Ashbery, John.

  • St. Mark’s Poetry Project: 1976 New Year’s day (Parts 1 and 2 only)

    Recording of the annual benefit performance for the St. Mark’s Poetry Project on January 1, 1976. There are three parts, though the archives has only Parts One and Two. Part One performers include Paul McCandless on tabla; Ed Sanders; John Cage; Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles; Anne Waldman; Victor Bockris reads “Phone Numbers” and William…

  • V.R. Lang : a memorial / produced by Charles Ruas and Susan Howe. (Part 2 of 2)

    A memorial program to the late poet and playwright Violet Ranney “V.R.” “Bunny” Lang. WBAI’s Charles Ruas and Susan Howe present reminiscences and interviews with novelist Alison Lurie, poets John Ashbery and Robert Merrill, novelist Dee Wells, and Irish writer and critic Mary Manning, plus a performance of Lang’s last play in verse, “I, Too,…

  • V.R. Lang : a memorial / produced by Charles Ruas and Susan Howe

    A memorial program to the late poet and playwright Violet Ranney “V.R.” “Bunny” Lang (1924-1956). WBAI’s Charles Ruas and Susan Howe present reminiscences and interviews with novelist Alison Lurie, poets John Ashbery and Robert Merrill, novelist Dee Wells, and Irish writer and critic Mary Manning, plus a performance of Lang’s last play in verse, “I,…