] /
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette.
Recording of a memorial poetry reading for poet Alex Smith. Event was moderated by George Butterick and featured the reading of poems by various unidentified poets and friends of Smith.
[Poetry reading, Buffalo, N.Y., May 18, 1995] / Jayne Cortez, Amiri Baraka.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette May 18, 1995 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Recording of a poetry reading by Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka. The poets are introduced by an unidentified person.
[Poetry reading] / Robert Bly, John Logan.
Recorded on 90 minute sound cassette possibly in Buffalo in the 1970s.
Poetry reading by John Logan and Robert Bly. The sound quality is very poor, rendering the recording almost inaudible.
[Interview and poetry reading] / Basil Bunting
Recording made by Jonathan Williams with Basil Bunting January 30, 1966 in Northumberland at the poet's home on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape.
This recording is part of the Jargon Society recordings made by Jonathan Williams. Discs feature an interview with Basil Bunting and the poet reading from Briggflatts.
[Interview and reading] / Tomas Tranströmer, Susan Dix
Recorded for Spoken Arts Radio and broadcast on May 31, 1987. Paul Hogan donated a copy of the recording made on a 60 minute BASF sound cassette.
Paul Hogan interviews Tomas Tranströmer and Susan Dix. A poetry reading by Tranströmer begins the recording.
[Poetry reading at Lindenwood, June to November 1968] / Robert Kelly.
Recorded at the Lindenwood, June to November 1968 on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape.
Poetry reading by Robert Kelly during the summer until Thanksgiving in his kitchen in the presence of Robert Lee Tips.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette September 15, 1995.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape in April 196-?
[Discussion of Percy Bysshe Shelley on KOAC's Poetic Patterns] /
Recorded at Oregon's School of Air on a 5 inch reel-to-reel Scotch tape in the 1960s.
Duane Tucker of the program Poetic Patterns reads Shelley's poetry.
Originally recorded and released in 1959. Recorded on a 60 minute PMC sound cassette and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady performing poetry.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, April 1968] / Adrienne Rich.
Recorded on a 5 inch reel-to-reel tape in 1969.
Recording of David Holbrook reading his poetry.
Recording of Richard Church discussing poetry and the aging process of the poet.
Recording of John Arden reading his poetry.
Recording of Peter Redgrove reading his poetry.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, May 4, 1969] / Hugh MacDiarmid.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Poet is introduced by Norman MacCaig.
[Interview] / Charles Olson and George Butterick.
Recorded by George Butterick on two 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes. Specific information on the date and place are unknown, but the interview was probably conducted in the 1970s.
Recording of an interview with poet Charles Olson conducted by George Butterick. They discuss Black Mountain College.
[Poetry reading and lecture, July 20 and 23, 1965] / Charles Olson.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape on July 20 and 23, 1965 in Berkeley, California.
Recording of a poetry reading and lecture by Charles Olson.
Recorded by Helen Adam on a 7 inch Shamrock reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of a music selected by Helen Adam.
Recorded by Robert Duncan on a reel-to-reel tape.
Recording of a poetry reading by Robert Duncan sent to Helen Adam probably during the 1980s.
[San Francisco's burning and other songs] / Helen Adam, Robert Duncan.
Recorded by Helen Adam on a 7 inch Audio Magnetics reel-to-reel tape during the 1980s.
Recording of a singing by Helen Adam and Robert Duncan.
[Poetry reading with music, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 8, 1973] / moderated by Kenneth Rexroth.
Recorded by Kenneth Rexroth on a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape possibly in 1973 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Recording of poetry and music performed by various student readers at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[Poetry reading at PeopleArt, Buffalo, N.Y., June 7, 1986] / Fred Levenson, Lee Franke.
Recorded at PeopleArt, Buffalo, N.Y., June 7, 1986 60 minute Laser sound cassette.
