KPFA Poetry Festival 1977 – Pacifica Radio Archives

KPFA poetry festival (Part 2 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry festival Part 2 of 5. The second part of the festival begins with Harlem’s David Henderson followed by Jessica Hagedorn. This tape ends with a mystical, miniature sermon by 1968 National Book Award winner Robert Bly, incorporating poems by, among others, Rilke, Yeats, and the world’s first whirling dervish.

August 24, 2025

KPFA poetry festival (Part 3 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry festival Part 3 of 5. This part begins with Max Schartz, host of KPFA’s prison poetry show STATE OF EMERGENCY, who conducts a spontaneous jam with his jazz musician friends. Edward Dorn, Joanne Kyger, and Simon Ortiz are the other poets on this program.

August 24, 2025

KPFA poetry festival (Part 4 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry festival Part 4 of 5. The fourth part of the Poetry Festival features Victor Hernandez Cruz, who opens with the question “What do you do if you are raised in Iowa and you still want to be a poet?” This program also includes the dynamic poet Alta of the Shameless Hussy Press.

August 24, 2025

KPFA poetry festival (Part 5 of 5) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry festival Part 5 of 5. This final part of the program is devoted, naturally, to Allen Ginsberg.

August 24, 2025

KPFA poetry festival (1977) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: “On Saturday, May 14, U.C.’s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an…

August 24, 2025