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.
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Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly
Poet Robert Kelly reading his own poetry. Tewkesbury Hall, Bard College 12/03/1970.
The tape speed is abruptly switched at about 00:03:15. Pitch correction attempted.
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Readings by Robert Kelly and Ann Lauterbach
Robert Kelly and Ann Lauterbach
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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William Kerrigan: Whores & Virgins in Shakespeare
William Kerrigan
Lecture from the series "Feminism and Deconstruction" March 3rd, 1987
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell reading his own poetry at Bard College. Albee Social, 05/17/1966.
Kinnell starts his time by reading Whitman’s ‘RESPONDEZ!’ and ‘To The States.’
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Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella
Irish poet Thomas Kinsella reading his work at Bard College. Bard Hall, 12/07/1975. 1:30pm.
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Students: Stuart Krinko, Ben Danale and Katie W.D.
Stuart Krinko, Ben Danale, and Katie W.D.
February 23rd, 2001
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Readings by Stuart Krinko and Drew Gardner
Stuart Krinko and Drew Gordner
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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Ellen Lambert: Talking About Beauty
Ellen Lambert
"Heroine Portraiture in the Western Literary Tradition". Lecture from series "Feminism and Deconstruction" April 21st, 1987 at Kline Commons
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Gerrit Lansing
Gerrit Lansing
Gerrit Lansing reading his own poetry. 12/18/1963. Lansing was the editor of the short-lived literary magazine SET, which published poets ranging from Robert Kelly to Aleister Crowley.
Liner notes identify the poems as follows:
“Festival Song; Judgment Of The City; Onset 1; Onset 2; The Burden of Set 1; The Burden of Set 2; The Green Bottle; The Undertaking; Conventicle; Tabernacle; Planting The Amplitudes.”
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Readings by Ann Lauterbach and Michael Palmer
Ann Lauterbach and Michael Palmer
Introduced by Michael Ives. 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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Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
A speech delivered outside Albee Hall, March 4, 1968. The bulk of the lecture involves Leary's beliefs about marijuana and LSD use, societal fears about kids "turning on and waking up," and rumors invented by the government about recreational drug use. He tells the audience they're going to have to "drop out or cop out...drop out is an internal personal decision...your posture, your inner-stance...detaching from anything meaningless...or that would lead you to continue as a replaceable part."
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Walter Lowenfels
Walter Lowenfels
Walter Lowenfels reading his poetry, found and constructed, on October 21, 1969 held in the Bard College Chapel.
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Bard College Student Readings - March 1957
Nick Lyons, Jack Hirschfeld, Sue Wilkins, and Peter Hammer
Readings given by Bard College students on March 21, 1957. Student readers are: Nick Lyons (0:00-9:52); Jack Hirschfeld (9:56-42:45); Sue Wilkins (42:52-45:28); Peter Hammer (45:28-1:01:34). Recorded in Albee Social.
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Tom MacIntyre Reading Fiction and Poetry
Tom MacIntyre
February 23rd, 1983 in the Towbin Poetry Room
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Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low
Poet and performance artist Jackson Mac Low conducting a small orchestra for instrument and voice, and reading his own poetry. Performance at the First Towbin Poetry Festival, Bard Hall, 10/25/1975. Introduced by Robert Kelly.
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Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low
Poet and performance artist Jackson Mac Low leading students in sound performance, and reading his own work. Bard College, 03/27/1979.
Due to machine malfunction, parts of this recording skip and fluctuate. The listener is encouraged to explore both the edited MP3 (for clarity) and the unedited WAV (for strange and protracted silences, as well as oscillations in volume; whose inclusion is perhaps more in the spirit of Mr. Mac Low’s work, and its relationship to chance)