[Interview] / George Butterick and Fred Wah.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 30 minute Realistic sound cassette in the 1970s.
Recording of an interview with George Butterick conducted by Fred Wah.
[Reading, University at Buffalo, Spring 1974] / William S. Burroughs.
Recorded on a 90 minute Realistic sound cassette at the University at Buffalo in the Spring of 1974.
Recording of William S. Burroughs reading. The sound quality is very poor, rendering the recording inaudible.
[Interview and poetry reading] / Robert Creeley, Pete Brown, Jonathan Williams.
Recorded by Jonathan Williams March 4, 1966 at an unknown location on a 5 inch Empire reel-to-reel tape.
This recording is part of the Jargon Society recordings made by Jonathan Williams. Jonathan Williams interviews Phillip O'Connor who reads some of his recent work.
Robert Creeley, Pete Brown, Jonathan Williams.
[Poetry reading, University at Buffalo] / Ed Dorn.
Recorded on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette possibly in the 1990s at the University at Buffalo.
Recording of Ed Dorn's poetry reading. Dorn is introduced by Robert Creeley.
Recording of Robert Graves reading his poetry.
[Interview, March 28, 2004] / Steven Rodefer, Greg Fuchs.
Recorded on a 90 minute sound cassette possibly in the on March 28, 2004 at the University at Buffalo.
Recording of an interview of Steven Rodefer conducted by Greg Fuchs.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, October 24, 1966] / John Wieners.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, December 1964] / John Ciardi.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, January 1968] / Richard Howard.
[Poetry readings, April 9, 1987] / Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Ted Berrigan.
Recorded possibly in the 1980s in Buffalo, N.Y. on two sound cassettes.
Recording of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Ted Berrigan reading poetry.
Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Ted Berrigan.
[Interview and poetry reading] / Joy Walsh, George Howell.
Recorded by Joy Walsh on a 60 minute sound cassette in the 1980s.
Recording of Joy Walsh reading poetry series. There is a discussion of the CEPA Gallery and Essex Street Gallery during a recorded interview with George Howell and an unnamed person. There is also poetry read by three other unnamed local poets.
[Charles Olson's books] / George Butterick.
Recorded by George Butterick on a 90 minute Scotch sound cassette.
Recording of George Butterick reciting book bibliographic data, presumably reciting the contents of Charles Olson's book collection.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette September 4 and August 28, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with Carl Dennis and her discussion on the Margaret Mitchell class Gone with the Wind on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, April 1968] / Robert Lowell.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, November 30, 1964] / Stephen Spender.
Poetry reading held at the YM-YWHA. Spender is introduced by Harold Taylor.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, January 1967] / Howard Moss.
[Poetry reading at the YM-YWHA, New York City, May 1963] / William Jay Smith.
Recorded from the original recording on a 30 minute Bradford sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of Jack Kerouac reading an excerpt from Neal and the Three Stooges.
[Poetry reading with music] / Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of Jack Kerouac reading poetry to music. Original container claims that Neal Cassady is also on the recording, possibly playing music.
[Song about Jack Kerouac] / J.P. Gelinas.
Recorded on a sound cassette possibly in the 1980s by Joy Walsh.
Recording of J.P. Gelinas singing a song he wrote about Jack Kerouac.
[Poetry reading with music] / Jack Kerouac.
Recorded on a sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh. It is unclear whether this is a recording from a commercially published recording, or if it is a live recording.
Recording of Jack Kerouac reading poetry to music.
Recorded from commecially produced recordings on a 60 minute TDK sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of Jack Kerouac reading poetry to music. Original container claims that Neal Cassady is also on the recording, possibly playing music. The original container claimed that the recording featured Kerouac's Blues and Haikus with the musical work of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims (Hanover HM5006) and Cassady's raps from the Dead book by Hank Harrison.
