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Poetry at Bard-(All Recordings)
 

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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  • John Ashbery by John Ashbery

    John Ashbery

    John Ashbery

    March 2, 2001, Olin Hall Bard College

  • Readings by John Ashbery and Joan Retallack by John Ashbery and Joan Retallack

    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.

  • Charles Bernstein: Ashbery Poetry Series by Charles Bernstein

    Charles Bernstein: Ashbery Poetry Series

    Charles Bernstein

    March 1, 2002

  • Ted Berrigan by Ted Berrigan

    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.

  • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

    Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

    Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

    April 27, 2001 in Olin 101

  • Paul Blackburn by Paul Blackburn

    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).

  • Paul Blackburn by Paul Blackburn

    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).

  • Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard

    Nicole Brossard

    Nicole Brossard

    March 3, 2001

  • Bob Callahan Poetry Reading (Side A & B) by Bob Callahan

    Bob Callahan Poetry Reading (Side A & B)

    Bob Callahan

    May, 1980

  • Mary Ann Caws: Showing & Telling (Side A & B) by Mary Ann Caws

    Mary Ann Caws: Showing & Telling (Side A & B)

    Mary Ann Caws

    Poetics of Stress. March 4, 1988 in Olin 102

  • Miles Champion by Miles Champion

    Miles Champion

    Miles Champion

    October, 2001

  • Robert Cohen: The Organ Builder by Robert Cohen

    Robert Cohen: The Organ Builder

    Robert Cohen

    Reading from "The Organ Builder"

  • Cid Corman Reads His Poetry by Cid Corman

    Cid Corman Reads His Poetry

    Cid Corman

    Spring 1980, introduced by Robert Kelly

  • Cid Corman Reads His Poetry (Side B) by Cid Corman

    Cid Corman Reads His Poetry (Side B)

    Cid Corman

    Spring 1980

  • Margaret Creal Reading by Margaret Creal

    Margaret Creal Reading

    Margaret Creal

    Reading from The Man Who Sold Prayers and an unfinished novel. May 11th, 1983

  • Readings by Tim Davis and Robert Fetterman by Tim Davis and Robert Fetterman

    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.

  • Diane Di Prima, Part 1 by Diane Di Prima

    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

  • Diane Di Prima, Part 2 by Diane Di Prima

    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

  • Women's Center Reading by Erika Duncan, Judith Malina, and Hilda Morely

    Women's Center Reading

    Erika Duncan, Judith Malina, and Hilda Morely

    At Bard Hall

  • Barbara Einzig by Barbara Einzig

    Barbara Einzig

    Barbara Einzig

    October 7, 1980

  • Angus Fletcher: Menard & The Quixote by Angus Fletcher

    Angus Fletcher: Menard & The Quixote

    Angus Fletcher

    Introduction by Prof Grab. November, 1987 in Olin

  • Annette "Annie" Gilson '86 by Annette Gilson

    Annette "Annie" Gilson '86

    Annette Gilson

    Annette "Annie" Gilson '86 reading from her senior project.

  • Michael Gizzi by Michael Gizzi

    Michael Gizzi

    Michael Gizzi

    April 15, 1989

  • Louise Glück by Louise Glück and John Ashbery

    Louise Glück

    Louise Glück and John Ashbery

    December 10, 1993 Introduced by John Ashbery in Olin

  • Jessica Hagedorn Reading Her Own Work by Jessica Hagedorn

    Jessica Hagedorn Reading Her Own Work

    Jessica Hagedorn

    October 25, 1993

 
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