These audio recordings have been digitized from a collection of cassette and open reel tapes of readings and lectures at Bard over the last 50 years. The collection was initially established with funds provided by the Carter A Towbin Poetry Fund in 1982 and first located in Albee Hall before moving to the Olin Building. Our hope is to use the recordings to help tell the story of Bard as an exuberant place for poetry for more than half a century. We will continue to add to this collection as we are able to migrate our reel to reel tapes to digital format. Currently, all of the cassette tapes are represented in the collection below.
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Readings by John Ashbery and Joan Retallack
John Ashbery and Joan Retallack
This reading was part of the John Ashbery Poetry Series that ran from approximately 1995 to 2007 and brought leading contemporary poets to Bard for readings and discussion.
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Ted Berrigan
Ted Berrigan
A wonderful 90-minute reading--intimate and playful--by this leading figure of the New York School's "second generation." The event took place in Albee Social on 15 December 1982, only months before Berrigan's untimely death in July, 1983. The recording begins with a wide-reaching, exploratory introduction [nearly 20 minutes long] and includes a lovely translation of Heine and readings of many of the poems from his last book "A Certain Slant of Sunlight," published by O Books, Oakland, California, 1988.
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Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn
Parts 1 & 2 of a nearly two-hour recording of the poet Paul Blackburn [1926-1971] reading at Bard on December 6, 1968 in Albee Social, introduced by Robert Kelly. The selections are poems published in various books of Blackburn's including: The Journals, edited by Robert Kelly (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1975); The Omitted Journals (Perishable Press, 1984); Halfway Down the Coast (Northampton, MA.: Mulch Press, 1975); The Cities (New York: Grove Press, 1967); In . On . Or About the Premises (London/New York: Cape Goliard/Grossman, 1968). Includes several selections from his translations of the Provencal poets. Includes his wonderful Pre-Lenten Gestures, a poem for Ed Dorn. Most of the texts are now contained in The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn, edited, with an introduction by Edith Jarolim (New York: Persea Books, 1985).
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Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn
Parts 3 & 4 of a nearly two-hour recording of the poet Paul Blackburn [1926-1971] reading at Bard on December 6, 1968 in Albee Social, introduced by Robert Kelly. The selections are poems published in various books of Blackburn's including: The Journals, edited by Robert Kelly (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1975); The Omitted Journals (Perishable Press, 1984); Halfway Down the Coast (Northampton, MA.: Mulch Press, 1975); The Cities (New York: Grove Press, 1967); In . On . Or About the Premises (London/New York: Cape Goliard/Grossman, 1968). Includes several selections from his translations of the Provencal poets. Includes his wonderful Pre-Lenten Gestures, a poem for Ed Dorn. Most of the texts are now contained in The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn, edited, with an introduction by Edith Jarolim (New York: Persea Books, 1985).
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Mary Ann Caws: Showing & Telling (Side A & B)
Mary Ann Caws
Poetics of Stress. March 4, 1988 in Olin 102
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Margaret Creal Reading
Margaret Creal
Reading from The Man Who Sold Prayers and an unfinished novel. May 11th, 1983
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Readings by Tim Davis and Robert Fetterman
Tim Davis and Robert Fetterman
*Side B Damaged. This reading was part of the John Ashbery Poetry Series that ran from approximately 1995 to 2007 and brought leading contemporary poets to Bard for readings and discussion.
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Diane Di Prima, Part 1
Diane Di Prima
October 11, 1973 at Bard College
- 00:00 Interlude: Introduction to the reading
- 01:22 Interlude: Introduction to The New Handbook of Heaven poems
- 02:10 "The Beach" (from The New Handbook of Heaven)
- 03:36 "Lord Jim" (from The New Handbook of Heaven)
- 05:25 Interlude: Missing Book
- 05:41 Interlude: Introduction to "The Joyous" from The Calculus of Variation
- 06:15 Excerpt from "The Joyous" (from The Calculus of Variation)
- 13:20 "Elegy 1939"
- 13:43 "Pink Angels, circa 1945"
- 14:01 "Women, Wind, and Window 1950"
- 14:31 "Excavation 1950"
- 15:21 "Woman I 1950-1952"
- 15:49 "Door to the River 1960"
- 16:42 "Revolutionary Letter #49" from Revolutionary Letters
- 20:52 Interlude: Missing Poems & Introduction to "Ave"
- 22:34 "Ave" from Loba
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Diane Di Prima, Part 2
Diane Di Prima
October 11, 1973
- 00:17 Interlude: Introduction to "Loba (She-Wolf)"
- 02:20 Excerpt from "Loba (She-Wolf)" from Loba
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Angus Fletcher: Menard & The Quixote
Angus Fletcher
Introduction by Prof Grab. November, 1987 in Olin
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Annette "Annie" Gilson '86
Annette Gilson
Annette "Annie" Gilson '86 reading from her senior project.