[Katharyn Aal and Manny Fried interviews] / interviewed by Mary Van Vorst.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette July 31 and August 7, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with Katharyn Aal and Manny Fried on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Interviews] / William Coyle, Joan Murray, Louis Bakay
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette August 13, 20, 27 and September 2, 1990.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interviews with William Coyle, Joan Murray, Hannah Rakin, and Louis Bakay on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh. It is unclear whether this is a recording from a commercially published recording, or if it is a live recording.
Recording of Jack Kerouac reading Dr. Sax poetry to music.
[Interview] / Barbara Holender ... [et al]
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette May 29 and May 22, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview and reading by Barbara Holender, Stratton Rawson, Michael Tritto and Grace B. Martin on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Poetry reading, October 1982] / Jessica Hagedorn, Fay Chiang.
Recorded on a 90 minute Supertape sound cassette October 1982.
Recording of a poetry reading by Jessica Hagedorn and Fay Chiang.
[Discussion] / Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady.
Recorded on a 60 minute Scotch sound cassette in the 1960s and donated to the Poetry Collection by Joy Walsh.
Recording of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady talking. Original container claims that the conversation was held at Neal Cassady's house.
[Poetry reading, PeopleArt, Buffalo, N.Y. April 24, 1982] / Joy Walsh.
Recorded by Joy Walsh on two 90 minute Radio Shack sound cassette at PeopleArt in Buffalo, N.Y. on April 24, 1982.
Recording of a poetry reading by Joy Walsh. The sound quality is poor. Walsh reads from her Mary Magdalene and Driver series of poems. Other people are featured on the reading, including possibly Larry Story.
[Reading and interview in Peekskill, N.Y. on November 12, 1965 and December 31, 1966] / Walter Lowenfels ... [et al.].
Recorded Peekskill, N.Y. on December 31, 1966 and November 12, 1965 by Allen De Loach on a reel-to-reel tape.
Walter Lowenfels, Alan Trachtenberg and Stretch Jacobs read their poetry in Peekskill on December 31, 1966. This is followed by Lowenfels and Josh Dunson read their poetry in Peekskill on November 12, 1965. The sound quality is poor.
[Poetry reading at the American Theatre for Poets, New York, N.Y., March 28, 1965] / Gary Snyder, Allen De Loach.
Recorded at the American Theatre for Poets, New York, N.Y., March 28, 1965 by Allen De Loach on a 7 inch Sunset reel-to-reel tape.
[Poetry reading at the St. John's Episcopal Church, Buffalo, N.Y., April 22] / Diane Di Prima.
Recorded at St. John's Episcopal Church, Buffalo, N.Y., April 22 (year unknown) on a sound cassette.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 13, 1985] / Jack Clarke, Charles Kiel.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on November 20, 1986 on a 90 minute Certron sound cassette by Paul Hogan.
Poetry reading with music performed by John Clarke and Charles Kiel.
[Interview] / William Sylvester, P.J. Gibson
Recorded on a 90 minute TDK sound cassette for Spoken Arts Radio on October 9 and 16, 1988.
Recording of Mary Van Vorst's interview with William Sylvester and P.J. Gibson on WBFO's Spoken Arts Radio Program.
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, March 7, 1968] / Robin Blaser.
Recorded in Norton 339 at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 7, 1968 at 3 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.
After the introduction by Robert Creeley, Blaser read poems from Charms, Image-nations, and the book of translations of G??rard de Nerval, Les chim?
[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, April 8, 1968] / Joel Oppenheimer.
Recorded at the Norton Hall, Room 339 at the University at Buffalo on April 8, 1968 at 3 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel.
Robert Creeley introduces poet Joel Oppenheimer who reads from his work and entertains the audience with anecdotes. The reading was sponsored by the English Department, the University at Buffalo, The Friends of Lockwood Library and the Charles Abbott Reading Fund.
[Writing from the New Coast, first festival of poetry at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 31-April 3, 1993] /
Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, March 31-April 3, 1993 on fourteen 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
Complete recording of the conference focusing on experimental and new poetry held in Buffalo, N.Y.
[Lecture and reading at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures, the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, April 5, 7, 10, 12, 1989] / Duncan McNaughton.
Recorded at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures at the University at Buffalo on April 5, 7, and 12, 1989 in the Student Activities Center (room 212). The reading on April 10, 1989 was held at the Burchfield Center. All sessions were recorded on four 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
This recording is of the three lectures and a reading by Duncan McNaughton at the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures. McNaughton's lectures focus on the letters of Charles Olson to Robert Creeley and what they reveal about the man and his writing.
[Lecture at the University at Buffalo, summer course 1968. / Robert Duncan.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on June 26 and 27, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
In the first two sessions, Duncan read from Canto I of The Cantos of Ezra Pound, with the plan to also read from the opening section of Paterson by William Carlos Williams, which he would not reach until the third class. In addition to poetics, Duncan discussed the early years of his life, his time at Berkeley and Fort Knox, history, the visual arts, Eastern and Western religious traditions, philosophy, psychology, science, and politics. Dante, Blake, Freud, and Pound soon emerge as Duncan's main touchstones. Duncan had the students use blue workbooks to write several essays, the first of which was to "write ways you've been told the universe was created," and Duncan would add to what he called "an impulsive reading list" throughout the course, by writing on the chalkboard the titles and authors of works the students would benefit from studying. During the first and second sessions, the books added to the reading list were A handbook of Greek mythology by Herbert Jennings Rose, The circulation of the blood by William Harvey, the artist John Heartfield's depictions of the Nazis, and the 1855 preface to Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 31 and August 1, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
During the tweny-first session, Duncan read from William Blake's long poem titled Milton. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions were Dante, Whitman, Homer, Blake, George Wallace, Marx, the Industrial Revolution, Crime and Punishment, novels as poetry, the Eternal Return (Nietzsche), Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Milton, Theogony, Plato, Ben Jonson, Edward Lear, Hopkins, Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot, Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Bethoven, Plato, Socrates, Oedipus the King, newspapers, detective novels, Hammett, Monet, Michelangelo, Freud, Olson, Morton Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Williams, Culture (simultaneously published as Guide to Kulchur) by Pound, and Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson No books are added to the reading list during the twenty-first and twenty-second sessions.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 29 and 30, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the nineteenth and twentieth sessions were Joyce, Studs Lonigan (Farrell), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Blake, Berkeley, Aristotle, Susanne Langer, Muslim art, Milton, Dante, Bunyan, Levertov, Whitman, Pound's Culture (1938), Sappho, Hesiod, Homer, the Greek dramatists, Hugo, Val??ry, Marianne Moore, Olson, Dante, Cocteau, Freud, Heraclitus, Freud's Civilization and its discontents, McClure, McLuhan, Ovid, Abraham, the Zohar, David, Spicer, Helen Adam, Ben Jonson, Marvell, Shakespeare, Pound, George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Darwin, the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference, John F. Kennedy, Oedipus, Ives, Webern, the Old Testament, Nerval, Pound's The Pisan Cantos, Whitman, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, the New Testament, Dante's La vita nuova, Charlemagne, Beckett, Dahlberg, Marquis de Sade, Vietnam, the French Revolution, and Hitler. During the nineteenth and twentieth sessions, the books Duncan added to the reading list were A portrait of the artist as a young man, Chamber music, Exiles, Ulysses, and Finnegans wake by Joyce, Art as experience by John Dewey, Thomas Carlyle's "The hero as poet" from Heroes and Hero-Worship, Emerson's essay "The poet," the 1855 preface to Leaves of grass by Whitman again, and Lilith and the rest of the pastoral novels of George MacDonald.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 24 and 26, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions were Dante, B??hme, Goethe, Freud, "Love's Alchemy" (Donne), Jung, Robert Kelly, Berkeley, Piaget, Olson, Pound, Williams, De Loach, Snyder, Stein, Blake, Marquis de Sade, Shakespeare, Beckett, Burroughs, Sholem, Nietzsche, Plato, Whitehead, T.S. Eliot, Pindar, Brakhage, Bergman, Whitman, Socrates, Vietnam protests, Christ, Satan, "The Venice poem" (Duncan), Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mondrian, Keats, Cage, Stravinsky, "The soldiers" (Duncan), the Zohar, and "To his coy mistress" and "The garden" by Marvell. The one book added to the reading list during the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions was Empty mirror by Allen Ginsberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 22 and 23, 1968 by Allen De Loach on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions, Duncan read from Canto LXII by Ezra Pound and from Book III of Paterson by William Carlos Williams. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions were Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Stevens, Pound, Stravinsky, Pound's "The serious artist," Dante, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Strindberg, Shakespeare, Cage, The golden bough, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Bunyan, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Cups (Blaser), Vivaldi, De Chirico, The Cantos, Picabia, Dorn, Stein, Duchamp, Olson, Ginsberg and Creeley at the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, McLuhan, Zukofsky, Warhol, Darwin, Williams, Beckett, and Finnegans wake. During the fifteenth session, the one book added to the reading list was The story of the four little children who went around the world by Edward Lear. No book was added to the reading list during the sixteenth session.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 18 and 19, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions were Blake, Jacob Burckhardt, Robert Graves, George Herbert, St. John of the Cross, Dante, Hesiod, Homer, Hamlet, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Buddha, Mohammed, Herodotus, Marx, Cavalcanti, Latini, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Wallace, Hitler, Hermes, Apollo, Freud, Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, St. Paul, Rilke, "Ulysses" by Tennyson, Dostoevsky, "A poem beginning with a line by Pindar" (Duncan), Heraclitus, Shakespeare, Toynbee, Pythagoras, Dickinson, Whitman, St. John, Jakob B??hme (translated by John Sparrow), Milton, Rosicrucian pamphlets, Jung, Mary de Medici, McClure, The H.D. Book (Duncan), Ulysses by Joyce, Nietzsche, Cocteau, "Up rising" (Duncan), Levertov, De Loach, Ginsberg, Pound, Williams, T.S. Eliot, H.D., and "Dover Beach" by Arnold. During the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Themis by Jane Harrison, From ritual to romance by Jessie Weston, The spirit of romance by Ezra Pound again, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, translated by P.B. Shelley.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 16 and 17, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
During the eleventh and twelfth sessions, Duncan read all of The Book of Thel by William Blake and then read from Books III and IV of Paterson by Williams. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the eleventh and twelfth sessions were Pound's Canto I, Freud, Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly," Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Nietzsche, George MacDonald, H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, Christ, Sophocles' Oedipus, Marvell's "The garden," Bunyan, Hesiod, Jung, Erwin Schr??dinger, Aristotle, H.G. Wells, Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Stravinsky, "The Venice poem" (Duncan), Beethoven, Mozart, Campion, Pop Art, Lichtenstein, Stockhausen, Boulez, Cage, Spicer, Levertov, T.S. Eliot's "Four quartets," Spicer's After Lorca, Ginsberg, Olson's "Against wisdom as such," Fenellosa's "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry," Kung, Ancient Egypt, and "Projective verse" and The Maximus poems by Olson. During the eleventh and twelfth sessions, no books were added to the reading list.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 11 and 12, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the ninth and tenth sessions were Freud, Jung, Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Sappho, Hesiod's Theogony, The Old Testament, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion by Jane Harrison, Homer, Plato, Herodotus, Euripides, Zoroaster, Lao-tse, Kung, Pythagoras, Pound, Williams, Olson, Gertrude Stein, Blake, Louis Simpson, James Dickey, Goethe, Yeats, Milton, Dante, Bunyan, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Coleridge, Newton, Nerval, Robin Blaser, The New Testament, William Law, Aristotle, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Dylan Thomas, Rimbaud, Piaget, Shakespeare, H.D., Joyce, "The burrow" by Kafka, Rilke, Turner, Charles Stein, Spicer, Orph??e by Cocteau, St. John of the Cross, Timbers by Ben Jonson, ESP, Buddha, Kung, Christ, and Pythagoras, those last four as "masters and teachers," The H.D. Book (Duncan), and Moby Dick. During the ninth and tenth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Aurora, The signature of all things, The great six points, and Mysterium Magnum by Jacob Boehme, Man on his nature by Charles Sherrington, The circulation of the blood by William Harvey again, and The inferno by August Strindberg.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 8 and 9, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
The poems Duncan read, and read portions from, during the seventh and eighth sessions, were "In a Station of the Metro" and "Canto LXXIX" by Ezra Pound. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the seventh and eighth sessions were Boccaccio, Dante, Pound's Rock-drill section of The Cantos, Hesiod's Theogony, The Old Testament, Pound's essay "Credo" from Pavannes and divisions, Pound's The Spirit of Romance, Joyce's Ulysses, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Being geniuses together by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle, T.S. Eliot, Yeats' The Celtic twilight, Plutarch, the dichotomy of Eliot, Pound, and H.D. leaving America for London as opposed to William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, who all stayed in America, Thomas Hardy, Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, Paul Val??ry, St??phane Mallarm??, Pound's The Pisan Cantos, Pound's imprisonment, Hesiod's Works and Days, anti-Semitism, fascism, anarchy, World War II, Robert Graves, Paul Verlaine, Jewish mysticism in Dante, Mary Shelley, Macbeth, T.E. Hulme's "Autumn," and Robert Bly. Duncan also compared Pound's "In a station of the Metro" to Eliot's "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock." During the seventh and eighth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem, Joseph Karo: Lawyer and Mystic by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, and The philosophy of "As if" by Hans Vaihinger.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on July 2 and July 3, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
In the fifth session, Duncan read from the early versions of the first three of Ezra Pound's Cantos, "Three cantos of a poem of some length," and from Canto II as it was published in the final version of The Cantos. Among the subjects Duncan discussed were W.B. Yeats, John Milton, Neo-Platonists, Robert Browning, Noh drama, Ernest Fenellosa, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Dante, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Algernon Swinburne, William Blake, St. Francis, Augustus, St. Thomas Aquinas, "A conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg" by Michael Reck, John Bunyan, Aristotle, D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, Sergei Eisenstein, Charles Dickens, Stan Brakhage, The faerie queene by Edmund Spenser, Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello, Catherine Medici, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, B??la Bartok, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Pop Art, Pablo Picasso, Fernand L??ger, Odilon Redon, Plato, Yeats' "Preface to A vision", Charles Darwin, Denise Levertov, Carl Jung, Pound's ABC of economics, Charles Olson's essay "Proprioception," Heraclitus, Aeschylus, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," Peter Paul Rubens, Arnold Schoenberg, Shakespeare's The winter's tale, Leon Trotsky, and "Lycidas" by Milton. During the fifth and sixth sessions, the books added to the reading list were The Spirit of Romance by Ezra Pound, The earliest English poems, translated by Michael Alexander, "an essay by Yeats on Shelley," and Spiritual and demonic magic and The decline of hell by D.P. Walker.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on June 28 and July 1, 1968 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on two Scotch reel-to-reel tapes.
In the third and fourth sessions, Duncan read from Canto XCI of The Cantos of Ezra Pound and from "The delineaments of the giants," the opening section of Paterson by William Carlos Williams. Among the subjects Duncan discussed during the third and fourth sessions were Blake, Rubens, Rembrandt, Michael McClure, Renoir, Finnegans Wake, The Maximus poems, Freud, The golden bough, Hesiod, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Process and Reality, Metaphysics, Jung, Ernest Jones, James Joyce, Jarrell, Stravinsky, Odysseus, Homer, Robert Browning, Gertrude Stein, Andreas Divus' translation of Homer, Keats, Levertov, Brancusi, George Berkeley, Samuel Johnson, Aphrodite, Minerva, Athena, Dionysus, Chronos, Gaia, Sartre, Piaget, Norman Brown, Goethe, Plato, and Yeats. During the third and fourth sessions, the books added to the reading list were Gentlemen prefer blondes and but gentlemen marry brunettes by Anita Loos.
[Poetry reading at the Creative Arts Festival, Kent State University, April 6- April 7, 1971] / Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Grossinger.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 6-7, 1971 on four 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tapes. 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 reading by Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Grossinger was held as part of the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 6-7, 1971. Disc CUR028 features the April 6, 1971 event at which Robert Duncan read an early version of "Passages 35, before the judgment." No introduction, commentary, or closing remarks were made. Discs CUR030 and CUR027 feature a reading by Duncan, Ginsberg and Grossinger.^On disc CUR030, Ginsberg began by chanting a mantra, Duncan then introduced Grossinger, who read short prose pieces from The continents (1973) and Book of the Cranberry Islands (1974), and then Duncan read "The fire, passages 13." The recording ends in the middle of "The fire, passages 13" and resumes on disc CUR027 at the line "The Christ closes His eyes, bearing the Cross." Duncan read "The light, passages 28" and "Achilles' song" and sang Medea's song at the end of act one of Medea at Kolchis, the play Duncan wrote and published at Black Mountain College in 1956. The song begins "Ah, knave, knave that my heart sees." Before reading the final poem, Duncan said "Now I'm going to close by reading two sections of a poem that I'm going to work on, which is called 'Santa Cruz Propositions.' It's a mystery poem, so I'm not amazed that all of it hasn't arrived, and I do not know what's going to happen in it because only as it arrives do I know what's going on.^^In between, I pray that it will arrive again and I also pray that it won't, because events come along with it, the only kind that would be near magic. However, this is not in my hands. I put it in the hands of divine powers, so it's not really magic." Disc CUR029 features a recording of Grossinger talking, then Ginsberg reading his own poems and singing "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" by William Blake and reading "Poem ('Khrushchev is coming on the right day!') by Frank O'Hara and "The instruction manual" by John Ashbery, followed by Robert Duncan talking and reading "The Songs of Maximus (song 6)" by Charles Olson, and Grossinger having the closing words of the discussion.
Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Grossinger.
[Panel discussion, Kent State University, April 16, 1973] / Michael McClure ... [et al].
Recorded April 15, 1973 at Kent State University on a 120 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.
Panel discussion on American poetry held at Jake Leed's course at Kent State University. Panelist included: Michael McClure, Harvey Bialy, Will Petersen, Ed Dorn
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963][panel discussion] / / Robert Creeley ... [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 PCF003, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov and Margaret Avison have an open-forum discussion, during which they answer occasional questions from audience members.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963][panel discussion] / / Charles Olson ... [et al.].
On PCF002, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Philip Whalen have an open-forum discussion, during which Olson reads "Monday morning, July twenty-ninth," "Place
& Names," and "Book II, chapter 37." The poets also respond to questions and comments from the audience.
[Vancouver Poetry Conference, 1963] / Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.
On PCF001, Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg lecture and speak with audience members. On the July 26 lecture, which begins on disc 3 of PCF001, Creeley and Ginsberg are joined by Duncan.
Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan.
[Poetry reading for Bangladesh at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y., 1971] /
Recorded at St. George's Church in New York, N.Y. in 1971 by Allen De Loach on three 60 minute Pacific Stereo sound cassettes. The Poetry Collection acquired the recordings from De Loach.
This recording is of a poetry reading held at St. George's Church in New York City in 1971 as a benefit for Bangladesh. Featured poets include: Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Gregory Corso, Andrei Voznesensky, Peter Orlovsky, Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, and Kenneth Koch. Highlights of the performances include: Voznesesnky read in Russian and Ginsberg translated, Ginsberg chanted "September on Jessore Road" and "La Ilaha Allahu" while playing harmonium, David Shapiro performed a song by Joseph Joachim on violin, and Kenneth Koch read poems by children in Swaziland.
[Radical poetries and critical address, Charles Olson symposium at the University at Buffalo, April 12, 1988] / Jack Clarke, Don Byrd, Susan Howe.
Recorded at the University at Buffalo on April 12, 1988 on two 90 minute Maxell sound cassettes.
This recording is of three lectures on Charles Olson by Jack Clarke, Don Byrd, and Susan Howe, delivered at SUNY Buffalo on April 12, 1988. Clarke delivers a lecture titled "The metaphysics of survival," then Byrd delivers a lecture titled "A sequence of events measurable in time," and Howe delivers a response to Clarke and Byrd, titled "Since a dialogue we are." Clarke, Byrd, and Howe are introduced by Robert J. Bertholf. Robert Creeley speaks from the audience during the question and answer session after Howe's lecture.
Magnetic reversal[poetry reading at Ward 10/10 Artists] / / Michael Basinski.
Recorded live at Ward 10/10 Artists on a 60 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of original poetic composition by U.B. Poetry Collection Curator, Michael Basinski.
[Poetry reading at First Night in the Hallwalls Vault, Buffalo, N.Y., December 31, 1992] / Michael Basinski, Don Metz.
Recorded at the New Year's Eve celebration "First Night" at the Hallwalls Vault in Buffalo, N.Y. on December 31, 1992 on a 90 minute Memorex sound cassette.
Performance of Conversations 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.
[Poetry reading at the Castellani Gallery, Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y., March 29, 1992] / Michael Basinski ... [et al].
Recorded at the Castellani Gallery, Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y. on March 29, 1992 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.
Performance of sound poetry pieces by Michael Basinski, Andrew Topolski, James E. Perone and Don Metz.
Recorded at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio on April 4, 1971 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 piece was broadcast on the Robert Bertholf Poetry Show.
This recording is of one episode of the Kent State University radio program titled The Robert Bertholf Poetry Show. The subtitle of the show for this episode was "featuring the poetry of William Blake." An unidentified host, who interviewed Bertholf at the end of the program, introduced and played a recording of Allen Ginsberg's performance at the Creative Arts Festival at Kent State University on April 4, 1971. At that performance, Ginsberg sang a selection from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and one poem, "The Grey monk," from The Pickering Manuscript. Ginsberg was joined by at least one back-up singer (unidentified), with the accompaniment of a flute, horn, and other instruments. The radio host then introduced and played the studio versions of "Hare Krishna," sung by Ginsberg on the Fugs' album Tenderness Junction, and "Ah! Sun-Flower" and "Song (How sweet I roam'd from field to field" (the latter two poems by Blake), sung by the Fugs' frontman Ed Sanders and featured on The Fugs first album. The episode concludes with a brief interview with Bertholf about Blake. The audio then cuts to an unidentified woman testifying in a court case or a commission hearing. There is questioning about a break-in of a campus building, protests, and Bob Pickett. It is unclear whether the case is connected with the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. At the time of the shootings and the Creative Arts Festival, Bertholf was a professor at the university.
[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.
[Poetry reading and an interview, December 7, 1975] / William Bronk.
Recorded on December 7, 1975 by Robert J. Bertholf on three Scotch sound cassettes. Bertholf donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.
This recording is of William Bronk being interviewed by Robert J. Bertholf. Bronk discusses his publishing of poems in Origin. Bronk then reads poems from The world, the worldless (1964), The empty hands (1969), and Finding losses (1976).